I started off the year with 2009's winner, Revlon Lash Fantasy. Alas, the 2nd time around, I no longer loved it. So, I read some blogs and decided to try some high scorers.
I started out in February with Maybelline Pulse Perfection. The pulse thing is hard to do because you have to press the pulse button continuously while you apply. Serious design flaw! Maybe some tricky chicks out there are coordinated enough to apply mascara while pressing a button, but not moi. It didn't put much mascara on my lashes, so it did not give me the volume I sought.
March brought the Rimmel Glam Eyes, which was just ok, not great. Turned out I bought the wrong Rimmel; I had meant to buy Rimmel Glam Eyes Lash Flirt. {Why the hell do they give their mascaras such similar names????}. The regular "Rimmel Glam Eyes" failed to wow me so for April I bought the "Rimmel Glam Eyes Lash Flirt", which got flaky by the end of the month and was just ok anyway. It was definitely better than the Glam Eyes, as it put more mascara on my lashes. I need a lot of mascara or my eyes look bald. Still, flaky is not good.
So, heeding Paula Begoun in May I bought Rimmel the Max Volume Flash. She's the Cosmetics Cop, right? So, she oughta know. Sadly, she didn't. It was gone by the end of day! That is a problem for me. I do not want bald lashes at 5 PM. Still, I used it through the month in order to continue with my scientific research. I still didn't think much of it by the end of the month.
It was summer by the end of the month anyway and time for some waterproof mascara which I need because A) I might go swimming and B) I perspire in Philly's damn summer weather. Ok, I say hell and damn, which my sister thinks makes me a bad influence on her kids, but come on! I say much worse when they're not around. Plus my sister reprimanded me the other night for asking if my ex-husband's current wife had green teeth (a legitimate question IMO, because my older son's ex-girlfriend Amy told me she did, and I never followed up so to this day I don't know if Amy was exaggerating. I mean I ASSUME she was, but she did say it and she is not a mean person) in front of her kids but later the same night she allowed daughter #1 to talk about prostitutes and hookers in front of daughter #2 and son #2 and I ask you: which is worse???? Prostitutes & hookers or green teeth??? Sometimes I think my sister LOOKS for things to disapprove of, especially when it comes to me.
So I read Good Housekeeping's review of waterproof mascaras and decided on Cover Girl Exact Highlights waterproof. Now this was a dilemma when I arrived at CVS, because they were on a "buy one, get the 2nd for 50%" sale so what to do? Give up the sale because I might not like the mascara? Give up the sale because my scientific research into drugstore mascara called for a different mascara each month? In the end, my penny pinching tendencies won out and I bought two. It's now July 9 and I am still on the 1st tube (which I started to use on June 15) and it is doing ok. It's waterproof alright, but it takes a lot of work to make it darken my lashes at all.
And this marks 18 months of research into drugstore mascara. At some point I know I am going to have to conclude that there is no great drugstore mascara and go buy some Lancome Definicils. I hate that thought. I don't like paying Lancome prices and I HATE going to the mall. I also hate paying delivery charges so it's not like I'm going to buy it at sephora.com. (if they even sell mascara at Sephora). It just doesn't seem right.
A toute a l'heure
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