Beauty Care: MAC Short Fuse/Be Cool BB Dual-Ended Powerpoint Eye Pencil Review & Swatches

Short Fuse/Be Cool BB

MAC Short Fuse/Be Cool BB Powerpoint Eye Pencil (Dual-Ended) ($20.00 for 0.04 oz.) includes a pearly plum and off-white, but they’re just an odd kind of pencil eyeliner that wears decently but goes on so poorly! The color coverage was weak for both shades, and it was hard to build up or to even get an even layer of sheerer coverage out of the pencil.

Short Fuse/Be Cool BB

LELimited Edition. $20.00.

D+

5.5

Product

Pigmentation

Texture

8.5

Longevity

Application

69%

Total

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Short Fuse

Short Fuse is a medium-dark plum with subtle, warm undertones and flecks of faint shimmer throughout. It had semi-sheer color coverage in a single stroke, which was buildable to medium coverage with a second or third layer. The texture was waxier, so there was some glide, but it was still a bit firm and could have been more emollient, which I feel would have helped the color to apply more intensely on the lash line without moving it around. The color stayed on decently for eight hours.

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Ingredients

Cyclopentasiloxane, Synthetic Wax, Polybutene, Isododecane, Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Ceresin, Ozokerite, Microcrystalline WaxCera MicrocristallinaCire Microcristalline, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, [+/- Mica, Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891), Iron Oxides (Ci 77491), Iron Oxides (Ci 77492), Iron Oxides (Ci 77499), Aluminum Powder (Ci 77000), Bismuth Oxychloride (Ci 77163), Blue 1 Lake (Ci 42090), Carmine (Ci 75470), Chromium Hydroxide Green (Ci 77289), Chromium Oxide Greens (Ci 77288), Ferric Ammonium Ferrocyanide (Ci 77510), Ferric Ferrocyanide (Ci 77510), Manganese Violet (Ci 77742), Ultramarines (Ci 77007), Yellow 5 Lake (Ci 19140)]

Short Fuse

LELimited Edition. $16.00.

D+

Product

Pigmentation

7.5

Texture

8.5

Longevity

Application

67%

Total

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Be Cool BB

Be Cool BB is a very pale silver–nearing white–with a pearly sheen. The pencil itself looked grayer, but the actual product appeared lighter and nearly white to my eye. The texture was waxier and firmer, so it tugged slightly on my lash line, though not to the point where it was actually painful. I felt like it could have glided on more comfortably and done a better job of depositing pigmentation and even coverage. It had medium color payoff that lasted for eight hours before fading visibly.