the only gel eyeliner with cushion feature that i have seen [SEP] in my search for a perfectly waterproof eye pencil liner i bought over pencils liners from amazon and ulta and tested them this one went on smoothly and it is dark it lasts longer than the maybellin eye studio gel maybe about hours instead of you do need to allow some time for the gel to set after applying it is a little wetter than regular gel it is almost perfect however the price is higher than most the cushion part of the packaging prevents the user from digging too much gel out at a time very useful