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Fab February: Review of Benefit's They're Real Mascara


For today's Fab February I thought I would do a makeup review, because I don't think I have done one in a while (or at all?). I purchased this mascara in October and since then I have a had  love/hate relationship with it. Let me start off by saying that I LOVED Benefit's BadGal Lash Mascara. Like literally loved it. But I had read really good reviews about this mascara and the lady at Sephora told me she like it way more than the BadGal. So giving in to makeup pressure I bought it, and the first time I tried it I hated it. I tried it a million different ways and I just could not avoid the skinny spidery lash look, which I despise (unless it is intentional like for fashion week). So I put it away and let it sit for a while thinking that maybe the formula just needed to dry out a little bit. And I was right! I started using it again in December and at that point the consistency was perfect. The formula was less wet so it volumized and curled my lashes rather than making them skinny wet spidery ones.


The wand on this mascara is fantastic it really gets every lash and coats it with inky black colour. It is a shiny finish, not matte like BadGal, and it does a great job of lenthening, seperating, and holding curl. The only downside is that this is a killer to get off. I use heavy duty eye makeup remover and it still struggles to remove this mascara. I have also found that if your don't take it all off your eye lashes will start to get thinner and fall out.
So to conclude, this is not my favourite mascara, and I would not repurchase it or recommend it to anyone with long eyelashes. I will finish the tube, because I can't justify buying a new mascara with this perfectly fine one sitting there, but I think I will just repurchase the good old BadGal Lash Mascara.

I hope this review helped anyone looking for a new mascara and contemplating buying They're Real. I always try to only put out positivity on my blog, but I also did not want to misrepresent this product. All of the above opinions are my own and hope this review helped you on your quest for your HG mascara.

xx
JD

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