Once upon a time, I went crazy over MAC Pearlglide Intense Eyeliners and bought four in one go. Considering the price, it’s quite crazy just for 4 ‘pencils’. Thinking back, I surely wasn’t rational but then which girl is when looking at pretty things? 🙂
Brand: MAC
Product: PearlGlide Intense Eyeliner
Shade: Lord It Up
Undercurrent
Designer Purple
Petrol Blue
Price: USD 16
Type: Eyeliner
Size: 1.2g
Origin: Made in USA
Website: MAC website
THE PACKAGING
Well, nothing special about eyeliner pencils packaging yea? Just a pencil LOL XD I like that the shade colour is clear on the end of the pencil. Easy to grab the colour you want when you put them together with 50 other eyeliners haha…
Freshly sharpened tip 🙂 Can you see how rich the colour is?
I recommend getting the MAC sharpener even though it is a tad more expensive than typical sharpeners. I used other sharpeners and they cause the liner lead to break! I ended up losing quite alot of product by having to re-sharpen. Ouch!!
THE PRODUCT
“An eye pencil that provides rich, luxurious colour with a touch of shimmer and sparkle. Soft, smooth, creamy formula glides on for a perfectly intense line, yet its soft texture allows you to blend. Long-wearing. Smudge-proof.”
Rich, luxurious colour — oh yes, very rich and creamy deep colours 🙂
Shimmer and sparkle –– yes again! I can’t get enough of how fine and pretty the shimmers are!
Long-wearing and smudge-proof — well I like to smudge this abit to create smoky look but after it dries, yes it lasts a pretty long while 🙂 I can’t draw a thin line with this pencil so I prefer to smudge it for more blended look ~
I do notice fallouts when i use it and also maybe it’s very soft and creamy, a little product sometimes get caught in the eyelashes.. when that happens and I blink, I may get panda eyes by the product smearing my under-eye area 😦 It could be because of my eye shape though 😦 Do you guys get this problem, or is it just me?
THE SHADES
Petrol Blue – I love this blue. It’s just perfect – not too dark not too light and the shimmer is the right amount and right shade too! Perfect to create deep blue sexy eyes for that special night.
Lord It Up – Brown is most wearable and you can even use it for daily look. Pretty high shimmer for a brown. I find myself grabbing this colour most cuz’ of its wearability although the colour is kind of boring haha.
Undercurrent – My favourite! I find the other 3 colours would have many cheaper good dupes (like Maybelline, Etude House) but this one is just too pretty I can’t find a dupe yet! The green is so special and the shimmer is intense! This really brightens up your eye look and have people’s attention on it right away! Can’t stare enough at the colour whenever I have this on hehe.
Designer Purple – I’d say this is a typical purple shimmer eyeliner. Among the four, shimmer concentration seem to be least for this one or just less noticeable to the eye. But overall still a beautiful purple of course.
Let me try it on the eyes…..
Two colours on each eye. I think all are pretty… but Undercurrent! Love love love.
MY VERDICT
Pros
- Rich, intense colour and pigmentation
- Super creamy and soft formula. Very easy to glide on eyes.
- Very beautiful shades and very fine shimmer. (Thumbs up for Undercurrent!)
Cons
- Some fallouts (don’t know whether it is my lousy skills or the product..)
- Needs sharpening (yes I am a very lazy girl haha)
- Can’t draw a thin thin line. Even with sharpening line cant get as thin as liquid liner style so I always smudge this out for more smoky blended look.
- Pricey. Many cheaper dupes out there that more or less have a similar colour or result (except Undercurrent haha).
Overall
I am tempted to try the Black Line shade (Black with khaki green tone and shimmers) of this range, but other than that, I don’t think I will repurchase my current shades – except UnderCurrent!
I am quite happy with Etude House play 101 pencils and they come at fraction of the price and no need sharpening! Hahaha. Have yet to try other dupes yet~
But I’m still thankful to have found this Pearlglide Eyeliners as they kind of started the eyeliner craze in me XD
Do you know of other great pearl shimmery eyeliners out there? 🙂
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