I love waterlining my lower lid rim with a nice bright pencil to hide my allergy-red eyes. And a nice white or even bright peach pencil sure makes your eyes look bigger, but it also looks like you obviously waterlined. Looking for a more natural option? Try Urban Decay Naked Basic 24/7 Glide-On Double Ended Pencil in Crave/Venus.
Here’s the thing – I’ve tried every eye drop in the book and I have never achieved perfectly white, gleaming eyes aka Katy Perry in the..well, every video of hers. Even Twiggy had to keep putting eye drops in all day long to get her iconic look. So while waterlining is a wonderful makeup trick, the wrong color can make you look like you are trying to hide the fact that you were out drinking all night, not just that you have hay fever.
So I picked up Urban Decay Naked Basic 24/7 Glide-On Double Ended Pencil in Crave/Venus at Ulta to see if it would be a more natural look, and I am thrilled with the results. Venus is a golden-cream, which is brightening, opens the eye, and covers redness on the inner rim while not looking like you are wearing anything. Because looking bright eyed and bushy tailed is always better when you don’t look like you spent 30 minutes putting on makeup to get there.
Crave is also a great dark liner – I love it for tightlining my upper lid.
All in all, this two sided liner is a great, natural looking liner that works for the office or at night. It is super-creamy and has great staying power, while coming right off with an oil based cleanser at the end of the day. And at $16, it is a great deal for a generously sized dual ended highly usable liner.
Find it at UrbanDecay.com and Ulta.com.
And yes, it goes fabulously with the Naked Palettes…
I put on a nice thick layer of each to swatch color – but the formula is ridiculously smooth:
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