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How Good is 24 Hour Eyeliner?

The Collection Extreme 24 Hour Felt Tip Liner is an eyeliner that should last for 24 hours. I’ve been using the brown one for my brows and I was happy with it right until I did the experiment in the shower to find out how well setting spray worked. Then I discovered the 24 hour Felt Tip Liner doesn’t have very much staying power. This disappointed me (I’m on my 2nd tube of the brown one) to say the least. It’s only £2.99 so I suppose I should just get over it, but if I did that, what sort of beauty blogger would I be?

So I decided to do an observation experiment to see how this eyeliner held up over the course of 24 hours, and I took photos to compare. I was very surprised by the results:

Hour 0: When I first applied it:

Collection Extreme Tip Liner 24 hour
Immediately after first application. Left is brown, right is purple.

Hour 8: After a long day inside the house:

Collection Extreme Tip Liner 24 hour
The brown has faded but is still pigmented, if it was on my face I’d want a touch-up at this point. The purple bled quite a lot and had gone very fuzzy around the edges of the line.

Hour 16: As I am about to go to bed:

Collection Extreme Tip Liner 24 hour
After 16 hours in the light of a normal energy-saving lightbulb, the brown (bottom) is now barely visible. The purple (top) isn’t doing much better.

Hour 24: The next morning:

Collection Extreme Tip Liner 24 hour
This morning, exactly 24 hours after I started this experiment, the brown (bottom) is virtually invisible and at the top, the purple’s only a little bit better.

Conclusion:

The Collection Extreme 24 hour felt tip liner doesn’t smudge like a pencil would, but it doesn’t stay put any better than any normal liquid eyeliner. It starts to fade before 8 hours. After 16 hours, it’s really not looking so good. For someone who needs long lasting make-up (archaeologists, for example) this isn’t going to cut it. I don’t think the brown one is fit for purpose, neither as an eyeliner nor as a brow filler, as it only lasts a few hours then fades at an immense rate. The purple one performed a lot better which makes it ok for eyes, but who wants purple brows?? I am now on the lookout for something else to do my brows with.