
by jhunie
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I fished demolition from an Urban Decay set my sister purchased. There was a dead-on black shade, which of course was my sister’s first choice, and the less fancied eyeliner was mine, because beggars couldn’t be choosers. The fact, however, that these pencils were the storied Urban Decay 24/7 glide on eyeliners urged on an optimistic feeling. They’ve been praised by everyone. Now it’s my turn to anoint the UD glide on pencils, in this case Demolition, as the star eyeliner indeed.
It’s a well made eyeliner to the hilt. The pencil makes a smooth pass on the soft and therefore insubstantial surface of the eye lids, on the waterline too. You know how lining the eyes can be troublesome; it’s like writing on thin paper without a table. I don’t feel the tip of the pencil gliding across because of the smoothness of the formula, so
as to arrive at the other end of the lash line free from that poking feeling that triggers my blinking reflex. Same goes for lining the water line. It’s not utterly creamy to get mashed up as you go, which makes me give up the ghost among other pencil eyeliners that do (and switched to liquid liners).
Dark brown eyeliner turns me off. It’s a euphemism for, “Hey I’m wearing eyeliner, but not really.” What’s the point? Try black eyeliner on the waterline should you wish a mellower look. That said, I tend to associate brown eyeliners with bad taste. In a manner of saying, Demolition demolished that old perception. It doesn’t sit in ambivalence like a stupid brown eyeliner. Demolition is deliberately darker for a brown shade and has the strong payoff of a black eyeliner sans the gothic sharpness. It’s a deep matte ...