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 $25 pencil to sharpener or breaking tips using, especially ones with lots of sparkle. Don’t have it now, but don’t remember their sharpener doing any better.
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The best sharpener I’ve tried is the Nars one. It’s 7$ and works wonders if u don’t mind the soft matte packaging.
oldie tip but a goodie: put pencils in the freezer for a bit before sharpening
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).
Are you trying to get them really sharp? I go through one UD Rockstar pencil a year and have had the same UD Grindhouse sharpener forever. The only issue I’ve had was a pencil where the “lead” was broken way far down, so it kept sliding out. But I’m never trying to make it sharp, just get product above the wood.