Wednesday 27 February 2013

Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencils!

I recently started a craving for Nyx make-up products, A fairly new brand to the shelves of Sehpora stores around Malaysia.  Nyx make-up consists of good quality and beautiful products all for reasonable prices. Could it get any better than this? I know that Nyx make-up has been available in the USA and the UK for quite some time as some of their products have been featured in make-up tutorial videos on Youtube.
The brand wasn't officially available here before Sephora started selling them, but I know that some of the products were being brought in by individuals to be sold on small online boutiques.

I purchased two of the Jumbo Eye Pencils, 'Gold' and 'Strawberry Milk'. They have a many different colours in their collection of jumbo eye pencils but sadly many of them were sold out at both of the Sephora stores I visited (KLCC and outside Pavillion). The most raved colour would have to be 'Milk' which is a matte white shade.

                                          Right swatch: Gold, Left swatch: Strawberry Milk

Overall, I am very pleased with them, they do blend quite well with regular eye-shadows which makes them fairly easy to apply. They also look fabulous on their own. The colours are beautiful! I was happy find out  that 'strawberry milk' also can be used as a highlighter and when applied to the face, gives you a beautiful subtle glow.
The only downsides to these products would be the fact that I was quite disappointed to see that they have to be sharpened. Unlike other eye-shadow sticks, they don't have the 'roll-up' feature. Although its not a big issue, I really feel that Nyx should come up with roll-up jumbo eye pencils as sharpening these pencils can damage the actual product. If sharpening the pencil is a big problem for you, I have found tutorials on Youtube showing how to depot the product out if the tube and into a container to be used as a cream eye-shadow instead.

They retail for RM19 each.

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