Mar
2012
Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Perfect Eyeliner Is Sadly Not Perfect For Me
Le sigh. The title says it all. When I purchased Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Perfect Eyeliner, I had high hopes as it was :-
a) Highly recommended in Sasa
b) A Japanese beauty product
c) Supposed to be long-lasting for 24 hours
The eyeliner itself looked promising too with its blacker-than-black crayon-like texture complete with in-built sharpener and smudger. According to the diagrams at the back of the package, Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Perfect Eyeliner was supposed to be perfect for lining upper and lower lash lines and for tight-lining too. But here is what happened to me…
Initial Impressions
Oh yes! I was loving the look I created with the Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Perfect Eyeliner. The tip was perfect at drawing lines around my eyes and it glided on pretty smoothly. I really loved the blacker-than-black shade. Tight-lining my waterline was a breeze and it didn’t irritate me at all.
I was super-duper impressed…
Two Hours Later…
Oh my word!! I went from hot to not! Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Perfect Eyeliner is supposed to be long-lasting but it couldn’t even last me 2 hours without running. I was distraught.
Bizarrely, I decided not to remove it and I wore it out for dinner. Yep, with smudges running down my face because I’m classy like that. Just before the main course, an annoying black lumpy gunge started to float around my eyeball and irritate my left eye and contact lens. This was residue from the after-effects of tight-lining. My eyes started watering like crazy and in the end, I had to flick off my left contact lens and eat with wonky one-eyed vision. When I got home, I found a bloodshot left eye with black gunge – NOT nice.
I also discovered why Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Perfect Eyeliner claims that it is long-lasting. It is a stubborn bitch to remove even with industrial strength eye make-up remover. When I say industrial strength, I mean my scrubbing technique paired with my current HG eye make-up remover.
After I got over that drama-rama, I did try Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Perfect Eyeliner again, but there’s no love there. I will only use it in times of desperation, i.e. when my entire collection of black eyeliners go amiss; which is surprisingly, more common than I would like.
My quest for the perfect black eyeliner continues. Let me know which ones you recommend and I shall put them to the test!
Celeste @ Becoming Beautiful
14/03/2012 at 11:36 am (436 days ago)My perfect eyeliners are all liquid. Benefit’s is my HG.
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Ling Reply:
March 15th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
@Celeste @ Becoming Beautiful, Do you use them even for tight-lining?
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Celeste @ Becoming Beautiful Reply:
March 15th, 2012 at 2:09 pm
@Ling, No, I don’t. Tightlining, I use UD pencils!
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Ling Reply:
March 15th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
@Celeste @ Becoming Beautiful, Ooh, you’re the second person to recommend UD pencils – I am on it!!!
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Norlin
14/03/2012 at 11:49 am (436 days ago)Mine so far has definitely got to be K-Palette 1 Day Tattoo eyeliner. SUPERB! Great dark colour, and long lasting. Plus isn’t a b*tch to remove either. Got it from sasa.com
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Ling Reply:
March 15th, 2012 at 2:03 pm
@Norlin, You know what? I couldn’t find any K-Palette eyeliners in Sasa in Hong Kong! Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough!
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Vita
14/03/2012 at 7:09 pm (436 days ago)Oh wow
I’ve never tried their eyeliners but I love the Heavy Rotation Enamel lipgloss.
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Ling Reply:
March 15th, 2012 at 2:03 pm
@Vita, Oooh, I may have to get one of them too!
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Miss Kitty
14/03/2012 at 10:22 pm (436 days ago)oh damn, same thing happened with illamasqua medium pencil for me.
high hopes and bad performance!
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Ling Reply:
March 15th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
@Miss Kitty, Bah! Super sucks, I say!
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Melody
14/03/2012 at 10:24 pm (436 days ago)Ee, all pencil liners have done this to me! It’s pretty much why I use liquid (even though that sometimes runs for me too ;_;)
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Ling Reply:
March 15th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
@Melody, Oh no!! That sucks!
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dom
14/03/2012 at 11:35 pm (436 days ago)Hmmm. Try UD’s 24/7 Zero pencil
Might help? Also, I always, always use a primer no matter what. TFSI is awesome.
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Ling Reply:
March 15th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
@dom, Not to prime is a crime!!! And damn Australia for not stocking UD!
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Megan
15/03/2012 at 12:38 am (436 days ago)Aww that sucks, I’m still looking for a perfect pencil liner myself but nothing ever seems to stay on my waterline for very long.
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Ling Reply:
March 15th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
@Megan, Damn our watery waterlines!
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coco
18/03/2012 at 8:13 pm (432 days ago)i have the same problem with many eye pencils. always ended up looking like a messy panda. revlon color stay eye pencil (only the black one) works the best, it will fade but i don’t end up looking very messy by the end of the day.
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Ling Reply:
March 19th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
@coco, Ooh, I’ve heard good things about a certain Revlon eye pencil! But I might buy it when I go overseas because it is ridiculously exxy in Aus!
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