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Artist Color Pencils.

Makeup Forever Artist Color Pencils
Lip

About this product

A creamy, highly pigmented multi-use color pencil that works as a lip liner, lip color, or eye color, built for easy blending and long wear.

Lip

The Guru Index verdict

86%

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✓Approved · 86%
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What the gurus are saying

Gurus universally praise these pencils for their versatility and color quality. The standout theme is cool-toned shades working beautifully on fair skin tones, with repeated enthusiasm for specific shades like Wherever Walnut Light and Endless Cacao. Reviewers highlight the pencils' pretty colors, blendability, and reliability as staple products worth repurchasing.
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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

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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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Darnell Cox | 50+ Healthy Aging Expert
Darnell Cox | 50+ Healthy Aging Expert
54k subs · 616 devotees
✓Approved
"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."
Allie Glines
Allie Glines
830k subs · 34k devotees
✓Approved
"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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"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."
Caroline Hirons
Caroline Hirons
251k subs · 9k devotees
✓Approved
"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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Mixed Makeup
Mixed Makeup
1.47M subs · 11k devotees
✓Approved
"Makeup Forever has promoted these as Universal pencils that you can use for any part of your makeup routine. When I got to try more of their shades, I realized these really are just fantastic pencils. It's not just that we loved one shade, it's that all of the shades are beautiful and 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 just 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, 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: if you are going to use these on your eyes, they blend really really well, meaning they smudge really easily. I have not used them on their own. Whenever I use pencil eyeliner, I almost always set my eyeliner with eyeshadow. I just take an eyeshadow brush and blend it out, smooth it."
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