{"id":17445,"date":"2017-05-29T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=17445"},"modified":"2018-08-04T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T06:50:47","slug":"marc-jacobs-highliner-matte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2017\/05\/marc-jacobs-highliner-matte\/","title":{"rendered":"Want an eyeliner that won’t transfer at all? You want the Marc Jacobs Highliner Matte Gel Eye Crayons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quite a few months ago, a giant box popped up on my door step all the way from the USA. No sender details, just like my mystery package from Bite <\/a>last year. It was truly a mystery. But when I opened it, I let it a squeal of delight – and you know I don’t squeal.<\/p>\n

Inside, was every single one of the (then) brand new Marc Jacobs Highliner Matte Gel Eye Crayon <\/strong>pencils! I was stoked and stumped all at once.<\/p>\n

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The Marc Jacobs Highliner Matte Gel Eye Crayon is the matte version of their bestselling Highliner Gel Eye Crayon, which contains shimmer. While I had been very impressed by the Marc Jacobs liquid eyeliner<\/a>, I had yet to try their pencil liners. This came at an opportune time, for I’ve been using colourful eyeliners in place of eyeshadow <\/a>for a while – call it laziness or just a bit of apathy.<\/p>\n

Oh and this is going to sound really trite, but these liners are AMAZING! I swear, they don’t transfer at all, not one bit! That is what impressed me the most. Let me show you how they hold up to water in my little experiment.<\/p>\n

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The Marc Jacobs Highliner Matte eyeliners come in silver bodied pencils, but are retractable. I like that, and it’s easy to twist up and twist back down. If you prefer a sharper tip, a sharpener is included, at the back of each pencil. You just have to pull it out, and it sharpens the liner.<\/p>\n

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This isn’t terribly innovative, as we’ve seen this before in many brands now. But it’s clever as it means you won’t lose it, and you can take it everywhere you go. However, I will warn you that you won’t get a nice sharp tip as you will when it arrives. If you see that cobalt blue pencil at the bottom left, it has been manually sharpened by me, and the tip is a little off, as compared to the others which are brand new from the box.<\/p>\n

The other thing I will note is that the texture of the pencil is quite soft. In our tropical heat, it is liable to break, especially if you put too sharp a tip on it. I was quite careful while doing the swatches, but even then, as you will see below, I managed to break one of the tips.<\/p>\n

These are presently all the colours available in the Marc Jacobs Highliner Matte eyeliner series, and I can’t deny that it bugged me that there was no basic matte black included. The deepest shade is (Iron)y, which is a deep grey-brown that is dark, but not exactly black. In the regular line, there is a shade Blacquer, which is a nice black, but has some shine in it. It would be nice if MJ Beauty came up with a matte black, because, these eyeliners are the bomb!<\/p>\n

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If you live in fear of your eyeliner transferring (as I do), then have no more fear, for these Marc Jacobs Highliner Matte eyeliners do not transfer. Not. One. Bit. I was surprised, as often, even with the most tenacious of liners, I will find a shadow on my under eye area. Not this time. Gone are the days when I have to surreptitiously wipe away at my under-eye area, hoping against hope that I’m not presenting a panda face to the person I’m talking to LOL! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

They are also incredibly waterproof once they set, and transfer proof.<\/p>\n

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In the top photo, I ran water down my swatches, after I’d scrubbed at them first, with a piece of tissue paper – no transfer at all. I was already impressed. On the photo below, is after I’d patted my arm dry, and while there is some fading of colour, the eyeliner is still pretty much intact.<\/p>\n

“Ok, so this is on your arm, how about on lids – I don’t wear eyeliner on my arms!”<\/p>\n

You are absolutely right. I don’t have photos to show you what it looks like on my lids, but I have worn some of the brighter colours as an eyeliner on the top lid, and some of the deeper shades to tightline. As I noted above, either way, there was no transfer onto my lower lid. It made me more comfortable and more confident to wear these bright colours (I’ve been lazy!)<\/p>\n

However, and there is always a fly in the ointment, there are 2 things that do not endear these liners to me.<\/p>\n