Actually I lied in the title. It's not every single pen liner I've ever owned because I gave one away just a few months ago, but I can still tell you what it was like plus it's been properly reviewed (Beyu Statement Eyeliner, fits into "Won't knock your socks off, but it's fine" category ) and I left out the Kardatrashian one, since I hear their brand tanked (haha) or at least I can''t find it anywhere (great liner though, for the "Best so far" category),  but all the rest are here. I keep them for reference, even though a great majority are too old to use, but I felt one day they'll come in handy for a proper overview post. I'm one of those people who wears eyeliner almost every day. Come rain or sunshine, apart from on a random lazy Sunday, I'll always sport a thin line on the top of my lashes, mostly with no flick and when I feel more confident that today will be the day when I finally make something decent, I'll try with a flick - which always ends up completely different on the other side. Eyeliners make my eyes appear more awake and open, so as someone who has relatively small, bland eyes and who wears glasses which make her eyes look ever smaller, eyeliner is my best friend - even better than mascara. Naturally I'm on a never ending quest for the perfect liquid pen eyeliner and as you can probably tell from the pictures, there has been a significant amount of them in my collection. So let's delve in.

Yeah, it doesn't look as good on the other side. 

BEST SO FAR

L'OREAL Voluminous Superstar Eyeliner 

Finish: semi-matte

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 1.7 ml

Price: €10.19 

This one is very close to being my favourite eyeliner ever, but I just wish the tip were more precise and smaller, though it's the best one to draw flicks with. The formula is super black, matte enough and it lasts well on the lids, but the best thing about this liner is how long it lasts. It's quite possible that because of the spade shape of the applicator it manages to keep the tip saturated with colour for much longer than others, so it's one that stays fresh for several months. I haven't seen it on our stands the last time I was in Müller, but I'd repurchase it.

L'ORÉAL Super Liner Perfect Slim Intense Black

Finish: semi-matte

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 2 ml

Price: 6.95 €

The formula of this one is exactly the same as in Superstar and you get a more precise applicator, plus I just found it in our drugstores (I only had to wait four years for such a miracle to happen). However, due to the applicator being so much longer than others, the tip loses colour faster, so you can use only the base of the applicator after a couple of months, but that part stays saturated with colour for basically forever (mine works after five years). This is the only eyeliner on the list that I've repurchased.

MAYBELLINE Master Precise Eyeliner

Finish: matte

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 1 ml

Price: 5.95€

This is also about the same as both L'Oreal eyeliners, particularly when it comes to the formula and the tip is very much like Perfect Slim's as you can see on the pictures. It's got the same pluses and faults, but all together it's a reliable liner and one of the rare ones I'd repurchase. It's also sold in Slovene drugstores, so that's an additional plus for me.

BORN PRETTY Smooth Liquid Eye Liner with a Panda Design 

Finish: matte

Applicator: brush

Quantity: N/A

Price: discontinued? It was $9.99

I've never found a perfect liner, so one that's my absolute HG and I'd always repurchase (clearly, given my stash of used up different liners), but this one came closest. Yeah, it looks like a toy and I think most wouldn't even take it seriously if they saw it, but it has one of the best applicators (it's a brush one) because it's small and precise, but not so small that it'd dry too quickly, The formula is properly black and it lasts great on the lids. So far it's my favourite, but I haven't seen it in a while. It's possible other liners Born Pretty sell are similar.

WON'T KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF, BUT IT'S FINE

COLLECTION Extreme 24 Hour Felt Tip Liner

Finish: matte

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 7.8g (data from Superdrug website, it's not on the liner)

Price: £2.99

The main fault of this one is that the formula is more sheer than at others and it's not intensely black. The applicator is not the ideal shape and it's stiff, but you can still work with it. Basically this is just a very average eyeliner that I'd get only if there wasn't anything else on a budget.

ESSENCE Eyeliner Pen Waterproof

Finish: matte

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 1 ml

Price: €2.75

This has a much better formula than Collection's, but a similar stiff/scratchy applicator. It's nicely black, but it's not waterproof as promised and it took only a month for the tip to get so dry I couldn't do precise flicks anymore. If you don't want to spend much and aren't too fussy, this one is ok.

MILANI Eye Tech Extreme Liquid Eye Liner 

Finish: semi-matte

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 1 ml

Price: $8.00

This one could almost go to the best category, since it's about the same as L'Oreal, but the tip of the applicator got dry too fast for my taste, so I wasn't able to be precise anymore and it's not the best shape anyway because it's so long. But otherwise the formula is lovely - intensely black and long-lasting. 

WE HAD ISSUES...

ARTDECO High Precision Liquid Liner

Finish: semi-matte

Applicator: brush

Quantity: 0.55 ml

Price: €16.99 

This is was one of those liners where I'm still not sure what the hell happened. I bought it after I was seriously impressed by the tester in the shop (I applied it on the back of my hand and it lasted through several washings), but when I opened mine at home, it just wasn't the same thing. The formula was diluted, not as black and I could never manage to do both eyes in one go, plus it crumbled when you went over it trying to make the line darker. And it sucked hard for about two months and then it had a sudden personality transplant and started working almost perfectly. The Jekyll and Hyde among liners.

STILA Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner

Finish: shine

Applicator: brush

Quantity: 0.5 ml

Price: €18.40 

Oh, Stila why hast thou disappointed me so? A lot of people love this liner and I've heard numerous recommendations, so I was incredibly excited to be trying this liner because I was convinced it's perfect in both terms of formula and the shape of the applicator. But nope, this just wasn't it and I was consistently disappointed by it from first use. The tip of the applicator was very flimsy, on mine it also came already a bit frayed, so I could just forget about ever doing a flick that wasn't semi-sheer and uneven. It's also one of the rare liners in this bunch that is completely dried up and I have much older liners which work.

WET N WILD Proline Felt Tip Eyeliner

Finish: semi-matte

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 0.5 ml

Price: €4.49 

Again another one where I just don't get what is its deal. It started out beautifully, it's one of the most intensely black ones plus long lasting and precise. I was 100% sure it'll be my HG, but then it just rebelled. The tip stopped getting enough colour and now when I try to draw a flick, all I get are some sheer streaks of colour. The base of the applicator though is still heavily saturated and works perfectly, but that ink is just not getting to the tip, no matter how long I store it upside down or shake it like an idiot.

CLIO Waterproof Brush Liner

Finish: semi-matte/shine

Applicator: brush

Quantity: 0.55 ml 

Price: $10.06

About the same story as with Stila - it was heavily recommended and I expected a lot, but it was a disappointment from the start. Formula is ok, standard very black and lasts well, but this is dries up mid process (including on bare skin which is how I always test liners) and I need to revive it on my hand before I proceed. It's just so tedious to use and I gave up on it.

WORST

BEYU Liquid Fine Liner 

Finish: matte

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 1.1 ml

Price: €8.99 

I loved this from the start because it is super precise and you can do the tiniest, cutest flick with it, but within days or a week, it was too dry to use. Mine is so sheer now and has been for a long time that it's just useless. Good concept, but it doesn't work well in real life. 

CATRICE Glam & Doll Super Black Liner 

Finish: semi-matte

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 1 ml

Price: €3.29 

Disappointing from the moment I tried it. This has the worst formula I've ever tried because it's like someone watered it down. The applicator isn't that good either, so this was one of those "why did I buy this?" products.

L'OREAL Super Liner So Couture 

Finish: no idea

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 0.28 g

Price: €9.99 

This just fills me with rage. I love L'Oreal liners because they are consistently good, but this such an annoying one. I don't know if I'm cursed or what, but I got my first one in DM, came home full of anticipation and nothing, it was completely dried up. Now, I understand that happens since a lot of buyers are just uncultured animals who open products and put them back on the shelves like a bunch of morons, but I went to exchange it (it was actually placed back on the stand and I got a different one from the front. That's just the worst selling ethics I've ever seen). The second one worked about a day and then it was the same story as with the first one - it just completely dried up. 10 euros down the drain. Yay.

MANHATTAN Eyemazing Liner 

Finish: satin with some shine

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 1 ml

Price: €5.99 

One of my first liners and it's not horrible at all - it actually still works after five years, but the formula is sheer and it's not intensely black. Also staying power isn't as good as its competition. Essence's is better for a budget liner in our drugstores.

YANQUINA Waterproof Eyeliner 

Finish: semi-matte

Applicator: felt

Quantity: 2.5 g

Price: $1

This made me laugh at loud when I first tried it. Not because it was shockingly bad, but because it performed like a liner that costs ten times as much. It was black and easy to apply precisely, so it rivalled other more expensive liners. Unfortunately, by day two, it was completely useless, though I recently discovered the base of the applicator still has plenty of colour when I swatch it. It's cheap as chips on AliExpress and eBay.

So these are all my pen eyeliners I've tried in an overview type of post. L'Oreal is the most reliable when it comes to liners (though that So Couture one), but they aren't cheap. Essence is cool if you want to try such eyeliners and not spend much, but don't expect it to last long. Most of the hyped-up ones (Stila, Clio, Wet n Wild) were a disappointment, as I said, I must be suffering from an eyeliner curse of sort, there's no other explanation (and before you say I must have ruined them with an eyeshadow - I didn't. I always try them on bare skin and in general skip eyeshadow a lot). Anyway, I've recently made a switch to dip eyeliners, more precisely to Catrice's Liquid Eyeliner. It's the one I'm wearing in the top picture and I've been using it every day for the past month. So far I'm impressed and it's actually the reason I made this post because I think I'm done experimenting with pen liners and I plan to stick with Catrice's for a quite a while.

Have you found your perfect pen eyeliner? I hope this was helpful.

I've heard tons of raves about this eyeliner. There is this general consensus that Stila's and Kat von D's eyeliners are the best in the business, so naturally as an eyeliner fan, I was very tempted to try it, but the high price was always pulling me back. I did hear though that it lasts a year before it dries out, so it wouldn't be such a massive investment considering how many I buy due to them drying out in a few months (they don't dry completely, but the tip doesn't get any more colour and you can't do flicks). In a strange turn of events, when I got this one, I also got three others, all drugstore and I actually am not that convinced that this one is that much better than the rest. Ok, the formula is obviously more long lasting, but all others are reallyblack and also last well on my normal lids, so I think time will be its main test.

It has one of the smallest nibs, which is something I prefer when picking out eyeliner simply because they are much more precise and easy to work with, especially when it comes to making small corrections. It's a classic felt tip and I actually prefer those that are like a brush (Artdeco's for example), since they create a smoother line that doesn't need much fixing. It's otherwise a nice sturdy nib, except for the tip. The latter feels flimsy, like it's old. I don't know if that is just mine, or that's a general characteristics. It does make it feel less harsh, but it can escape control easier and it's very hard to almost impossible for me to do a sharp wing. I have to say the flimsy nib is bothering me more and more, but I'm uncertain whether only my liner is like that or all. Those who have tried it already, please let me know. 

The formula is very black (as at a majority of liners I tried to be fair) and, to me surprisingly, glossy even when it sets. I think all of my eyeliners had a matte or a slightly shiny finish, which I prefer, but glossy is fine too. The nib is always very saturated with product and you don't have to stop midway application to put the lid back on and shake it. Because of that, the application is very smooth and I don't need to go over the line again. Like most eyeliners it's rub-proof once it sets, though most do smudge a bit if you apply a lot of force, but this one doesn't with a dry tissue and even a wet wipe really struggles to remove it, so it's the type of liner that's better to be removed with a waterproof remover to avoid any unnecessary tugging. Because of that the wings remain untouched the whole day. 

 Too Faced Chocolate Bar on the eyes, Sleek Birthday Suit on the lips, Max Factor Lavish Mauve on the cheeks.

Yanquina Waterproof Eyeliner, Stila Eyeliner,  Milani Eye Tech Extreme Liquid Eye Liner and L'Oreal Super Liner Superstar.

 L'Oreal Super Liner Superstar, Milani Eye Tech Extreme Liquid Eye Liner, Stila Eyeliner and Yanquina Waterproof Eyeliner.

The cap has a spring inside, which hopefully will keep it fresh longer and it's holding pretty well.

I bought mine on Beauty Bay for 18.40 €. I actually tried ordering it a few months before on Look Fantastic and it wouldn't let me through checkout with the liner in the cart, which is just the weirdest thing ever.

I had a question from Ana (Beautysaur), a diehard fan of Artdeco's eyeliner, which is better and after weeks of using it, I still honestly don't have an answer. Both have their faults, Artdeco's isn't as resilient and there's the whole thing that is didn't even work for the first few months, but I love the nib a lot more because it's more easy to control and it's smoother. Stila's also has a glossy formula, which wouldn't be my favourite feature, but I can live with it. What's more important is that's it's very long-lasting, so a formula that you can truly rely on and the nib is very saturated. I used to think I found my perfect liner in that Kardashian Beauty one, which is fantastic, but it dries out fast and there is no way I'm giving that family any of my money. I love the Sweet Pink one with the Panda design most as a budget option, but for my all-time favourite I remain searching and anyway, a great majority of them performs very similar which is great. I love this one's formula, it's the best one I've tried so far, but the flimsy tip is annoying to me. Maybelline's comes next.

Have a great day!

TOO FACED Chocolate Bar Eyeshadow Palette

I never do anything as stupid as spending a load of money just because I feel like it in the moment, but I wanted to treat myself for my birthday and I decided to order this quite out of the blue one week before. I'm so glad I did because this is an awesome palette. I'm still exploring the colours, so every day I feel like a kid in a candy store. The colour selection in this palette is fantastic and believe it or not, I don't actually think have dupes for these, at least for a great majority of the colours. The pigmentation is superb at most shades, mattes included, though there are a few less pigmented exceptions, but luckily they are my least favourite colours. They do crease at the end of the day if I don't use a primer and I think that's because they are so buttery and creamy. The first couple of days I could not smell any chocolate, but now I do. It truly does smell faintly like chocolate and cocoa. Really, really glad I bought this. 

Beauty Bay, 54.70 € (£41.75)

STILA Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner 

Intense Black

 This has been on my wishlist for such a long time and I kept avoiding buying it because it so expensive. It's a classic felt tip eyeliner with a precise nib with which it's easy to draw very thin lines, but the tip feels almost like it's a bit old, as the end is a bit flimsy. The formula was very liquid and wet from the start, but now it's already much better. Once this sets on the skin, it's rub-proof. You can rub it as hard as you can and it won't come off. It's not completely waterproof though, but it doesn't smudge during the day. Actually at the end of the day, it's still perfect and that's including the flicks. So far, I'm impressed, but I'm really interested if it will last longer than the rest I've tried.  

Beauty Bay, 18.30 € (£14.04)

BEAUTY BLENDER Premier Blendercleanser Solid 

15 g

This was a gift with purchase and it's quite small, but the full size is only 28 g. It's meant to clean beauty blenders and other sponges as well as brushes. Honestly, I don't think it's worth it. I had to wash my foundation brush four times and it still wasn't spotless. It did clean eyeshadow brushes very effectively, though. It works like any other bar soap I've had on hand, from Fa to Palmolive and other cheap ones. It smells like lavender, but in a soapy way. I need to use it more to see if it impresses me in the future, but 18 € for a small bar soap - they must be joking.

Beauty Bay, €18.20 (£13.97; 28 g)

SLEEK Matte Me Lip Gloss

Birthday Suit

Birthday Suit was a shade I was always dubious about. I've seen it only on girls with a medium skin tone and on them such shades look amazing, but on a pale girl like me, there is always a risk it'll look ugly brown. But in the spirit of birthday splurging, I took a chance and just got it. It's turned out better than I expected. It's a brownish-pink shade which has enough of those rosy tones that it looks good on me. Considering how concerned I was, I truly am enjoying this shade. The formula is strange, different from what I'm used to. It start almost as an oil, a very light one at that, but after about 3-5 minutes it starts drying and it dries to a perfect, "Instagram-matte" finish. This probably has the best proper matte finish I've tried. However, it does feel like a film on the lips and it can feel a bit tight, so avoid this if you have dry lips. 

Boots International, £4.99

BOURJOIS Rouge Edition Velvet lipstick

Happy Nude Year and Plum Plum Girl

My collection of Velvets is growing. I got two shades that as far as I know aren't sold here, Happy Nude Year and Plum Plum Girl, the latter was released recently along with two other shades. I've done reviews of four shades already (Grand Cru, Nude-ist, Frambourjoise and Olé Flamingo) and it's no secret how much I love these. Happy Nude Year is not what I imagined it to be and looks so much different than on my friend. On me HNY is a very peachy shade with very little pink. Plum Plum Girl is a great shade though. It's a deeper magenta-purple shade, a bit like mixing Mac's D for Danger and Rebel together. I have Plum Plum girl on my lips here. 

Boots International, £8.99

NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream

Cannes

It's been many years since I bought one of these. I have Tokyo, Istanbul and Addis Ababa, now I got one of the newer shades Cannes, though I was thinking about buying more of these, at least Copenhagen, but also Transylvania, Prague, Zurich and Ibiza. I remember when I first got these, I realized they are exact dupes for Manhattan's Soft Mat Lipcreams (now sadly discontinued) and loved them. Istanbul was actually my most worn shade in my first couple of years at university. But now I don't actually think these are the best liquid lipsticks. They are good, but there are better ones. They start off as very light, slightly greasy creams and it takes long for them to dry to a matte finish, maybe 10-15 minutes. The pigmentation isn't as intense as at the competition either, but in general these are still nice and very comfortable to wear considering they are matte. Cannes is a shade I would never expect I'd like. It's the type of shade that looks amazing on medium skin tones and brown on light ones, but I actually like this one on me. It again has enough rosy-peachy tones that I can pull it off, but it's a very 90's inspired shade.  

Boots International, £5.50

BOURJOIS ColorBoost Lip Crayon

Plum Russian

I got this is as gift with purchase and I didn't get to pick the shade nor did I know before putting it in the shopping cart what the gift actually is. I have Peach on a Beach, or had it, I can't find it anywhere. Anyway, I was not a fan of that one, but I'm really digging this one, especially when I wear it in combination with a chocolate smoky eye. Plum Russian is a sheer deep red-plum shade that's glossy and I'm not a massive fan of such finishes, but I can always just blot it. The pigmentation of these is the best out of all such products I've tried and it's closest to full opacity, though it's still see-through. 

Boots International, £7.99

SANCTUARY mini Foaming Bath Soak 

75ml

Boots had a 3 for 2 and since I had two items already in the cart, I just chucked this in (I'll show the rest of the Boots purchases in the next new in). It's a bubble bath that smells of nothing special, just a clean type of scent with a hint of citrus like a lot of 1l cheap baths. It foam well and the scent is noticeable when in the bath, also my skin wasn't dry after. It's ok, but I would prefer a more exciting, luxurious scent.

Boots International, £2.50

YANQUINA Waterproof Eyeliner 

I really needed a new eyeliner at the beginning of the year, so I "splurged" for an 80 cents one from AliExpress, which I actually mainly got because of its cute polka dot design. It caught my attention on one of Beautysaur's pictures and she later spoke about it here, it was her who actually gave me a link to it. I expected nothing for this price, but it's very decent. In the first few days it performs like a brilliant eyeliner that is super black, well saturated with product and very precise. However, it takes some time for the nib to get saturated with product again, so if you use it often, it gets dry. I would suggest getting two at once, they are cheap as chips anyway, and then swap them each day, keeping the other one stored upside down. The nib is stiffer than Sweet Pink panda shaped one's, actually it's more similar to Collection's and Essence's nibs, but smaller and therefore more precise. It's nice considering it's so cheap, but the Sweet Pink one and a majority of others are a lot more reliable. 

AliExpress,  $0.76

ESSENCE Big Bright Eyes Eyeliner

01 …Highlight it Nude

So Essence is breaking my heart again, they are experts at that. They decided to discontinue these amazing drugstore gems. If you check my Instagram, then you've probably seen this eyeliner a gazillion times, since it's the liner I use almost every day and it's on my waterline in pretty much all of my pictures on this blog. Naturally I stocked up before it's are gone, it's so cheap anyway. It's the perfect nude slightly pink eyeliner that makes my eyes look more awake and bigger. The formula is so creamy and it easily transfers to the waterline, but also manages to hang on quite well. I just can't believe they are discontinuing these.

Müller, 2.20 €

L'OCCITANE Melting Honey Exfoliating Sugars

I think I just found my new all-time favourite scrub. I was sure I missed the entire Melting Honey collection due to my avoiding going to the shop (I'm a person who likes to be left alone and I need to mentally prepare myself before I got to such shops), but I was so delighted to find this scrub, as it was the item I most wanted to get my hands on. A few bloggers told me that this collection didn't smell like the old honey one, but this scrub smells very close to the original honey scent they had in 2006. The SA just opened the pot and I immediately knew it has to go home with me. It's a sugar based scrub that is closest to my old favourite Soap & Glory Flake Away, but it's much thicker and smells utterly divine. It does smell more like a flowery version of honey, but that flowery note is the same as in my favourite fragrance by L'Occitane Vanilla, which they discontinued years ago, I think it's orchid. Anyway it creates the most amazing scent and they should really think about creating a fragrance like it. As I said the texture is very thick, like a balm and it's not just sugar particles, but something dark as well (ground pits maybe), so it's an intense scrub, just the way I like it. It leaves a balmy-oil layer behind, so no lotion is needed afterwards. I really love this.

Ingredients.

L'Occitane, 23.40 €

*My Beauty Box Slovenia January

I was send another surprise Beauty Box, this time for January-February. It has five products inside: 

RIMMEL I <3 Lasting Finish Nail Polish in 170 Lively Lilac - a pastel violet shade. Needs three coats for full opacity.

KNEIPP Herbal Bath Pure Bliss Red Poppy and Hemp - A small size bath oil that looks like blood because of the thickness and colour. It's really strange pouring it in the bath, but it turns the water into a nice shade of pink-red. It smells nothing special, relaxingly floral, but it's not strong enough for me. There is not need for a lotion after this bath.

LAVERA Bio Almond and Bio Macadamia Oil Natural Shine Intensive Care - Haven't tried this yet and I doubt it'll be enough product for my hair, but I don't have the best experience with hair products from this brand, so I'm hoping for the best. 

LAVERA Basis Sensitiv Lip Balm - A classic lip balm that claims is for sensitive skin. It's waxy, but nourishing, pretty standard to be honest. I don't like the flour scent though. 

TEAPIGS. Tea Skinny Dessert and Bolly Good - the first is a rooibos tea with caramel pieces and Bolly Good is an assam tea with spices and cinnamon flavour.

My Beauty Box Slovenia, 15 € + shipping.