To have a bit of a cry about the fact I can't wear liquid eyeliner anymore?

[designerbaby]

I have too many wrinkles, so I have had to accept that I can no-longer do my customary sweep of brown liquid eyeliner - my eye wrinkles are making it look all funny.

I had a bit of a moment about it this morning, as I took it off (having finally admitted it no longer works) with liquid eyeliner.

I am an old trout and will never be glamorous again [wails].

I know. It's trivial and thus IAPBVU as there a bigger things to worry about.

But still. [sniff]. End of (another) era...

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Just make sure it's waterproof if you're going to cry

I'm 30 and can't wear eyeliner as my eyelids wrinkle so much when I apply it - even when pulled tight

'As it took it off with make-up remover'.
FFS.

Bugger. I'm going senile too!

[wails some more]

use dark brown shadow with a wet brush, it will work as a filler too..

You can be too old for liquid eyeliner?? I refuse to accept it.

My entire look revolves around red lips and big cats eye liner. I was planning on that still being the case at 50

Are you sure you're not just having a bad eye skin day OP?!

I don't think it will work, squeaky - I'll have the same problem regardless of applicatipn methods. The wrinkles at the edges of my eyes are vertical!? WTF is that about?

I'm going to have to go all soft and smudgy, aren't I...
And I'm really not a 'soft and smudgy' person. I'm a hard edged, no messin', minimalist. Or I was.

[Wails more. Smudges remnants of eyeliner. Looks smudgy. Hates it.]

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I just think you need a different brand or if you use black then to try a dark brown.

Bunny, my aesthetic similar to yours.
I really actually don't know what I'm going to do...
This has been my 'look for the past ten years or more...

I may have to rethink the whole thing...

I've been using 'firming eye repair night cream stuff' and EVERYTHING.
I'm only 37...

I frown a lot, I think that's the problem. My face has decided to stop colluding with the myth that I am a carefree, cheerful, non-nonsense gal who worries about nothing and takes no sh*t from anyone and had decided to out me as the anxious, neurotic old bag I have become.

Damn you, face. I thought you were on my side.

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Valium, it's not that... I just used to do a smooth sweep of eyeliner on my top lash, flicking out a bit at the edges.

But now I have wrinkles, the line gets all buggered up - it has to cross both vertical and horizontal crevices, and looks all crooked and messed up.

I don't think a change of brand will make any different. The line (when I stretch out the wrinkles with my finger) stays in place fine and is unmolested, but the canvas is no longer up to it, it just looks all wrong.

Maybe I need a brow lift? (Ponders previous moral/ethical objections to cosmetic surgery...)

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Honestly, you need to try a different brand, I have the same thing, I can't use liquid eyeliners with brushes, but have just discovered GOSH ones which are like a felt tip and miraculously it works now!

Really valium? [hopeful]

Have you changed the position of your line to work with/around your wrinkles?

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You can get the cats eye effect by carefully drawing a series of up and down zig zag lines, that once released from your fingers, 'fall' into the winged effect.

But let's face it, going through that rigmarole even just a few tines would just be soul destroying!

No, not changes the way I do it, I just don't use black as it seems to harsh now somehow, and certain eyeliners work better than others. Have you tried a Bobbi Brown gel pencil eyeliner?

Valium - can you link to the GOSH one which works... I'll try anything!

GreenEyes - that sounds REALLY complicated - and yes, a bit depressing... Might it also look very odd should one ever look 'surprisesd' for any length of time - thus smoothing the wrinkles out and showing the zig-zag eyeliner...

Actually maybe that's the solution. A permanently surprised look. Shouldn't be too hard with my kids around...

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I think a change of brand will help. I'm 47 and I can still wear liquid eyeliner :)

DowagersHump - ah, but maybe you're just better preserved than me / frown less...

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I have the same I'm not even 30 yet!

You could try Alternatively, just don't wing it out so much?

I use dior liquid eyeliner, they do one that's like those touch eclat things, you wind the bottom of the tube and the liquid comes out onto a brush type thing on the top. I don't know but maybe try that?

I love it too, please don't tell me there's a shelf life on my eyelids!

Also, I don't pull the lids at all, just hold really still and put it on in stages from the outside to the inside.

I doubt it :o I don't wing as much as I used to, it must be said

Can't you just get someone to tattoo your eyelids?

I am 43, with plenty of "laughter lines" due to not wearing sunglasses often enough in my distant past... and I can still wear liquid eyeliner, but it does need some sort of "filler" on first, and the trick is not to pull the skin before applying.

I have been using that regenerist stuff for a few weeks now and it has made a difference to the lines.

Would love botox, but dont love the price of it.

The one thing that depresses me is the under eye wrinkles that nothing seems to hide. :(

I dont think I am quite hitting old crone territory yet, as anyone who meets me for the first time assumes I am mid-late 30's, but I can tell the difference when I look in the mirror..

Can't see it on the Superdrug website OP, but have a look in there next time you go in - about £7 iirc. Lots of colours, I actually have a green one which on your finger looks very green but on the eyelid it looks black but not as harsh if that makes sense?