Photo Courtesy of Rimmel London
Rimmel has a new covergirl, Zooey Deschanel! I love her, she is utterly adorable. Anyway she and her glorious lashes star in the new ads for Rimmel London’s Lash Accelerator Mascara, which I’m reviewing in this post. But seriously, she’s to die for, did you see “500 Days of Summer?” Great movie.
Rimmel’s newest mascara purportedly makes your lashes 80% longer instantly and your lashes appear longer by 117% (an odd percentage me thinks) after 30 days of continual use. It comes in black and brown and is in a spiffy black tube with a bright yellow-goldy cap.
I used my mascara for 30 days and while I liked it, I’m not sure it made my lashes a 117% longer. I think they did become some longer, but maybe not that much (also it’s hard to fairly judge, I mean I don’t normally try to measure my eyelashes so I don’t have the best sense of how long they normally are). I did take a picture of my eyelashes with and without mascara the first day of the 30 days of use, but since I need to post a new one for comparison, and I am ill and inconceivably ugly right now, I think that will have to wait until at least tomorrow.
Cut me some slack, I'm sick! Here's a pic of the Lash Accelerator and it's wand, ignore my sickly sweatshirt attire and chipped nails.
I love the brush on the Lash Accelerator mascara, it applied evenly and wasn’t clumpy, I used black which was very dramatic with my skin tone (personally I prefer to wear brown mascara but I’ll take whatever free mascara I’m given). It’s fairly short bristled and is slightly diamond-shaped, the bristles get longer at a little higher than the center of the brush.
It definitely made my lashes look longer instantly, which I loved, but on the down side at the end of the day I did find that it smudged beneath my eyes quite a bit. Maybe I put too much on? I like to put several coats of mascara no matter what kind/brand I’m wearing, I’m just a mascara-crazy kind of gal.
The real question here is would I recommend this mascara and I say yes. Tomorrow I’ll post my 1st day of use picture and a new picture of my lashes for comparison, but let me just say that I don’t think you should expect a huge crazy difference in eyelash length when buying this product. BUT, it will make your lashes *look* longer and goes on smoothly, just make sure you check for smudges periodically throughout the day.
Please note that in the second picture I’m wearing some mascara still (though much has been rubbed off by this point), so the darkness of my lashes is not natural.
