"Pain is subtle. He has cold grey fingers. His voice is hoarse from crying and screaming."

— from The Book of Qualities by J. Ruth Gendler

Part of the One Year Eyecolor Challenge (new colors used: 4)

Eyes

• The SheSpace's Beyond Convention, lash to crease - base color
• The SheSpace's Tactical Tyranny, outer lid - color/shading
• Make Up For Ever's Star Powder 950, inner lid - shading
• Bare Escentuals' French Navy, wetlined upper lash line - definition
• Rimmel's Magnifier mascara, upper lashes - definition

Today I tried Rimmel's Magnifier mascara. The tube is straight, so it actually stands up properly...but this stuff was all but dripping off the end of the wand when I pulled it from the tube. I now know firsthand what a runny mascara formula looks like. I didn't even try applying this to my lower lashes, since I had some smudging and spotting problems when applying it to my upper lashes. Big disappointment here. The applicator is okay, the price wasn't too bad, but when I re-read the words on the packaging, "Get the London Look", the words that kept running through my head was "Oh my god...I'm a chav!!" (Not all mascaras that are manufactured by companies headquartered in London have this problem; but every Rimmel mascara I've tried to date HAS been a bit on the liquidy side, giving me lashes that glom together (rather than clumping mascara, but still...NOT the look I'm going for) and spots of mascara on my lids and on my upper cheekbones.

I like the way the rest of the look turned out. Beyond Convention is kind of a unique brown in my collection - I don't know that I have much that's like it, as it's more of a warm brown and I tend to gravitate toward cooler browns. Since it was a limited edition and since its creator is going out of business, I'll have to set about finding a duplicate...

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