The One Thing You Haven't Tried with Your Lip Liner That You *Need* to This Summer

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published 2 June 2016

If you spend enough time around makeup artists, you start realizing you can can repurpose literally any product as you need it. You just have to be resourceful. Lipstick as blush? Of course. Mascara as eyeliner? Um, yeah.

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Though I have to admit, when I interviewed beauty hero Georgia May Jagger (opens in new tab) last month, I would never have suspected that the smoky burgundy pigment on her lids wasn't actually a shadow, but a lip liner. It was just so smooth and vivid.

The creamy pencil behind her statment eyes? None other than Rimmel's Exaggerate Full Colour Lip Liner (opens in new tab) in "Under My Spell." She just smudged it over her lids and did a little tiny bit on the lower lashline as well, and voilà—glam rock goddess.

If you're going to be so bold as to migrate your lip color to your lids this summer, just make sure you prime. While lip liner is formulated to stay put, this has a creamier consistent than most.

Rimmel Exaggerate Full Colour Lip Liner in Under My Spell, $6, ulta.com (opens in new tab).

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Lauren is the former beauty editor at Marie Claire. She love to while away the hours at coffee shops, hunt for vintage clothes, and bask in the rough-and-tumble beauty of NYC. She firmly believes that solitude can be a luxury if you’ve got the right soundtrack—that being the Rolling Stones, of course.