Brown eyeliner has been on my radar for a while. Whilst I adore my Clio Kill Black liner, black winged liner is not entirely second nature for me and takes up so much time and effort to do. I used to be that person wearing bold red to the supermarket but now, thankfully, not so much. I don’t go anywhere special these days, so I’ve really been pulling out the more natural looking faces recently – not quite ‘no-makeup’ as I’d like it to be noticed, personally!
But anyway, for a natural makeup look, brown liner is a great alternative to black as it looks less harsh and contrasts less. Even in pen form it looks softer. I’d also heard BBia’s gel eyeliner has some great staying power which was a perfect reason for me to give it a go.
Brand: BBia Product Name: Auto Last Gel Liner Store: Jolse, a Korea-based webstore. Orders from them take about two weeks to arrive to me in the UK. Cost: $6.78 USD [about £5.50]
Packaging: This comes in a cardboard box that I feel isn’t really necessary. At all.
This comes with a tiny sharpener in the other end which, the first time I used, just broke off the tip. I presume you’re supposed to use it like a normal sharpener but like??? If it’s going to keep breaking off that’s more product wasted than actually sharpening it. By using the edges to line my eyes, I get a decent thinness of line so I’m not too bothered with a sharp tip. Even if I sharpen it, the tip wore down quickly the first time I used it.
Colour/Pigmentation:
20 Jazz is a lovely earthy dark brown. It has a slight shimmer that isn’t noticeable, and it takes only one swipe to get a decent amount of pigment. The colour is dark enough to enchance my natural lash line when I tight line my eyes, but unlike a black there is less sharp contrast.
Wear:
This is remarkably like my favourite pen liner, CLIO Kill Black, in the way it wears. It’s soft going on my eyelid, but once it’s ‘dried’ down it’s not budging. It tends to lift colour and fade rather than smudge, and at the same time, it’s also slightly harder to remove even if my oily eyelids basically act as their own oil cleanser in most cases. Needless to say, I am impressed.
Overall, I love this gel liner and I want to purchase more in their black and burgundy shades. I can imagine these being a total must-have in my makeup bag.
Smudge, water and sweat-proof eyeliner comes in deeply pigmented shades that help maintain your dramatic and defined eye makeup for hours. Now available in 10 shades with a 3mm skinny tip
Major Ingredients
Trimethylsiloxysilicate, Cyclopentasiloxane, Mica [CI 77019], Polyethylene, Isododecane, Synthetic Wax, Ceresin, Euphorbia Cerifera [Candelilla] Wax, Isopropyl Myristate, Lecithin, Titanium Dioxide [CI 77891], Polyglyceryl-2 Triisostearate, Polyisobutene, Caprylyl Glycol, Isostearic Acid, Polyhydroxystearic Acid, Polyglyceryl-3 Polyricinoleate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Calcium Titanium Borosilicate, Iron Oxides [CI 77491], Dimethicone, Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Iron Oxides [CI 77499], Glyceryl Caprylate, Zinc Stearate, Red 6 [CI 15850], Tin Oxide [CI 77861], Iron Oxides [CI 77492], C12-15 Alkyl Ethylhexanoate, Carmine [CI 75470]
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The formula of these are super creamy and easy to apply. They literally just glide onto the lid with no hard pressure or tugging of the eyelids. You feel a slight tightening sensation as the product sets, but this is minor and only felt seconds after application. Lining the waterline with these is also super easy–Noir works like a dream on the waterline…if your waterline isn’t finnicky like mine. This has been the only pencil that will still have traces of product on my upper waterline at the end of the day.
Continuing on with talking about the wear time…these hold up really nicely. They’re way better than the Urban Decay pencils in my opinion. The UD pencils usually crease on my Asian eyes due to the lack of a double eyelid and I have to set them with eye shadows to ensure some longevity [but this doesn’t last until the end of the day]. These will actually last throughout the day in place with very minimal creasing. I think the combination of my oily skin and long wear times eventually cause creasing–it can’t be avoided. However, these hold up very well. For the price, especially on sale, these are a HUGE bargain! UD pencils are now at $19 a piece…you can buy 3 BBIA pencils for that price…and also, no sharpening! Yay!
4 on lower inner corner of eye.
Unfortunately they do not have the same color range as UD. I’ve noticed that Korean ‘normal’ makeup is very neutral. Hopefully they’ll introduce more color options in the future! I’ve picked up four colors–two matte ‘normal’ colors in a very black matte called Noir and a dark brown matte Jazz. The two other colors are shimmer/glitters. Rose Gold is shimmery, almost foil-like in appearance due to its reflective formula. It isn’t really rose gold…more like a soft gold with no heavy yellow undertones. Royal Bronze is probably the most glittery of the bunch and is really nice smudged over the lid. I’m so tempted to pick up the shade Burgundy next time, but I already own the Clio Gelpresso liner in Bloody Angel [review coming soon].
In my opinion, these eye pencils are almost perfect. The wear could be better, but I think on people who have double eyelids and normal-dry skin [and maybe live in a place that lacks high humidity] these would be perfect. The price, packaging, and pigmentation are on point. I would definitely recommend these over the UD $19 pencils any day!
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