I think I may have finally found a replacement for my eyeliner and it's so
cheap I could literally buy six of these eyeliners for the price of the one I get.
Hello everyone and welcome once again to today's dose of craziness.
I'm your host Vanessa and today we're going to have a battle of the eyeliners.
High end versus budget, and hopefully the budget will replace the high end. Let's
keep our fingers crossed. But before we do that, let us remind ourselves that we
are not being sponsored. This is not a sponsored video by either Essence, Ulta,
Sephora, or Kat Von D. None of them are sponsoring me. I actually bought both of
these eyeliners with my own money and so yes, this is not a sponsored video, this
is not an ad. Let's do this. The way that this is gonna work is that I am going to
go ahead and show you both items, then I'll give you the information that I have on
both items, and then we're gonna do a wear test... like an application test and
then you're gonna see checkups throughout the day. That's the only way
that I can think of putting these to the test.
So let's go ahead and do that. On the high-end side we have a Kat Von D's "Ink
Liner" and this retails for... actually did my homework.
This little guy retails for $20, it comes in ten shades and this one is shade
called "Trooper" which is the black one. There is
a total of .55 milliliters or .019 fluid ounces. It is a felt
tip liner. It is very very slim, however this one, unlike the tattoo liner, this
one gives you a more bold line compared to the very fine line that you would get
with the tattoo liner. I believe, or at least what they told me, was that the
formula was the same, it is just the applicator that differed. If that is
not correct it is the Sephora's ladies fault
cuz that's what she told me. This is waterproof, it is felt, it is
supposed to last 24 hours, it's supposed to give you a bold line and an ultra
rich application. On the budget side we have
the Essence "Pen Eyeliner". This only comes in one color, which is a little bit
of a downside. You can buy it at Ulta. It is worth $2.99. Yes you heard that right;
$2.99, and it has a total of four stars with 413 reviews. I have heard
really good things about it and from the reviews that I read there's some good
things so I am really hoping that this one will work. It is a felt tip eyeliner.
It is also waterproof and this one is supposed to be extremely fine. It's
supposed to be very long-lasting. I'm gonna do a swatch for you guys,
now the first one that I'm gonna do is gonna be the Kat Von D's "Ink Eyeliner",
which is that one right there. As you can see it does give you a very bold
application. On the other side I'm gonna put the felt liner which gives you
that application. Just from the get-go, I can see that definitely the Kat
Von D liner has much more pigment or is applying much more pigment than this one.
That is okay with me. The next part of this experiment is the
actual application; on one side I'm gonna put... well actually on this side I'm gonna
put the Kat Von D eyeliner because I already have experience with it, I
know how to apply it. On this side, which is you know my forte,
I am gonna do the new one just to give it a fair shot. Let me go ahead and
apply the Kat Von D. Don't get me wrong; I love this this product, it works,
it stays on, it doesn't budge, I can literally go to sleep with it - which you
shouldn't - but I can literally go to sleep with it, wake up the next day and
my eyeliner is still perfect, still there. I just I love it, don't get me wrong. I do
love this, however it is, at least for me towards the high end, towards the
expensive side, so I'm always looking for something that I can replace this with
that is much, much, much cheaper. This is the side with the Kat Von D
on and we shall see how it works. The only
thing that I don't like about this felt tip eyeliner, both the ink and the... and
the tattoo one, is that they do dry really fast, which is good for the fact
that I don't have to like stay there and not blink, but it's bad because by the
time I get to the second eye, it's already kind of dried so I have to wait
a little bit and I don't like it. Alright they are not joking when they
say precision. This is an extremely extremely fine application. I had zero
problems making the cat eye look. It applied super quick. I didn't feel like I
was running out of time in the sense that it was drying. It felt
incredibly well, although it does take take a little bit to dry and
I've already kind of smudged the top of my lid. I do think that I'm gonna
have to like squint a little for this one to fully dry but other than that... oh
it's actually already dried! That's really cool! See? It's already dried. This is
definitely a much thinner line application. I would even say it's
thinner than the original "Tattoo Liner". So yes, there it is, this is how they both
look. I kind of like both of them. I don't think you can see any difference between
them except maybe this side is a little bit more bolder, the line is a
little bit thicker than on this one, but other than that I think they're pretty
pretty cool. Now we're gonna see... I'm gonna leave to work... have breakfast, leave
to work, come back, I'll do a checkup while I am coming back, and then I'll
take a nap, do another checkup, dinner check up and then at the end of the day
I'll do another check up. Hopefully I'll remember to do all those checkups. Here
we go; let the experiment begin. Here is the four hour mark. I do have
little bit of black stuff right there. On this side...do I also have it? A little
smidgen on this side as well, but other than that they're pretty
much holding. I don't have anything on my lid on either side. We're doing good for now.
I wanted to do an eight-hour update on this. I'm walking in downtown Calexico.
As you can see the eyeliner... the Kat Von D eyeliner is holding me perfectly. I
love it. It's it's a really good, reliable product. This side is also holding really
well. The precision of the line is still there, there is no smudging, in fact I
think the smudging that I previously talked about and took off was more of
smudging of my mascara than the eyeliner, but now it's holding perfectly
eight hours in. Guess who forgot to do the outro yesterday? But it worked to our
advantage because today was a specifically different day in the valley
where I live. We usually have very extreme days, such as you know, a lot of
heat or a lot of cold, but usually at the beginning of the year the Santa Ana
winds come into play and we get a lot of wind and dirt and the eyes hurt. It
actually worked to our advantage because I was able to test this makeup with wind,
dirt, and tears, and I am happy to say that I have finally found a product that
could replace my usual liner. I have to say that in this battle of the eyeliners
I am calling it a draw because both the Kat Von D and the essence
worked perfectly. As I said, I did have moments where the wind was in my face
and my eyes, since I wear contacts, they immediately started like extremeLY
watering, and I can say that this did not move. There was a little bit, like
around the fourth hour of wearing it, I did notice a little bit of residue, like
right there, but it wasn't anything that I couldn't just like wipe off with my
with my finger. Surprisingly the Kat Von D kind of smudged a little bit up
there, but this one is perfectly... it's perfect, it's perfect. I have to say it is
a draw in the way that they perform, however I do have to take into account
the different in prices. The Kat Von D is $20, it is the "Trooper" and it has a total
of .55 milliliters. The Essence eyeliner is literally $2.99, and when I
bought these they had a buy one get one 50% off at Ulta,
so that was even better. The Essence eyeliner pen has a total of 1 milliliter so it
does have... more! Incredibly this one has more product than the Kat Von D and
surprisingly it works exactly the same. I absolutely love it. I'm not saying in any
way that this are dupes, they are not, I have literally no experience in finding
dupes, so I'm not even gonna go that way, but they do work for me. I only saw like
a tiny bit of smudging which was easily taken off. Quite frankly I love the wing
a lot more with the Essence than with the Kat Von D and the only reason that
is, is because the Kat Von D, the felt tip is extremely thin like that's just not
the reason, but this one dries super, super fast so then I've never been
able to do a perfectly delicate line. I was able to do it on the first try with
this one; again it is superfine and I think there's also another one which is
extra superfine, so its finer than this one. I was able to do a very very thin line,
very perfectly. The only thing that I'm going to
say that I don't like about this, other than the fact that there are no range of
colors, this is the literally the only color that they have, is that this part... I
don't know if you can see it. I'll put it on my nose, but um there is a part right
here that is weird because... like it chops off there and then instantly is the felt
liner, so when you're applying this it's intimidating because it's like
right there, so I don't know. Perhaps they could make this a little bit thinner
towards the end where the felt liner is. That is literally the only thing because
on this one you don't see it, you see it it's almost like a pencil and
right where it ends it's the felt, so it's very easy to use. This one I was
feeling like I was gonna press this little ridge... this little ridge into my
eye and it was gonna be a mess. It is extremely easy to use other than that. So
yes, I am calling it a draw, both of them. I'm just I'm happy because I finally
found something that I can use every single day of my life and that it will
stay in place but won't cost me extreme amounts of money and by extreme I mean
twenty dollars. I can just leave this one for like special events, where I want a
dramatic eye or where I'm going on a party or stuff like that, that it's like
more high-end. Definitely love this one's much more. I hope you guys like
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your favorite if you've tried both of them, or which other budget amount
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