NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUPEpic Wear Liner Stick, Long-Lasting Eyeliner Pencil - Pitch Black

Stays in place far longer than most of my other eyeliners — and it’s a great shade of medium brown. Smooth application. Good quality. Not too dark to be harsh like black, but a great choice to highlight my skin and eye color. Definitely recommend.

For the price, I’m THRILLED with this eye liner…I’ve been on a mission to update my makeup techniques for the last year. I’ve also been updating and upgrading many makeup items.I’ve learned that buying expensive makeup everytime you want to try a new fad or makeup idea is way too expensive.I’ve never worn olive green eyeshadow or olive green liner. But recently, was told it would really flatter my skin tone and hazel golden green eyes.I thought I would try it out- and the only liner I could find that looked like the right shade and price was NYX.I really love it. Shocked by how pretty it is. Used it on one eye, and still a gold liner on the other: and the NYX looked better IMO.

I docked a star simply bc it's a traditional pencil-style eyeliner that you have to sharpen with a separate sharpener. (Who wants to carry more cosmetic items around than necessary? There are also some other issues, but it was mainly this.) There are a couple minor annoyances, but nothing that most other basic pencil liners don't also have.I really like this product. I've bought it in several different colors, several times, over several yrs. I'll continue to buy as needed unless I happen to find something miraculously better, which I doubt bc it's just a basic pencil liner. Or if the price should suddenly sky-rocket & not make this worth the cost anymore.I would recommend this liner to others. Just know, I don't typically use it like the average person would normally use a pencil-style eyeliner.PROS:• Waterproof/resistant.• Pretty smudge resistant once it fully sets. However, it smudges & blends well with other liner colors or some other cosmetics when first applied. (It *can* smudge after it has set. But it takes quite a bit of effort. Lol. I forgot I was wearing the brown liner once & rubbed my eyes very aggressively. I was a mess. But the staying power was still strong! So I had to search for makeup remover & a decent cleanser to undo the mess I made of myseld. Still a pro, IMO. This thing will stick to your skin a long time. Set & forget! 🙄 Just don't forget NOT to rub your eyes like your trying to massage your eyeballs into your skull like I did.)• Basic colors & fun colors. Again, the ability to blend is great bc it allows you to create slightly different colors or a gradient look.• The cap stays on tight so the liner tip doesn't dry out or harden.• The liner tip doesn't break/crumble when sharpened like some cheap liners do.• Richly pigmented.• Applies smoothly. Firm enough that the tip doesn't easily mash down & need constant resharpening just to finish 1 eye. But smooth enough not to feel like your skin is being painfully stretched or grated against.• Easy to apply to your lower water line with 1-2 smooth swipes & lasts a long time there.• Can be made into a long lasting, water resistant, convenient cream eyeshadow. (I'll explain this below. But you can honestly just glide a line of this over a nice silky primer that u dab on your eyelid. Then quickly blend it all on your eyelid/eyelid area to make it into an eyeshadow. Basically same concept as the creamy shadow I ended up making.)CONS:• The outside looks plastic. So, at first, I mistakenly thought it was a mechanical pencil-style liner. (I wanted a mechanical pencil style at the time.)• There's no built in sharpener at the bottom - even though it looks like there's one. But I guess those are for the mechanical pencil styles anyway.• It's difficult to sharpen it to a really fine point, then maintain that very fine point while lining both top eyelids. I like thinner lines on my top lids, so I don't bother using this particular liner for that purpose. (I do use it on my water lines & to smudge some subtle color around my lower lash line area, tho. I just use a liquid liner on my top lid. The liquid liner won't last on my waterline & looks too bold along my lower lashes. So, this is a perfect combo for me.)• If the tip gets very dull & worn down, the pencil edges have a tendency to scratch your skin a lot harder than most pencil liners. The barrel doesn't seem to be made mostly of wood (or even wood at all?). It's like a wood composite with a small amount of rubber wood or soft plastic or something mostly synthetic. But if there happens to be a sharp or pointy edge on this material, be careful. (I use the white liner for highlighting my brow bone area & inner corner of my eyes. So, I don't need the tip fine pointed for this purpose. It's actually better to have the tip rounded & dull. I just have to inspect the tip for potential sharp edges that may scratch my skin each time. Not really a biggie bc it doesn't happen too often.)That's about it. I mean, it's a traditional pencil-style eyeliner with a bunch of great qualities for those who like experimenting with makeup - especially liners in non-traditional colors.MY EYESHADOW HACK (which is also why I really like these liners a lot):I like wearing makeup. But I don't like any smudges, looking like a clown bc I encountered a teeny but of moisture, having to do touch ups thru out the day, or even having to spend a lot of time initially applying the makeup. I work in an outdoor, unpredictable, often rough environment. I am frequently exposed to the outdoor elements - rain, snow, wind, pollen, dirt, water, etc. I work out regularly & some of my hobbies aren't exactly makeup friendly. I can't even carry a makeup bag with me most of the times while on the job. And I work crazy long hrs. So whatever makeup I want to bring along needs to be able to fit in 1 of my pockets or something. It has to be in a strong container & take up the tiniest footprint. (I need the majority of my pockets for more important & larger things.)You'd think a pencil/pen style liner should be pretty minimal, right? Wrong. Let's just say, if they shift in my pocket wrong, they tend to break or the cap pops off as I'm bending, crawling, climbing, or whatever. It gets messy.Well, I created a tiny pot of a long lasting, water resistant eyeshadow using these NYX liners. I was using the E.L.F. primer trio samples that came in these very tiny jars to pair with these liners to use as eyeshadow colors. As 1 pot started to run out, I got an idea. I gathered several of my NYX liners, which had been sharpened down rather short. I managed to separate the creamy pigmented liner from the barrels. I smashed them in the tiny glass pot that still had a bit of smoothing primer in it. I used a blow dryer to melt everything to a fairly mushy consistency. Then mixed it all up in the pot. It "dried" daily quickly, but remained creamy. And the primer pot is air tight so it has kept it creamy. I combined some of the Mauve, Periwinkle, & I forget what other color. But I ended up with this soft dusty, smokey mauve colored cream shadow. I can apply it to my eyelids with my finger & it blends so easily. Once it sets, it's almost as smudge-proof & water-proof as the liner is in its original form. (It's still VERY smudge & water-resistant. The liners are strong.) I like that I can carry this tiny pot anywhere, it's easy to use, I didn't waste product, and best of all... no more need for a liner sharpener!I've got a few other colors I'm considering mixing up once I wear the pencils down enough. But yeah... 💁‍♀️ great & versatile liner.Prob not "the best" pencil-style liner out there. But def amongst the top best that I've ever used. Great selection of fun colors. And the qualities of the cosmetic product itself (nevermind the "container" or pencil style barrel) is superb.

This is the best waterproof pencil for waterline I have used so far. Perfect for tight lining and stays put for all day. It is not as stable for wing/sharp liner looks though.

I absolutely love these eye pencils. They draw very clean and smooth over eyeshadow. They sharpen easily and rarely break off from sharpening. My favorite colors are the brown shimmer and plum.

I love this bright color. It makes my hazel/gray eyes pop. I love how smoothly these pencils glide over my eyelids.

I bought a bunch of NYX pencil eyeliners from this series, so I wanted to do a swatch of eye color once it arrived. I applied very very little pressure & I did it at an angle, but the tip already broke off!! It did this for Emerald & this Gold color, but it was fine for the Dusty Mauve. I guess it varies from pencil to pencil based on how it was manufactured and when? In general, the color came off nicely & it was very smooth to the touch.I’m giving it 3 stars bc it reminds me of color pencils that keep breaking off even though you painstakingly sharpen it very carefully each time, only for it to fall apart at the lightest touch. 🙃 (NOTE: I haven’t actually sharpened it yet after it broke off, this is just my initial reaction based on how easily it broke off the first time I tried to use it.) However, the product stays on the skin well…if you manage to apply it LOL. I just hope it doesn’t continuously break off each time I try to use it. I don’t want to sharpen it all off and waste the product.

Updated to 4 stars: This product can be sharpened. The pencil shell is plastic. You can't advance the liner by twisting the end but it can be put in a pencil sharpener. However, this can make some parts of the plastic sharp. Be careful around your eyes!This eyeliner is a beautiful shade of green. It goes on easily. I have hazel eyes - a mixture of brown and green. This product really brings out the green color. However I have given a one star rating because there is no way to advance the product once you use it. It appears to be a mechanical pencil but nothing advances when you twist the end of it. So what you see is what you get and it may last a couple of weeks but that's it. So for me, it's not cost effective.