NYX Blade and Shade Brow Pencil: a Guru Score of 79%

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

"Speaking from experience with this product, it is a really beautiful pencil. The tip is really really fine so you can really get those hair strokes in. [...] It works really really well. [...] I do still think twelve dollars for a pencil, I would pay for it because I like the pencil. I think it's really nice. However, I do think it could be cheaper. I do think brow pencils could be cheaper than twelve dollars."

All 2 takes from Robert Welsh

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"I love the NYX eyebrow pencil, the very thin one. When I used to work for Disney, they had very strict beard guidelines and it had to be very tidy and full. So I would fill in all the gaps with a NYX pencil. It's perfect and I think a lot cheaper than this. They also make like a beard dye mascara. They do kits as well. They have a mascara like the brow blades. Those blades are quite nice actually, and the eyebrow pencil. They do a whole brow grooming selection."

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"Speaking from experience with this product, it is a really beautiful pencil. The tip is really really fine so you can really get those hair strokes in. [...] It works really really well. [...] I do still think twelve dollars for a pencil, I would pay for it because I like the pencil. I think it's really nice. However, I do think it could be cheaper. I do think brow pencils could be cheaper than twelve dollars."

MissBudgetBeauty / Mikhila McDaid

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✓Yay

"I have bought that particular brow pencil, the NYX Micro Brow Pencil, approximately 1 million times."

All 2 takes from MissBudgetBeauty / Mikhila McDaid

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"I have bought that particular brow pencil, the NYX Micro Brow Pencil, approximately 1 million times."

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"The NYX Micro Brow Pencil in Taupe is the best brow pencil ever. It's just the right texture. It's not too waxy. It's not too soft. It's not like if you need to go lightly, you can. And in normal circumstances, it lasts quite a long time."

Alexandra Anele

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✓Mixed

"I did start using the NYX Micro Brow when I dyed my hair red. And I did think that it was kind of like a wet formula. I didn't notice it like it wasn't something that was like a bad thing for me necessarily."

All 3 takes from Alexandra Anele

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"I did start using the NYX Micro Brow when I dyed my hair red. And I did think that it was kind of like a wet formula. I didn't notice it like it wasn't something that was like a bad thing for me necessarily."

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"I'm going to use taupe from Nyx. I'm going to run this all through my brow hair, obviously focusing on the areas that just need a little more, but I want to make sure that gray isn't overpowering the warmth."

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"This does use a lot of product. So if you don't want to go through product so quickly, like if you do your brows every single day and you like this technique, get yourself a brow powder that is a comparable shade because this definitely, like I prefer a pencil, but damn, dude, does this waste product."

HotandFlashy

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✓Yay

"The shades in this are so good. It also has a spoolie on this end. So once you do draw on your brow, you can use the spoolie to feather it out a little bit, make it look a little bit more natural. And this stays all day long. It doesn't budge. It's a really creamy formula, so it's not difficult to get it to go on."

All 3 takes from HotandFlashy

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"The shades in this are so good. It also has a spoolie on this end. So once you do draw on your brow, you can use the spoolie to feather it out a little bit, make it look a little bit more natural. And this stays all day long. It doesn't budge. It's a really creamy formula, so it's not difficult to get it to go on."

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"I'm really really impressed with this. I love this, this is so good. This NYX Blade and Shade, so easy to work with. I love the shape on this brow pencil. It was so creamy. You could draw like little lines and then shade them in. And look at that color, it's just perfect. I hardly ever can get a perfect color match and I think that this is great. It's not too dark, it's not too warm, it's just awesome."

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"It's called their Blade and Shade Brow Pencil and this is an awesome little brow pencil for such a good price point. The thing that makes it different is the shape of the pencil. It's like a micro thin point but it's also wide so you can use it two ways. You can use it to draw on really tiny brow-like hair strokes and you can also use it to kind of fill. And it's so creamy but not overly creamy, like you don't have to really press hard to get the color to come off on your skin."

Nipun Kapur

412k subs

✓Yay

"Instead of the benefit precisely my brow I'm actually using this NYX brow pencil and this seems to be working pretty well"

All 3 takes from Nipun Kapur

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"I'm going to start with my NYX brow pencil, this is in the shade mp06 brunette color, obviously skin tone. [...] You always draw this line going as per the brow, and then you go straight here, [...] and then we go here right from here. And then you [...] brush this out."

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"So I'm going to start with browses this is the Nyx brow pencil"

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"Instead of the benefit precisely my brow I'm actually using this NYX brow pencil and this seems to be working pretty well"

What the evidence says.

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

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 NYX Blade and Shade Brow Pencil?

A creamy eyebrow pencil with a fine point at one end, a wider tip for filling in, and a spoolie brush for blending, designed to shape and fill brows in a range of shades.

Is NYX Blade and Shade Brow Pencil worth it?

Mostly yes. 4 of the 5 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 79%.

What is NYX Blade and Shade Brow Pencil's Guru Score?

NYX Blade and Shade Brow Pencil holds a Guru Score of 79%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 5 expert reviewers we have collected.