Gel liner hunt

So you all know I have been doing some eyeliner series and I am still on that ,however this might just be the last of them.I might do some more in the future but for now this is where I will stop.
If you read my post from series 1 I wrote a bit about my struggle with gel liners saying how  have bought one too many and they end up like a ball of hard rock, so here goes.

These are the few gel liners I have been with so far.lol

E.l.f studio gel liner: Ah my first lav.Doing all kind of things you do with something you come across for the first time. I was a gel liner virgin when I came across this , naive on what to do with it when it came in the mail and I cannot for the life of me remember why I actually bought this or if I even knew what gel liners were! Maybe I must have read one or two reviews ,I am not sure.However,I remember buying a lot of e.l.f products and this was in it(most of their products are great by the way and affordable).

This gel liner came with its own brush which I used a lot to apply the product. As a make up newbie,I did a lot of things with this liner, it served as a cream eyeshadow,primer and most importantly eye liner. It was indeed creamy and black,however I cannot vouch for its intensity,smudge/water proof or long lasting effects because I was a newbie then and liked that this was different,I just played around with it and did not watch out for those properties. However, people stand by it saying it is legit ,smudge proof, fades a bit but does not budge and most importantly it is pocket friendly!  abouts 3 u.s dollar s or 3.75 quid/pounds, it cannot get better than that my friends!. Upside is it comes in so many colours, downside; it dried up quicker than expected,

Asta Hegai and Esther: This is a nigerian brand that sells tons of good make up stuff. I got the gel liner and use it for my make up practice and I must say I found this stuff pretty wicked! effortless glide, not too creamy though , smudge proof,long lasting, water proof as well and comes with its own brush/applicator. I love the black and brown but I cannot say the same for the other colours,they were disappointing really. I got them at #2500 but you can get them for the same or less online. This gel liner served me well but as usual,most good things must come to a solid end.The black has literally dried up like a rock and sitting on my dresser,still not decided what to do, to use the pot for something else or to try melting it back?.The brown is still in good shape though and of all my gel liners to date,this has been the darkest of them all and my favourite because it ticks most boxes of qualities a gel liner should have..

Mary Kay: After my asta gel liner experience. I decided to try something new and a good friend of mine helped me get a Mary Kay gel liner from Lagos and sent it to me. At first glance I smiled from cheek to cheek with final satisfaction that my eyeliner problems have come to an end, I love Mary Kay products and I thought I will come to love this one too but disappointingly I can't:( . It did fool me with its luxurious packaging and applicator but thatsall I find interesting about this gel liner unfortunately. It is so dry! I don't understand, it only glides when I dip the brush into the pot and once its out of the pot that is it! it did not glide on my eye lids, I tried as firmly as I could but it kept forming small balls and flaking and when it finally applied it looks like I had used a blunt eyeliner pencil to smudge my lids. At first, I though it was the brush that made it dry so I switched brushes and the same results, i tried getting the brush wet(maybe somehow it was a cake gel liner I did not know about ) and it came out with nothing! I cannot help but laugh at how funny and off putting it is.It is still very new and I have no idea what to do with it , I don't give up easily on stubborn make up but this one I have almost given up on, I have tried melting it and it will not budge so please if you can help a sister out do so with suggestions or I have no choice but to scrape it off and use the pot for something else :( .It was #2500 by the way.

Zaron: This is my new buy and a current favourite. I came across their gel liners while I was in love with the asta h&e gellies but I did not really think too much of it.Fast forward to more than nine months later I found my self at casabella and the sales lady had this lovely eye make up,when I asked which gel liner she used she said zaron so I decided to try it out. They were out of stock that day so I ordered online.Their gel liners are pretty amazing.Creamy to almost a fault hence glides easily, it is intense in colour(the black especially) but it travels and smudges. I cannot decide yet if it is water proof but when I wore it all day it faded but still stuck around enough to be noticeable.It does not come with an applicator.

see an intense and descriptive pictorial review here.


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