Lash Love

I am obsessed with this new Loreal Voluminous Mascara!

I was getting ready to go out for dinner and drinks the other night with friends, and as I was applying my makeup, I realized that I had left the top of my mascara slightly unscrewed, and now to my dismay it was completely unusable. I didn't have time for a trip to Sephora or the makeup counter at Macy's...so I finished getting ready and quickly headed to the drugstore to pick up something quick before meeting my friends at the restaurant. I ran into CVS and headed over to the Loreal section of the makeup, and saw this new Voluminous Mascara pop out at me. I had read good things about it in drugstore makeup reviews (from In Style magazine), so I decided to try it out for myself (in dark brown), especially since I had about 10 minutes to spare and didn't have time to search further. I checked out and ran out to my car to try out my new makeup purchase.

At first, I was skeptical...the brush was thinner than my usual mascara's, and from the first sweep onto my lashes, I didn't notice much of a difference. As I kept applying brush strokes, however, the mascara seemed to be building my lashes up to be thicker and longer than I had seen them in a while. I coated them quickly about three times with my right eye, and then went on to my left, while allowing the right eye to set for a minute. As I finished my left eye's first coat, I went back to my right eye and coated them once more, then returning back to finish my left. I couldn't believe my eyes (literally)! My eyelashes looked like extensions almost instantly!

There were a few clumps in my lashes, but they were quickly eliminated with a q-tip, and my eyes looked incredible!

Bottom line: While any of your high-end mascara brands (from sephora) are ultimately going to be less clumpy and require less of an application, if you are looking to spend about 10-15 dollars less (than, say...Dior), at about 7 dollars a pop, this is your go-to drugstore mascara of the moment.