Lancome Grandiose Mascara is easily the best looking mascara launch of the year. I love what they’ve done with the packaging and rounded shape bottom end. The top end fades to a clear perspex-like plastic that houses a single black rose – it’s just delightful.
But then… er.. this happens! Here’s the backstory. The difficulties we face with putting on mascara involve doing the ‘other’ eye and not getting decent enough coverage across the hard to reach areas. Crossing the brush over the nose, turning the wrist to reach the eye on the other side and switching to your other hand to apply mascara. Lancome Grandiose Mascara has a ‘swan neck’ that intuitively avoids cheekbones, nose and eyebrow arch when applying because it is curved at 25 degrees to its axis. WHAT? So, to avoid all these troublesome mascara pitfalls (my eyes are so rolling, just saying), you’ll have to follow some very complex instructions, that includes, “slightly rotate the wand between your fingers a third of the way round; the brush naturally positions itself horizontally over the central third of the eye.” Don’t worry about the other two thirds because there are just as complicated instructions to help you deal with those as well.
Nice idea, horribly over complicated by a set of instructions more tricky than learning how to perform key hole surgery. In fact, that’s probably easier.
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11 comments
This wand looks great, and that packaging is simply beautiful. But I got to the end of your post and read about the complex instructions, and I’m immediately put off the idea! x
I want this soooo bad! Very little excites me quite as much as a new, novelty mascara…xx
Thank you for the honest review! I actually LOL’d at the end of this post, I was initially intrigued at the thought of this when I saw promo photos but I I’ll stick to the normal mascara wands I know 🙂
I am torn between thinking “I am SO smart, because I simply swap the mascara wand to the other hand”, and “Lancome is SO damn arrogant for thinking their customers aren’t able to properly mascara their lashes”.
That said, I had surgery on my right hand last year. I wasn’t able to use the hand for over a week, and it turns out the ONLY things I can absolutely and immaculate do with my left hand are applying lipstick and applying mascara. I’m a freak 😀
I use each hand too after many mascara nose incidents when I started using it. Didn’t help that I had glasses and was doing it without good vision! But I’m so used to it now, that I can’t imagine doing it the usual way.
So a bit like the Givenchy bog brush one. Hold this way for the inner lash they turn a different way for the middle etc.
heheh.. the wand looks quite supportive, I think it would be better if we just skip the instructions and get on to usage.. as they learning byexperience 🙂
Lovely shade of Wet n Wild nail paint
Beautiful packaging but proper giggling about the wand 🙂 What is the actual mascara like?
To think that I’ve actually never had a problem applying mascara … I’M A GENIUS! Alert the authorities in Stockholm, because I’m obviously about to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Makeup.
The little rose is so so pretty
Megan x
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