Recs on specific sharpeners that’ll get the job done without chewing up and wasting the pigment? Or tips? Am I doing something stupid without realizing maybe?
Got 3 UD liners on impulse and quickly reminded why I swore off for years. Lose half a $25 pencil to sharpener or breaking tips using, especially ones with lots of sparkle. Don’t have it now, but don’t remember their sharpener doing any better.
Tips: turn the sharpener, not the pencil, and make sure you’re keeping them level to each other. You’ll get a smoother shave around the pencil this way. If you’re getting a choppy edge when you sharpen them, you might be twisting the pencil at an angle. Or the blade is too dull and it’s snagging.
And don’t sharpen them super duper sharp. Most makeup pencils I own, especially they more emollient gel-like formulas, just don’t support being carved/shaved super sharp.
My favorite sharpeners are an old cheap Sephora brand one, and one I got in an art kit, oddly enough. They’ve never chewed up any of my pencils (UD, MUFE, Sephora, Esum).