For many of us, the pandemic has severely reduced any urge to apply makeup. Others have found comfort in sticking to certain staples such as concealer, blush, or eyeliner.
The latter is a versatile but often challenging tool that can either elevate the eyes or leave you looking like a member of a pop punk group. Naturally, the funny folks of Twitter have mused about their eyeliner highs and lows.
Below, we’ve rounded up 25 relatable tweets about wearing eyeliner. Enjoy! And remember, it’s always OK to just wing it.
Every time I put on eyeliner I feel like I am on a food network competition show transferring an intricate sugar sculpture to a table
— Gabby Noone (@twelveoclocke) October 27, 2014
When you cant get yr liquid eyeliner even so you just keep adding more on each side until pic.twitter.com/Shi0eP46Mn
— Sam H. Escobar (@myhairisblue) February 26, 2016
To be 100% honest, the list of people who have influenced me includes the girl from camp who taught the whole cabin how to put on eyeliner.
— Elizabeth Hackett (@LizHackett) July 10, 2017
smoky eye tutorial: fall asleep with eyeliner on, wake up desperately craving a donut, forget to wash your face
— folu (@notfolu) December 12, 2015
when both eyeliner sides turn out the same https://t.co/TRR7jDJtNV
— sophie thompson (@sophxthompson) November 10, 2015
Tried to even out my eyeliner and just ended up drawing on a dope pair of Wayfarers.
— Kendra Alvey 👻 (@Kendragarden) January 1, 2018
winged eyeliner on point https://t.co/QhM96gYFtK
— tracy the business goose (@brokeymcpoverty) October 20, 2016
sometimes i put eyeliner good on one eye and bad on the other eye to remind myself i am full of contradictions
— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) October 19, 2018
When wing tip eyeliner and dark eyebrows go out I don't know what I'm going to do, how else will I hypnotize my prey with my doe eyes
— Mara “Get Rid of the Nazis” Wilson (@MaraWilson) September 10, 2016
Y’all I was really out here looking for a new eyeliner and look at this review lmfaooo
— lahulemon (@guadalahari) April 24, 2018
She deadass took a picture in her neck brace I am deceased 😩 pic.twitter.com/j9jHjAei06
girls who wear winged eyeliner think they're better than me and they're right
— Witch Baby (@GoAskAvery) October 20, 2016
i don’t even think eyeliner looks good until it’s a little cried off tbh
— pfizer minelli (@hellohappy_time) April 3, 2018
I PUT SOME EYELINER ON MY WATERLINE TODAY & NOW I'M LIKE I COULD PROBABLY BE PRESIDENT IF I FELT LIKE IT
— Gabby Noone (@twelveoclocke) October 21, 2015
You call it uneven eyeliner. I call it my Picasso Period.
— Just J (@junejuly12) July 30, 2018
me with eyeliner vs. me without pic.twitter.com/f1LBJdsx82
— nina matsumoto 🥂 (@spacecoyotl) June 2, 2019
I've nailed the perfect smoky eye by putting on eyeliner then crying.
— maura quint (@behindyourback) February 19, 2019
Good news: you actually don’t have to defend terrible behavior to justify your sense of hopelessness. You can just put on thick eyeliner.
— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) November 20, 2017
Sorry I'm Late I Was Doing My Eyeliner pic.twitter.com/fyESBXq15W
— triz pariz (@trixparix) December 11, 2020
my cat eye liner is even on both sides so I'm basically unstoppable tonight
— tracy the business goose (@brokeymcpoverty) August 30, 2014
Having to wash off rare, perfectly winged eyeliner is a heartbreaker.
— Maddy Skye (@MaddySkye) October 14, 2016
when i'm rich enough, i'm going to hire adele's eyeliner person and give them a wing of my mansion to live in so they're available 24/7.
— Bim Adewunmi (@bimadew) December 3, 2015
eyeliner is genderless and makes literally everyone hotter I don’t make the rules
— eleanor (@snitchery) August 24, 2020
I applied black eyeliner on my son to make him look like Jack Sparrow & he said "Cool, it looks just like your eyeliner!"
— Domestic Goddess (@DomesticGoddss) October 31, 2016
I need a makeover.
horses have the best eyeliner pic.twitter.com/q7cZSbSWRk
— tracy the business goose (@brokeymcpoverty) March 6, 2014
Welcome to motherhood.
— OneFunnyMummy (@OneFunnyMummy) April 3, 2018
You need to wear eyeliner every day now so people don’t think you’re dying.
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