I tried this right when I got home from work, I removed the make up from one eye and tried my first coat of Clump Crusher. I bought the water resistent version (I didn't see a totally waterproof version) in 825 Very Black. The brush is curved which makes it easy to hit all lashes in one sweep and the plastic bristles (which I typically don't like as much as regular bristles) really separate the lashes. The bristles are fairly short, however, so they do allow the wand to deposit a good amount of product on the lashes without digging into your lash line risking a scrape of plastic bristle and resulting in the ever-terrible watery eye. The formula seems fairly thin but it's not actually super wet, which is what I think lets it coat the lashes well but helps them to not stick to each other as other more wet mascaras do. I usually like a drier formula but this one works for me so if that's something you typically like as well I think you'll like this mascara, too.
Here is my very bare eye (please excuse the tired eye) with one coat:
Here is my eye with two coats:
With two coats I really didn't see clumping! I think this mascara actually added quite a bit of length as well, which was nice. These are my lashes uncurled, as well, so I think with a nice curl they'd look even longer. I think the formula gives an average amount of volume, I like that my lashes don't look super thin but are still really defined. This brush does a really nice job separating but still adding a decent amount of volume. Perhaps I will try three coats next to see if it looks much more voluminous.
To compare to my typical mascara routine, here is my other eye with the mascara I wore today (my favorite combination of the moment, L'Oreal Million Lashes and L'Oreal Voluminous Original)keeping in mind that I had a bit of eyeliner on and it's a whole 10 hour day old:
Will this mascara make it to the list of my all time faves? Only time will tell. However, I really like this mascara upon first impression and I'm glad I picked it up. It is very difficult to compete with my L'Oreal Voluminous because I just always find myself going back to the tried and true that works for me and my lashes but I think the Clump Crusher may be in the running.
Another thing I picked up today at CVS was Goody's Simple Styles Bun Spiral. I'm not sure what posessed me to pick this up, I have been wearing buns semi-frequently lately but it's not like a bun is a difficult style to achieve. A hair elastic, some bobby pins and hairspray and I'm good to go, I wear a bun when I don't feel like doing anything to my hair, how could any spiral contraption make it any simpler than it already is? Well I decided this was worth a shot anyway, I bought the one for dark hair (there is one for light hair as well), for around 7 or 8 bucks.
Here is a shot of the instructions on the package, looks easy enough, right?
Well, in all reality, it really was that easy, the spiral was easy to put in and to take out and my bun felt like it was tight and secure. The problem for me is that I have pretty long and thick hair and when I twist my hair into a bun its circumference is bigger than the circumference of the spiral. If I twist it small enough to fit in the spiral my bun is really tall and thin and the thickness of my hair doesn't allow the spiral to reach the root of my head too well and my bun didn't feel as secure. I like my buns to be a bit flatter and wider, anyway. I found that this doesn't create a really super polished ballerina bun, as it allows bits of the ends to come out and it looks nice as a low side bun or nape of the neck bun. I think that if your hair is a bit thinner than mine this product would be ideal. If your hair is super thin, though, I don't think it would even hold your hair for an hour. I wish that I could figure out a way to make my bun fit into this better because I want to like this product! It really does securely hold all of my hair with no hair elastics, bobby pins or anything else. I will continue to experiment with this product and if I figure out how to make it work well on really thick hair I'll be sure to share. The beauty community raves about this lines smaller pins called their Spin Pins. The package comes with two little spin pins and you can use both on opposite sides of your bun to lock it into place and I believe there are other styles they work well with. I may be picking those up soon to give them a try.
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