This is a 3-in-1 pencil that colours (5 shades), shapes and highlights brows all in a single efficient little pencil! I used to think the angled pencil was such a gimmick until I realized how much easier it made shaping my brows! This brow pencil also has a beveled triangular tip that makes shaping brows super easy. Like most brow pencils, there HAS to be a spoole on the end and to be honest, I was a bad beauty lover and did not read the fine print. I stopped here and didn't realize that there was a highlighter built right into the pencil! This pencil is more on the powder than wax side which is what makes the finish so natural-looking, but this also causes the intensity of the colour to fade a little bit over the day. Overall, this is a great little pencil that does it all, but if you plan on going swimming or need your brows intact for more than 10 hours, I would either use a wax-based pencil or brush on some brow gel.