review - ebay 2-way nail art pens

Hey! Today I'm going to do my first product review for this blog.
I'm going to review something that, when I bought it, I wanted to be able to read reviews but couldn't find many detailed ones.
The 2-Way Nail Art Pens from eBay!

They come in sets- 6, 12, 24, 36... all the way up to 60.
I bought the 60. If you're going to get something, you might as well get them all, right?
Anyway it was only $30 Canadian and shipping was free. That's 50 cents per polish!

Review, pictures and some nail art after the jump!

These pens are little plastic squeezable bottles, with a metal pen tip when you pull off the top of the cap and a striper brush when you unscrew it.

Pen Tip

Brush

Here is a pen compared to other polishes for size.

The listing on ebay said they were all 15ml but as you can see, they aren't.

Here are all the colors.

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My biggest complaint - the brushes.
They all fall out! They are not secured into the handle at all. Just using the brush to make lines on your nails produces enough friction to pull the brush out.
A few of them were missing the brushes before I even opened them, and every one I have tried to use, the brush started to fall out so I pulled them out before they could fall into the bottle.

No brush!

Minor annoyance for me, because I have other brushes I could use, and that isn't really what I wanted them for anyway.
I tried to take a picture of the black brush, but the brush fell out!

As nail art pens, they are awesome. I love that where they open up, it allows you to refill them! I mainly use the black one and I'm sure it will run out, and when it does I will pour in some black polish!

The pens do get a little clogged between uses but each one comes with a pin on the bottom to push through the tip when it clogs.

Now, some of the pens I have don't work. No matter how hard I squeeze, I can't get anything to come out.

So that is my other complaint. So far I have found 2 or 3 that will not work.

A third complaint would be the glitter polishes. The glitter pieces do not come out of the pen tip. You end up with slightly tinted clear nail polish coming out. If you want this for glitter pens, look elsewhere.

Brush stroke vs pen squeeze

Another problem, the formula on some is crazy and it separates.

This bottle was lying sideways in the container and no matter how much I shake, roll or stir it I cannot get the colors to mix.

This is happening with SO many of the polishes now.

The pictures I took of the colors were when I first got them, but now most of them look like this.

It's really a shame. However, for the limited use I give the colors, they don't seem to be coming out wonky. 

But this is a serious problem.

All in all, I do really enjoy these, and I wish they were better quality.

I would recommend them as pens, but not as striper polishes. In fact, if you get them, you should probably take out the brushes like I did so they don't fall in and somehow ruin your pen tip.

So because of all these issues, unless you get them for cheap like I did, don't bother.

A lot of the colors are very similar, or aren't great quality, and like I said the glitter ones don't work as pens.

It would be more worth your while to buy a couple better quality ones in colors you like. I know some other etailers/stores sell very similar pens and I'm sure the quality of the polish would be better.

Here is a manicure I did with the striper ends right after receiving these polishes, I felt like watching some youtube art so I copied a video, but I can't find it anymore.
If I find it again, I'll edit this post.

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I hated this when I first did it but looking back at the picture, it was pretty cute!

The only thing I used that wasn't a part of the pen wet was Wet N Wild Wild Shine Black Creme for the black tip.
I want to do this again but with brushes that aren't pathetic, because it could be cuter!

All brushes used basically fell out during this manicure, so I pulled them all out.

I hope this review helps some people out.

Thanks for reading!