Author: Rusty
There’s a lot of mascaras out there. Like, seriously, it’s almost stupid how many options you have to smear goop all over your eyelashes. It’s enough to give anyone fits and I can’t tell you how many women I know who have more than four mascaras rolling around in a makeup drawer somewhere, and they’re not really happy with any of them.
How happy you are with any given mascara depends on what you’re looking for - and what I’m looking for is a high quality mascara that will darken my lashes without clumping if I choose to apply more than one layer and leave them in good condition for curling just in case I get a wild hair up my ass and decide to curl my eyelashes.
For this, I use MAC Cosmetic’s Mascara X.
My eyelashes are around a quarter to three quarters of an inch long, but thanks to my naturally light coloring the tips of my eyelashes are completely clear. Mascara X does a great job of coating evenly to the ends of the lashes so I get the full benefit of my lashes without any weird goo coating sticking off the end. It’s also great about not clumping, and I will end the day with my lashes still lovely and black without a lot of flaking off onto my lower eye leaving me with that incredibly attractive raccoon smear that seems to be common to drug store mascaras. When I have curled my lashes with it, Mascara X has worked well with my eyelash curler and, again, doesn't break or flake off while I’m trying to curl my lashes and has just enough cohesion to hold the curl.
Here’s a couple pictures showing the difference between a mascara-ed and unmascara-ed eye. I didn’t use any other product on my eyes, no eyeliner or false lashes and my lashes aren’t curled, so unlike mascara commercials you can trust that what you see is accurate to how the mascara actually looks in real life. I only applied mascara to the upper lashes, since if I apply mascara to my lower lashes without eyeliner it looks like there's a tiny family of spiders trying to escape my eye socket.
Mascara is on left lashes. |
I’d give Mascara X 7 out of 8 tentacles because it does everything it says it does, and everything I want it to do, but the price and the lack of lengthening or thickening features are going to be turn offs for some.
Rating: 7/8 tentacles
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