Testing the I love Berlin eyeliner

I one of my latest posts I just talked about the amazing jar of the eyeliner. Now it is time to try it.
I will do a short review of it.

The color of this glittering black eyeliner is called, 04 Berlin Story. I actually never use brush eyeliners because I always thought it was very hard. But I must say, with a little bit of practice I get better and better when I us it.

This is on the hand. To show the color. The line on my hand is thicker than the brush gives. I made it ticker just for the photo. As you can see the glittering in the eyeliner is almost not visible. But the eyeliner has subtle silver coloured sparkles in it.



On the eye itself the eyeliner does not smudge. When practicing, I found out, the less eyeliner you put on the brush the better it goes. With more it will run trough the eyelashes because it does not dries very quick.

This is how it looks on my eyes. It does not look very neat. It is only to show how it looks.




Because of this eyeliner was one from a limited edition line, you probably will not find it anymore. BUT Essence just brought out a new line of eyeliners named glam liner. this glam liners also have the little sparkles that the I love Berlin eyeliner has.

You can find them here Essence Glam liner

Eyeliner with a mark of history

When I was in the local drugstore lately, I found something amazing. Well in my eyes it is. But that can also be a part of my interest in history.

I thought I just bought an black glittering eyeliner. It is form the limited collection of make up brand essence, named: I love Berlin. Actually I already loved it already because of its name.

What Essence printed on the little jar, is probably something not many people will notice, I think. There's a band printed on the jar with little man. At this point you maybe think, why?

Take a look at the photo, maybe you will find out what's so special about the walking men.



Time for a bit of history about that little walking men. The little walking men with hats are Ampelmännchen. Say what?
Indeed, Ampelmännchen. They where representing the go an no go signs on the East German(DDR) traffic lights at crosswalks.

Even in the year 2011, if you are somewhere in the East part of Germany(DDR) or even better, In Berlin. You can still see by the kind of traffic lights at crosswalks in witch part you are, East or West. Unfortunately, they are not the original ones. They where removed after the unification of Germany. In 2007 they where placed back in Berlin as a part of the Ostalgie.

I think it's great that a make up brand printed this little details on the eyeliner jar.

E.L.F. Cream Eyeliner

For years now, I use eyeliner. I used almost every type of it, dip-liners, felt-tip eyeliner pen, pencil-liners and so on. When I was shopping at ELFs website, I saw a new sort of eyeliner. cream eyeliner. It reminds me a bit of cakeliners. I decided to give it a try, so i bought it.

This is how it looks:


As you can see it comes in a tiny plastic jar, I think it looks stylish. The little brush you see on the picture is included.

I was a bit nervous to try it. And I must see it took my about 15 minutes to get it on my eyes the way i wanted. Probably because of this was the first time ever i tried a eyeliner with brush applicator.
To get it on nicely, take your time and do not try to rush, that will not work. Also, it dries very quickly, so be sure to have a cotton-tip and makeup remover near to you, else you will not be able to get it of. It is really smudge, rub, and waterproof. See the picture, the left line is with a lot of rubbing the right one with a bit and also that line was already dried up.
To remove the eyeliner, use some eye makeup remover. Also do not forget to clean the brush, it will get sticky if you not remove the creamliner form the brush.
After a whole evening of wearing this, no smudge and the line was still in place.



On my eyes it looks like this:



Likes: no smudge, waterproof, good deep color
Unlikes: the time it takes to put it on(but that is my opinion), a bit sticky if you leave it to long on the brush before applying.

Go/no go: I give this one a go. More likes than unlikes. I like this liner and will use it more than once.

You can buy it at E.L.F. make up The price is 4 euro. It is available in 8 colors.