Shoutout to one of the grossest makeup experiences ever (I have tween aged makeup products that I regularly use)

The product is **Maybelline The Colossal Washable Mascara in “Glam Black.”** I bought this on 08/07/2023 and started using it almost immediately because I ran out of mascaras in my collection. Then the other ones started coming in right after so I’m good for now, again. According to me snooping around my own pictures and texts, I last used it on 11/24/2023. Go me for using up sensitive products like mascara in a sensible amount of time, the cutting it open not withstanding.

I like Maybelline mascaras, I do. It was a rather wet formula and never quite dried out like other mascaras do, but I liked how pigmented it was and how much it could build up (with enough time to dry and to pile on), since I like dramatic almost falsie looking effects from my mascaras. Except now that I’m using a new one (with grievances of its own), I’m realizing just how gunky and stringy this thing was. It’s really gross like TMI level, but when I say that, I mean it got into my eyes a lot when I was washing it (granted I piled this thing on) and I would find strings of it floating around in my eyeball and catching it in the corner of my eyes as eye booger. Like I’d pull it out and it’d be string of mascara, all gooey (gagging a little as I’m typing this, I’m so sorry). Other mascaras get in my eyes, current and in the past, but they are minimal, even though I pile all mascaras on. So yeah, I rather liked the effect, but would not repurchase. I will give it that it was practically empty when I cut it open though, as I do out of curiosity. That felt satisfying.

I’m going to wash off the applicator for it to join my other mascara brushes.