Review: L'Oreal HiP Color Rich Cream Crayons

You guys made me go through my big ol' box of past obsessions and dig these out for review! Sorry, let me back up and explain.

After seeing all of your wonderful comments on this post about what you've spotted on clearance at your local CVS locations, I noticed that several of you have purchased these HiP Color Rich Cream Crayons for 75% off ($2.49 each!) and some of you had L'Oreal $1 coupons (I'm so proud of you!) which brought your total down to just $1.49 each. I figured since so many of you have been finding these pencils on clearance, I might as well tell you that, about two years ago, I was OBSESSED with these babies. I mean, I went through a period where I wouldn't even wait for a sale and I bought one in every single color just to have a complete set.

But as is the case with all of my little makeup obsessions, these pencils eventually made their way to the "past obsessions" box in my home, only to be dug out today to review. I don't even know why I stopped using these--I'm assuming some new pencil came around and stole my attention. But after playing around with them again today (I could only find two shades even though I KNOW I have all of them somewhere around here), I once again see why I was so obsessed with them to begin with.

So I'm bringing you this review in case you spot these on clearance at your CVS...you need to know how awesome they are!

As you can see, these are jumbo, twist-up pencils. I almost always used them as eyeliner, but you can definitely use them as shadow as well. Meticulous is a champagne beige-brown, and Authentic is a deep forest green (both shades are shimmery).

At the end of each pencil there is a sharpener. I'm pretty lazy when it comes to sharpening, so I usually used these without ever sharpening them, but it's nice to know that you can sharpen them down to a fine point if you want to.

Here's Authentic, sharpened, and Meticulous, unsharpened.

As you can see, these are very pigmented pencils, and they glide across the skin with ease. No tugging at all.

And they don't budge! The above pic was taken after the rub-test (taking my index finger and rubbing back and forth for about 10 seconds). When I first bought one of these, I totally EXPECTED it to smear and fade throughout the course of the day. But it didn't. And I think this is what ultimately led to my obsession in the first place. A creamy, pigmented jumbo pencil that doesn't smear or fade like crazy on my oily skin? That's almost unheard of, right?

Here's a pic with flash--these really are pretty, aren't they?

So for just $2.49 on clearance (or $1.49 if you have a L'Oreal coupon) I think these are worthy of running out to CVS today to try and find. Writing this review has totally renewed my love for these pencils.


Did you buy any of these recently at the CVS beauty clearance sale? Are you planning on picking some up if you find them? I'd love to hear from you!