Maybelline Volum' Express review

Just a note: I am not writing this to bash on the company or any of the products. I am not trying to sound rude or spoiled or anything either. I'm just writing this because I wish I would have seen something like this before I bought them all. Hopefully it will help someone. :)

Ok so I usually don't buy more than one mascara at a time but since I got my first Maybelline mascara (I don't remember which one I had), I have always wanted to try the other kinds they have to get the cool effects they advertise.

So I recently started off with the purple, Falsies flared one... and I love it.

The bristles are thick on the wand and it is only slightly curved. It's perfect! The makeup itself goes on really well on your eyelashes and makes them thick and gives them length. It also doesn't clump your lashes together very much which is good cause I hate having my mascara make me look like I have four eyelashes. Though they might not look completely like false eyelashes, they do thicken and add length. I will definitely buy this again and highly recommend it for my friends.

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Being a crazy cat lady who wings her eyeliner to the sides of her eyes every day, I was excited to see that they made a Colossal Cat Eyes mascara that is supposed to make the inner part of your eyelashes shorter than the outer ones, forming a cat eye effect. However, I have no achieved this.

I was extremely disappointed with this mascara for a couple reasons:
 First of all, the brush is really thin and the bristles are short so I feel like I cannot get enough onto my lashes. It darkens my lashes but doesn't feel like I got anything on them. I'm not saying that this is a bad product in general, just not for my style. I like my lashes thick and long and this just didn't happen with this brush. Not even on the side that the commercial claimed. No cat eye effect was achieved.

 The wand is shaped in a V shape in order to catch the lashes differently and create a different shape but the only shape I can seem to get out of it is the shape of my lashes in the middle going up and the ones at the outer end, flaring down when they're supposed to go up and out. And I didn't like that.

And the last thing I didn't like about this mascara was after you up it on your lashes it kinda makes them look like you hardly have any. it doesn't clump them into big clumps but it seems like it clumps them so that the mascara starts out thick at the root of your lashes and then goes out really thin at the end of them. I also didn't like this and will not repurchase it.

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And lastly there is the Mega Plush Maybelline mascara that I purchased last and also will not repurchase. The commercial claims that the mascara thickens your lashes and makes you look like you have more lashes then you have, but I did not get that.

The bristles are long on the wand which would be good to get all the lash but it didn't seem to work for me. I felt like the bristles weren't picking up enough of the makeup onto the wand and constantly have to dig into the container to get more.

The biggest disappointment I had was that it didn't make my lashes look plush at all. My lashes actually look like a mess and I almost always get the mascara onto my eyelids in attempts to getting it all the way to the root of the lashes.

And yes, I do understand that in the commercials they are wearing fake lashes, so I'm not using that on my review. I am fully aware of that. I'm just telling you how I feel about my experiences.


I just remembered the first one I had of all was the regular Colossal mascara which I also liked and will try again but as of right now I would just like to buy the Falsies one. If you have another one that is better than that one or have different techniques that I am missing with the ones that I don't like that will make me like them better, let me know.
Thank you for reading :)