Shucks!!! I
was really, really, really excited for these. I thought I'd finally found a
waterproof, inexpensive alternative to Urban Decay's 24/7 Glide-On Shadow
Pencils. That being said, I think these are great as eyeliners, as their name
implies they should be used. I was just hoping I could use them all over my
lids. The problem with that is that the product itself is very dry and waxy.
I'm not sure if waxy would be the appropriate word, but I can't think of
another way to describe it. To get the swatches to look the way they do, I had
to go only in one direction. I drew medium length lines and I didn't overlap
them. I went right beside the previous line that I drew. I let that set and
then I went back over them in the same direction. While the colors are gorgeous
and the swatches look pretty opaque you can see that they aren't perfect. It
wasn't easy to get them to look like that. That totally defeats the purpose of
a crayon or pencil product in my opinion. I just view those as an easy street
product. Another downside was when I was testing whether they had the lasting
power of the Urban Decay pencils by rubbing my finger across them they crumbled
and wadded up like that grey stuff on scratch off tickets. Total bummer. I was
really excited for Champagne because I was going to use it as a lid color with
Brown in my crease, but Champagne behaved the absolute worst. It was the
driest. It bunched up to make clumpy parts and it wouldn't add color to some
parts of my skin no matter how many times I went over it. The best behaving
crayon was Gunmetal. It wasn't perfect by any means, but it didn't make me want
to rip my hair out when I was applying it. When I feel better I'm going to try
and warm them for several seconds under my high wattage light bulb to see if that
helps them apply better. At this point in time, until they tweak the formula
and for the $3.00 price that these have, I have to say that I would skip these.
They are waterproof though! Ha-ha!
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Beautiful swatches! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI totally share your opinion - they would not even be worth 1 buck... so hard on the eyes. I have Champagne and am thinking, who might want to use it as a drawing cranyon. Color is totally off and texture oh so bad :S