About two weeks ago I purchased the Maybelline Pulse Perfection Mascara, and I won't lie. I was so terribly excited to try it out when I got home. I couldn't help but to keep buzzing the wand in the packaging in the car on the way home. It drove my boyfriend absolutely bonkers. The second I got home I tore off the wrapping and went onto examining the product. Now this wasn't some cheap investment. This isn't any old $7 even $10 mascara. No, this is a $15 mascara. So I'm expecting gold to pout out when I open. (So that may be a little bit of an exageration, but you get the picture.)
As I was examining my new purchase I read over the package. Supposedly the brushe was a "Patent-pending elastomer brush [that] vibrates 7,000 times per stroke." My first impression was holy hell thats really fast. Curious I pulled out the wand and pressed the vibrate button and watched the wand. I'm not sure if you're suppose to be able be able to see the vibration, but quite frankly for the 7,000 times per stroke I'd like to see the wand move a little bit. Just so I know it's not all in the handle. That was the first thing other than the price that turn me off a bit from this mascara
Next it was time for the application, like I said before it's similar to the define as lash if not the same thing. I own the define a lash and I'm the the biggest fan because of the brush is too wobbly and it often bend out of the bottle when I'm trying to put it away which always causes a HUGE mess. This one seems a little stiffer so I didn't have the same problem.
As I was applying the product I wanted to make it vibrate. I mean thats the whole purpose of having a vibrating mascara. The button is in a terribly akward spot. It's right at the top the handle so in order to press the button you're holding it in a terribly akward spot. Really for me, in order to hold the button my application suffered. However if I wanted half way decent application I wouldn't be able to use the vibrating function which is the whole reason I even bought the mascara.
At this point I was disapointed with my experiance with the product. The actual subtance of the product was really no different than any other mascara. Most likely if it was 7 dollars it'd just be a novel thiing that it vibrated. But for $15, it was a huge bust because you can't really use the feature without having messy mascara.
So lets do an overview:
According to the Maybelline website this is what you can expect from this mascara:
However I don't feel it met what they claimed the product would do. I honestly believe that the wand is just vibrating in the handle and itsn't transfering any of it to the brush to aid in application. The color really wasn't anthing special, to be honesly it was a little lackng. I didn't feel like it was anything spectacular especially for the price. I have to admit, the waterproof aspect is nice, however it really isn't all that different from anything else. As for the building of curl, volume, and legnth it again isn't that different from define a lash which personally I feel like it's the same formula with a fancy brush.
I just don't feel like this mascara is worth the heafty price, especially for the fact that it is a drugstore mascara. I think if maybelline improved the formula to give it that little extra "sha-zam" it'd be better. Also the button needs to be moved because it's postion now just makes for difficult application. I think for this mascara to be 'worth it' they need to lower the price or improve the product.
But that's just one opinion of a makeup junkie.
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Chelsea
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