Urban Decay 24/7 Super Stash

How many reviews on the Urban Decay 24/7 eye pencils have you read? How many swatches of these gorgeously pigmented eye pencils have you seen? A thousand, perhaps? Does it matter? I don't think so. Personally, I don't think anyone will ever get enough of how bold, rich and vibrant the hues of these eye pencils are.

Urban Decay on the 24/7 Super Stash...

You asked for more! This set includes NINE mini-sized 24/7 Eye Pencils, including FOUR shades exclusive to this set: Corrupt (brown sparkle), Binge (navy – finally!), Eldorado (a new gold), and Oil Slick (black sparkle). Also included are your favorites Zero, Graffiti, Ransom, Rockstar and Stash.

This rainbow of shades is the ultimate kit: the right balance of neutrals and brights for any look. Need to modernize your little black dress? Try bold strokes of gold, green or blue shades for some exotic flair. Wearing that bold-printed tunic? Try smoldering layers of neutral Eye Pencils to add depth and gleam without competing. Use them in combination, use them alone, give a few away. (Okay, don’t do that.)

Small enough to fit in a wallet or slimmest of evening bags, these mini-sized pencils still feature the exact formula you love in our full-sized pencils: extra creamy, easy-glide, and waterproof. Any UD junkie will pee their pants at the sight of this amazing set.

Urban Decay on the 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencils...

The best Eye Pencil ever, ever, ever! Never before has a pencil this creamy and brilliant been waterproof, too. Velvety-soft, this never-before-seen formula stays soft and creamy for blending (about 30 seconds), then dries down to a long-lasting finish that WILL NOT budge. Line eyes with a hint of color or go for the full artistic, multi-hued effect with the wide selection of lush tropical hues, deep metallics and unusually vibrant neutrals. Incredible with Urban Decay Eyeshadows!

Created with 50% moisturizing ingredients suspended in a sophisticated waterproof formula, 24/7 Eye Pencils offer long-lasting color and a dreamy, creamy feel when applied. With Jojoba Oil, Vitamin E and Cottonseed Oil.

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• Highly pigmented. Just look at these swatches! All nine of them were swiped once on my hand without any base/primer. The colors are rich and vibrant and stay true to each shade's description. Aren't the colors beautiful? (I know you can't really see the glitters/sparkles in Corrupt, Graffiti and Oil Slick. I'm sorry, my poor point&shoot camera doesn't capture details so well as compared to DSLRs. If only my beloved could do this for me. Sigh.)

From L to R: Stash (dark golden green), Rockstar (dark purple), Ransom (bright iridescent purple), Binge (navy), Graffiti (bright green with silver sparkle), Eldorado, (a new gold), Corrupt (brown sparkle), Oil Slick (black sparkle), Zero (black)

• Smooth, creamy, buttery, soft feel. I don't know if those adjectives are enough to describe how perfectly these eye pencils glide on the lids. These eye pencils make applying eyeliner so stress free and easy. There's absolutely no tugging, whatsoever --- 100% guaranteed.
  
• Long Wearing. Never in my entire life have I owned an eye pencil that stays on my waterline, lower lashline and upper lashline with no smudging and/or fading. Well, okay, it does budge very very slightly on my upper lashline without a primer on. It's nothing noticeable, unless you inspect it at a very close distance in front of a mirror. To tell you honestly, not even the infamous Zero transferred to my upper lid. It should be able to hold up to any circumstance unless your lids are an oil mine.
  
• Smudgeable, great for smokey looks. Haha! I coined the word. While these eye pencils can be smudged within 30seconds after application, they're bound to stay on your lashlines regardless of the heat or the rain. So if you're aiming for a smokey look with these pencils, be sure to smudge them in under 30seconds, coz once they're set, no amount of smudging can be done.
  
• Color Variety. Whether you're a neutrals loving girl, a bright-colored makeup lover, or a rocker chick, you'll surely have use of the colors included in this set.
  
• Come off easily. These pencils are not a pain to remove as they come off quite easily with makeup remover or just any facial cleanser. The downside, they do leave some stain on your lower lashline. Well, nothing a q-tip can't remedy.
  

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• Price. Okay, let's be honest, $17 for a single regular-sized eye pencil is a bit steep. What about nine mini eye pencils for $36? That would make it $4 a piece. Worth it? I'd say, YES. I just wish they weren't as small as they are.

See how small they are compared to my Revlon Colorstay Eyeliner Pencil? Well, the "eyeliner" inside Revlon's tube is probably just 1/4 of the entire length of these UD eye pencils.

• Availability. Sadly, Urban Decay is not sold at any counter in the Philippines. I wish they had even just a small counter in the metro so we wouldn't have to go about purchasing through online sellers and waiting for a month for our orders to arrive.

My verdict
These eye pencils, though a bit heavy on the pocket, are worth every cent. They come in a wide selection of colors from neutrals, to plums to bright hues that are just as vibrant and rich as you would imagine them to be. They're smudgeproof, budgeproof, and waterproof but are a breeze to remove as you retire at night. All in all, these eye pencils make a great addi(c)tion to anybody's makeup arsenal.

TIP
As you all know, ZERO is not the most smudgeproof and waterproof eye pencil of the bunch (though I really never had any issue using it on my lashlines and waterlines) so if you intend to use ZERO on your waterline and lower lashline, set it with an eyeshadow to prevent it from smudging.

To prove that these pencils are smudgeproof and waterproof, here's a little experiment.

After swatching these eye pencils on my hand, I rubbed them quite a few times to see if they would budge. They didn't at first, but after rubbing them consistently for a couple of minutes, they all showed signs of smudging. (I don't know what happened to the photo that I took after smudging them about a hundred times.)

I didn't stop with my first experiment, so I took the swatches in the shower and rubbed them off under running water. Wanna see what happened? Check the two photos below. As you can see in the first photo, Zero faded quite a lot. It lost its intensity with continuous rubbing under running water. The other swatches still look good, in my opinion.

This is how they looked like after rubbing them off with a soapy/sudsy exfoliating skin towel.

After completing my experiment, I was able to successfully remove the swatches off, leaving me with a very red burning hand. I'll have that disgusting photo uploaded tomorrow morning. I can't wait to get some shut-eye.

I hope my little experiment enlightened you guys a little bit.

But wait! There's more! (Haha. No, I'm not trying to sell you anything.)

Here's a photo to show you how beautiful Binge is. Be sure to slip on your Rihanna persona when you have this on ;)
I barely have any make up in this photo except for Skinfood Peach Sake BB Cream, a light dusting of ELF Studio blush in Peachy Keen, NYX Round Lipstick in Perfect on my lips and UD 24/7 eye pencil in Binge. My lashes look non-existent! Ugh. That worthless Smashbox Bionic Mascara's gonna get it one of these days!

You probably can't see it well, but I'm wearing Rockstar in this photo.

I wasn't expecting this review to be this long. Nevertheless, I hope you'll find this review helpful, especially if you're planning on purchasing this set, or the individual 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencils.