It all started because I was reading In Style magazine. Never read fashion magazines, they are bad for your health. (Do as I say, not as I do.) There was an entire article Consumer Reports style about mascara. Some random women tested over 50 brands of mascara to find the best tube. Each one was rated on volume and length and thickness and blackness and how pretty the package was. Mascaras priced any where from $2.50 per tube to $250 per tube were tested. It was the most in depth mascara article I'd ever read, and reading it changed my life because it introduced me to Dior Show mascara.
This is hands down the best mascara I've ever used. Lancome comes in a close second, but there is just something about Dior. Give me an eyelash curler and a tube of this stuff and I'm in eyelash heaven. I love it. It's wonderful. The only problem is it costs $30, and it loses its power in 2 months. Kind of like Cinderella, at midnight it goes from creating Lucious Lashes to making Plain Peepers. It turns back into your average drug store mascara.
With that said, I'm looking for an average drug store mascara that will make me bat my eyelashes without breaking my bank. So help me out, Internet, what is your favorite mascara? I wish I weren't quite so interested in this topic seeing as it makes me seem quite shallow, but I love mascara, so I'm going to blog about it.
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ohmygosh I love mascara.
ReplyDeletemy personal favorite:
cover girl lash blast (in the orange tube)
right now I'm using cover girl lash blast fusion (purple tube); however, works pretty much the same as regular lash blast but is $1 more expensive. not worth it. the only reason I got it was because they only had waterproof in the REGULAR lash blast, and I don't do waterproof.. but I reeeeally needed me some mascara. :)
I've also liked maybelline colossal volume express, and maybelline define-a-lash volume. but they're STILL not as good as cover girl lash blast.
can you tell that I looove mascara????
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ReplyDeleteI got so excited about mascara that I posted my comment 3 times. sheesh
ReplyDeleteMy moto: A good mascara is ALL you need
ReplyDeletereally... mascara takes you from looking like you rolled out of bed to looking ready for a night on the town!
I am currently in a search as well... and my friend Jamie swears by this 1 type of mascara by Mac (i think its by them) and its $10 for a tube if bought at the makeup warehouse place at the Legends.. which I'm going there tomorrow and I fully plan to get myself a tube and I'll let ya know how it goes!
I'm in LOVE with L'Oreal Double Extend Beauty Tubes mascara! It's ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! I mean...I LOVE it!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to be thorough, so I took my favorite mascara (Maybelline Great Lash BIG) on a night on the town to see how it held up! First stop, every club in the power and light district. After the first couple hours, it held up great to drinks being thrown in my face. But after midnight, the 45 minutes of crying in the lady's room wore it down a little. Even through the sweat of running from an angry drunken mob, my lashes still had passer-by's on the street asking "Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline?". When I awoke the next morning after a night's sleep on top of a car in the pouring rain, my eyes looked just as camera-ready as the night before. Which is a good thing, too, because I vaguely remember getting my mugshot photo taken.
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Jen, let me know what you find, because this is a personal quest of mine as well. I've liked some of the Clinique samples I've tried, but my current issue is with all these crazy new brushes! I'm currently trying Stella mascara that I bought at beauty brands but it's hit or miss. Some days it's great, other days it's all clumpy and annoying. I don't recommend it.
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