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I think I’ve done quite a lot of premium beauty recently but I picked up the Essence Double Trouble Mascara last week for £3.50-ish in one of my local stores so I’ve been putting that through its paces.
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If you like your lashes really dark, this formula is ‘extra’ black so you will have a nicely sooty lash fringe from it. It’s also pretty good for not over-coating – new mascaras can often over deliver leaving you with a bit of a smudgy, start-all-over-again problem unless you remember to do a bit of a wipe off first. This doesn’t do that – which is good in one sense because you can do a comfortable layer build – in the other sense, perhaps it’s not quite wet enough?
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By the end of the day I did have some flaking but nothing much to complain about – in fact, I’d be quite happy to use this at the price on a day to day basis. The brush is a double sided complication – bristles are fluffy one side and short and spiky on the other depending upon which look – volumized or defined – you’d prefer. I like a skinny brush but it felt a bit unwieldy working out the sides so I didn’t bother. A good value mascara that I don’t really have any complaints about – it’s not Dior but it does the job. You can find it HERE for £3.79 and there is a waterproof version too.
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