Shiseido MicroLiner Ink Review

Shiseido Microliner Ink Crayon in Black is an ultra precision eyeliner with an extremely fine tip, packaged in a slim 0.08g wind-up crayon applicator. (I got mine in one of the Beauty Review Vault's, thanks BR!).

The eyeliner is highly pigmented, providing a bold black line, with a long-lasting, water-resistant, smudge-proof, matte formula.  The really nice thing about this crayon eyeliner is that it features thermo-sensory technology that allows the eyeliner to transform from a solid crayon state to a smooth liquid upon contact with skin.

To use this eyeliner, simple twist the applicator to push the eyeliner up by one millimeter (only one or two clicks), you don't want to make the eyeliner too long, as it is really soft and can't be retracted back into the applicator.  Then simply glide the eyeliner over the lash line.  It is so lightweight that I didn't think I'd actually applied anything, and yet I had a perfectly thin line that looked bold enough to be liquid eyeliner.

The micro-thin application means that the eyeliner can be place precisely between eyelashes, glided across the eyelid, or used to tightline with remarkable precision and no jumping, skipping or leaving gaps.

I'm really impressed with this eyeliner, and for the price, I should be.  This is a high-end product that truly does deliver. 

I also got this eyeliner from the vault and am so pleased I did. I'm not normally much of a liner wearer as I find it slips and slides on me in no time. I've been trying lots of different liners over the last couple of years but now I think I've found my staple. When it arrived a was a little disappointed in the size of it, I initially envisioned having to do lots of colouring in to fill in the gaps but there are no gaps. While it comes out quite thin it is more akin to a freshly sharpened liner so gives great precision. It gets in between lashes nicely and glides on smoothly and once on it sets nicely to become smudgeproof. I think this liner is better than a liquid eyeliner because it doesn't seem to have that harsh line liquid liners give. Totally worth the investment.

I go through an eyeliner every few months. So when I saw this in the last vault I was keen to try a high end eyeliner.

The shade this one came in was a dark brown. So on the eyes it is a little softer than black but still a dark frame.

The eyeliner has the thinnest tip I've ever seen on an eyeliner and comes up in much smaller increments.

In terms of going from solid to liquid, not so sure I'd really describe it like that. It's really just like normal eyeliner. but it is nice and smooth and doesn't drag. And does last all day.

I go through eyeliner too frequently to justify spending this much, but really enjoyed trying it out.

I was lucky to win this through the last Vault as this is normally well outside my budget. Microliner is a good name for it, as it has a very fine tip, finer than any other eyeliner pencil - automatic or otherwise - that I have seen. It's about a millimetre across. This gives a nice tidy line, useful for me as I have small eyes.

To get it out of the case you have to twist the top, and it makes a clicking noise. I wondered if mine was broken because it seemed like it would never come out, but eventually it did. It arrives in very small increments, which seems like a good idea because it is quite a soft pencil. Being soft has a couple of benefits - it doesn't drag and bump over my eye like some eye pencils which have already hit the bin, and it's possible to work on the line until you're happy with it - smooth the edges or thicken, as I usually need to do. The drawback of the case is that you can't wind the pencil back down, and because the pencil is soft, it's a bit of a worry that you might break some off if you can't wind it back. The staying power of this eye pencil is very good. It will only come off with make up remover for waterproof makeup. All in all I do like this pencil but I doubt I would buy it again at the retail price of about $50.