Makeup Review - Maybelline Define-A-Lash Volume Mascara
Okay, so I've been needing a new mascara for a few months. I usually use either my MAC mascaras or L'Oreal's Original Voluminous Mascara which is awesome. Money's been tight though, so I can't spend that much on makeup. I was browsing a neighborhood grocery store and stumbled on a great deal.
$2.79 for Maybelline Define-A-Lash Volume Mascara. Sweet, closeout pricing! I bought the soft black one. The price was right and it comes in this nice pink/fuchsia tube. Me? I'm a sucker for the color pink.
I don't buy Maybelline stuff all that often, so I'm not familiar with what to expect. If I have Maybelline products it's because they were giving to me as a gift. So I get it home and open my little treasure I think I have found.
I'm expecting the usual hard bristle brush and what I get is severely disappointing. It's a flimsy wand. The brush is the plastic kind with the bristles that hurt worse than the traditional brush if you poke yourself in the eye. They look like spikes. The brush head is also bigger at one end than it is at the other and it has this dip in the middle of it. It's very weird looking. I'm not sure of what this accomplishes.
I also can't help feel that this mascara wand makes my lashes clump more than it defines them. After I put the mascara on I have to separate the lashes with a toothpick. That's not really defining a lash. That's making it look like I crippled a tarantula and glued their legs to my eyelids.
The formula was also somewhat disappointing. I am used to a drier formula of mascara so when I opened the tube and found out that the stuff was really liquid-y, I frowned. It just seemed watered down and not as thick. For $3 I can't expect MAC quality, I understand that.
One coat goes on, I blink because I stabbed myself in the eye with the spiked wand and the stuff goes everywhere. Cue the Q-tips and makeup remover. I let the first coat to dry and then apply a second coat. That goes well and I start to look like myself. Long lashes! Yay.
Until a few hours later... I notice my husband looking at me in a weird manner. He says nothing though but I look in the mirror. Biggest disappointment ever! There are flakes of soft black color all over my face! What the hell? I put it on three hours ago and it's already acting like I'd been on a bender, fell into bed with my makeup still on!
If I wasn't worried about price, I wouldn't have bought Maybelline Define-A-Lash Volume Mascara. I would have went with my tried and true L'Oreal mascara. Even then if price was not an issue, down to Macy's I'd go to get MAC. I don't think this was a good value. Perhaps my standards are just too high.
$2.79 for Maybelline Define-A-Lash Volume Mascara. Sweet, closeout pricing! I bought the soft black one. The price was right and it comes in this nice pink/fuchsia tube. Me? I'm a sucker for the color pink.
I don't buy Maybelline stuff all that often, so I'm not familiar with what to expect. If I have Maybelline products it's because they were giving to me as a gift. So I get it home and open my little treasure I think I have found.
I'm expecting the usual hard bristle brush and what I get is severely disappointing. It's a flimsy wand. The brush is the plastic kind with the bristles that hurt worse than the traditional brush if you poke yourself in the eye. They look like spikes. The brush head is also bigger at one end than it is at the other and it has this dip in the middle of it. It's very weird looking. I'm not sure of what this accomplishes.
I also can't help feel that this mascara wand makes my lashes clump more than it defines them. After I put the mascara on I have to separate the lashes with a toothpick. That's not really defining a lash. That's making it look like I crippled a tarantula and glued their legs to my eyelids.
The formula was also somewhat disappointing. I am used to a drier formula of mascara so when I opened the tube and found out that the stuff was really liquid-y, I frowned. It just seemed watered down and not as thick. For $3 I can't expect MAC quality, I understand that.
One coat goes on, I blink because I stabbed myself in the eye with the spiked wand and the stuff goes everywhere. Cue the Q-tips and makeup remover. I let the first coat to dry and then apply a second coat. That goes well and I start to look like myself. Long lashes! Yay.
Until a few hours later... I notice my husband looking at me in a weird manner. He says nothing though but I look in the mirror. Biggest disappointment ever! There are flakes of soft black color all over my face! What the hell? I put it on three hours ago and it's already acting like I'd been on a bender, fell into bed with my makeup still on!
If I wasn't worried about price, I wouldn't have bought Maybelline Define-A-Lash Volume Mascara. I would have went with my tried and true L'Oreal mascara. Even then if price was not an issue, down to Macy's I'd go to get MAC. I don't think this was a good value. Perhaps my standards are just too high.