Whether you love the cat eye look, or just looking for an eyeliner to fill in the water line, here are the best value-for-money eyeliners you should try.
With a small felt tip that allows you to control your strokes with ease, the Sleek MakeUP Flick it is an easy liquid eyeliner to use, even for beginners
The 3CE Super Slim Pen Eyeliner comes in four different shades, allowing you to choose between a natural looking eyeliner with the shade Light Brown, or go really intense with Black.
The Browhaus Precision Eyeliner is quite literally, your wing-man. This seemingly unassuming eyeliner stays on all day and doesn’t come off, until you want it to.
Dispensing as an intense black, the Ciate London Chisel Liner High Definition Tip Eyeliner allows you to vary the thickness of your eye line as you please.
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Clio makes some of the most amazing and long-lasting eyeliner and the Clio Waterproof Pencil Eyeliner Kill Brown is one of our go-to eyeliner, whether it’s rain or shine. The waterproof gel formula glides on easily and then stays put when it dries.
There are not many brands who just focus on eye products, but Eyeko does it, and they do it well. The Eyeko Skinny Liquid Eyeliner is specifically for people who love to line their eye, but don’t want to go too crazy in terms of eyeliner thickness.
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The KATE Tokyo Slim Gel Pencil has such a small tip, it’s easy to tight line your lash line – even the hard to reach corner of the eyes.
This super long-lasting gel eyeliner comes with its own brush that perfectly complements the gel formula. Gliding on the eye line without tugging, it delivers the most intense pigments for a cat eye look that is dramatic.
The applicator of any liquid eyeliner is the most crucial and when it comes to felt tips, many things can go wrong – too stiff, too soft, too long, too short or too rough. But the L’Oreal Superliner Superstar Felt Liner nails it right with the felt tip that is easy to control, and doesn’t tug on lids.
And oldie but goodie, the Maybelline Hypersharp Laser Liner comes in many iterations these days but the original was the one that solidified our love for the Hypersharp series. It’s brush tip is easy to control and glides so easily on the eye line, and stays on all day.
Automatic gel pencils are amazing – they dispense a formula that has the intensity of gels but you don’t ever have to sharpen them – and it’s precisely why we love the NYX Professional Makeup Mechanical Pencil Eye.
The Revlon Colorstay Liquid Liner has a formula with one of the most intense blacks we’ve seen. As it’s a traditional brush in a well format, we recommend this for seasoned makeup pros or those with a really steady hand. Once you have mastered it though, the eyeliner looks you can create will be killer.
Khol eyeliners are known to be more creamy and intense and can be worn multiple ways. Just draw it on and blend it out as an eye shadow base or on its own for a dramatic eyeliner look.
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Like most gel liners, the Rimmel Scandaleyes Gel Liner delivers an intense eyeliner look that doesn’t tug on skin.
Tapered all the way up to the tip, the SilkyGirl Perfect Sharp Eyeliner Pen is surprisingly easy to control for a liquid eyeliner – great for beginners!
At just $4.50, this pocket-friendly eyeliner is a great way for anyone to venture into eyeliner territory without worrying about cost. this eyeliner comes with its own sponge tip, so in case you mess up, you can just blend your mistakes away.
Another eyeliner we love from CLIO, this one features a brush tip which is easy to control the thickness of your lines. Plus, the formula is waterproof and stays on all day.
Formulated to last for 12 hours, the Sephora Collection 12HR Contour Eye Pencil glides on eyelids so easily and can also be blended out to form an eye shadow base.
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With a felt tip that is super fine, the Zoeva Cat Eye Pen lets you create ultra precise lines that lasts all ways once it dries.
The NYX Professional Makeup That’s The Point Eyeliner in One The Dot doesn’t have a regular chiselled tip that allows you to create sharp cat eyes, but a rounded tip that lets you dot your eyeliner on. If you are just starting out on eyeliners, you can use this to dot your eyeliner on, then use a regular brush to connect the dots for a stress-free eyeliner look anyone can create.
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