Silkrute Customer
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This one has been around for so long it could be soon considered vintage. My mum tells me that this was the best and also the only available eye liner in their heydays in the 70s. One of my Malayali friend used to use this instead of kajal when we were in the 6th grade (mid 90s). Back then, I had no idea what it was, but that was a pretty swell idea to avoid kajal smudge and raccoon eyes given we were in a coastal city - warm and humid.I bought my first eye liner for farewell party in 2000 and at that time this product was bomb! Or so I thought. The formulation was good and so was the brush. It was thin just like it is in their current product profile. I used to practice wearing it so much after the Miss India craze. All our three Miss india's won their respective Int'l pageant that year. It used to give a thin, precise stroke and almost look like tightline effect. I would also practice the cat eye and build up on the thickness of the line. It was so versatile!Soon, around 2005ish, it started getting much watery in consistency. Around 2007 ish I feel, the formulation hit rock bottom. It was very watery and just very bad. Lakme had also come up with new but pricey eyeliners around the same time which were way better, so I loyally shifted to them.Recently, when I was about to blog about the best eyeliners available in India, I thought I had to give this one some mention. After all, it is the longest running eyeliner in India. So, I bought a new bottle and tried and tested it out. The formulation now is much better. It is thicker, and more pigmented. The bottle is the same, but what the heck happened to the brush? It makes my bad hair day look good. Seriously, it puts the wonderful eyeliner to shame. Nonetheless, if you can use an alternate brush like camlin 00, or like i use an angled vega brush, you can still work with the product. I would have justified it as good for practising because it is not just a fat brush, and fat lines look amazing on large eyes, but it is uneven so it just defeats the purpose. Mostly, beginners would like to start with a thin line and when they are confident, start to build up the thickness, so I would not recommend this in that way.Coming to its wearability, it takes longer to completely dry and you just have to keep your eyes closed or look down for 1 - 2 minutes to let it dry. It looks super glossy while it is still wet, but dries matte. It lasts up to say 6 - 8 hours in fair conditions. Like I wore this to office and it stayed out for 4 - 6 hours and then on it just started to fade slowly. I was back home after 10 hours and it didn't peel but looked uneven or maybe it was me looking tired. I have large eyes, so the thick line worked ok. So, all in all, it is not a trashy product. Given its price, it is actually good, forsaking the brush. If you are lucky, you get a good brush, if not, a bad one. One of the reviewers submitted a picture of how her brush looks. I have to say, it is the worst that I have seen. The one i have is uneven, but not so bad.If only Lakme could devote a little bit more attention to the brush, it would revive its lost glory.
- Comment
NICE EYELINER, TERRIBLE BRUSH