Customer Reviews

A friend of mine got the yellow color gel highlighter and I borrowed it. It was great for powerpoint copies and notebooks and stuff! It's fun to use and really really bright and does not fade! But the gel actually has a thickness to it that makes me not want to use it in a textbook, because it might junk up the pages. But if you are not worried about that it's so fun to use!

This isn't really a bad product, but when I purchased, I didn't know what to expect. Once I used it, I realized that it is little more than a fluorescent crayon. In my personal experience, I found it to be rather messy, getting yellow flakes of the stuff all over my pages, desk, clothes and hands. As a novelty, it's pretty cool, but not very practical because of its messiness.

This gel highlighters are GREAT! I needed highlighting for my bible reading. It does flakes, but I think they are meant to highlight a thin line for smaller prints. I found them very useful and I have bought two sets; one set on my desk and one set in my bag!

I bought this gel highlighter on a whim and wasn't expecting much out of it. I actually experienced smearing with fully dried Lamy Green fountain pen ink and Jetstream red, blue, and green inks - and I wasn't too pleased in that regard, but it remains a cool product and it makes highlighting large areas a breeze. As another reviewer mentioned it looks and acts like a deodorant stick, but it comes out looking almost like a crayon on the page. I would purchase it again, especially at $1.55 apiece.

I really dig this highlighter. It's a sort of waxy consistency, is bright, and catches your eye. It even fluoresces well under UV light.

I LOVE these hilighters! I've used these on a wide variety of pen inks and inkjet printouts all without any smears. I've tried other highlighters that claim they won't smear on inkjet printouts and none have held up to their claims. The gel glides on easily, covers well and, best of all, doesn't smear!

great highlighter for use in textbooks and on bible pages since it doesn't bleed through! can cause smudges on heavier inks like sharpies but only if the ink is wet. good product!

Interesting concept, but I feel like using a stick deodorant when handling it, lines aren't as consistent as when using the traditional or liquid highlighters.

This is a fun highlighter. The best part about it is that it does not smear any kind of ink, as long - of course - that you wait until the ink is dry to use it. In consistency it is somewhat like a wax crayon, and it is a bit messy to use. You can't get a perfectly clean line with it and it leaves little crumbs all over the page. But it's fun. It's like colouring with a crayon when you were a kid. The Sharpie Gel is currently my favourite highlighter, but it's probably not for everyone.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this highlighter. Orange is my favorite color. Always disliked the 'wet' highlighters, bled through paper & squeaked. Apply medium pressure, will lessen the flaking- off. The gel just glides smoothly over paper, unlike the 'drag' I experienced with the wet highlighters. And it smells like Play-do!! Time will tell if this fades like wet highlighters always did for me.

This is a different looking orange than most highlighter oranges, but it mixes things up. It has more yellow in it. This is basically a smooth, floerescent crayon. I have a feeling this will run out quickly, so I only use it occasionally. An okay highlighter.

I really like the idea of this highlighter. Have 3 in orange, yellow and pink. The texture is great, it's easy to highlight and i don't worry about it bleeding through my pages. If i highlight with too much pressure, clumps do fall off that feel like crayon bits. I don't mind it much - i just have to be more gentle in my highlighting. The coverage of the pink one isn't as good as the yellow or orange. Highlighted text feels slightly waxy and has a somewhat faint citrus-like scent. I've been using mine for 2 weeks now and have shaped the tip into a sharper end instead of the original blunt edge that it came in. Overall, i'm glad to have found this. I don't have to buy a pack of 12 crayons just for the 3 colors anymore. :D

In theory this is a good idea for a highlighter, but it is not really a gel. I would say this is more like a giant fluorescent crayon. Since it's more waxy than it is ink-like, it doesn't smear or bleed when you use it, so it lives up to its reputation. However, the texture is quite weird, to the point where I hate using mine. Also, you can't really shape the tip to your preferences...it's just sort of bulky and awkward.

not precise and the gel is comparable to lipstick and clumps come off when using. it does go through paper a little bit.. but it doesn't bleed through as much as regular highlighters. overall not my favorite product

I applaude the idea of this gel highlighter, but Sharpie should have made improvements before its release, as bad reviews will sink this potentially fabulous product.
The "ink" is like a smooth writing gel crayon. It twists up like Chapstick and the "tip" is a broad oval surface (what a Chapstick tube would look like it it got run over by a car; no longer round). The strokes are wide to very wide, but you can angle the pen to make narrower strokes. The gel is a very nice florescent orange color.
The problem is that the gel is not flawless and the inherent nature of the gel causes occasional "crumbles" to be left on the drawn line and the line is not consistently full coverage like a regular highlight marker impression.

I don not usually write bad reviews and I normally don't throw away things I purchase. I now have done both of those things with this highlighter.

I think these gel highlighters are pretty worthless. I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 becasue they might be great for bible type of paper, I haven't tried it myself but I can imagine from the way they perform that it might be a great use for these.