Once Bitten...Product of the Week

You know when you excitedly spend money on a big online make-up haul (Makeup Revolution and KIKO are my faves) and you try the products and then you think, ‘nah, don’t like it’?  Well, I am now eating my words.  I have recently been bitten by ‘The Viper – Mascara with Bite’ (£3, Makeup Revolution) again.

Anyone who knows me is aware of my penchant for all things animal and reptile print – faux of course (my very first animal print purchase was at the age of 15, a pair of zebra ballet flats bought from H&M Geneva in 1986 – I must check this with my Mum but I am sure I am correct) - so it won’t be a surprise that I would buy a product simply because it has snakeskin packaging.   The only thing, and its very trivial, is that I am not keen on the the colour of the tube.  It's brown.  I like my black mascaras in black packaging.  If it’s a green mascara, then green packaging and so on – it’s a little quirk of mine.

However, I would normally discard a mascara due to mascara-goop (as Chandler Bing called it) but over the last few years, I’ve had no goop from any mascara.  My throwing it in my bottom drawer was in fact due to the size and shape of the brush that I couldn’t get to grips with.  It’s viper-head-shaped (ah, hence the name), spoon-like and curvy.  I have quite short lashes so I’m not keen on fat brushes as I can’t seem to get the brush down to the roots that easily (without making a mess) and this is quite a large brush, for me.  So I discarded it – not in my kit but in a bottom draw as I thought I wouldn’t be able to use it on anyone else.

Weeks later, I was messing about with my kit and my own make-up when I thought, I’ll try the Viper again.  What do you know, I’ve been wearing it all week and I really like it.  I have to be careful when I’m putting it on else I prod myself in the eye or I get it on my skin above my lashes (sigh) but on application, it’s a strong black, I get definition and it doesn’t smudge.  In the evenings, while I am watching TV, I find myself stroking my lashes as they are surprisingly soooooo soft.  Makeup Revolution website tells you to use the “Snake’s back for volume and lift and the side and the tip for precise lash catching.” What a nice snake.

For those who aren’t aware, Makeup Revolution (www.makeuprevolutionstore.com), hails from London and was launched in 2014.  The pricing starts at £1 which initially gives off alarm bells and you think that the products aren’t going to be good but if you’re a make-up floozy like me then it is very hard to resist.   I have, in fact, bought quite a few bits from them but I think I might leave it there - more to discuss another time.  They deliver to Ireland which I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing - snigger.  In the words of Big Brother - you decide.