Review: Make Up Forever Aqua Eyes (0L Black)

I've never been a huuuge fan of pencil eyeliners. I've never even been a fan, period. They were always so tricky for me to work with. They'd tug on my eye, the line would never come out the width I wanted it to. It was just a hassle and I had been so in love with my liquid eyeliners. Then I got a Make Up Forever goodie bag with this beaut in it. If you couldn't tell by the minuscule size of the liner in the photographs, I fell in love. 

Make Up Forever's Aqua Eyes are seriously something. The liner is very creamy and easily blended if you want to create a smokey effect. It doesn't tug at the skin on my eye so I can create my desired width and it also meant I could create a straight, even line, without the rigidness pencil liners usually leave! The pigmentation is great! The black comes out a nice, creamy black. What I also love about this is that it stays put. You have that window of time to smoke it out or blend and then it stays and lasts for ages. It's also waterproof which is amazing for the summer! I can't wait to use this bad boy up to get another one and check out the other colors as well! Hoping to find a lovely bronze! It's $18 for about .04 oz. Which, when compared to other liners, is not that bad and also take in to consideration how amazing this liner is! I'd pay the price again and again!

So what do you guys think? What are your opinions on pencil liners? Do you prefer them? 

xo

Recreating A Look

Every time I see a picture on the web and the model's make up is done brilliantly I always wonder how I can go about recreating it. I am as amateur as amateur gets with make-up. Figuring out colors is one hurdle, the next one is trying to figure out what order all of it goes in! 

I saw this picture on a tumblr dashboard (I couldn't find out who the photo belongs to so if it is yours please let me know! I want to give proper credit). I had just bought the MakeUp Forever Aqua Eyes 5 eyeliner and needed to procrastinate from studying for finals so I decided to take on my first recreation!

That's what I came up with. The colors are a lot brighter in the original picture and I couldn't seem to get my black eyeshadow as dark as the models! I'm pretty pleased with the eyeliner (color and application) although the model's eyeliner makes mine look as dull as a cloudy sky! The make up looks a lot better in the photo than in person if I'm going to be honest. If I closed my eye, it was just all over the place!

Regardless, I did have trying to recreate a look. I think it's good practice for when I apply my own make up. It really helps me see what colors would look great together in a make up application! Let me know what you guys think! :)