Felt Tip Eye Liners: stila vs. Eyeko

I never considered myself very good at using liquid eyeliners and consequently stuck mainly to eye pencils instead.  The down side with many pencils were that they smudged or even transferred to my upper lid during prolonged wear, nor were they as easy to achieve a very precise line with.

 Eyeko Olive

Enter felt tip eyeliners, which have shown me I can use a liquid liner proficiently!  The true brilliance of these, for me at least, are their exceptional wear.  Once these dry, they stay as vivid and smudge free as when first applied.  The two I'll be reviewing today are stila's Stay All Day waterproof liquid eyeliner in Indigo and Eyeko's Skinny liquid eyeliner in Olive. 

stila Indigo

Both colors work really well with my blue eyes, which is fortunate, as I did not chose them but got both as part of either gift with purchase sample bags or a boxed collection of items.  I like to do a thin line along the upper lash line and then use a similarly colored eye shadow on top to soften the look.  The downside of felt liquid liners are that they do not smudge well, so I find using the shadow on top achieves the smudged effect I prefer.

Wear time on both of these is until I take them off.  Seriously.  They remove best with eye makeup remover, but I can usually get most off using a cleansing oil followed with a water based cleanser.  I can't really tell a difference between the formula of the two, so I guess it boils down to finding colors you like.  The Eyeko liners are $15 whereas the stila liners are $20, so that's another factor.   The other difference I noticed are in the tops - stila's has this spring loaded thing going on.  I managed to launch the top across my bathroom before I figured that out.   

Very happy with these!  I'll be interested to see if they stay moist, as it's not unusual for felt tip pens to dry out over time.

Disclosure:  I purchased these.