♥ Max Factor 2000 Calorie Mascara: Review

The one thing I get through like nothing else is mascara. I always seem to have about five tubes of the stuff on the go at any one point and it means I rarely use them up before they start drying out and going a bit nasty. However, I'm trying to get through the open ones I do have and my second favourite, (first being Rimmel's Lash Accelerator) is one that I don't think I've even mentioned on my blog before. Last summer I bought my first few items from Max Factor and wrote this post on them. I remember reading about this in a blog post - not a clue where, sorry! - and wanting to try it. I'm not one for curling my lashes as they do hold a bit of a natural curl but one of my first experiences with makeup was stealing one of my mums mascaras. It was just like this one. My mum has poker straight lashes so she really needed something that would give her lashes a bit of a lift and the classic curved brush makes me think of her. The scent of this mascara also reminds me of the one I remember stealing off her because I wanted my own make up. It's probably due to the chemicals inside the mascara that help keep a curl in, no other mascara I have smells as strong as this but that doesn't put me off it at all. The wand isn't plastic, so the bristles are super soft on the lashes and help to really fan them out. On the packaging, Max Factor claim that it is smudge proof and I don't particularly agree with that. I don't use waterproof mascaras, so like the majority of other mascaras I use, if I wear this for a full day at university, it will transfer somewhere, somehow and that doesn't bother me too much as it is something relatively easy to fix.

All in all, I love the way this mascara helps to curl and define my eyelashes. I'll definitely be purchasing it again, and Max Factor are a brand I'm really going to have to keep trying out - I seem to grow to love everything of theirs I have in my collection! When it came to using this today I did notice the top of the wand (where you screw it back onto the tube) is cracked and I imagine that will mean it'll dry up quite soon, so I really will need to go and get my hands on another. Maybe this time I'll buy the waterproof alternative to stop any transfers!

What mascara are you obsessed with at the moment? Let me know in your comments.

Em x

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