NYX Professional Makeup Jumbo Eye Pencil Review

I use the shade milk for lining my waterline - it really makes your eyes pop! They are very creamy and easy to apply and last for quite a while. They are very cheap, so great value for money. Would definitely recommend - at this price you really can't go wrong!

I personally own three of these wee guys, in Yogurt, Rust and Cashmere, and I Love them on my bottom lash line (LOVE) however I find they transfer so easily due to the very soft texture of the pencil if I try to use them on my top last line. But As an eye shadow they totally work! At work the other day I had limited supplies to jazz up the old face before heading straight out to dinner (so unorganised) and I whipped Rust all over my lid and blended it out and Voila! Magic! I was very impressed with how it wore. So Yes as a lower lash liner and a massive yes as a shadow!

Just got this in a super nice dark blue/navy colour. I found that its super soft and glides on easily and has great pigmentation. I was a little bit disappointed that it was not easier to blend as and eyeshadow but perhaps I just need a little bit more practice

The Nyx jumbo pencils are a cult product and the first one I chose about a year about was a nice creamy brown colour. Even with a primer this creased very badly with my hooded eyelids. However, this year I have purchased FIVE new colours - light green, dark green, black, white and purple. Why?! These are amazing for costumes! You can do amazing coloured makeup designs with these pencils, and they are much easier to use than face paint because you can precisely draw on your face and body. My favourite design is two face from the Batman films (Google it!).

I love the colours and vibrancy of the NYX jumbo pencils. I have 3 but probable my most used is milk. It helps make any eyeshadow that you place on top, brighter (especially great for bright, colourful eye shadows) there are a few negatives though. Finding a sharpener big enough and Creasing (oh my goodness, it creases) I do love it but you need to be light handed and apply lightly as to not crease as much. It also helps to dust a skin tone colour all over your lid after using it, as a base for your other shadows.

I only have 1 of these in Milk, which i brought after watching several of youtube halloween or dress up tutorials, the Pop art one is the reason why i purchased Milk. Its great, I used it on my self and my niece we were recereating the pop art video and we both became cartoon characters for the day. The pencil was creamy, pigmented, did the job, I used white eyeshadow to set it ( if you havent seen the tutorial, you basically use the jumbo eye pencil to make dots on your face) I brought mine off Beauty Joint,I have seen girls selling it for $10-$13 on facebook and trademe I personally wouldnt buy it for that much. I used this once as a base because people say its a great eyeshadow base, its an ok base, it made the colours pop, but my eyeshadow still creased, so il just stick to my paintpot, Lucky its cheap.

I have this pencil in Milk, which is the matte white colour. I thought I'd try it out as I heard it was really helpful for makeup and also worked as an eye-shadow primer or base. I've used it on my waterline, which was fine, and nothing special, except it is hard to be precise with a jumbo pencil obviously. But when I tried it as a base to do a silvery eyeshadow look, and applied it all over my lid, it was a disaster. It made me look like a ghost first of all, because it was so pigmented, but I thought it would be ok once I layered eyeshadow over it. But none of the eyeshadow would stick to it! It got all over my applicators, and I couldn't blend it or anything. It was thick and cakey, and just didn't sit right in any way. I don't know how you are meant to use it, but I obviously wasn't using it right, because it looked terrible and I had to wipe most of it off. I feel like the other colours might be ok on their own, but I got the white as I wanted something which could double as a base to keep bright eyeshadows bright. I will try it again, but from the past experience, it doesn't do what I thought it was, and I already have cheaper $2 white eyeliners which do the waterline just as well.

I purchased 4 of these little guys last year after seeing the amazing colour range they come in and the colours are just as amazing in person! However… They don’t like my face. I purchased Milk, Iced Mocha, Lavender and Purple Velvet. The “Milk” & “Iced Mocha” I have used the most, usually as a base. I apply them over the lid directly from the pencil, then blend all over with a brush or my fingers. I then use powder eyeshadow on top.

I notice that when using the Jumbo Eye Pencils as an eye-shadow on their own they don't last too long, after an hour or so the colour has gone or completely slipped off my eyes. I also found them difficult to blend, and would notice creases. I may try them again with an eyeshadow primer and some tips/tricks on using them, cause the colours again are amazing.

This is a product which I purchased because of all of the hype which came with it! I had such high expectations for this product but I feel as though it wasn't half as good as what people were saying it was.

I have three shades and I just find them really hard to work with unless I prime my eyelids before - which for me defeats the purpose of even using them.