i, very sadly, had to cancel my ipsy subscription. weāre trying to cut back on credit card expenses and i chose to sacrifice my ipsy. fortunately my mum still gets it and iāll probably be stealing a lot of her unused samples...
anyway, knowing i was going to be cancelling i used my last couple months to seek out quality points products. they offer products on their site that you can use points earned by rating products to receive. most of the time they were products i wasnāt interested in so it took a while for me to use up all my points. then this showed up. itās Cosmoholic Showlash Mascara with Fibres . iāve seen these sorts of mascaraās on social media, friends selling them by different companies and such, and iāve always thought they looked really, really clumpy and awful. just putting that out there... so i wasnāt ever going to buy it for myself, but my curiosity was definitely peaked at the opportunity to try it out for free. hereās my thoughts:
first i was really intrigued by the fibres. they werenāt what i was expecting. the mascara itself i really like, i like the brush, but i found that you have to be EXTREMELY careful with this mascara or it gets crazy on you really fast. i stabbed myself in the eye when applying it, and you know how when that happens you always end up with a TON of mascara all over your lashes... and face... well after then applying the fibres and the top coat of mascara it just was way too much. it got that clumpy, stuck together look that i was afraid of. but the eye i didnāt poke turned out not bad at all.Ā
i think this concept is really interesting. but i donāt think itās perfected. iāve used this product twice now, i definitely wouldnāt find it necessary for a day-to-day look, and both times i had one eye turn out way more intense and clumpy than the other. it took a lot of extra work to try tame it back. iām already not a makeup pro, so iām not a huge fan of damage control.
all that to say, the mascara itself is really really nice. and when the fibres donāt get out of control, they really do exactly what theyāre meant to - my eyelashes definitely looked longer and fuller. iām glad i got the opportunity to give this product a try.