I managed to score this with my points during the Beauty Vault and I'm not sorry I spent them all on this!
This is my first high end mascara, and has been a positive experience.
The skinny brush with different sides and tips allows me to poke mascara at lashes that most brushes don't reach, as I have small eyes.
The formula is not said to be waterproof but it doesn't smudge during a heavy gym session.
It comes off for micellar water or jojoba oil, and they catch all the little fibres. I gave a favourable review to the Butterfly lash mascara as it has a similar wand, but the formula on this mascara is better. You get the body but the fibres are smaller. I don't find stray fibres on my face some time after I took the stuff off, unlike the previous one.
So, yes, this is expensive, but I feel that it's done what it promised. My next mascara is going to be another with a skinny brush. If that doesn't pan out well, I reckon I would splurge for this, or maybe wait for a sale at Farmers.
I was pretty excited to see a mascara in the vault. Did I need one? Not really. But as my current favorite is not available in NZ and nobody (without a forwarding service) ships it here, I decided to get this. It arrived 5 days later and I was excited to get into it.
The brush is weird. I don't know if they're all weird or if I got a special one. The bristles are in lines of three, and then a gap, then another line of bristles, another gap so on. It's the weirdest brush I've ever seen and used in my life.
The color is black, which is great as I don't think I'd use a brown. Only purple. I took off one eye of mascara and put this on to compare. I was quite amazed. 2 coats and my lashes were longer, blacker and generally nicer to look at. The brush (weird) is alright to apply with, but i have poked myself several times and I'm not sure if its because I'm special, the brush is weird or a combination of the two.
I did think it made my lashes longer, as well as more curled, darker and definitely more vavavoom. I do think this mascara is more on the subtle side, but maybe I'm just too used to my clumpy Better Than Sex mascara from Too Faced. Either way, this stuff is a winner, its available in NZ and well. It's pretty great!