Addiction Kohl Eyeliner Night Dive and Secret Nights

This autumn, Addiction introduced four Kohl Eyeliners (2625yen) as part of its Desert Rose collection. This is a thoroughly modern take on the traditional kohl eyeliners used by Arab women as the powder eyeliner is formulated with an oil to give it a wet velvety texture that glides onto the skin and is easy to smudge for a beautiful gradational effect. It also contains centifolia rose extract and no fragrance.

Night Dive is a smoky indigo blue paired with a sooty black while Secret Nights is a greyish black paired with a deep black with silver sparkles. The two shades in each Kohl Eyeliner actually have different textures. The blue shade in Night Dive and the greyish black shade in Secret Night have a creamier texture that is more often associated with gel eyeliners, while the other two shades have a soft velvety powder texture.

In the pics below, Night Dive is swatched on the left half while Secret Nights is swatched on the right half. You can see more swatches of all four Kohl Eyeliners here and here.

The Tokidoki eyeliner brush is perfect for applying these as it lays down the shades smoothly and can also produce a precise line. I've depotted the Kohl Eyeliners into an Addiction Compact Case II alongside the eyeshadows in Poetic, Silent Scream, Deep Forest & Crow.

For the first look, I applied the blue shade from Night Dive along the upper lashline and at the outer corner of the lower lashline, Deep Forest in the outer half of the crease, Silent Scream in the inner half and along the lower lashline, and Poetic over the browbone area.

For the next look, I applied the greyish black shade from Secret Nights along the upper lashline and at the outer corner of the lower lashline, and layered the black shade with silver sparkles on top. I used the same combination of Deep Forest in the outer half of the crease, Silent Scream in the inner half and along the lower lashline, and Poetic over the browbone area.

With their incredibly velvety texture and good color payoff, the Kohl Eyeliners are perfect for creating the perfect smoky eye look or just to give an elegant definition to the eyes. There is a bit of fallout during the application process as well as a wee bit of smudging at the outer corner of the lower lid but aside from that, they stayed put without creasing or fading. They layer and blend effortlessly without ever appearing cakey or dry. The Kohl Eyeliners prove once again that amongst the sea of Japanese brands that tend to play it safe, Addiction is truly outstanding for its innovative products and colors.

For this look, I'm wearing the new RMK Gel Creamy Foundation 101, which I'll review soon.