girl-guts:

I don’t ask for much; all I want is a Diet Coke every day and to be wearing black cat-eye liner up until the second I die, so when Benefit discontinued their cake eyeliner, Babe Cake, that I pledged my allegiance to for four years, I felt personally offended and began searching for a suitable replacement.

My requirements were and remain as follows:

must  

1. Be the blackest black

2. Contain no sparkles

3. Be in a cake

4. Stay on forever because I have this “thing” where I cry “a lot”

so it was easy to narrow it down quickly especially when I found that Illamasqua had a cake eyeliner. I love Illamasqua for a number of reasons; their makeup is made with film and theater in mind, so every product is highly pigmented with staying power that is out of this world and their minimalistic black packaging allows for the product to be the main focus-a tiny work of art in a dark frame.

This liner is so easy to put on, dries instantly and stays put with no fall out. Use an angle brush and mix a tiny bit of water (or spit if you’re a badass) and follow the curve of your eye, flicking it out a bit at the end and you will be ready for whatever life throws at you, even if you have a “thing” where you cry “a lot”.

-Jessica