Touch in Sol knows how to combine Westerners’ beauty favourites with Korean colour design and quality. Let’s have a taste of this West-East fusion with its gel eyeliner collections: Style Sepia French Garden and Style Black.
You may not be a fan of automatic eye pencils or gel eye crayons but, if you’re looking for a bit of fun and some special effect, Touch in Sol has a ready solution with Style Sepia and Style Black gel liners with ‘diamonds’…
Touch in Sol Style Sepia French Garden & Style Black gel liners: product and packaging
Touch in Sol Style Sepia and Style Black (reg. $17) are two lines of gel eyeliners with ‘diamonds’, or sparkly particles.
These two lines have an identical and practical packaging: a sleek stick with a mini sharpener in the same individual colour of each eyeliner. Every automatic pen has 0,5 grams of product and can be auto-sharpened while ‘drawing’ or by using the little sharpener for a pointier tip and more precise lines. The colour is smudge-proof and long-lasting (see picture), although some differences can be noted in each gel pencil and line.
Formula and texture
Style Sepia French Garden and Style Black feature flakes and micro glitters, but the creamy formula makes these eyeliners glide relatively easy and sit comfortably on the delicate eye area. Their formula includes candelilla wax, beeswax, aloe extract, apricot and argan oils.
Shades
The packaging is the same, the idea – sparkly eyeliners – is the same, so what’s the difference between Style Sepia and Style Black? Right question: it’s a matter of style and colour palette.
As you can see from the printed design, Style Sepia French Garden has a vintage look and the majority of its 8 gel liners has a brown base. Everything should recall that warm sepia photo effect.
Style Black, instead, has a modern graffiti look and consists of 6 black-based gel liners on which different shimmery colours pop with a kick.
Let’s have a better look at the eyeliners featured in this post with this colour chart…
COLOUR CHARTS
| Name it! | Shade | Extra |
|---|---|---|
#2 Platinum |
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PROS:
- they have a handy package;
- a gentle formula;
- a creamy texture (most of them);
- a striking shimmer and glitters;
- they include a mini sharpener;
- they are long-lasting and smudge-proof;
- available in two curated colour palette;
- cruelty-free.
CONS:
- once set, they cannot be blended with ease;
- there are some uneven features;
- they may dry up in the stick (they need extra care).
Touch in Sol Style Sepia French Garden and Style Black gel liners are available at the regular price of $17 on the official website (now at $8,50). Prices, shade availability and offers may change on other stockists e-shop.
Definitely, these eyeliners show their beauty when they are applied. Even though the colour can be ‘read’ from the very tip, the sparkly particles – the ‘diamonds’ – reveal themselves on the skin. Excluding Style Sepia #1 Chocolat – which is a true matte brown – the other four shades irradiate shimmer and shine.
Some gel liners even seem to develop their true colour when applied! This is the case of Style Black #6 Purple Amethyst, in which the pitch-black base and the sparkly flakes blend perfectly into a metallic purple rather than a black liner with purple glitters. Or Style Sepia #8 Bleu Marine, a brown enriched with turquoise flakes. Here, that brown becomes a deeper base with a mesmerising turquoise sparkle, almost with a metallic finish. This is the hardest to remove, with the micro glitters and micro flakes sitting on the skin like a glove, at least while swatching.
In this makeup – where I used Pupa Milano and essence cosmetics for my prep, face and eyebrow – my eyes see a neutral base (my Pupa Like a Doll face powder in Medium), I blended and smudged Style Sepia #8 Bleu Marine outwards as fast as possible with a sponge applicator. I applied Style Sepia #1 Chocolat on the outer lower lash line and Style Black #6 Purple Amethyst along the middle part of the lower lash line. While I kept Chocolat as close as possible to my lash line to define and give some depth; I left a ‘safety’ gap while applying Purple Amethyst. I shouldn’t have, but it added extra drama.
I finished off this ‘French Garden’ look with Touch in Sol Technicolor Lip&Cheek Tint with Powder Finish #2 Neon Hot Pink on my lips and cheeks. It dries semi-matte and silky but in these pictures, it was still fresh and juicy. This shade was one of my favourites with the tint #3 Desire Fuchsia.
Who doesn’t like surprises? I adore when a colour looks better on my skin or unveil a spectacular finish. So, of these two lines, Touch in Sol Style Sepia is the one that intrigued me the most – not solely for the vintage feel in its packs – for the unusual brown base. If Style Black gel liners could keep fresh and moist for longer inside the stick, I would click to purchase a new shade.
If you are looking for some sparkles and not the usual matte or pearly finish, Touch in Sol gel liners with diamonds are worth to be explored, Style Sepia in particular. Just pay extra care and your eyeliners won’t dry out miserably!
Valentina Chirico aka Valens
