We're Alice and Emma, and in this episode
of The Beauty Face Off, we're going to be discussing
liquid eye liner versus kohl eye liner.
I am definitely a kohl kind of a girl.
And I love a liquid liner,
specifically, my signature look is a feline flick.
Products now have become so beautifully made.
The kohls are just silky.
They used to be quite scratchy and dry and they pulled the eyelid.
And now they are like beautiful sort of waxy, silky gorgeous colors
that you can just line the eyelashes with,
smudge it out a little bit. It's quite fool-proof really.
You don't need to have that artistry skill to apply it.
They come in like these amazing wind up skinny little pencils.
In fact, this one is called Clinique Skinny Stick.
And this is a beautiful MAC one, which is so silky.
In fact, all of the MAC pencils are silky.
I just scribble, scribble, scribble along the lash line,
because actually, I don't want it to look perfect.
The whole sort of fabulosity about
kohl eyeliner is that you can make it look kind of sexy and smudged out.
And if you've got one of the eye pencils that has like a sponge tip,
you could use a brush if you don't have that.
And just gently blend it so that it looks
really smooth and like you haven't actually drawn anything.
It just gently smokes out a little bit.
I like to enhance my eyes, so kohl works really, really well for me.
Hm, whereas, I really, really enjoy using a liquid liner.
But I used to get it so, so wrong.
On a normal day if I'm doing my cat eye,
I might use something like this— this is the Clinique Pretty Easy liquid eye liner.
And actually, what I love about it is
it's got quite a thin nip, so you can get
a really precise line.
You can't obviously build it up, but it's just about getting close
into the lash line and drawing that shape up doing that wing.
It's really simple to do that.
Now, if I'm glamming up, I use this Estee Lauder Little Black Primer
because as well as having a felt tip end, which is slightly
thicker than the Clinique one so you can get like a really nice line,
it also comes with this end.
It's slightly fatter, and it means that I can take
the line much, much thicker and I can color in with far greater ease.
It's just been a bit of a game changer.
And the thing about feline eyes,
which is so appealing, is the fact that it can lift and sharpen your entire look.
And that's why when you see people like Adele who always wears the amazing liner,
there's a reason why people who get it right have it as their signature look.
Because it completely changes everything.
So the key for me in getting my feline flick right
was understanding that the flick actually starts
right at the beginning.
And the best analogy I can think of,
is imagine that you're here at the inner corner,
you're a plane and you're on the tarmac,
and as you get along,
particularly as you get to the middle of the pupil,
that's when you've taken off.
So don't follow the lash line.
Because I used to follow the lash line
and then wonder why I couldn't get that lovely flick.
And actually, what you want to be doing is,
there should be a space between the actual liner
and your lash line.
You just keep going up
and you join the mile high club.
And then you fill this in.
But you still have the issue of making this bit really sharp
and angled and beautiful, and when you have a felt tip like this,
it does the job for you.
All you do, just turn the pen around
and stamp.
As you can see, two really simple eye looks here.
I'm definitely all about the sexy, smudgy kohl liner.
And you're not going to convince me, I'm all about the liquid.