Lancome Doll Lashes - So Black!

Another mascara, yes.

My favorite mascara that I have tried so far, has got to be Lancome's Hypnose Doll Lashes in So Black! ($31 Canadian). I bought this last October, and even though you are supposed to throw out mascaras every 3 months, this one lasted me over 6 months. It was never clumpy, and really gave the full "false" lash effect. I could layer it when applying it, getting my lashes to look super full and fluffy.

This mascara is Lancome's newest (as of fall 2011), and promises to give your lashes a wide-eyed, doll-like effect. It doesn't curl the lashes, but it does lift them up.It also gives lots of volume. It is from the Hypnose line, and the tube looks similar to the Hypnose Drama mascara, except that this mascara has a beautiful rose pattern along the tube. The packaging is beautiful, as is typical of Lancome's products. You can feel confident pulling this tube out of your purse to do make-up touch ups during your day.

In my opinion, this mascara is amazing. It works awesomely as well. The absolute best part of this mascara, though, has got to be it's smell. It smells like roses. It feels so luxurious to apply this mascara, and have the sweet aroma of roses envelop you while you get beautiful in the morning.
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Maybelline Mega Plush Mascara - Very Black

I'm always buying new mascaras; I have at least 5 constantly on the go. I really love the volumizing mascaras that promise the "false lash" effect. So when I was on Facebook the other night, and an ad came to my computer about the newest Maybelline mascara, I had to give it a try.

Maybelline's Mega Plush mascara comes in a  bright blue (almost turquoise) tube with pinkish purple writing on it. It retails for about $8-$10 bucks (Canadian $). The store where I bought mine had a sale on it because it's a new product, so I scored mine for $4.99. yay! This mascara promises to make your lashes look voluminous without the clumpy, stiff look or feel. It's part of Maybelline's Volume Express line of mascara. It comes in waterproof and non-waterproof formulas. I bought the non-waterproof formula.

I have used the Volume Express line from Maybelline before, and it's pretty good. Not the best, but definitely not the worst. A good buy for a drug store brand. I was pretty excited to try this new mascara, cause I was curious to see how "plush" my lashes would feel.

I used it for the first time this morning, while getting ready for work. The brush is unique; it has a bendable wand, so that it can move more easily I guess depending which way you hold it with your hand. The spooly is made of rubber like fibers, that are supposed to catch every lash.

I'm the type of person who puts mascara on in multiple coats, so I really need a mascara that doesn't clump up. I put it on by wiggling it through my lashes repeatedly, until I feel like they look "volumized" enough. I wiggled the mascara through my lashes about 5 times on each eye, and did the bottom lashes once on each eye. The mascara didn't clump, and I didn't have to put it back into the tube to get more product on the wand. My lashes looked pretty volumized, and even now, 10 hours later, they feel soft and not stiff. I am fairly impressed with this mascara. It was a really great buy at $4.99, even at the $10 bucks it would be worth it. I have bought some mascaras that were much more expensive ($30) and they did not work this well. I am not sure how long the tube will last without drying out or clumping up, but I will try to keep track. Mascara should be thrown out every 3 months, however, as a general rule of thumb. I have been guilty of keeping mine for 6 months or more.

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