Shoo Stiletto

There are times when I get so excited about a beauty product—they way it’s marketed of course has something to do with this, much as I hate to admit it. Because let’s be honest. If you have an acne problem, you can’t help but perk up when one of those miracle fix-it products are being hawked on some infomercial. If you just had a baby, of course you’re going to study every stretch mark cream on the market. And when you see some magazine ad where some model’s lashes are out to there — all because of some mascara of course, rather than nature or Photoshop — you, or well, at least I, have to go try it.

See, one of my top beauty kvetches is that I have almost no lashes to speak of, so naturally I was seduced by Maybelline’s newest mascara, Lash Stiletto, which supposedly not only makes your lashes extra long, it gives the illusion of additional length through added shine.

Well, I bought Lash Stiletto last week, and honestly, it just wasn’t all that.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s good makeup. It glided on easily and clump-free with a larger than average brush. But there was no dramatic oh-my-god-they-look-like-false-lashes moment.

I’ve been regularly using the same mascara for the past two years and after a few days of Stiletto I’ve already come crawling back to my Maybelline Lash Stylist.
For me, it seriously beats any other drugstore or department store mascara, which I think has something to do with its brush, or rather comb. The comb applicator prevents clumps and better directs lashes, eliminates the need for that dreaded device, the eyelash curler. So in all honestly, I’m not even sure how much the actual black goo plays a role in how good it looks, but who cares?

(In the interest of fairness, I attempted to apply the Lash Stiletto mascara with the Lash Stylist comb, but unfortunately the comb applicator wouldn’t fit down the neck of the other mascara’s tube.)