Make Up For Ever Aqua XL Eyeliners Swatched on Medium Brown Skin

Make Up For Ever is always coming out with new versatile products that make me want to scream “Take My Money!” In 2014 MUFE released 210 shades of their Artist Eyeshadows which everyone instantly fell in love with, and in 2015 they released their 35 new Artist Plexi-gloss which are ultra hydrating intensely pigmented lipglosses. This year to keep up with the trend Make Up For Ever has reformulated their Aqua liners with a new innovative long lasting and waterproof formula to give us the Aqua XL Eye Pencil. The Aqua XL Eye Pencils come in twenty shades and five finishes. Like the original Aqua XL eye pencils, the texture is smooth and creamy making them easy to work with.

If you’re wondering how these compare to the original Aqua liner’s here’s a description from the press release. Basically, these are super amped up waterproof liners and I’m totally here for it.

AQUA XL Eye Pencil was tested by professional makeup artists in extreme conditions: under water, on stage, and on camera. Showcasing a full range of electrifying eye candy looks, from iridescent pastel pink and yellow, to vibrant purple, green and blue, these highly pigmented, high-performance pencils glide on rich and smooth with a special formula to rock any look, day or night.

XL Performance: A unique blend of ingredients – flexible resin for long-lasting results, vegetable wax for consistent color payoff, and a revolutionary dry oil that locks in the color and creates water resistance –guarantees waterproof, smudge-proof, transfer-proof and sweat-proof results

XL Color: Unique, translucent, crystal copolymer gels helps amplify color intensity and brightness

XL Comfort: Emollient oil and microspherical silica provides an easy, creamy and smooth application. Mango butter helps prevent skin dryness on application and throughout the day

There are only a few brands on the market that I feel give us a good range of eyeliners. Lancome released 16 shades of the Drama Liqui-Pencil (swatched here) though they aren’t waterproof. Urban Decay has 41 one shades in their 24/7 glide on eye pencil collection and they are waterproof. When it comes to price point Make Up For Ever falls in the middle with the Aqua XL Eye Pencils retailing for $21 each compared to Lancome’s $23 price point and Urban Decay’s $20 price point. 

I swatched all 20 shades so you could get a better idea of how these looked on my medium brown skin tone. The tips of the pencils are very soft which is great if you’re applying this product to your waterline. After I swatched the colors you could see instant wear on the tip. One of the tips actually broke as soon as I pressed it on my skin. 

Overall, I was pretty impressed with the Make Up For Ever Aqua XL Eye Pencils. I only owned a few of the aqua liners but I loved using them, especially during allergy season when my eyes tend to water a lot.  The Aqua Xl Eye Pencils are available at Make Up For Ever Boutiques, makeupforever.com as well as Sephora. If you want to try a few of them out Make Up For Ever makes has a great set of four Aqua XL Liners handpicked by Charli XCX you can grab that set HERE.

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