WHAT: Em Cosmetics Felt Tip Illustrative Liner
WHY: If you dream of doing an “easy” cat eye liner, this is the product that gets us as close to that fantasy as humanly possible.
This felt-tip, streamlined liner pen is the handiwork of the original YouTube beauty creator, Michelle Phan, so you know it’s going to be an incredibly thoughtful, intentional product.
Will there still be a copious number of Q-tips to even things out? Sure. Will you blink mistakenly and create some kind of raccoonish situation under your lash line? Probably. But once you get the hang of this liner, the felt tip becomes supremely easy to use, gives you incredible precision, never smudges, and is the best option for hooded eyes we’ve ever used.
Pro tip: if you do have hooded eyes, start your liner mostly on the outer corner of your eye, and don’t drag it all the way into your inner corner. This will help open things up and not create that dreaded extra lid line.
Another little bonus is how incredibly black this liner is, and how startlingly opaque. So you won’t need to go over the line multiple times, creating ever more thickness and therefore, disaster.
Try it. It’s special.
PRICE: $22