Eyeliner that doesn't skip

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eyeliner Pencil has the best record on skipping: 25 of 25 reviewers who brought it up said it glides on without skipping or tugging, and it is also sold on Amazon. Urban Decay 24/7 Waterline Eyeliner Pencil follows at 15 of 18. The liquid and felt-tip liners trail the two pencils, with records from 19 of 28 down to 13 of 25.

  • 285 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Jul 2014 to Sep 2026

Updated . How we count

Does it skip? What buyers said
  1. Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eyeliner Pencil 25 said either way
  2. Urban Decay 24/7 Waterline Eyeliner Pencil 18 said either way
  3. Lancôme Idôle Felt Tip Liner 28 said either way
  4. Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid Stick Eyeliner 17 said either way
  5. KVD Beauty Tattoo Liner 25 said either way
  6. Benefit Roller Liner 40 said either way
  7. Fenty Beauty Flyliner 25 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for skipping. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.

Best record Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eyeliner Pencil 25 of 25 say it glides on without skipping Check price on Amazon
What stands out

Store matters for Lancôme Idôle Felt Tip Liner: 18 of 22 at Sephora but 1 of 6 at Ulta.

The ranking, product by product

Praise and complaints are the points buyers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.

1

Urban Decay

24/7 Glide-On Eyeliner Pencil

Best for deep, long-lasting color

25/25 say it glides on without skipping

Every reviewer who mentioned skipping, 25 of 25, said it glides on, and that holds across skin types and skin tones. Counted reviews are all from Sephora. 40% say it lasts all day, while 17% mention smudging.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts all day 40%
  • Deep, opaque color 30%
  • Easy, precise line 20%
  • Doesn't smudge 17%
  • Stays on the waterline 13%

What buyers complain about

  • Smudges 17%
  • Fades during the day 10%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 25 of 25
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination7 of 7
  • Dry4 of 4
  • Normal3 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light11 of 11
  • Light-medium to medium6 of 6
  • Medium-tan to tan4 of 4
By age (reviewers who gave one)
  • Under 404 of 4
  • 40 and over4 of 4
2

Urban Decay

24/7 Waterline Eyeliner Pencil

Best for the waterline

15/18 say it glides on without skipping

A waterline pencil that 33% say lasts all day and 22% say doesn't smudge. On Urban Decay's own site, 7 of 7 said it glides on, which we show but don't count. 11% mention skipping.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts all day 33%
  • Doesn't smudge 22%
  • Deep, opaque color 17%
  • Stays on the waterline 17%
  • Easy, precise line 17%

What buyers complain about

  • Fades during the day 11%
  • Smudges 11%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 14 of 17
  • Sephora 1 of 1
  • Brand site 7 of 7 shown, not counted
3

Lancôme

Idôle Felt Tip Liner

Best for a precise line

19/28 say it glides on without skipping

Long wear and a precise line get the praise, from 57% and 36% of reviewers, and 46% like the deep color. 11% say it dries out fast.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts all day 57%
  • Deep, opaque color 46%
  • Easy, precise line 36%
  • Doesn't smudge 29%

What buyers complain about

  • Dries out fast 11%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 1 of 6
  • Sephora 18 of 22
  • Brand site 1 of 2 shown, not counted
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination9 of 11
  • Normal4 of 5
  • Dry2 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light9 of 12
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 5
4

Urban Decay

24/7 Liquid Stick Eyeliner

11/17 say it glides on without skipping

53% say it doesn't smudge and 47% say it lasts all day. Skipping is the catch, with 11 of 17 saying it doesn't skip, and 11% say it dries out fast.

What buyers praise

  • Doesn't smudge 53%
  • Lasts all day 47%
  • Easy, precise line 37%
  • Deep, opaque color 32%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 11%
  • Dries out fast 11%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 9 of 15
  • Sephora 2 of 2
See it at Ulta

Share of 19 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

5

KVD Beauty

Tattoo Liner

14/25 say it glides on without skipping

A precise line, praised by 27%, comes with skipping: 14 of 25 said it doesn't skip. 20% say it dries out fast. Counted reviews are all from Sephora.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts all day 33%
  • Easy, precise line 27%
  • Doesn't smudge 20%
  • Deep, opaque color 20%
  • Stays put on hooded lids 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Dries out fast 20%
  • Fades during the day 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 14 of 25
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination9 of 15
  • Dry3 of 5
  • Normal1 of 4
See it at Sephora

Share of 30 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

6

Benefit

Roller Liner

21/40 say it glides on without skipping

More reviewers weighed in on this one than any other liner here, 40 in all, and the record is close to even at 21 of 40. 30% praise the color, but 23% say it dries out fast and 16% mention smudging.

What buyers praise

  • Deep, opaque color 30%
  • Lasts all day 26%
  • Doesn't smudge 23%
  • Easy, precise line 19%

What buyers complain about

  • Dries out fast 23%
  • Smudges 16%
  • Hard to remove 5%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 8 of 19
  • Sephora 13 of 21
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination7 of 10
  • Normal4 of 6
  • Oily1 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light7 of 12
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 6
See it at Ulta

Share of 43 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

7

Fenty Beauty

Flyliner

13/25 say it glides on without skipping

Color is the draw, with 37% praising the pigment and 40% saying it lasts all day, but 13 of 25 said it doesn't skip. 23% say it dries out fast and 17% say it is hard to remove.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts all day 40%
  • Deep, opaque color 37%
  • Easy, precise line 17%
  • Doesn't smudge 17%

What buyers complain about

  • Dries out fast 23%
  • Hard to remove 17%
  • Smudges 17%
  • Fades during the day 10%
  • Transfers onto hooded lids 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 13 of 25
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination8 of 14
  • Dry3 of 5
  • Normal2 of 4
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light7 of 12
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 6
  • Medium-tan to tan3 of 6
See it at Sephora

Share of 30 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

Where these numbers come from

The 7 products ranked here carry 98,179 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for skipping and read the newest matching reviews, up to 30 per product and store, posted between Jul 2014 and Sep 2026.

A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.

Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.

Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.

Skin type, skin tone and age splits use what reviewers chose on Sephora's review form (and age on Ulta's when given). We only show a split when enough reviewers fall on each side.

Amazon buttons appear only on products that Amazon sells from the brand and that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else links to the store page, unpaid.

An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts and link to the product pages, never the reviews themselves.

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eyeliner Pencil Ulta, Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  2. Urban Decay 24/7 Waterline Eyeliner Pencil Ulta, Sephora (18 reviews counted)
  3. Lancôme Idôle Felt Tip Liner Ulta, Sephora (28 reviews counted)
  4. Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid Stick Eyeliner Ulta, Sephora (19 reviews counted)
  5. KVD Beauty Tattoo Liner Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  6. Benefit Roller Liner Ulta, Sephora (43 reviews counted)
  7. Fenty Beauty Flyliner Sephora (30 reviews counted)

People asking about it on Reddit

  1. Eyeliner PENCIL that doesn’t tug r/MakeupAddiction, Jan 2023, 30 comments
  2. Can’t use pencil or eyeliner on my eyes, the skin just tugs around and no product comes out r/Makeup, May 2025, 20 comments

Questions buyers ask

Which eyeliner doesn't skip or tug?

Reviewers give Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eyeliner Pencil the best record, at 25 of 25. Urban Decay 24/7 Waterline Eyeliner Pencil follows at 15 of 18, then Lancôme Idôle Felt Tip Liner at 19 of 28.

Is there an eyeliner that doesn't skip on Amazon?

The best pick sold on Amazon is Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eyeliner Pencil, at 25 of 25. Urban Decay 24/7 Waterline Eyeliner Pencil and Lancôme Idôle Felt Tip Liner are also sold there, at 15 of 18 and 19 of 28. KVD Beauty Tattoo Liner, Benefit Roller Liner and Fenty Beauty Flyliner are not sold officially on Amazon.

Is pencil or liquid eyeliner less likely to skip?

In these reviews, pencil. The two Urban Decay pencils are at 25 of 25 and 15 of 18, while the liquid and felt-tip liners range from 19 of 28 to 13 of 25.

Does Benefit Roller Liner skip?

Often, by these reviews: 21 of 40 reviewers who mentioned skipping said it doesn't. More reviewers weighed in on it than any other eyeliner here. 23% also say it dries out fast.

Related problems

Eyeliner Eyeliner that doesn't smudge Top pick: Physicians Formula Eye Booster 390 buyer reports Eyeliner Eyeliner that stays on all day Top pick: Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid Stick Eyeliner 385 buyer reports Eyeliner Eyeliner that stays on the waterline Top pick: Urban Decay 24/7 Waterline Eyeliner Pencil 441 buyer reports Eyeliner Eyeliner for hooded eyes Top pick: Lancôme Idôle Felt Tip Liner 248 buyer reports

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