Maybelline Tattoo Brow 36hr Pencil

I trialled this product in light brown. It wet on reasonably well but I did find I needed to use the spoolie brush to blend the colour evenly. It lasted all day however I definitely needed to reapply/retouch each day. I really liked the colour on my brows. I am quite fair and I think it still gave a natural look. The cap on the pencil end didn't seem to fit perfectly so this is something I would only use at home (and not in my travel cosmetic bag). On the whole, I was impressed with this product.

I was excited to try this after purchasing it in the Beauty Vault, and really liking the Maybelline Brow Precise pencil, however I wont be purchasing it again due to how tricky it is to sharpen. The formula of this product is really good, it lasts very well (needed a good wipe with micellar to remove it) and applies nice and smooth, however... I had no idea how to get to the remainder of the pencil! The packaging didnt give too much away and I initally thought it was a wind-up pencil (it isnt!) so some digging online informed me that it CAN be sharpened, however Maybelline recommends their purpose-made sharpener and most that you'll find at home in your stationery kit wont work. In the end it was just too much hassle.

I found this was so pigmented and when drawing it would be quite uneven. It has a clay-like and soft consistency if that makes sense. Though once blended, it looked fine - and it was quite easy to blend with the attached spoolie. It's a good spoolie. There are many better brow pencils out there, IMO. I won't use this again as the darker shades were too warm-toned, also.

Thank you to BR for the opportunity to trial this product – if I had paid for it myself I would have been really annoyed about wasting my money! This is probably my first ever negative review about a Maybelline product – it is my go to makeup brand, so I was very disappointed!

The product itself is okay. The colour was kind of off – I have very dark eyebrows so I selected "dark brown", but it is definitely looks black when you apply it. I hate to think what the "black brown" shade looks like on! The product does go on nicely, is highly pigmented and has excellent staying power. However, you only get this result for the first couple of applications because as soon as you need to sharpen it it is useless.

The packaging of this pencil states that it is sharpenable, but it is in a hard plastic casing and the product itself is very soft, so when you go to sharpen it, it crumbles/breaks, rendering it completely useless. If it weren't for the brush at the other end which I am sure will come in handy, I would have just thrown it out right there and then.

It's not often I place a review this negative, but I was really really unimpressed with the Maybelline Tattoo Brow 36hr pencil. The product is a small pencil with a spoolie brush on the other end. I trialled the soft brown colour. Firstly, the soft brown colour isn't soft brown at all. It's actually very dark and I found it too dark for my skin tone. I used the eyebrow pencil every day during the trial period (even though I didn't want to after the first try!). The pencil isn't very easy to use - it doesn't sharpen to a good tip so it's hard to do anything precise. I also find it really annoying and messy to have to sharpen the pencil constantly - it's far easier if the product winds up or you use a brush to apply. The pencil doesn't last for the day, let along for 36 hours as it claims. Maybe if I lay still and did absolutely nothing all day, it might last the day, but does anyone do that?! I didn't do anything particularly onerous, just went about daily life, but the pencil had mostly rubbed off mid way through the day leaving my brows looking patchy. All in all, I was super disappointed with this pencil and I'm really glad the review period is over so I can stop using it! I had really high hopes for this one - I thought that 36 hour wear would mean it lasted well but it absolutely doesn't. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone and will be sticking with Benefit brand for now until I find something better.

The only Pros: very pigmented, the spoolie is great, definitely lasts all day without smudging. When I first used this product, of course the pencil point was sharp, and as I continued to it, it becomes more and more blunt.

Overall, I do not like this at all. The consistency is creamier, I prefer a more pomade/wax like texture. The pencil is also not fine enough to be able to fill in sparse areas of my eyebrows or line my eyebrow. The pencil is also too thick when blunt, so it is very difficult to work with even with a light hand.

When I fill in my eyebrows it is hard to control how much product goes on my eyebrow and even when I use the spoolie to blend, I still end up with uneven/ not properly filled in areas.

I wouldn’t use this again for my eyebrows but I don’t want to waste the product, so I might try using it as eyeliner.