The makeup industry has revolutionized greatly over the decades. Nothing really oozes glamour and class more than eye makeup, they say. The most important product when it comes to defining the eyes and achieving the look you desire is an eyeliner. The primary purpose of eyeliners is to focus attention onto the eyes but it also enhances or even changes their shape accordingly.

Modern-day eyeliners come in a variety of colors and textures. While the colors range anywhere between the commonly used blacks to bright pastels or shimmery whites, textures usually include clearly defined or softly smudged eyeliners. Depending on their effect, there are five main categories of eyeliners available today, namely- liquid eyeliners, powder-based eye pencils, wax-based eye pencils, gel eyeliners, and kohl eyeliners. Let us get into the details of why liquid eyeliners are usually the best among them all.

• Liquid eyeliners provide certain ease of use and the application can be customized within no time.
• Longevity is the biggest advantage when it comes to liquid eyeliners. A pencil eyeliner can easily fade over time whereas a liquid eyeliner remains totally smudge-proof once it has dried.
• Liquid eyeliners can make your eyes look bigger if you start close to the inner corner of the upper lashes and work your way gradually outwards thickening the line with a 45-degree flick. This also produces a cat-eye effect. Adding mascara to your top and bottom lashes can further intensify this look.
• With a little practice, you can achieve really thin lines and a variety of gradients with liquid eyeliners as they are usually applied with a fine brush which gives you a neat look as compared to other categories of eyeliners.
• Liquid liners can be neater as powder liners tend to fall off and smudge during the day due to oil production around the eye area. This also reduces wastage of the product and increases its course of use.
• Liquid eyeliners can help you create a variety of looks by using them below your eye as well as on your eyelid.
• Using powder-based eyeliners can result in small clumps of the eyeliner forming along your eyelid which tends to ruin the smooth effect that we attempt on achieving. Due to the fact that liquid eyeliners are liquid, there’s no clumping of the product. Irrespective of the number of applications of this eyeliner, they flow smoothly.
• Several brands of liquid eyeliners provide waterproof coverage which means that your eyeliner won’t be ruined with an unexpected rain shower or certain situations where you tend to sweat.
• Liquid eyeliners are very easy to clean up as they do not smudge and come off easily contrary to pencil or powder eyeliners which smudge greatly. Liquid eyeliners are usually designed in a way that they can be removed as easily as they were applied.

With a huge variety of options available in the market today, it can sometimes be a challenge to identify which eyeliner to buy and which to leave on the shelf as they all have varying results. But with a little research and experiments, you can surely achieve the look you desire.