Holy Grail Beautyy . . .

• Cruelty Free NO
• Fragrance Free YES
• Four colours available
• Very inexpensive
• Travel friendly 

My first encounter with RimmelLondon blush was in the Kate Moss trio palette with blusher in Coral Glow, bronzer and illuminater.  That blusher was Coral and it was wonderful.

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I saw that this little blusher was on sale at the supermarket and thus it was around $4.69 so half price.
The colour is a soft pink rose it also has a sheer quality to it and applies like a dream.  You can build it up very easily.  I believe there is two other colours available, one called Pink Live a bright pink, Santa Rose which is similar to a dusty rose, Bronze which is self explanatory and Pink Rose which is a soft pink.  The page on Boots website in the UK shows all four colours but the colours are very vibrant and there is no way that Pink Rose is that loud.  So take those colours with a grain of salt.  Someone turned the Photoshop too high!



This is a legit beauty bargain you cannot go wrong with.  Definitely recommended.

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RimmelLondon Australia

• Cruelty free NO
• Plastic Bristles
• Fragrance NO
• Inexpensive in USA

I have never had much luck with Cover Girl products so here is their latest mascara offering; Total Tease in Very Black.

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Total Tease is housed in black and pink topped tube and is quite a dry formula.  I tend to think wet formulas that dry out a little are the best, but when they are already dry it doesn't bode well.





The bristles are unusual on the wand, you have widely spaced bristles (which are plastic) the other side has more compact bristles, then there is a little section on the top that has some eye poking bristles that I imagine you are meant to use to 'tease out' the hairs.  Well, I have used this twice now and twice I have poked my eye even when being careful.




Being perfectly honest, as I always am, this mascara is bad, no bueno bad.  It did nothing for my lashes except clump them, provided no length, no volume, no thickness no nothing.  Total failure.  Luckily I got it on sale but it was still $10 AUD as drug store products are very expensive in Australia.  I hate the wand and don't know what they were thinking with this mascara.

This mascara is going straight into the bin, I am afraid.

I do not recommend.

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I had not tried anything from this brand before, I knew of them from a collaboration they did with Alexa Chung a while back.  They are from England and the product is made in South Korea.  The packaging is in more of a cream product tube than the usual mascara packaging.

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I needed a new mascara to wear on the days I don't wear falsies, I wanted to try a mascara by a brand I had not tried any products from.  I went to Mecca Maxima and saw the smaller size version of this mascara.  It was $23 AUD for 4ml or .13 fluid ounces.


I don't usually go for curling specific mascaras, I prefer volume and length more.   It has a curved brush with natural bristles with one side having more close together bristles and the other with more tightly packed ones.  On the back of the product it says this is a winning formula which has a triple layer gel coating to keep lashes colour and form from disappearing. It is to be removed with oil based removal products.

There is no real smell and it's most certainly a dry formula.  Almost too dry.  It does not layer well either as it starts to look "crunchy".  It's not super clumpy but it will clump if you try to build up on more than two layers.  I think it DID do a GOOD curling  job but I definitely won't re-purchase this again.  If the full size is over $40 like I am thinking than absolutely not.  This mascara is worth maybe $15 AUD in my honest opinion, Kevyn Aucoin 's The Curling Mascara is vastly better than this offering from Eyeko.

Ingredients List

• Isododecane
• Trimethylsiloxysilicate
• Water
• Beeswax
• VP/Eicosene Copolymer
• Silica
• Alumina
• Carnauba Wax
• Cetyl PEG/PPG-10/1 Dimethicone
• Disteardimonium Hectorite
• Ethylene/Propylene Copolymer
• Polyethylene
• Butylene Glycol
• Magnesium Sulfate
• Hydrogenated Ployisobutene
• Sorbitan Isostearate
• Propylene Carbonate Potassium Sorbate
• Phenoxyethanol
• Nylon-66
• Triethoxycaprylysilane
• Cyclopentasiloxane
• Ceramide 3
• Tocopheryl Acetate
• Hydrolyzed Collagen
• Glycerin
• Sodium Polyacrylate
• Palmitoyl Myristyl Serinate
• PEG-8
• PEG-8/SMDI Copolymer
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Cranberry extract
• Raspberry extract
• Black currant extract
• Blueberry
• Blackberry
• Acai Berry Extract
• Black raspberry
• Bilberry
• Wineberry
• May contain: CI Iron oxide, CI Mica, Titanium Dioxide

This mascara is waterproof absolutely; I even slept with it on and it stayed on resolutely, I don't really love how it looked on me. Its fine and average but not worth $23 to me and the full size at around $32 AUD seems a little over the top. One thing I want to say though as you can see in the photos my eyelashes are small to medium length so I usually focus on volume and length. If you have full, long lashes but want curl in them then this could be a dream mascara for you. 

That is the problem when doing product reviews because you must remember that everybody has different sizes, textures, length in their body that you would apply cosmetics and body products to.  So I like to state this in the case of this type of product. 

If you have long lashes with volume this could be a great mascara for you.  If you don't have those lashes then it might not be what you want.  It is Catch and CURL and that is what I am trying to remember here and put across. 

It does curl, it is waterproof but the dry, inability to layer, expensive price


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