Rimmel Glam'Eyes Mascara

I love trying new mascara's and my most recent trial is Rimmel's Glam'Eyes mascara. I recently found a coupon for $3 off any Rimmel mascara so I decided to pick one up. This is only the second mascara I've tried from Rimmel. The other one I tried was the Sexy Curves mascara. Initially, I said I didn't care for it too much and that there were some weird fibers or something on the mascara. Well, I stopped using it for about a month but then I tried it again and it was an O.K. mascara. I think its good if you want a natural look.

Anyway, the Glam'Eyes mascara gave the same kind of look, at first. It separates and gives a bit of length, but not much volume. Well, after abut a week of using it, it started to get a bit clumpy. I put it on and it did less separating but gave more volume to my lashes. It's not so clumpy that you have to use a comb or anything like that though. It's just enough to give your lashes some oomph. The only thing I don't like about Glam'Eyes is the brush. The brush is really flexible and I think I bent it because it has a bend in it that I'm pretty sure wasn't there when I opened it.

If you want dramatic lashes then I don't suggest this mascara, but if you want lashes that look natural with a bit of something extra then try this out.

L'oreal Double Extend Mascara with Lash Boosting Serum

I've only tried this mascara a few times so I'm just going to review it based on how the mascara performs as far as looks go, not on the effectiveness of the lash boosting serum. I read some reviews on the mascara's serum performance and none of them gave high marks. Besides that, I feel like the castor oil (did a post about this) is really a better choice if you want your lashes to grow. Maybe if I notice a difference with my lashes I will post again.

On to the review: This mascara has two sides, the mascara side and the white side which contains the primer and serum. I was really hoping that because this has a primer with it, it would add lots of volume and length to my lashes. I don't think this mascara does either. It actually gives a pretty natural look. It does give some extra length but not too much. There are definitely other mascaras that give more length. Overall, I like this mascara and I'll keep using it. I think I'll do some more experimenting with it to see if I can get some more volume out of it.

L'oreal Telescopic Explosion Mascara

The new mascara (new to the U.S. anyway) is a new take on the mascara wand.  The design is a round ball with spikes all over it.  It's similar to the Givenchy Phenomen'Eyes mascara.  The first time I wore this mascara I was a little annoyed because on one eye I had some really long spiky lashes and on the other eye I had regular looking lashes.  I was not happy but I figured I need to get use to this new wand before I go making any rash decisions.  The second time I tried the mascara, I was much more happy with the results.  Although this mascara doesn't give my lashes great length, (actually it probably does have the potential to since I ended up with a few long spiky lashes the first time) or great volume, I like this mascara because it does get to those hard to reach lashes and it gives a nice no-clump coating to the bottom lashes.  Overall, the look is pretty natural.  I haven't decided if I would re-purchase this but it's definitely worth a try.

Revlon Double Twist Mascara

This mascara is terrible.  Double Twist mascara claims to volumize lashes.  If  clumpy, smushed together lashes are your idea of volumized lashes then the claim is correct.   The first time I saw the brush I had a feeling my lashes were not gonna look good.  The brush looks like a smaller wand inside of a larger one.  The first time I used the Double Twist it did volumize my lashes and didn't leave them too clumpy.  It didn't separate them or add any length.  (I know it doesn't claim any of that but usually you get some length with mascaras.)  The second time I used this mascara I pulled out the brush and the product was clumped all over the brush!  I'm not gonna lie, I was scared to use it.  If it's clumpy on the brush you can almost guarantee that it will be clumpy on your lashes.  I decided I would  wipe the brush off with a paper towel.  That has worked on other mascaras that I have used.  Yeah, that didn't work at all.  My lashes looked like crap.  I ended up combing most of the mascara off and I didn't even attempt to apply it to my bottom lashes.  This is that worst mascara I have ever tried.