Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil: a Guru Score of 90%

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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✓Yay

"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

829k subs

✓Yay

"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 this 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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"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 this 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

250k subs

✓Yay

"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."

Top Pick: lip liner

Dr. Sam Ellis

898k subs

✓Yay

"I think this is supposed to be like a multi-use pencil but I exclusively use it as a lip liner and it is perfect. I really like this lip liner for a couple of reasons one is the texture so it is smooth and creamy enough to go on very smoothly but it's not so creamy that I feel like it's not going to last or it's going to smear because I want precision and then it's hard enough that I can get that precise line but it doesn't dry out or make my lips feel uncomfortable."

Mixed Makeup

1.46M subs

✓Yay

"Some of the best things I own are these makeup artist pencils from Make Up For Ever. Get you one of these as a liner. Actually, eyeliner. We're gonna get you Limitless Brown. This I also use as a lip liner sometimes. Like a contour. [...] I put it on over the top of my lips. What I would do is I'd put on that first lip liner we got from Makeup by Mario and put just a little bit of the Limitless Brown on."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Vitamin C

Topical vitamin C is an antioxidant with reasonable evidence for dullness and uneven tone. It breaks down in light and air, so how a product is formulated and packaged matters as much as the percentage on the front.

Source: DermNet

Sunscreen filters

Sun protection is the best evidenced way to slow visible ageing, and the filters are what does the work. Mineral and chemical filters both protect when a product is applied thickly enough and often enough, which is where most people fall short rather than on the choice of filter.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil?

A multi-use color pencil from Make Up For Ever, sold in many shades and designed for use on the lips and eyes.

Is Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil worth it?

Yes. All 5 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 90%.

What is Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil's Guru Score?

Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil holds a Guru Score of 90%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 5 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.