Maybelline Master Smokey Shadow Pencil

The smudger takes off most of the product argh! and so very hard to actually get it to fade/smoke out. Was really looking foward to it ( I have it in black) but was hard to use and felt as though it wasted alot of product trying to smudge and get the desired look. On me it just looked like a panda eye. I paid around $15 online for it, was a waste of money in my books, very sad The product design looks good though

Maybelline didn't get this one quite right. The Master Smokey Shadow Pencil where do I start?

I was so excited when this came out and I got nearly all of them, the black, the purple and the brown, all at the same time thinking it was going to make my life easy. Packaging was cool, nice chunky design with the "smudger" on the end, alot to read in the tiny fine print that was on it but that was okay, so at that point i had not been put off, got them home, sat at my table and pulled them all out of their packets like a kid on christmas and swatched them on my hand, played around with the "smudger" again. still thought okay these are not that bad..... then finally then to play with the black one of my eye. Thick, hideous product, kind of between a cream eyeshadow and a eyeliner, and I could not blend it well at all, I went to "Panda" really fast and it looked so bad, I tried again with the other colours I had and it was the same result. I was so gutted I thought I had found the holy grail to the smokey eye but instead found its worst nightmare. The colours though are highly pigmented but they do not do what they are supposed to, maybe others can work with them but I just could not get them working for me, I will not be ever buying again and i will not recommend to others.

I brought the colours black,brown,charcoal and violet for quite cheap. I was very excited to try them all as i thought if i was in a hurry they would be easy to apply and blend out but boy was i wrong. The colours are very pigmented, i used the steps that i was meant to, draw a thick line then blend out with the smudger but i found the smudger was hard to use and had to rub really hard at my eye lid for it to blend out. Yes they were easy to apply but all of the colours creased on my eyelid and looked oily by the end of the day. I am glad that i didn't pay full price for them. So after trying my best with the eyelid and being quite disappointed, i thought maybe i could try as a eyeliner in the waterline and this was probably the better way i get to use them , it doesn't last all day and isn't all that great but it's another way to use it up. I wont be repurchasing any more colours or buying them ever again, i liked the concept of it being easy to use but it just didn't work. I would not recommend to a friend.

I have the black one. And it Doesnt do anything like the adds. I find it smudges out way to much and just leaves this yuck colour on your lids. I havnt tried this but I might try it and give it another go but maybe wet the sponge smudger on the end a little and see if it works that way.

I picked this up on my way to work one morning as I realised I'd left the house with no eyeliner or mascara QUELLE HORREUR!!! I bought the purple shade as I've got quite a few black eyeliners & thought I should branch out. My first impressions are that it's not fantastic. I found the formula quite disappointing, it's not highly pigmented and when I tried to smoke it out, it was patchy. As I was in a hurry I wiped the majority off & reapplied the line close to the lashes. I didn't find that it was long lasting either - by the end of the day it was mostly gone. I'm wondering if it'd work with an eye primer & a bit of time & a brush to smoke it out, but to be honest I don't think I can be bothered. I'll update if I find myself at a loose end on a rainy Sunday.

When I first found this product I was pretty excited, the concept is good but the execution is bad, very bad.

So you have the pencil on one end and a sponge on the other. The pencil has the texture of a soft crayon, but only a little softer than a crayon. It drags a bit and I found myself having to apply a bit of pressure making it uncomfortable to apply. The sponge also tends to drag and only smudges a little.

The wear of it is average. it sort of stayed in place but maybe because it stained my skin a bit too.

Removing it wasn't fun either, It just spread everywhere rather then coming off.

At the end of it all the whole of the pencil fell out and now wont go back into place, so I probably wont even use it again.

This shadow "pencil" isn't much of a pencil. With a crayon on one end (that isn't actually just black or smokey but has weird shiny bits that clump too much for me), and a sponge applicator on the other, this isn't really my idea of a master product. I've tried and tried and I just can't seem to get the smokey effect that I want, instead I have lumps and sore eyelids making me look like a raccoon. Very sad

The pigmentation is great but the application of it is just something Im not used too being really large and blunt. It'd be great for people who are really into smokey eyes but for me I just use it as an eyeliner and smudge it out with a brush as I find the smudger a bit too harsh and tend to pick up too much product off of my face (if that makes sense) Also after my third use the lead fell out so it made it even harder to use.

Unfortunately, this product won't get a very good review from me on it's own. As a base for other eyeshadows, I think it serves it's purpose for it's price, however, a quality, smokey eye look is not possible with the product itself. I have both the black and purple pencils. The product glides on nicely, and has very nice and pigmented colour, but as soon as you try to smoke out the product with the smudging tool at the end, it creates a very textured looking effect which is not smokey at all. The smudger takes off most of the product as well, so you have to apply the product multiple times to get the level of drama you want from a smokey eye. Overall, I do not like this product on it's own, only as a base for other shadows.

I'm the absolute queen of lazy when it comes to makeup so when I got this as a free gift I thought, why not try it out? Surely it'd be a quick way to actually make myself look like I put eyeshadow on! Welp, that was a mistake. For one thing, it dries too quickly for me to actually smudge it out and when I do it ends up patchy because the smudger takes most of it off! The staying power wasn't something to brag home about either. It worked in the way any eyeliner I got before my best gel liners would, in other words, it'd smudge before an hour was up. I'd be better off taking an extra step and smudging one of my other liners as a makeshift eyeshadow instead.

I wanted to like it when I got it but it was quite the disappointment.