appleschnapple replied to your post “So I’m off to a masquerade ball tonight (yay!) and with a few hours to...”
eyeliner in general just *knows* when you're in a hurry and will go out of its way to make you need to redo it. this is twicefold when you're already wearing other eye makeup.
Oh god, yeah, TELL ME ABOUT IT. I had exactly that problem last night. Got my eyeshadow just right, then involuntarily blinked when applying liquid eyeliner and the brush shot up half my eyelid >:( Urgh. So annoying.
It really was my one saving grace that the party we were attending was a masquerade ball, so I could hide it all behind a distractingly sparkly Venice mask. Hooray for distractingly sparkly Venice masks!
It's a shame liquid eyeliner is so hard to get right (really, any tips you have at this point would be helpful, by the way) but when you do get it right there's nothing else like it.