Eyeliner for hooded eyes

Lancôme Idôle Felt Tip Eyeliner leads with 13 of 13 reviewers saying it stays put on hooded lids, followed by Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid Stick Eyeliner at 9 of 9. Both rest on small groups, so treat them as strong early signals rather than proof. Stila Stay All Day Liquid Eye Liner is the one most reviewers weighed in on, at 30 of 44.

  • 248 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • May 2016 to Oct 2026

Updated . How we count

Does it stay off the lid? What buyers said
  1. Lancôme Idôle Felt Tip Liner 13 said either way
  2. Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid Stick Eyeliner 9 said either way
  3. Stila Stay All Day Liquid Eye Liner 44 said either way
  4. KVD Beauty Tattoo Liner 22 said either way
  5. Benefit Roller Liner 21 said either way
  6. Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eyeliner Pencil 27 said either way
  7. Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Matte Liquid Liner 23 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for transfer. 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 Lancôme Idôle Felt Tip Liner 13 of 13 say it stays put on hooded lids Check price on Amazon
What stands out

Same brand, different result: Urban Decay's retractable liquid stick has 9 of 9, while its 24/7 pencil has 12 of 27. The pencil sits at 44%, close to the Rare Beauty liner at 43%.

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

Lancôme

Idôle Felt Tip Liner

Best for a precise felt tip

13/13 say it stays put on hooded lids

56% say it stays put on hooded lids and 39% like the precise felt tip. Complaints are small: 17% mention skipping or tugging and 11% say it fades.

What buyers praise

  • Easy, precise line 39%
  • Lasts all day 39%
  • Deep, opaque color 33%

What buyers complain about

  • Skips or tugs 17%
  • Fades during the day 11%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 2 of 2
  • Sephora 11 of 11
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination7 of 7
  • Dry3 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light4 of 4
  • Light-medium to medium7 of 7

How often it comes up: about 1 in 54 of this product's 3,628 store reviews mention transfer.

2

Urban Decay

24/7 Liquid Stick Eyeliner

9/9 say it stays put on hooded lids

67% say it stays put on hooded lids and 42% say it lasts all day. 17% call it too expensive.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts all day 42%
  • Easy, precise line 33%
  • Deep, opaque color 17%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 17%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 4 of 4
  • Sephora 5 of 5

How often it comes up: about 1 in 70 of this product's 4,963 store reviews mention transfer.

3

Stila

Stay All Day Liquid Eye Liner

30/44 say it stays put on hooded lids

56% say it stays put on hooded lids and 33% say it doesn't smudge, but 18% say it transfers onto the lid. Some find it dries out fast (7%) or skips (9%).

What buyers praise

  • Lasts all day 36%
  • Easy, precise line 15%
  • Easy to remove 7%
  • Deep, opaque color 5%

What buyers complain about

  • Fades during the day 9%
  • Skips or tugs 9%
  • Dries out fast 7%
  • Too expensive 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 12 of 19
  • Sephora 18 of 25
  • Brand site 1 of 1 shown, not counted
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination12 of 16
  • Dry3 of 5
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light13 of 16
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 5

How often it comes up: about 1 in 81 of this product's 20,402 store reviews mention transfer.

4

KVD Beauty

Tattoo Liner

16/22 say it stays put on hooded lids

50% say it stays put on hooded lids and 47% say it doesn't smudge. 13% say it dries out fast. Its counted reviews are all from Sephora.

What buyers praise

  • Easy, precise line 33%
  • Lasts all day 27%
  • Easy to remove 10%
  • Deep, opaque color 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Dries out fast 13%
  • Fades during the day 10%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 16 of 22
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination7 of 10
  • Dry6 of 7
  • Normal1 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light12 of 17
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 3

How often it comes up: about 1 in 64 of this product's 21,998 store reviews mention transfer.

See it at Sephora

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

5

Benefit

Roller Liner

11/21 say it stays put on hooded lids

The split is by store: 8 of 11 at Sephora but 3 of 10 at Ulta. 34% like the deep color, while 24% say it smudges. Sold at Sephora and Ulta.

What buyers praise

  • Deep, opaque color 34%
  • Easy, precise line 24%
  • Lasts all day 14%

What buyers complain about

  • Fades during the day 14%
  • Dries out fast 10%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 3 of 10
  • Sephora 8 of 11
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination5 of 6
  • Dry2 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light5 of 6
  • Light-medium to medium2 of 4

How often it comes up: about 1 in 56 of this product's 3,782 store reviews mention transfer.

See it at Ulta

Share of 29 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

6

Urban Decay

24/7 Glide-On Eyeliner Pencil

12/27 say it stays put on hooded lids

Opinion is divided: 40% say it stays put on hooded lids, but 37% say it transfers and 27% say it smudges.

What buyers praise

  • Deep, opaque color 27%
  • Lasts all day 23%

What buyers complain about

  • Fades during the day 17%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 12 of 27
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination5 of 10
  • Normal4 of 6
  • Dry1 of 4
  • Oily2 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light9 of 19
  • Light-medium to medium1 of 4

How often it comes up: about 1 in 674 of this product's 39,114 store reviews mention transfer.

See it at Ulta

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

7

Rare Beauty

Perfect Strokes Matte Liquid Liner

Best for a precise line

10/23 say it stays put on hooded lids

40% like the precise line and 30% the deep color, but 27% say it smudges and 27% say it transfers onto the lid. 7% find it hard to remove.

What buyers praise

  • Easy, precise line 40%
  • Deep, opaque color 30%
  • Lasts all day 20%

What buyers complain about

  • Dries out fast 10%
  • Fades during the day 7%
  • Hard to remove 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 10 of 23
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination3 of 8
  • Dry3 of 6
  • Normal2 of 5
  • Oily2 of 3

How often it comes up: about 1 in 36 of this product's 2,757 store reviews mention transfer.

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 96,644 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for transfer and read the newest matching reviews, up to 30 per product and store, posted between May 2016 and Oct 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. Lancôme Idôle Felt Tip Liner Ulta, Sephora (18 reviews counted)
  2. Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid Stick Eyeliner Ulta, Sephora (12 reviews counted)
  3. Stila Stay All Day Liquid Eye Liner Ulta, Sephora (55 reviews counted)
  4. KVD Beauty Tattoo Liner Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  5. Benefit Roller Liner Ulta, Sephora (29 reviews counted)
  6. Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eyeliner Pencil Ulta, Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  7. Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Matte Liquid Liner Sephora (30 reviews counted)

People asking about it on Reddit

  1. For people with hooded/oily eyes what is your liquid eyeliner go to? r/Makeup, Mar 2023, 141 comments
  2. In desperate need of smudge proof waterproof liquid eyeliner! Hooded oily lids r/drugstoreMUA, Jun 2025, 94 comments

Questions buyers ask

Which eyeliner doesn't transfer onto hooded eyes?

In these reviews, Lancôme Idôle Felt Tip Eyeliner comes first at 13 of 13 and Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid Stick Eyeliner follows at 9 of 9, both from small groups. Among liners with larger groups, Stila Stay All Day Liquid Eye Liner has 30 of 44 and KVD Beauty Tattoo Liner has 16 of 22.

Does the Stila Stay All Day liner work on hooded eyes?

For many reviewers it does: 30 of 44 said it stays put on hooded lids, and it is the one most reviewers weighed in on. 18% of its reviews say it transfers onto the lid, though.

Is pencil or liquid eyeliner better for hooded eyes?

This page has one pencil, so the comparison is thin. Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eyeliner Pencil has 12 of 27, while the same brand's liquid stick, Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid Stick Eyeliner, has 9 of 9. Liquid liners mostly sit higher on the list, though Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Matte Liquid Liner is close to it at 43%, against 44% for the pencil.

Does Benefit Roller Liner smudge on hooded eyes?

It depends on the store. 8 of 11 at Sephora said it stays put, against 3 of 10 at Ulta. 24% of its reviews say it smudges and 17% say it transfers onto the lid.

Related problems

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