now I don't know about you, but mascara is hands down my favorite/desert island makeup product. forget the rest of your face- lashes are the piece de resistance of any look. I love the look of long, dark, and curled lashes- the longer the better. while some people are all about volume, and love the look of a super thick lash that is full through the base and along your lash line, that really isn't my cup of tea. when I'm trying out new mascaras I want one that is going to separate all the way down to the root, give me long stretched out lashes that make people second guess if I'm wearing falsies, and that are patent leather black. mascaras like benefit they're real and maybelline colossal cat eyes are some of my favorites and give me that perfect flirty lash look- long throughout, with just the right amount of something special in the outer corner. usually mascaras with rubber wands and short spikey bristles (like any of the covergirl lash blasts which I've forever sworn off, but to each their own) leave me with short stubby lashes and mascara streaked across my eyelid (not a good look), so when I first opened this tube of maybelline the rocket volum' express mascara I was immediately disappointed. the wand looked almost identical to the covergirl versions, and after one horribly awful failed attempt, I cursed it and put it away. fast forward to a few weeks later when I was testing out some Halloween makeup looks and decided to layer it with my other current mascara, and I realized that the formula had changed (going from super wet and messy to drier and stiffer). I was left with thick roots that could be combed through (thanks to the short spiked plastic wand) to create separated, super long lashes. normally when a formula changes it isn't for good (nail polish separating, top coats thickening, foundation oxidizing, or perfume changing scents), but with mascara it seems to usually be the opposite. take a wet and impossible formula and give it a couple weeks to dry out with the help of a little air to the tube, and you have yourself a whole different product. what started as a hate it, turned into a love it- a makeup miracle.
what mascara works best for your lashes- a wet formula that you can rake through, or a drier formula you can really build up?
xx, marissa
