Be a BADgal

In my never-ending quest to find products that are tiny and easy to travel with, I stumbled upon Benefit's new A Little Bit BADgal Lash Mascara. I already own the full size BADgal mascara, but did I let that stop me from buying the smaller one? I think you know the answer to that. It's a great mascara - the black is really deep and it makes my lashes look amazingly thick. The only thing I don't like about it is that my lashes get really clumpy with it. Enough so that I have to use a separate eyelash comb to make me look less like Tammy Faye Baker, which is a little annoying. Then again, I haven't used too many mascaras that don't clump on my lashes. Does everyone else have this problem? I never really thought about it, but maybe I just have strange eyelashes that are always going to make mascara clump. And by the way, clump is a really weird word. I've written it so many times in this paragraph that it's starting to sound wrong when I say it. Clump, clump, clump. (Hhhm. I'm amusing myself with word games. Clearly I've had too much Tylenol Cold and Flu medicine today. Good thing it's almost bedtime). Plus, at only $9, it's cheap enough that if I accidentally leave it in NJ the next time I'm visiting, I won't have to stomp around my apartment angrily when I get home and realize it's not in my suitcase. (Don't worry, Lemon Sugar perfume. It's almost time for me to fly back for Christmas, so we'll be reunited soon). BADgal doesn't smudge any more than my other mascaras, which is great, but just a warning - it takes a lot of makeup remover to get it off at the end of the night. I'm guessing that's because it's such a deep black color, but I really have no idea if that's true. All I know is, when I wear BADgal, I feel kinda bad ass. And really, how can you put a price on that?

P.S., if Santa is reading this (and why wouldn't he be?), what would also make me feel bad ass is a pair of those awesome new black Manolo Blahnik high heel boots. Unfortunately, I CAN put a price on those and it's several hundred dollars more than I've ever spent on a pair of shoes before. Come on, Santa. Work your magic and put them on sale. Preferably for $100 or less. It would be a Christmas miracle!

Comments

[makeupmonkey]

I've just discovered your blog and I gotta tell you I love it... I believe your wit and sense of humor, not to mention love for beauty products and paycheck spending at sephora, are very similar to mine...

Now, compliments and niceties aside, as far as your issue with mascara clumping, I've definitely had that problem and have been on the never ending search for the 'holy grail' of mascaras due to it.

And while I don't think I've discovered the grail quite yet, recently I tried out two mascaras: one a drugstore brand - Cover Girl's lash blast, and a department store brand - Tarte's Lights, Camera, Lashes and I gotta tell you, I love them both.

Tarte's will eventually clump depending on how many coats you do, but it doesn't flake or smudge (as far as my three-week or so test drive of it has shown so far). It's pretty great at volumizing and adds a bit of length. Am not sure on its curl claim cause I use a lashcurler anyway.

I'm super impressed with the lash blast, especially since it costs about $7! No clumps (and you're right the more one uses that word the less it sounds like an acutal word), pretty good volume and length - a good day to day mascara that's not super dramatic but definitely makes lashes very noticeable...

So there, longwindedly, are my two (or maybe more like ten) cents... keep up the great blogging...

[makeupmonkey]

I've just discovered your blog and I gotta tell you I love it... I believe your wit and sense of humor, not to mention love for beauty products and paycheck spending at sephora, are very similar to mine...

Now, compliments and niceties aside, as far as your issue with mascara clumping, I've definitely had that problem and have been on the never ending search for the 'holy grail' of mascaras due to it.

And while I don't think I've discovered the grail quite yet, recently I tried out two mascaras: one a drugstore brand - Cover Girl's lash blast, and a department store brand - Tarte's Lights, Camera, Lashes and I gotta tell you, I love them both.

Tarte's will eventually clump depending on how many coats you do, but it doesn't flake or smudge (as far as my three-week or so test drive of it has shown so far). It's pretty great at volumizing and adds a bit of length. Am not sure on its curl claim cause I use a lashcurler anyway.

I'm super impressed with the lash blast, especially since it costs about $7! No clumps (and you're right the more one uses that word the less it sounds like an acutal word), pretty good volume and length - a good day to day mascara that's not super dramatic but definitely makes lashes very noticeable...

So there, longwindedly, are my two (or maybe more like ten) cents... keep up the great blogging...

[makeupmonkey]

Sorry, i have no idea at all why that posted twice. Oops

[Stacey]

Makeup Monkey-
Thanks for the compliments. Glad to hear you're enjoying the blog! We're having fun writing it.

I'll have to try those two mascaras. Kris just wrote about the Lash Blast one yesterday and she loved it, so I think that'll be my first purchase. Now I really can't wait to try it!

Thanks for reading ProductWhores!

[Candace]

this mascara is great... my favorite! It has a wonderful brush and does not clump or look like it is too much.. Just makes my eyes lookbig and great! Could not live without it!