L'Oreal Paris Paradise Mascara Reviews

I love the packaging for this product its a smooth copper coloured tube making it feel a bit more high-end than the standard drug store tubes. The wand is quite big and reminds me of the 'Better than Sex' mascara wand, it applies easily and catches every lash ensuring they are coated evenly.

The formula of the mascara is quite smooth, not too thick or runny - it will be interesting to see how the formula ages and how quickly it can thicken once opened. The mascara does separate and lengthen my lashes but I didn't find that it did much for volume - it was lightweight on my lashes and didn't go brittle and flake off throughout the day. Even with a few coats being applied in the morning.

After a day of wear it didn't smudge or give me a panda-eye look at the end of the day. Would definitely recommend for a drug-store mascara but prefer my Benefit mascara a little bit more for volume.

I was pretty excited to get to trial this mascara as I love a full lash look. Thanks to lash serum I now have quite long lashes but I love the extra oomph a good mascara can bring and the mention of both lengthening and volumising had me intrigued.

The soft rose gold packaging is beautiful and gives it a luxe look. The mascara wand itself was just as impressive looking, the long brush boasting hundreds of bristles shaped to a soft curve. The formula is jet black and quite thick. All these were quite promising features.

I actually found this mascara quite hard to apply in that one application doesn't deposit that much product. I found to really get full coverage of all my lashes and both volume and length promised it takes me several coats. The Paradise mascara does get points for not clumping or flaking through the coats and it does eventually product a dramatic, full lash look.

Personally I wouldn't use the Paradise mascara again myself or recommend it. When it comes to mascara I want to be able to apply one or two coats and be good to go, not have to fuss and layer mascara and get in close to the corner lashes. While it does manage to do what is advertised the time taken to achieve it isn't worth it for me when there are so many other successful competing products on the market.

Thanks BR for letting me be on this trial! It arrived at the perfect time as I had just run out of my then current mascara x

First off, rose gold packaging..rose gold anything is a fave so I was sold straight away with the look of this product. I probably would have been sucked into buying it anyway if I saw it at Farmers! I was slightly confused though of the double up of packaging, the mascara was inside a box which was then inside more packaging...

The mascara packaging is kind of like a tin/plastic and feels really light..doesnt particularly feel too solid but this doesn't bother me but if you like solid hard packaging this doesn't have that. The wand reminds me of Better Than Sex mascara which I seem to always think I dont like those wands but then I actually do. When I first pulled the wand out it was FULL of product then when I put the wand back in the product squished out the top which was a bit messy but that didn't happen the next time around.

The application is super easy and surprisingly feels really soft..did not know that feeling existed with mascara but my lashes didn't feel full of mascara. They felt really light. The wand does grab all of my lashes, lengthens them and gives them volume as the packaging says. I love the look of my lashes after applying this mascara.

I also noticed that the mascara doesnt smudge. I did find some flaking though. Throughout the day, on everyday that I've used it I've found small flakes of mascara under my eyes (usually just 1 or 2). Though it doesn't say that its waterproof I found this doesn't run at all. I also found it's a tiny bit clumpy if you don't press the wand against the packaging while you bring the wand out.

I went into this abit sceptical as I always have bad luck with mascaras transferring onto my undereye area after an hour or so. This though didn't budge! It stayed put all day and was even a tad stubborn when it came time to wash it off. It made my lashes look super full and abit longer than usual. Only downside (which isn't really a big downside) is that it applies ALOT of product when you first use it, but once you've used it a few times you'll have it all figured it.

I gave this mascara an extra day of wear when this review was due as I really wanted to try it out at a convention I went to. My mascaras are known to bleed onto my lower and upper lid after a long day of expressions and sweat. To my surprise nothing had moved just like a waterproof mascara! The wand is really nice and doesn’t smudge on to my eye as easily as others. It’s a tall want with not that long spikes on it which is why i assume why. You can keep building it up and it isn’t clumpy! The packaging is super pretty and I would say its up there with brands like TooFaced and their mascara.

I have long lashes, but they're really thin, so I am always on the lookout for a product that will volumise without causing panda-eyes or itchy eyes (a few mascara formulas I've tried cause eye irritation). L'Oreal Paris Paradise Mascara has proved to be my new favourite because it does everything I want, and nothing that I don't want.

First of all... I love the packaging. The rose gold and pink tube is beautiful. The wand is super thick and bristly, which initially made me nervous as I've had clumping issues with wands like this in the past.

When the wand is removed it make a satisfying 'suck' sound and I'm not left with excess product on the wand, which is a relief. On application I immediately see longer, much thicker lashes. Two coats - no clumping - and the effect is intense. I've had people ask if I had lash extensions when wearing this. Reader, I have not. It's all this mascara.

Best of all? No transfer, no smudging, and it's super easy to remove.

New favourite. Will buy again. Will recommend to anyone wanting some oomph in their lashes.

I LOVE mascara, it’s one of my favourite make up products, and I’m a bit of a tough customer. So first impression was that the packaging was a little bit tacky for my liking. I love rose gold but for some reason this tube just didn’t do it for me. Maybe the two types of rose gold.

Anyway, it goes on nice and smoothly. You need to make sure there’s not too much product on the brush and you use a light hand otherwise it goes on too heavily. It increases the volume and length, so does what it said it would do, but there was just something missing.

Colour is a decent black.

The thing I did really like was that it doesn’t smudge like some mascaras do, I get eyelash spots on my brows and under eye smudge with some mascaras, so it was great that wasn’t a problem with this product.

So overall, I’ll keep using it, but unsure if I’d go out and buy it.

From the rose gold packaging, to the dotty writing, that reminds me of a glam 30s club in Havana, I knew I wanted to fall in love with this mascara.

And fall I did. Hard.

The wand catches my whole lash line, and is easy to control, using head on to get those tricky corner lashes.

The mascara itself is quite liquid. I smudged it within seconds upon the first application, but take two, I gave it 10-15 seconds of consciously being careful about moving my lid, and it dried well.

My lashes look longer and fuller. I found 1 coat plenty for an eyeopening effect. I tried 2 coats, and whilst the second coat applied well, it was a little too dramatic for me.

By the end of the day my lashes hadn't hardened, and there was no flaking at all. It easily removed using my everyday cleanser.

Wonderful product, thank you Beauty Review!

I am obsessed with mascara. I go through one a month. Ok sometimes one every 6 weeks. It's my must have product and one I show very little mercy too.

I have a couple of favourites, and often try new ones - but if I don't like them, I don't reuse, I callously chuck them out.

My first thoughts on the Paradise mascara was WOW. Rose gold. And it doesn't look tacky, or 'jumping on the rose gold bandwagon'. It looks classy and stylish. The lid/handle to tube ratio is great, it's easy to hold and wield.

The brush is great - its wavy, which works perfectly with the zig-zag application style -it catches every lash in several dimensions if that makes sense. I like that the bristles are soft and there's some flexibility to the brush, but that it's not too bendy.

There's a tight enough grip between the tube and the brush that excess product is adequately removed, and you don't need to wipe the excess.

Application is easy - it applies evenly and cleanly. I felt like I had great control over the wand and product.

This mascara lasts a whole day, and into the night. I didn't feel the need to reapply if I were going out straight from work.

I like to use 2 coats, which can be where a lot of mascaras fail - not this one though. Two coats apply like a dream. 1 coat looks like 'my lashes but better'. 2 coats looks like 'the lashes of a Hollywood star, without the extensions or expense'. A full, long lash line that still looks natural. Winning.

And, another huge plus - its easy to remove.

So this is a huge win for me. And to be honest. It's probably going to kick Benefit out of my mascara rotation. #sorrynotsorry

So this has been compared as a more cost effective dupe to Two Faced 'Better than sex' and i'd say it knocks the socks off it.

The colour is a nice strong black, the wand is thick'ish' but overwhelmingly so. It gave me gorgeous strong lashes without clumping and I feel the result leaves Two Faced in the shade.

I paid US$25 for Two Faced BTS and at NZ$25 this is a steal! I love it and i'll for sure buy it again.