Beauty Care: NABLA Mint, Apricot, Dragon Fruit Cupid's Arrow Stylos Reviews & Swatches

Mint

NABLA Cosmetics Mint Cupid’s Arrow Longwear Stylo ($18.00 for 0.03 oz.) is a light, bluish-aqua with cool undertones and a matte finish.

Semi-sheer, buildable pigmentation
Smooth, emollient texture allowed for glide-on application without tugging
Fairly buildable but could have been more even in physical thickness
Dried down in 5 to 10 seconds, need to work quickly if blending/diffusing edges
Long-wearing (8 hours before fading/creasing)

FURTHER READING: Formula Overview for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).

Formula Overview
Ingredients

Formula Overview

$18.00/0.03 oz. - $600.00 Per Ounce

The formula is supposed to be "long-lasting, rich, and creamy" with "immediate full color pay-off" that is "extremely easy to use and to blend." There is also a built-in sharpener. They are a cross between a more traditional eye crayon and an eyeliner, so the point and thickness of the pencil was smaller and finer than a crayon but more substantial than an eyeliner.

They had a consistency that was smooth, comfortable, and creamy, which ensured they applied fluidly across skin and the curvature of the lid without dragging or pulling on skin. It also resulted in more even coverage for most shades, and the coverage was typically semi-opaque to opaque and buildable.

The formula was blendable initially but was still on the quicker side to dry down--more like an eyeliner than a cream eyeshadow in that respect--but by working one eye at a time and blending as it was applied, a more diffused edge was doable. Most shades wore well for eight to nine hours before thinning/fading as eyeliner or creasing as eyeshadow.

Browse all of our NABLA Cosmetics Cupid's Arrow Longwear Stylo swatches.

Ingredients

dimethicone, synthetic wax, dicalcium phosphate, polymethylsilsesquioxane, mica, lauroyl lysine, diisostearyl malate, octyldodecanol, isodecyl neopentanoate, polyhydroxystearic acid, disteardimonium hectorite, propylene carbonate, lecithin, tocopherol, ascorbyl palmitate, citric acid. +/− (may contain / peut contenir): ci 42090 (blue 1 lake), ci 15850 (red 6, red 7), ci 77491 (iron oxides), ci 45410 (red 28 lake), ci 77510 (ferric ammonium ferrocyanide), ci 77266 (nano) (black 2).

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Mint

PPermanent. $18.00.

C+

7.5

Product

Pigmentation

Texture

8.5

Longevity

4.5

Application

77%

Total

Apricot

NABLA Cosmetics Apricot Cupid’s Arrow Longwear Stylo ($18.00 for 0.03 oz.) is a medium-dark, golden yellow with strong, warm orange undertones and a matte finish. This was hard to dupe from what I’ve previously reviewed!

Nearly opaque pigmentation in one stroke
Smooth, emollient texture allowed for glide-on application without tugging
Dried down in 5 to 10 seconds, need to work quickly if blending/diffusing edges
Long-wearing (8 hours before fading/creasing)