A make-up bag essential, you can use liquid eyeliners to create a chic 60s-style winged effect, to blend false lashes with your own, and to quickly fashion a super-polished look with just mascara and flawless skin.
Here are our favourites, which all last the day and apply with ease.
Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Liner
Stila
This handy liner is completely waterproof for a smudge-free finish. Long-lasting, yet unlike many liquid liners it is easy to take off with a gentle eye make-up remover. The extra-long brush applicator makes it simple to create an elegant wing. Available in black, brown and indigo shades at ASOS.
Écriture de Chanel Automatic Liquid Liner
Chanel
Chanel’s twist up liner pen delivers a soft, natural charcoal black colour, and the cartridge is sealed to prevent the product from drying. We can never resist Chanel’s beautiful packaging.
Super Liner
L’oréal at Boots
This comes in three different shades for different effects – Black for a matte 60s-style line, Carbon Gloss for a shiny patent finish, and Black Crystals which is suffused with soft shimmer and perfect for the party season. We like the simple sponge-tip applicator too. Click to purchase at feelunique.com and you’ll get free delivery.
Liner Feutre
Bourjois
This high-street favourite is our top bargain-buy liquid liner – the felt tip gave smooth and easy application, the product is sufficiently pigmented to only need one swipe, and it lasted the day without fading.
Penultimate Liner
A cult favourite of beauty editors and bloggers for a doe-eyed 60s look, Penultimate is incredibly easy to use, giving a bold, precise line and a long lasting on-trend matte black finish.
Style Liner Intensité Éclat
Dior
Dior’s luxe liner pen dispenses a gel-liquid formula which applies very easily, and dries down to an intense, shimmery black. If you’re not a fan of a felt-tip liner, this one comes with a brush applicator.
Supercat Carbon Black Eyeliner Extreme
This gives a fantastic rich colour for the price – Soap & Glory have put a high percentage of carbon black pigment into their long-wear liner pen. The fine point can be used for a natural look, or turn the pen on its side to use the thicker edge for a dramatic Bardot-esque flick.
Eyeliner Stylo
NARS at Sephora
We love the super-fine tip of this NARS liner, and the quick dry-time. The teal-blue shade looks beautiful against brown eyes, and is our recommendation if you want to try something a bit different from traditional black.
Le Stylo
Chantecaille’s chic offering is packaged to look like an elegant silver pen, but is highly functional too – it dispenses the perfect amount of product, applies very smoothly and dries quickly. Perfect if you’re in a hurry but still want a polished look.
Felt Pen Liner in Jet
Topshop
One to slip in your teenage daughter’s Christmas stocking – the minimal Topshop packaging is simple and stylish, and the matte-black liner will last through a whole night of partying.
