Revlon Colorstay Liquid Eye Pen - Review, Swatch, EOTD, Price in India

Company Claims

Liquid Eye Pen is a unique innovation from the Revlon Colorstay collection that integrates the convenience of a felt-tip pen with the dramatic effect of a liquid eyeliner. This revolutionary pen eyeliner comes with a uniquely designed high technique felt tip for precise and neat application minus any mess or hassles. The highly pigmented formula produces rich and pure colour that blends in beautifully with your eye makeup and has the perfect consistency for quick application. The felt tip provides amazing control over the eyeliner application, making it as convenient as drawing on paper, allowing pressure control to vary the thickness of your lines with effective accuracy. Draw thin lines for subtle emphasis and a natural look. For a more dramatized evening look, draw thicker lines along your lash-line and look no less than a diva. Easier and faster to apply than traditional liquid eyeliner, this Revlon Colorstay Liquid Eye Pen eyeliner formula is smudge-proof and provides long-lasting colour that does not wear out up to 16 hours.

Directions for Use:

To apply, draw with short, feathering strokes from inner to outer eye area. Apply as close to lash-line as possible. Apply more pressure for bolder application. For best results, store the product in a horizontal position.

There are just two things I expect from my liquid liner – Effortlessness & efficacy.  Literally, just that much. I’m ready to a pay good price too, anything south of Rs. 1000, which is quite a bit for something that will at max contain 2ml of product.  So you tell me, is it too much to expect ?

My experience with Revlon Colorstay Liquid Eye Liner Pen:

Price: Rs.630/ ~$10

Qty: 1.6g

Shelf life: 6 months

Packaging: the difference between the Revlon Liquid Eye Liner Pen and many other liquid eye liners in the Indian market is that it has a felt tip & not brush tip. A felt tip means its tip won’t move around when you apply it to your eye. A lot of women are comfortable with a brush type of tip but after using the Maybelline HyperSharp Liner I realized that its not my cup of tea. Even the new Maybelline Colossal Liner has a brush tip.

Shade: I have the shade 001 Blackest Black Noir Intense. I’m happy with the depth of blackness, especially over eye shadows. I faced a problem with the MaybellineHyperSharp Eyeliner where the tip would get dirty because of the shadow and thereafter not work well, the Revlon Colorstay Liquid Eye liner gives no such problem. It gives a pigmented black line even over matte & shimmery eye shadows & can be suitably intensified.

Application: Like I said before, the Revlon Colorstay Liquid Eye Pen has a firm tip, which I prefer, so I find it very easy to use. It doesn’t have a thin tip, but I can still make lines as thin as shown in the swatch. If you want very thin lines, it won’t be able to make them. A firm tip is really helpful when you are in a hurry & can’t spend much time on your eyeliner.

Weartime: This is where this eye liner deeply disappoints me. Just one slight rub and all of it is gone. This means that by the time I get to my office, its 90% gone. For the price I paid, I’m deeply frustrated, I did not anticipate that it would come off so easily. The Maybelline HyperSharpeyeliner lasted far longer on my eyes. The thing is, I never rub my eyes vigorously, sometimes I feel a slight irritation on my eye lids so use my finger to just soothe that area. I haven’t tried it over primer because let’s face it – who has time to apply eye primer before work? Revlon claims 16 hours wear time….ROFL. I’d be lucky if it wears for an hour.

Overall Verdict: 2.5/5

I find the Revlon Colorstay Liquid Eye Liner Pen very easy to use & it satisfies 50% of my needs. Its poor stay time & the fact that it can wear off by slight rubbing of eye lids is very disappointing. I will not recommend it to anybody.

I open to suggestions of liquid eye liners having felt tip, please let me know if there's any I should try out !!