Attempting Eyeliner: Maybelline Hyper Glossy Liquid Liner

Today I thought I'd give liquid eyeliner a shot. I typically use cream eyeliner and a brush, so I don't have a lot of practice with this kind. I bought some Maybelline Hyper Glossy Liquid Liner (waterproof type) in BK-1. The katakana for the color name looks like it should read "Piano Black".

Maybelline Hyper Glossy Liquid Liner

Well, I experienced some difficulty with this stuff, so the results aren't going to be too pretty this time. I was going for a cat eye look. Because I messed up on one eye and went off in a different direction with it, I've got two looks happening here.

Things did not go as planned.

First, the eye I  messed up. After I applied some of the liquid liner, I didn't let it dry long enough before opening my eye all the way, and some of it ended up in the crease of my eye. So I went ahead and lined the rest of the crease, connecting the line to the regular cat eye liner. Then I attacked it with metallic eye  shadow. Here's where I ended up:

I left the mascara off so you could get a better look at the eyeliner. Here's what it looks like with mascara:

Yeah... Let's move on to the other eye. This one turned out a little bit closer to what I intended. Still not gorgeous, but that's more an issue of applying liquid liner with shaking hands.

Again, I left the mascara off for this step. The eyeliner is glossy, as promised. It's possible to get quite a thin line with this brush, but I went over it a few times to make it thicker. 

With mascara this time, and with my eye closed. It's possible to get a nice line, although I had trouble with it bleeding into creases a bit. You can see a little of that toward the outer corner of my eye. I also found that the eyeliner seemed to flake a bit when dry. I don't know how well it would last if worn all day, since I've only just tried it out at home this evening.

Aside from the problems I had applying it, which are a reflection of my own lack of skill, I had a few complaints about this eyeliner. For one thing, it bleeds pretty easily, even if you're careful not to apply too much at once. It also seems to flake a tiny bit when dry. The shiny finish is nice, but I found that the coverage isn't great; it cracked some at the outer corner of the eye. Overall, I'm not especially impressed with this one.

I might try this one out again sometime when I'm going out dancing for the night. I'd like to see how it holds up. If it's really waterproof, it might be good for use in a sticky-hot club. And it does seem like it should be quite smudge-proof when dry. At night the tiny cracks in the coverage might not be such an issue, either. I won't be throwing this away, but it doesn't seem likely to become one of my favorites.