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Artist Color Pencil.

Makeup Forever Artist Color Pencil
Lip

About this product

A multi-purpose color pencil from Makeup Forever available in various shades, designed to be used on lips, eyes, and other areas of the face.

Lip

The Guru Index verdict

87%

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What the gurus are saying

The gurus who tried these pencils found them smooth, pigmented, and genuinely versatile across lips and eyes, with shades that work across different skin tones and color preferences. The main thing to know if anyone wants to use them on the eyes: they blend easily, which means they smudge, so setting them with eyeshadow keeps them in place. Several experts returned to the same shades repeatedly, particularly the cooler-toned and neutral options, suggesting the range itself is thoughtfully made.
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Key actives & flags

Vitamin CVitamin ESPFFragrance-freeAlcohol-free

Full ingredients

Mica, Caprylic/​Capric Triglyceride, Stearyl Dimethicone, Ci 77742 (Manganese Violet), Ci 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), Talc, Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides, Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate, Cera Microcristallina (Microcrystalline Wax), Ci 77491 (Iron Oxides), Octadecene, Ci 77499 (Iron Oxides), Synthetic Wax, Ci 77492 (Iron Oxides), Kaolin, Polyethylene, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, BHT

Every take, in full

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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"I love these pencils. They're the Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil, and you can get them in all different colors. What I have on my lips right now is this one. They're just multi-purpose -- you can use them for your eyes, your lips, for everything."
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"I love these pencils. They're the Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil, and you can get them in all different colors. What I have on my lips right now is this one. They're just multi-purpose -- you can use them for your eyes, your lips, for everything."
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"I love these pencils. They're the Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil, and you can get them in all different colors. What I have on my lips right now is this one. They're just multi-purpose -- you can use them for your eyes, your lips, for everything."
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"I had one lip liner that I was like, I have to tell you guys about this again. This is the new Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in the shade Wherever Walnut Light. I filled in my lips with this, so it's mostly what you see in the center of my lips. It's got a beautiful, almost lavender undertone, and it is stunning. If you are a cool-toned lip liner gal, especially if you have more of a fair skin tone, you're going to love that."
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"I'm going to take my new Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in the shade Wherever Walnut Light. I've been really loving this. This pencil is so pretty. I love the color, it's a nice soft pink. Normally I feel like I like to ground it with a brown, but maybe we'll try leaving it alone today."
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"This pencil is definitely something that you should check out. If you typically like colors that I recommend, I think you're going to love this."
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"The first thing is the new shade of the Make Up For Ever lip liner. This is Wherever Walnut Light. It's the perfect kind of soft lavender pink, so very, very cool toned. It's what I've got all over the lips. I did deepen it with a little bit of a taupey lip liner as well. This lip liner leans strictly cool toned. If you love cool tones like I do, I've been absolutely loving that."
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"I'm seeing this Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Wherever Walnut Light. I feel like this is going to be the perfect color for this vibe today. Fresh, soft pink. Stunning. I've applied this all over the lips and even filled it in."
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"I had one lip liner that I was like, I have to tell you guys about this again. This is the new Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in the shade Wherever Walnut Light. I filled in my lips with this, so it's mostly what you see in the center of my lips. It's got a beautiful, almost lavender undertone, and it is stunning. If you are a cool-toned lip liner gal, especially if you have more of a fair skin tone, you're going to love that."
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"For lip liner I'm so in love with the Makeup Forever Artist Color Pencil endless cacao lip liner. It's basically like just a cool tone brown but it just makes every lip color better. Like you could even pair a bright color with a pencil like this and it looks amazing."
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"My favorite for that effect is the Makeup Forever Artist Color Pencil in Endless Cacao. This is why this is one of my favorite colors for when you have a little more on the eyes it just never competes."
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"These are great as well. I'm wearing Total Taupe all over. I also love Anywhere Caffeine, Wherever Walnut, and Endless Cacao. Those are my top four, I would say. These are fabulous for lip liners if you're looking for some. That's honestly all you need."
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"This is literally my go-to everyday kind of lip liner. It just stays on, and I don't have to work hard at it. It just happens."
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"This is literally my go-to everyday kind of lip liner. It just stays on, and I don't have to work hard at it. It just happens."
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"Going in with lip liner, I believe that is just Makeup Forever Artist Color Pencil, just a contour shade. Really really contouring the lips, sticking with those cool tones, fading in a little bit, my typical contour situation, blending blending with a little brush."
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"For my lip liner I'm going to use endless Cacao from Makeup Forever very light amount just gonna kind of define."
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"The Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Endless Cacao lip liner is obviously on my personal list. It's so synonymous with me that they may as well just give me the commission -- they should just call it Katy."
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"The Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Endless Cacao lip liner is obviously on my personal list. It's so synonymous with me that they may as well just give me the commission -- they should just call it Katy."
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"The combo I use the absolute most on my lips are the Makeup Forever Artist Color Pencil in walnut. I've got like three or four because they're so good. I just go kind of like right on the outer edge of my natural lip shade. It's like my go-to brownie pink. Brownie pink tone is what I've been loving."
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All 2 takes from Mixed Makeup
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"Makeup Forever has promoted these pencils as Universal pencils that you can use for any part of your makeup routine. When I got to try more of their shades, I just realized these really are fantastic pencils. It wasn't just that we loved this one shade, it's that all of the shades are beautiful. They all serve really great purposes. They're smooth the way that they go on, they last long, they're pigmented. There's just something about these pencils, they're done really really well. One of the shades I find myself using a lot is Universal Earth. It looks like it's going to be a really dark brown, so it doesn't look like a shade that you would want to use on your lips, but it actually has a lot of reddish undertones to it. It looks beautiful on your eyes, it looks beautiful on your lips, it enhances any lip gloss that you're going to wear. One tip I will throw out there is if you are going to use these on your eyes, they blend really really well, meaning that they smudge really easily. If you use them on your eyes, I'd set your eyeliner with eyeshadow. The way that I've been using these on my eyes, I use eyeshadow on top and really I just take an eyeshadow brush and I blend it out more and smooth it."
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"The combo I use the absolute most on my lips are the Makeup Forever Artist Color Pencil in walnut. I've got like three or four because they're so good. I just go kind of like right on the outer edge of my natural lip shade. It's like my go-to brownie pink. Brownie pink tone is what I've been loving."
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