Maybelline Wondercurl Mascara

This has been out for a while, but it's available at Half Price Perfumes for only £3.99 so it seemed rude not to give it a go. The gimmick is the curved brush, which is designed to curl your lashes. I wasn't really expecting this to work, and lo and behold, it didn't really. It did lengthen my lashes a little, but it did nothing to thicken them, and it made them spidery and clumpy. To demonstrate the non curling effect - I've used this mascara with and without curling my lashes using my usual eyelash curler - and you can clearly see the difference in the pictures after the cut. I'm not really a fan of Maybelline Mascaras, and this one hasn't done anything to change my mind. 

Look out for my 'What we're using' video on eyelash curlers coming soon.

Posted by on August 21, 2006 11:59 AM Permalink | digg this | del.icio.us this | Stumble It!

Maybelline Dream Mousse Eyecolour

The texture of these eye colours is all spongy and fluffy – rather like a mousse in fact. That’s about the only thing I liked about it though. The colour spreads unevenly, it gets under your nails when you try to get it out of the pot, and the fluffy texture deflates like a soufflé after you’ve used it for a while. I’d choose powder eyeshadow over this any day.

Posted by on August 2, 2006 9:19 PM Permalink | Comments (5) | digg this | del.icio.us this | Stumble It!

Loreal Paris LA Collection Nail Colour

Nail polish takes so long to apply that I usually rate it by its lasting power. This one lasted a grand total of 4 hours before it chipped. By the next morning not one nail was intact. Granted it isn’t sold as a long lasting polish, but surely a day isn’t too much to ask. The shimmering colour was pretty (I tried Fuchsia Crystal 204) but it didn’t hang around long enough for me to appreciate it properly.   

Posted by on July 10, 2006 3:49 PM Permalink | Comments (2) | digg this | del.icio.us this | Stumble It!

W7 Spray Mousse Foundation

I’ve been curious about spray foundations for a while – does spray-on really equal an airbrush finish? W7’s version is a spray mousse, so you don’t spray it directly onto your face (like I had always figured for some reason), instead you spray it onto your palm or a sponge and then, and I quote, ‘apply to the face as desired’. Whatever that means…

Carry on under the cut to see the results (and I mean actually see – as against my better judgement I’ve posted a picture)

Posted by on July 4, 2006 1:38 PM Permalink | Comments (4) | digg this | del.icio.us this | Stumble It!

Watch Out! Sublime Bronze Tanning Wipes

There are some things a girl just shouldn't do, and attempting to get a quick, streak-free tan with a wipe is one of those. I've never actually used a L'Oreal Sublime Bronze product before, but friends have raved about the rest of the range, so I thought I'd be safe with their wipes. With no time to do a full-on bronzing for a Saturday night out, I decided to give a wipe a go (they promise a streak-free tan which begin show after an hour). Alas, I should have trusted my better judgement. The tan didn't show for hours, and the following morning I woke up looking like someone (with a bad aim) had thrown a tin of orange paint at me. Streaky ankles and feet, great big white patches on my calves...and don't even get me started on my knees. Now, I'm ghostly pale and well versed on the rules of applying fake tan. I followed the rules on the back of the pack to the letter, made sure to cover and re-cover every inch of my legs, and still ended up looking like I'd been tangoed. So don't say I didn't warn you - use these at your own risk!

Posted by Gemma on June 19, 2006 11:25 AM Permalink | Comments (1) | digg this | del.icio.us this | Stumble It!

Clearasil Ultra Deep Pore Cleansing Wash

This product falls neatly into the 'should have known better' category. You'll soon learn from reading my trials and tribulations on here just how temperamental my skin can be. It was perfect until I hit my twenties, and then suddenly decided to break out. Since then I've tried all manner of things to get it back under control. Generally I stick to gentle, natural products, but the promise of clearer skin in 3 days was just too much of a temptation, and I ended up giving Clearasil Ultra Deep Pore Cleansing Wash a go against my better judgement. Anyone who knows anything about skincare will know promising results in 3 days is madness since healthy skin should take about 28 days to regenerate fully. Still, I bought it anyway, buying into the advertising claims like the idiot I am. I believe the word we're all looking for is 'Duhhhh'!

I definitely got a result in three days, though...

Posted by Gemma on June 7, 2006 2:57 PM Permalink | Comments (4) | digg this | del.icio.us this | Stumble It!