Three liners have near-perfect records. Physicians Formula Eye Booster leads (23 of 23 say it stays put), Kiss Me Heroine Make Smooth Liquid Eyeliner Super Keep has the most buyers vouching for it (32 of 33), and wet n wild Breakup Proof / MegaLiner matches them on a budget (29 of 30).
Updated . How we count
Share of buyers who stated an outcome for smudging. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.
Praise and complaints are the points buyers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's first-hand reports.
Physicians Formula
Best for an all-day liquid line
No complaints in the reports we counted. Buyers mention long wear (52%) and a deep black.
No repeated complaints yet.
Kiss Me Heroine Make
Best for a fine, precise line
A Japanese liquid liner with a fine tip. Buyers mention precision (13%) and value.
No repeated complaints yet.
wet n wild
Best for a budget
The value pick (19% mention value), with almost no complaints.
No repeated complaints yet.
CLIO
A Korean waterproof liner with few reports, all positive on smudging.
No repeated complaints yet.
Milani
Best for the waterline
A pencil, and the one buyers mention most for the waterline (26%).
No repeated complaints yet.
Benefit
Few reports, all but one positive. Buyers mention a deep, pigmented line.
No repeated complaints yet.
Stila
Best for a felt-tip classic
The most-discussed liner here, but less consistent: 10 buyers said it smudged or faded, and some say the pen dries out (6%).
We scanned 24,490 comments and found first-hand reports in 119 public threads on r/MakeupAddiction, r/Makeup, r/drugstoreMUA, r/MakeupAddictionCanada, r/Sephora and r/MakeUpAddictionUK, posted between Jan 2022 and Sep 2026.
A report counts only when the commenter says they used the product themselves. Recommendations repeated from someone else, questions and jokes are left out. One person counts once per product.
An AI model labels each report against a fixed list of points, and we review the labels before publishing. We publish counts and links to the threads, never the comments themselves.
wet n wild Breakup Proof / MegaLiner: 29 of 30 buyers said it stays put, and 19% of its reports praise the value.
Usually not, but less reliably than the top picks: 30 of 40 said it stays put.
It had a weak record in the threads we counted: 11 of 22 buyers who described its wear said it stayed put.
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