Soap & Glory - Supercat Carbon Black Extreme Eyeliner

Im shit at eyeliner. However I wear it pretty much everyday. What ya guna do eh?! Ha! So yeah... Any tool that might even vaguely help when it comes to trying to apply the shizzle I'm keen to give a go and the Supercat Carbon Black Extreme Eyeliner from Soap & Glory looked pretty promising...



It's not half bad. It's a proper felt tip pen style liner. Not a hugely fine nib but you can get a pretty good flick out of it. Definitely one for those favouring a stronger look though. It's really not easy to get a super fine line with this little guy.

The formula is good, not watery, and the black is true black which prevents that frustrating necessity to go over the same line again and again that you get with some liquid liners. It doesn't budge either which is a big bonus. No smudging here ladies and gents. After around 8 hours or so it might have faded but it won't start moving about your lids and crawling into creases.

My only real bug bear with this stuff is that it seems to me to dry up rather quickly. Not sure if it's that I apply the liner after a primer/base and then that base product transfers to the nib and 'blocks' it or what but these things don't last me an overly long time. At £6 (available from Boots and a bunch of other shindiggles) it's not overly expensive but it's not the cheapest either. If I apply it before my eyeshadow base / primer I inevitably have to reapply as I'll smudge over it with whatever colour I'm using and dull the black. A pickle non?!

But yeah. Overall pretty good I'd say! Certainly my go-to quick fix of a weekday morning. Top tip: if I fuck it up and end up with an uneven line (most days) I just hold the pen so that more of the edge of the nib is touching my lid and apply a sort of mini isosceles triangle over the original line... do you get me? It's easier to even up a slightly bigger swish you see (and less noticeable if they aren't quite symmetrical). If things really go tits up though I just use a Muji thin cotton bud to tidy or smudge some black eyeshadow into my outer corners/crease to its more of a smokey eye than a feline flick.

Stay sexy you sassy cats. LOOOOOVE. xxx 

Bonus picture below of what I had to do to get the swatch shot... Blogging is in no way glamourous people. 

p.s. FYI I was wearing christmas PJ bottoms, a ripped neck (yes I am from flashdance) T-shirt that said 'Salt Solution' (my Dad's old band), fluffy slipper socks and a dressing gown that was tied at my waist but I'd taken off my arms coz
I got too hot. Attractive eh my lovely pals?!