Lip Pencil
Summary of Reviews
MAC Lip Pencils offer an unmatched shade range, with professional makeup artist Morgan Turner calling them the "best range of lip liners ever" and noting they have great longevity despite a flexible, blendable texture. However, the formula varies by shade — one creator finds Whirl particularly dry, requiring more pressure for color payoff, though it lasts longer than some competitors. The pencils are praised for creating dimension and pairing well with other products, but a few note they don't set as firmly as gel liners.
Full Reviews
Positive
Variant: Root for Me!
- “MAC lip pencils always I feel like are going to be a top three for me”27:29–27:33
- “I recently discovered this root for me color which is really dark. Not wearing it today, but it's really nice blended out. I love that contrasting look as of recently”
- Source: Top 3 favorites in every makeup category 2025 - Sep 25, 2025
- “Cool Spice is definitely more to create lines and like the classic lip liner stuff”13:44–13:48
- Source: My everyday summer makeup bag - Jun 16, 2026
- “One of my favorites always to contour my lips to create dimension in my lips”13:30–13:34
- Source: My everyday summer makeup bag - Jun 16, 2026
Variant: Whirl
- “These actually have great longevity”36:41–36:45
- “Surprisingly, for being flexible, powdery, blendable, these last a very, very long time even though they don't set down like a gel liner”36:48–36:55
- “These actually have pretty good lasting power as well”37:11–37:15
- “MAC lip liners, they're still amazing”37:15–37:20
- Source: Best makeup of 2025 (tried 400 products) - Dec 19, 2025
Variant: Whirl, Stripdown, Beige
- “Best range of lip liners ever”0:45–0:48
- “I love MAC lip pencils”
- “They're phenomenal”
- “They've been around for decades and decades”37:04–37:07
- Source: Allure Best of Beauty according to me - Oct 11, 2025
Variant: Stone
- “I grabbed a MAC lip pencil. This is in the shade stone”0:05–0:11
- “I can't believe it's taken me this long to try a cool toned lip liner”0:00–0:05
- “Seeing this now, I can already tell it is probably going to go perfectly with the eyeshadow that I have on”0:24–0:32
- “Man, where has this been on my life?”0:39–0:42
- Source: MAC Cosmetics Stone Lipstick Review - Jun 28, 2025
Variant: Root for Me!
- “Ooh, I love that. I love that combo”10:27–10:31
- “It is way too deep for today, but for another day, that's the slide”10:30–10:33
- Source: Soft Matte, Poreless Skin Base | Monochromatic Toasty Browns Look - Mar 6, 2026
Variant: Chestnut
- “MAC definitely wins in terms of shade range. They have some of the best lip liner colors available”
- “I love cork. I love night moth. And I love the shade chestnut. Those are my holy grail MAC lip liner colors”29:27–29:36
- “I don't love them as much as the Charlotte Tilbury because they are not they don't like set on the lips”29:36–29:45
- Source: Best makeup of 2025 - Dec 8, 2025
Variant: Cool Spice
- “Just as obsessed with this”19:37–19:39
- Source: What's in my everyday makeup bag - Sep 6, 2025
Variant: Stone
- “I've really been liking Stone by MAC to go over it, especially for night time”10:20–10:24
- “It kind of gives you that dark kind of grungier look to your like pretty girl makeup”10:24–10:28
- Source: Travel Makeup and Glam: What I Packed - Jul 21, 2026
Variant: Whirl
- “Let's take whirl”
- “This is really pretty”23:13–23:16
- Source: Grwm in a heat wave with wet hair and new mac blushes - May 21, 2026
Variant: Cool Spice
- “I feel like I could actually apply a little bit more of”12:13–12:17
- Source: 10 minute I woke up like this makeup routine - May 23, 2026
Variant: Whirlspice
Variant: Chestnut
- “To add that darker contour or brownish color, I'm going to use this brown lip pencil”21:11–21:20
- Source: Clean girl makeup for brown skin: cover under eye dark circles without foundation - Jan 31, 2026
Variant: Crème De Nude
Mixed / Negative
Variant: Chestnut
- “My lip combo is chestnut, almond, yash, and hodgepodge”18:56–19:01
- “It's not my favorite lip combo though. It's not my best work”19:01–19:05
- Source: 12hr sweat proof base: my sephora staples - Apr 16, 2026
Variant: Whirl
- “MAC Whirl is probably the driest formula out of them all”13:55–13:58
- “I don't reach for MAC Whirl as often now because of the dryer consistency”14:03–14:09
- “I have to press a little bit more on my lips for the color to show up”14:11–14:13
- “MAC Whirl does last longer for me than the Make Up For Ever artist pencils but not as long as the Maybelline lifter liners”14:13–14:19
- “The color is so iconic”
- Source: Ranking TikTok viral products unsponsored - Dec 29, 2024
- “This to me is very similar to like a MAC lip pencil”
- “MAC is going to have more shades for sure”
- “I think you could very easily just pick up one of the ones from MAC”
- “If you like a MAC lip pencil, I don't think you're missing anything not having this”14:40–14:44
- Source: I tried every Fara Homidi product: what's worth it and what isn't - Apr 20, 2026
Variant: Chestnut
What creators say
- Consensus
- 4.1 / 5 from 14 creator reviewsGrailPeople ratings based on creator reviews.
- Good for
- Brown skin tones (1)
- Features
- Long-wearing (3) · Blendable (2) · Wide shade range (2) · Natural / everyday (5) · Everyday (4)
- ⚠ can feel drying / tight (1)
- ⚠ creators flagged issues with pigmented (1)
- ⚠ doesn't last / fades through the day (1)
Product details
Details
- Type
- lip liner
- Finish
- —
- Shade
- Chestnut
- Key ingredients
- Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Glycerides, Magnesium Silicate, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Rhus Succedanea Fruit Wax, Boron Nitride, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Lecithin, Synthetic Wax
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