I bought this mascara a while back. I am the type of person to stick to one thing if it works well and really hate changing my skincare unless I absolutely have to.
Unfortunately Clinique has discontinued my favourite mascara, the High Curling Mascara which I have been loyal to for about 5 years now. It is always such a drag trying to find a product to replace your old favourites and I found myself trolling through review after review before buying things.
I bought this mascara along with my Benefit Hello Flawless Foundation which I love.
This mascara is suppose to well and truly lengthen, curl, lift and define lashes. So basically a wonder mascara. If you look at their stats and the before and after photos, you’d be silly not to get this.
The mascara wand is comprised of 2 parts – the shaft is a rubber wand to allow definition, separation and it also comes with a precision tip.
My verdict:
I am quite disappointed with this mascara. To me I feel like I could have got a Revlon or Maybelline mascara and it would have been the same if not better and it would have been almost half the price. There were a few things that I wasn’t impressed by. I feel like you need to really lather your lashes up to get any sort of volume but the actual mascara formula doesn’t allow you to do that as your lashes begin to clump. Even my fiancee said my lashes looked clumpy and if I had changed mascaras out of the blue so that’s saying something.
It isn’t so bad if you’re just after a really really natural separating and lengthening mascara.
I didn’t notice any additional lift or curl with this wand, it’s definitely a lot more droopy than the old Clinique one I had. I have to say though I do have rather short and straight lashes but the regime I do (curl , then a layer of MAC’s prep and prime lash primer) remains the same so it’s an absolute fair test.
The formula also takes a while to dry especially if you’re applying a few layers. This is kind of a huge issue for me as I’m use to a super fast drying mascara. I end up having to spend more time in the bathroom waiting for the mascara to dry.
However it’s not really a drying formula, even with a couple of layers, the lashes still stay bouncy and not completely stiff to touch.
The Wand:
I guess I’m not a huge fan of the rubber wand but I know things are that way inclined nowadays so I thought I would just give in and try it. As your eyelids are rather sensitive, this wand is quite prickly, I would imagine there to be some flexibility on the rubber bits. The precision end is virtually useless for me, I tried using it on my bottom lashes and it just dumped a whole of mascara formula on my lashes.
Cost Factor: 2/5
I got this for $37.50 (duty free!), it’s not an expensive mascara though it’s not cheap either. It’s on the same spectrum as the Clinique one I use to use. I guess I’m just not thrilled with the outcome of the mascara.
In a nut shell
This sounds like quite a down review and I must seem like a complainer. I don’t usually talk things down like this but I just feel that it’s not the right product for me. There was so much hype about the mascara and to be honest there are people out there who love this product. For me , I can’t bring myself to saying that this is a wonder product when it isn’t for me. Perhaps if you have naturally curly and moderately long lashes this would work well, but I wouldn’t recommend this to fellow girls with short-ish lashes.
I am probably going to buy another mascara sooner rather than later. If you’re wanting something that is lengthening and defining , go ahead this would be fine. But if you’ve got kind of stubby straight lashes like I do, I’d look in another direction.
Michelle
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