Wetlining using the Physicians Formula Eye Booster Clear Serum!

So I should start out this post by saying that Jill from A Crazy Peach is a certified genius. It was through this post that I figured out that I could use the Lash Boosting Serum (with my favorite brush tip) from Physicians Formula as a way to wetline with my pigments while using the brush tip that I like.

Technically, Jill wouldn't have gotten the Physicians Formula Eye Booster Liner and Clear Serum had it not been for me...so should I be thanking myself?

I've gotten great results with using the clear serum as a mixing medium as you will with the brush tip. It's quite easy to use, all you do is dip the brush tip into the pigment and then mix it on the back of your hand until you get a consistency that you like. It shouldn't be too watery or dry, experiment until you get it to your liking.

I tried it with two different pigments, both Sugarpill pigments that I've enjoyed using as all over eyeshadows but have wanted to use as eyeliner. The brush tip on the Physicians Formula clear serum is quite firm and tightly packed together, even through thorough cleaning with water, it hasn't frayed or been stained by the pigments I've used.

With Sugarpill Royal Sugar Loose Eyeshadow

You can see that I can get a really precise line, the way I can with the Physicians Formula Eye Booster Liners in Ultra Black or Deep Brown.

With Sugarpill Goldilux Loose Eyeshadow. It seems quite light here for some reason but I imagine it'll pop much better when done over eyeshadow. Goldilux is quite glittery and it took a little more effort to clean the pigment out of the brush tip but with a little perseverance, I was able to remove it and it didn't damage the tip.

How do you like to wetline your pigments? I know that this isn't the most cost effective option but I do like the brush tip so I can justify the use! After the clear serum runs out, I should still be able to use the brush tip with a mixing medium, it just won't be flowing from the pen.

Edit: Herp derp, it might have been smart to actually show you a picture of what the Lash Boosting Serum looks like! I photographed it in the liner box but that's because I don't actually have the box for the clear serum.

Here's a close up on the tip. It's quite fine and precise and this is after I've cleaned it so it looks pretty pristine!

Anime Eyeliner Look 1: Based off of ZWinnieYap

To break up the monotony of review posts, I thought I would do a look. I just started subscribing to this amazing girl, ZWinnieYap on Youtube after seeing this tutorial, and I knew I had to do it. This also nicely suits the Black and White theme in the Never Too Much Sparkle! Facebook Group.

Eyes

Physicians Formula Eye Booster Liner in Ultra Black

e.l.f. Cream Eyeliner in Black to fill in the large areas

NYX White Eyeliner

Maybelline Master Shape Brow Pencil in Deep Brown

Clinique Bottom Lash Mascara

Maybelline The Colossal Volum' Express WP in Glam Brown

Please please please I urge you to look at ZWinnieYap's videos and her channel. Her work with the eyeliner pen is amazing, I only got results after many qtip clean ups!

Holy Grail: Physicians Formula Eye Booster Eyeliner+Serum Review

I love the look of liquid eyeliner but I used to find it difficult to use. Felt tips were not my friends and most brush tips splayed badly for me. I've found my Holy Grail (HG) liner with Physicians Formula Eye Booster Eyeliner. It's a Eyeliner+Serum Combo but I haven't specifically documented any lash growth or improvement with this product. I did however, document my experience with the separate lash serum product that's in the same product line and that post will be coming up soon!

Retail price may vary but I've seen it sold in my area for $10.99.


The packaging for the liner is rather luxe to me. It's a sleek silver tube that's got a bit of heft to it. The cap has an inner cover with a spring underneath to better cover the brush tip and I believe there's a ball bearing inside the pen, possibly to help keep the mixture in solution.


The brush tip is utterly amazing and the reason why I love this liner. It's rather similar to some Japanese liner tips were the brushes are "glued" together, creating a compact and tight shape without splaying. I've been using this eyeliner for at least 7 months with no splaying or lost fibers or anything like that. The liner dries fast, creating a nice line that lasts for hours and hours on end. I wore this when I was in England, outside in the rain, and this did not run at all. This by the way, dries to a semi glossy finish, not a matte finish.


As much as I love the liner, I will admit that it has its pitfalls. When you first start using it, it isn't very pigmented but I noticed that shaking it helped with that problem.

I have this liner in both Ultra Black and Deep Brown and have noticed differences between the two. I found that I was able to get solid pigmentation from the Ultra Black liner, but I'll still occasionaly have issues with the Deep Brown color.

Also, the liner is finicky because you can't draw over liner that's already been dried because the brush tip will scrape up the liner underneath. The liner only flows over skin. Another thing is that its removal can be messy. Due to its fast dry time and the formula, it doesn't "melt" under makeup remover, it flakes off instead. So you'll have to be careful about getting black specks all over your eyes and face when you remove it.

One last thing is something I noticed over months of use. A little while ago, I went to use it and I thought that the liner was drying out because it wasn't flowing as easily. It turns out that there was dried eyeliner that can sometimes collected brush and it impeded its flow. I took a bit of water to it on a qtip, scrubbed off the buildup and it applied like new afterwards. If you've been having issues with application, definitely try cleaning the brush tip!

Is it still worth the $10.99? Yes, definitely to me. The pros and easy application outweigh the cons by far. The best drugstore liquid liner I've ever used.

I hardly ever pay retail for drugstore and I think you shouldn't either! I'm appalled at how expensive most drugstore products have become (I'm looking at you L'oreal!) so I try to bargain shop when I can. Will I repurchase? Yes I will!

Have you tried out this liner?

Dancing in the Clouds EOTD

I wanted to play with my new Wet n Wild goodies and use my new Morgana Cryptoria Lip balm. It wasn't intentional but I think this FOTD works well with Nymphette's FOTD Calendar, specifically yesterday's Modern Pinup theme.

*After much reconsideration, I have decided to no longer buy from Morgana Cryptoria. This is a personal decision and not a reflection of the products. Please read this to understand my decision.*

The copper color in the trio is slightly washed out in the pictures, I think it's a little brighter in real life.

Eyes:
ELF Mineral Eye Primer

Wet n Wild Dancing in the Clouds Trio

-Eyelid shade all over the lid

-Browbone shade in the middle of the lid

-Crease shade over Wet n Wild Purple eyeliner on the lower lashline

Wet n Wild Walking on Eggshells

-Browbone shade as a highlight

Wet n Wild Taupe eye liner in the brows

Physicians Formula Eye Booster eye liner

L'oreal Voluminous Carbon Black Waterproof Mascara

Lips:

Morgana Cryptoria Lip Balm in Sheer Cherry

Physicians Formula Eye Booster Eyeliner+Serum

Some time ago Physicians Formula had a giveaway on their site for their Eye Booster eyeliner if you signed up for a club of theirs. I have liked the concept of Physicians Formula but I don't own much of their products other than their gel liners.

For an eyeliner, it's amazing. I wore it for damn near 12 hours and it did not budge or smudge at all. It did wear away at the corners of my eyes but that's normal for me. The color I got is in Ultra Black and I didn't have any trouble getting a nice opaque line. It stays slightly glossy looking as opposed to being completely matte. To be honest I haven't tried it out consistently enough to test the lash boosting effect. It is a little expensive for a drugstore eyeliner at around nine or ten dollars but I like it enough that I'll be repurchasing.

I even got one for my sister. She wore it out often while we were on vacation in England and it stayed strong even in the rain. The one of the things that's a little bothersome is that when you remove it, it doesn't melt off but flakes off so it can get a little messy. This has a brush tip, not a felt tip but the bristles are held together very tightly and I've yet to experience fraying.

The other difficulty is that it can be difficult to go over the same line that's already dried. It works best when the brush tip is on skin or when it hasn't fully dried yet, if that makes sense!

Have you tried this eyeliner out before?

Bronze and Purple EOTD

Sorry about being inactive lately, school has been kicking my butt and I've got a paper to finish and phonetics quiz to study up on this weekend. I'm also going to try to squeeze in taking pictures of my new Morgana Cryptoria lipsticks.

*After much reconsideration, I have decided to no longer purchase from Morgana Cryptoria. This is a personal decision and not a reflection of the products. Please read this to understand my decision*

Also, this look is really similar to this one that I did ages ago but mehhhh I don't care

Eyes:

Urban Decay Primer Potion

Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Glam Brown Eyes liner (the middle bronze shade on the lid)

MAC Bronze

Wet n Wild Eggplant creme liner on the lower lashline

MAC Violet over the creme eyeliner

Physicians Formula Glam Brown Eyes Gel Liner

I was rather intrigued by the color of these liners plus I'm such a sucker for collecting many different kinds of gel/creme liners. I went back and forth about whether to get this one or the other set of liners for brown eyes but I figured I could always get the other ones another time.

The three shades are gold, bronze, and a black with bronze shimmer. I had some difficulty capturing the shade of bronze liner but it errs on a new penny bronze. The sheen is quite excellent in the first two
A better picture of the bronze liner but it's still much more penny colored and not as brown.
Here's a photo to show that the shimmer in the black liner does show up a bit.
I have to say that the gold is the most sheerest, the bronze applies a lot lighter than in the pot and I just love the black with bronze shimmer color. They would work fine as an eyeshadow base but when they're rubbed down they are fairly sheer.

It claims to have a 24 hour wear time and be water-resistant. I definitely agree about the water-resistant claim and I wore it for 10 hours and it only wore away at the edges of my eye.

I believe this was 10.95 but I got it for 7.95 thanks to an Ulta coupon.

I need some retail therapy considering how much studying I have to do for my phonetics test.

No-Buy/UK Product Recommendations?

So in May (at the end of schools :D!) I'm going on vacation to London and Paris with my sister to visit my brother and other family members. We're staying one week in London, one week in Paris and then back to London before we leave for home.

Due to the huge amount of costs I've decided to try going on a No-Buy/Project 10 pan/Shop My Stash with my makeup. Of course it'll will only last until I get to London in which case I will splurge on UK makeup to my heart's content >)

So I'm relatively unacquainted with most of the makeup brands that are offered in London other than Sleek and Barry M. Can anyone make any suggestions as to places/stores/brands I should check out?

To prevent this from being a picture-less post, here's a simple EOTD that I did using the Blue Brown dupe in the Wet n Wild Comfort Zone palette

Urban Decay Primer Potion

Inglot 78 gel liner on the lid

Wet n Wild Comfort Zone

-Bottom Right Definer color on the lid and blended into the crease

-Top left browbone color as a highlight

Physician's Formula Glam Brown Eyes Black liner on the lower lash line

L'oreal Voluminous WP Mascara

Wet n Wild Taupe eyeliner for brows

Off to finish phonetics/transcription homework!

Inglot & Ulta Haul

*Note, Inglot are raising their palette prices to exorbitant levels so if you want to avoid that, get your Inglot orders in now! Grey has lots more information here*

I'm going to force myself to go on a low/no-buy until my vacation in May (to London and Paris to visit my brother!) so I'm doing a last splurge before the Inglot prices go up.

I'm so fortunate to have Inglot relatively closeby, it's only about a half hour trip on the freeway to Fashion Island in Newport Beach. When I went there today the associates were nice and were generous enough to let me be while I covered my hand in swatches.

Unfortunately most of the good items were out (like the Black gel liner and the Duraline) and some of the eyeshadows were only available in square form or round form as opposed to both.

I also had a giftcard to Ulta (thanks to my boyfriend's awesome g-ma) plus a $3.50 coupon so away I went.

Close up of the Inglot eyeshadows. I'll do a swatch post of all of my Inglot eyeshadows soon!

From left to right, Double Sparkle 463, Matte 379, Double Sparkle 504, Pearl 451, and Matte 348
If any of you guys are thinking about ordering from the Inglot Fashion Island, I found out about a 10% discount. You can check out the video here!

Have you guys tried Inglot?