spoolie

noun

spool·​ie ˈspü-lē 

plural spoolies

: a very small brush used especially to groom the eyebrows or to apply mascara

This jet-black gel formula repels sweat for 24 hours—and the curved spoolie curls lashes to fluttery perfection.

—Molly Shea

Detailing your brows just got a lot easier, thanks to this double-ended brow pencil featuring a blade-shaped tip on one side (for creating fine hair-like strokes) and a custom spoolie on the other side (for blending out color).

—Jennifer Ford

a spoolie brush

Examples of spoolie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Finally, brush through your brows with a spoolie to blend and soften any lines. — Casey Delbasso, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026

One side is a spoolie to comb through your arches, and the other side has an ultra-fine 1mm tip for drawing hair-like strokes. — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 22 May 2026

To make application a breeze, the wand features a spoolie with shorter bristles on one side for combing through brow hairs and longer bristles on the other side for separating eyelashes. — Sarah Felbin, Allure, 13 Apr. 2026

This styler has a pencil for spot-filling sparse brows and a soft spoolie for blending in product afterward. — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 20 Feb. 2026

Word History

Etymology

perhaps from spool entry 1 + -ie

First Known Use

2000, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for spoolie

• bernoulli
• lazuli
• unduly
• unruly
• cooley
• coolly
• cooly
• coulee
• cruelly
• duly
• foully
• hooley