By Terry 9 Royal Navy Crayon Khol Terrybly

...but it comes with a sharpener? And the box is SHINY. And PAHRPAL.

SpaceNK N.Dulge points, my friend :P N.Dulge points, and COBALT. The former knocking this down to a drugstore-range (for the UK anyway) £7 and the latter.... well:
Not the sexiest swatch ever, but this is a khol pencil so the edges are going to look sort of waxy drawn on neat -- such is the nature of this kind of formula. Used with a precise brush, you can definitely achieve very sharp lines with this, as I'll demonstrate below. But I wanted to show how smooth and evenly pigmented a bright blue this is -- other cobalt fiends will appreciate the rarity of a formula which isn't chalky and doesn't drag on the skin. Also, no cheating with shimmer to create vibrancy -- this is pure COLOUR; the 'crest' of the last wave (bottom rightmost) looks slightly glossy still (the pencil applies initially as a gel), but the rest of the squiggle has already set to its matte-but-not-flat final state, which will remain totally in place and vibrant all day, resisting both rain and vigorous scrubbing, but coming off easily with cleansing oil, without staining the skin.

I no longer have the two COBALT liners which preceded this one in my wardrobe but they were both felt-tipped liquids: Kiko Super Colour Eyeliner in 107 Bleu Majorelle (slightly darker and more muted) and Barry M Liquid Eyeliner Electric Blue (worn here, slightly lighter and less rich). Though By Terry's khol is far pricier at £22 vs ~£7 for Kiko and ~£5 for Barry M, it's worth the extra to me for its beautiful glide across my dry lids, its longer shelf-life, its far more reliable wear (Barry M isn't waterproof so lasts all of 5 minutes on my watery eyes; Kiko is prone to flaking off in a manner typical of waterproof liquids), and finally, its far greater versatility. I tried to demonstrate this in the following looks:

Like the liquids, Royal Navy is sufficiently pigmented and bold to work for a graphic wing, to sharpen up an otherwise soft'n'pretty eye consisting of Rouge Bunny Rouge Sleeping Underneath a Mandarin Tree on the lid and Sweet Dust Seriema to softly shade the socket and lower lashline. I used the pencil itself in one smooth motion to draw along my lashline, stopping at the outer corner, and then took a clean Hakuhodo G5515bksl brush to flick it up slightly -- because the khol naturally dispenses a little extra 'blob' at the end of a line, I just used that already-placed product to create this baby flick; for a bigger wing you'd want to pick up some khol on your winging brush as well.

bright artificial light

To wit, when placed over sparkly black cream from Shu Uemura Karl Lagerfeld Smoky Velvet palette, Royal Navy (outer 'v' accent) turns into a blackened gentian (again, I'd intended a more blended/faded result but the Shu base adheres so closely to my snake-dry skin that trying to then diffuse this khol over it was less fun than anticipated :P). The coral glitter in the inner corner/socket is from THREE 06 Tranquil Oasis.

dim/cloudy natural light

artificial light to capture GLITTAH

Cheek: RBR Gracilis |  Lip: Innisfree Creamy Tint Lipstick 01 Flower Buds Pink worn very sheerly over RBR Lip Elixir balm


....As I think I've now managed to make a product I genuinely love and find versatile and have been reaching for several times a week since acquiring it look inordinately finnicky and difficult, my blog work is hereby done *dusts self off*

So to clarify, and provide a little context for your extrapolating: Royal Navy launches this By Terry Khol Terrybly formula right into the category of my favourite liners, which also include my intensely sparkly THREE trio and pair of Pixi's. While I don't think I'd shell out for another shade which I could find in Pixi's line, or in my beloved drugstore brand Kiko's unctuous cream shadow sticks, this unique shimmer-free COBALT (sorry, last time) is definitely one I'd repurchase in a heartbeat.