Eyeliner Help Required !!

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I've spent a fortune over the year's and I just can't apply eyeliner. I've tried all different type's and all different price ranges, all with the same results. So could anyone please recommend an eyeliner for a total novice, who puts on eyeliner like a toddler with a crayon. Thanks.

I use dior and have it very very sharp, I use it on my inner eye rim and right round my eye, very very thinly (barely there) and use a cue tip to blend.

Expensive eyeliner will have lots of lovely pigment which make it easier to blend as there is more colour than wax, the wax seems softer to me to blend too. Will never go back to cheap ones. Use a brown one on my brows too and blend, blend, blend !

Also recommend Estée Lauder pure colour , very good consistency and pigment content

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll have a look in Boots tomorrow.

My makeup table is a desk as I've found that if sitting down at a table, I can rest my elbow on the table and apply liner much better than if I'm not able to steady my arm.

I have a table mirror that can be tilted - similar to this one: www.babyliss.eu/products/beauty/mirrors/8435e/

I adjust the mirror so I can look down into the mirror - it's at a 45 degree angle or so. That means that I don't have to close my eye completely when applying liner but that I'll be able to see what I'm doing with both eyes.

I like using a gel liner, such as the Maybelline EyeStudio Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner 24H - it's in a little glass pot and comes with a pretty good brush.

In the beginning, I did short strokes, starting almost at the outer corner of the eye. Drawing little lines in the direction of the outer corner, connecting each new stroke with the one I had just drawn (if that makes any sense :D)
I've tried different brushes and I like the one that comes with the liner (it also works for lipstick if you don't like it for doing liner), as well as a Mac 210 and a Mac 266 (angled brush). The 266 is the one I find the hardest to do a decent liner with, but it's worth trying different brushes if you can - there are cheaper alternatives to Mac if you just want to test if a specific shape works better for you.

It does take some training to get it right :)

If you cannot get the cat eye style liner right, then maybe it's worth doing something like push liner. You can see it here:
I use a Mac 212 for this, and I use either a gel liner or a dark eyeshadow.

What this girl does with a pencil liner and a brush also looks pretty and is quite simple:

Mistakes can be corrected with a cotton bud with either makeup remover or water on. If you use makeup remover wipes, then you can let a cotton bud soak up some of the product from a clean wipe and use it to correct mistakes.

oo oo I bought a good new one on Thursday
It was the Benefit they're real one
stays all day no matter what you do
v pigmented and v easy to use beside the lashline

There's a bourjois eyeliner that looks like a chunky felttip end. That one is surprisingly easy to wield and always gives a nice shape.

Dark eyeshadow can be used as a liner, and is pretty forgiving for newbies.

I use either Bobbi Brown's eyeliner brush (not the fine liner brush) which is brilliant and you can dampen it to get a darker line, or a flat (push) liner brush which gives a more subtle diffused effect, or a slanted liner brush (mine is by Ecotools but I can't find it on their website) which can also be used for gel liner.

I use Catrice liquid eyeliner, best eye liner EVER. I'm in Ireland so not sure where they sell it in the UK but I think primark stock it. I bought mine in a local pharmacy.
It so easy to use and I am not a natural at applying make up

I'm not great at applying eyeliner (in my younger days I used to end up adding more and more to cover mistakes, until I ended up looking like Bambi - and not in a good way!); my foolproof eyeliner recommendation is Chanel brown pencil, applied lightly from 1cm from the inside (nose-side iykwim!) of my eyelid and gradually getting thicker as I draw out in gentle wisps. Then smudge (smudger helpfully included at opposite end of pencil). Followed by just the merest hint along the lash line of the bottom eyelid.
This is quite a subtle, natural look - not what everyone's after I know.

I recently had eyeliner applied professionally at a Laura Mercier counter, she spent ages packing eyeliner gel (I think..) into my lash line with one of those short angled brushes. It looked great, but seemed to take a lot of skill, effort and time.

Thanks for all the great tips and advice. Off shopping this morning.

Search YouTube or Pinterest for tight lining. its a technique to apply liner from underneath, close to the lashes.

It's really easy to do. I use any liquid liner It makes me look more awake and I feel bare without it now.