Products holed up into pencil formed dispensers seem to be having a bit of a moment in the beauty world recently, don’t they? It won’t be long till my beauty drawers begin to resemble a stationery tin. We’ve had the lip colour influx last year and now it’s time for eyes to be given the same stylo service. Meet Clinique’s newest release, the second in their ‘Chubby Stick’ franchise – Chubby Stick Shadow Tint for Eyes*. Essentially cream shadow whittled into a pencil style applicator for easy to apply colour. With 12 colours in the range they’re covering all bases, five caught my eye – all neutrals of course. So after having a play, here’s my report…
I’ve been road testing the shades Lavish Lilac and Ample Amber, evident which is which in the above photo from the obvious naming. Of course a neutral lover like myself was drawn towards Ample Amber, a pinkened gold (as worn above), but Lavish Lilac leans to more taupe-like undertones and when the two are layered something pretty special happens. In terms of formula they’re just what you’d expect – creamy, buildable, blendable and long enough lasting not to have any complaints, although an oily lidded gal like myself did need a touch of primer to prevent any bunching up. Other highs? No sharpening required, the rounded end makes applying colour to your crease easy peasy and the shades were sheer enough to rock in the day. My only niggle? The rounded end can also make it hard to get the colour close to the lashes making things a bit fiddly and fingery when it gets to that stage in application.
The Clinique Chubby Stick Shadow Tint for Eyes will be sharpening up on counters from 15th February so not long to wait if you wish to add to your stationery-esque beauty stash and priced at £16 each they sit comfortably in the price bracket of their higher-end creamy colour counterparts. The final verdict: a nice everyday draw-on tint for eyes, but with many drugstore brands churning out pencil products for peepers there may just be a purse-friendlier version out there. Watch this space…
*PR Samples
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