Don't judge a mascara by its packaging!

My Favourite Mascara!

This one is easy. A few months ago if you'd have told me I could only have one product, I'd have probably chosen a foundation but this mascara has changed my life.

I had been buying Maybelline Great lash in blackest black with no interruption ever since I first started to wear make up when I was about 13 and I still think that is an amazing mascara and I would go and repurchase it any day.

I stopped buying my comfort blanket mascara when Rimmel Scandal Eyes came out. This was around the time I was becoming obsessed by make up, lusting after all products out there and spending most of my time in Superdrug, despite my lack of money to spend on it. It seemed impossible to escape the bright orange packaging and I succumbed, I also then got another one free when I bought the Rimmel Wake me up foundation. I cannot stress enough how much I do not recommend this mascara, it's super crumbly and it makes me sad. The only thing I like about it is the packaging. BUT this blog is about my favourite mascara not my least favourite, so let's move on in my mascara story.

One of my friends had a foam party for his 18th and as if I didn't hate Scandal Eyes enough for it's crumbliness I had also recently discovered that even though it never claims to be waterproof it seems to give you worse panda eyes than any other mascara ever with only the slightest bit of water so I went on the search for a new (cheap, because that's all I do) waterproof mascara.

The Bourjois clubbing waterproof mascara caught my eye, not because of it's packaging which unlike Scandal Eyes is the only thing I don't like but because the tube has "tested at foam parties" written on the side. This is volumising but not at all clumpy and it stays on no matter what. It survived the foam party and quite a few tears that night, it has survived 2 rides on a very wet log flume, rain, jumping off a boat, swimming and another foam party. I rave about it so much, it is without a doubt my holy grail product, it's brilliantly waterproof and I have now idea how this works but when you want it to come off, in the shower, with a make up wipe, face wash, cleanser or however you take your make up off at the end of the day, it is super duper easy to take off. My top tip though is to wipe off excess product on to the side of the tube before applying or it will be clumpy.

being impressed with the mascara after jumping off a boat in Crete

Bourjois Volume Clubbing Waterproof Black Party Mascara 

Moral of the story: don't judge a book by it's cover or in this case, a mascara by its packaging!