IMPOSSIBLE Clinique Charcoal Brown eyeliner search!!!

[Tillyzaratustra]

Hey Everyone!!! I write to you because I have had an IMPOSSIBLE EYELINER SEARCH going on for the past year and I'm close to loosing any hope!! I have always used as my day to day natural eyeliner pencil Cliniques nº22 Charcoal Brown eyeshading pencil, which is now discontiniued and it's just IMPOSSIBLE to find anything even remotely close!!

I've searched MAC, Clinique, Bobbi Brown, YSL, Dior, Channel, Sephora, drugstore...you name it, NOTHING! It's a true charcoal brown, as it's name says, which turns out as a taupe when swatched on your hand, not brown or grey but right in between...do you have ANY ideas on what I could use for a substitute?? I've looked and looked through internet and NOBODY seems to know of a dupe and at any stand I go to I've been told that that kind of eyeliners just don't exist, they're either brown or grey...what do you think? At the following links you can see swatches and the pencil up close:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/5379870...n/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/5379870...n/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/5379870...n/photostream/

Just in case if it's of any use, I'm a light chestnut-blonde with green eyes and use always a neutral look for my day to day makeup.

Thankyou sooooooo much for your time, I'm desperate here (Spain by the way, Madrid to be exact!! ) If there's anyone who seems to know their makeup it's you guys, this forum is just amazing!!

Many many maaaaaany thanks and love, Natalia

[CCorleone]

Hey Natalia!

Te respondo en español, ya que dices que eres de Madrid.
Estamos en las mismas, adoraba ese eyeliner y lo agoté hasta que solo le quedaba 1 cm...
Lo he buscado en varias ciudades incluso, y está del todo DISCONTINUED.

Hace poco encontré algo que me pareció lo más similar hasta el momento. Es el "Le crayon khôl" de Lancome, en el tono 012 Platinum.
Ya te aviso que no es igual, es más marron que el charcoal brown, y no es tan bonito ni de lejos, pero es el único marron con tono grisaceo que he encontrado.

Miratelo, no pierdes nada, espero haberte sido de ayuda y si encontrarás alguno más acorde, let me know!
Besos, CC.