Mascara Mondays: Benefit They're Real!

I'm super excited about this one because I have been wanting to try this mascara for so long!!!! My birthday was August 31st and for Beauty Insiders at Sephora you get a free birthday gift. Mine was a little set from Benefit. It came with They're Real mascara and Watt's Up highlighter. I've been wanting to try it but never really wanted to spend the money on the full size and never wanted any of the sets it comes with, so super excited for this mascara!

Benefit They're Real Mascara

Bare eyelashes

one application

two applications

three applications + bottom lashes

 I really like this mascara! I think it does a great job lengthening and adding volume. I might only do two applications. I just like to test three applications just to see how it would look. I must say I was a little disappointed when I opened it to see this wand. I guess I wasn't aware what kind of wand it had. These wands always poke me in the eye!!!! Lol, but I'll get over it! Other than not liking the wand, I don't have anything bad to say! This mascara could be a great contender for my next favorite mascara! I like how it instantly makes it's presence known! You don't need a lot for it to make your eyelashes look nice! Depending on what other mascaras I try out, I may end up buying the full size of it! 

If you have any questions please ask! Let me know what other mascaras I should try!!! 

 ♡Sarah

Mascara Mondays: Maybelline The Falsies BIG EYES

As you all know by now I love me some Maybelline mascara so I was super excited to try this one out!!!! It has two wands...one to "life upper lashes" and one to "magnify lower lashes". It never really bothered me to use a big mascara wand for my bottom lashes, but it is nice to have a smaller wand, especially on those days where you make a mess!!! So right off the start I liked that it has the two different size wands! I'm a huge fan of the falsies mascara so I hoped that it would be just like that one! It is basically the same formula, but this wand doesn't have that curve that the regular falsies mascara wand has...that doesn't bother me, I like both wands!! 

Maybelline Big Eyes Mascara; Blackest Black

Upper lash wand

Lower lash wand

I do have to say that I've noticed lately that my eye lashes are ridiculously long! I think they've been growing...it may be from Tarte's Lights, Camera, Lashes Mascara. I've heard that it makes your lashes grow?! Not sure if that is absolutely true, but I can say that my lashes are definitely a little longer. I've used that Tarte Mascara for the last, maybe, 6ish months? Not really sure. 

bare eyelashes

But anyway.....so I noticed my eyelashes are much longer. Which I believe is the culprit for why they are so crazy and hard to control!!!!! When I applied the first coat I fell in love! I felt this was going to be  my new favorite mascara.

one application

I applied the second coat...that's when I noticed how long my lashes were. They were almost sticking straight out....no curl to them. I did not curl them at all, I like to show how much of a curl the mascara can give.

two applications

I applied the third coat and decided that was definitely enough and it was almost clumpy, so I'm definitely sticking with only two coats of this mascara.

three applications

I LOVED the way the wand covered the bottom lashes. With it being so small, it made it easy to cover each individual lash....and no mess!!! :)

three applications + bottom

I do definitely like this mascara, but you just have to be careful about how many coats you put on. That's the only think I don't like...I'm a mascara junkie so of course I like to apply insane amounts of mascara! ;) But I do think this is a great purchase, especially if you like the regular falsies mascara!!!

If you have any questions please let me know! 

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♡Sarah

Lush Review

I had been wanting to try Lush products for probably the last year. The closest store to me is an hour away, and I just never wanted to make that trip. Back in May I went to Atlantic City with one of my best friends. They have outlet shops on the boardwalk and one of the stores is Lush!!! I was very excited to find this out!! As soon as I saw it I dragged my friend in there! lol! We spent a good amount of time just looking at everything and trying different products out. I went in looking for some hair products. Due to coloring and putting heating tools on my hair, it is super dry and damaged so I was looking for something to help with that. I purchased to two items.

Lush Shampoo Bar--Godiva; $11.95

 A shampoo bar in Godiva. OMG! This smells soooo good I could eat it! Delicious! It is a conditioning shampoo and has jasmine and shea butter. I absolutely love this shampoo. First, it makes my hair smell sooo good! I end up just smelling my hair all day long when I use it! :) but it has helped condition and soften my hair. They do have other scents that do other things, such as one that helps oily hair and greasy scalps. I will definitely be repurchasing this product and perhaps try out a different one too!

Lush American Cream Hair Conditioner--8.4 fl. oz.; $19.95

The second item I purchased was American Cream Hair Conditioner. On the bottle is says "have the flowing, shiny locks you've always dreamt of with this strawberry vanilla milkshake conditioner". It definitely smells like a strawberry vanilla milkshake!!! This conditioner helps soften and smooth ends. It definitely does that!!!

I always use these two together and what a great team they make! My hair is always super soft and smells delicious. I will definitely be purchasing these two products again!

If you haven't tried any Lush products you definitely should!!

♡Sarah

Mascara Mondays: Revlon Lash Potion

Lately I have not been happy with the way my eyelashes have been looking. They have been looking crazyyy!!!!! Nothing I seem to do can make them look nice again...if I curl them they somehow don't come out right, if I don't curl them I get a few going in every which way! SO ANNOYING! I'm not sure if it's the mascaras I have been using or not.....so I'm looking for new ones!!

Over the last few months I have purchased so many new mascaras it's not even funny! So on every Monday I'm going to be doing a review (and some will be first impressions) on a new mascara until I find my perfect one...or two, or three...you know how much I love using mascara! :)

The first culprit (if you couldn't tell by the title) Revlon Lash Potion. I have been using this and trying it out since I got home from North Carolina. So I've had a few weeks to check it out.

Revlon Lash Potion: Blackest Black

Bare eyelashes

First application

Second application

Third application

Third + bottom 1 application

Lash Potion wand

3 section wand

First off, I love the packaging! Second, I like the brush. I like that it's bigger. It has three sections to it. Apparently the three section wand is supposed to make it clump free...if you can see, even in the second application, it's starting to clump. That bothers me. I HATE clumpy lashes. I like when you can see each and every lash individually, not chunks of eye lashes. So three applications is probably too much, I would stop at two.

It does provide a little volume and length like it claims, but nothing special. I do like how it looks on my bottoms lashes though!

Honestly, I don't have too much to say about it. It isn't anything special, just another plain old mascara. I'll continue to use it because I don't like to let any mascara go to waste, but I won't be repurchasing it.

Overall I give this mascara a B -- there isn't really anything bad about it, except that it clumps, but that is most mascaras; but I don't find anything special about it either.

I hope this was helpful1 If you have any mascaras you think I should try please comment and let me know! I really need to find a new one!!!!!

♡Sarah

First Impression/Review: Maybelline Volume'Express the Rocket Mascara

Hello everyone! Welcome back! For this post I am going to give my first impression and review on the new mascara from Maybelline...the Rocket!  I'm super excited about this so let's get started!!!

If you read my last post for my favorites of 2012 then you know that I absolutely love Maybelline mascara, so when I saw they had a new one out I had to buy it! First off, I must say the packaging is really cute! From the looks of it, they were trying to make it look like a rocket, which I think, is creative! Now, I am not a fan of the color pink, but I do like how they used pink for the font over the bright blue! I love that all of their mascaras have bright color packaging (well, the volum'express line anyway)! I purchased mine at CVS for $7.99 in the color Blackest Black.

I started off with nothing on my eyes... (sorry my eyebrow is kind of whack lol)

One application...

I say one application because I do one coat and then go back over right away with a second coat. I think that looks great for only one application! I was very pleased!

Two applications...

I really liked it after two applications! I would have been happy with just these two applications.

Three applications...

I would definitely not do more than three applications. It started to get clumpy, so unless you like that look, I would stop here. I personally don't like that look. I like my lashes to be separated. I did only use one coat on the bottom because I don't like my bottom lashes to be so bold, but I do want them to have something there! It did provide a lot of volume and length. I really like it! This is the only time I've used it so far, but I think this is my new favorite mascara! I normally use three to five mascaras to get the look of false lashes, but using this I would not need to use any others! When applying it, it did feel very wet, which I've never really noticed my other mascaras feeling like that (lol) so it was odd at first, especially on the bottom lashes!

Final thoughts: I recommend this to everyone! This is by far my favorite drugstore mascara I have ever used! Yes, I think it is a little pricey...I personally do not like to pay $8 for mascara so if you shop at CVS a lot, use your ExtraBucks, or if you shop at Ulta, use a coupon. That's how I buy all of my makeup! I love coupons!!!!! :) 

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*I purchased this mascara with my own money and these are my own personal thoughts.