Suva Beauty‘s Hydra Liners – I feel like they’re one of those products in the indie beauty world that everyone talks about in hushed, reverent tones. I’d even venture a guess to say that they’re what Suva Beauty is most known for too. These little pots of beautiful, colourful glory are a water activated paint – they can be applied anywhere you like, but I use them predominantly as eyeliner.

I first played around with the shade Scrunchie last year when I picked it up at IMATS Toronto – I was so enamoured with that bright neon shade of it! So of course when it came to trying out more shades, I was more than excited since their colour range is really unique.

These three shades were recently released alongside their Block Party palette (full review video here) and I was immediately intrigued by the new colours as they seem made for each other. Interestingly, two of the shades are listed as Hydra FX and the other one is listed as Hydra Liner. I’m not sure what the difference is, as they both applied exactly the same.

The trick to using Suva Beauty‘s Hydra Liners is water. The pots themselves are a solid mass of dry paint and you can’t get any pigmentation off on your brush unless you add water to the paint cake. And it does have to be water – I’ve tried INGLOT’s Duraline in the past and it does absolutely nothing to the product! It doesn’t even liquefy it! I tend to drop a few water droplets into my pot and run my brush in there to loosen up the pigment. I like to get the pan fairly wet so that I get a nice amount of smooth liquid fluid on my brush in order to make application easier.

While I normally apply a Hydra Liner as a winged liner addition to my look (tutorial on that technique here!), this time I just wanted to just play around with them. I used the two blue shades (Tracksuit and Freezie) on a wet toothbrush and flicked them across my eye. I love the spackled paint look – it’s clearly more editorial than your normal every day makeup, but it’s a lot of fun to do. The two blues tones worked together to create a sort of water marbled effect on my eye. I then used Grape Soda to create my usual winged liner to add more interest to the look. Honestly, it was a lot of fun just playing around with these products – even if the end result isn’t “wearable”. (Sidenote: Grape Soda goes on the eyes a lot darker than the pan and swatch would suggest – I imagine it’s because I layered it a few times.)

One thing to be aware of in regards to the formula is that it feels a little bit differently than your usual liquid liner. It has a slightly thicker consistency so it might feel a bit tight/thick on your eye. It’s no detrimental to the product, but worth mentioning since not everyone might be aware of/expect that sensation. I’ve only worn these as shown in the photo above, so I have no idea how this wears over your entire lid (I really do need to give that a shot though!).

The colour selection is phenomenal, and a lot of their shades glow under UV lights! They’re one of the most and unique products I’ve tried in the last year and I love these additions to the shade range.

If you decide to pick any shades of Hydra Liner up, or anything by Suva Beauty, you can snag them on getdollied.com or getdollied.ca and get 10% off your order with the code “MAKEUPYOURMIND”.

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