Maybelline Great Lash Clear Mascara

Let me start off by saying that I have normal brows, slightly on the thicker side.  When I wake up, they are all over the place and adding a little brow gel makes me look more polished.  Without any gel, the tails of my brows also like to go all crazy if I accidentally brush my hand against them.  One swipe of my hand and the hairs at the end start flipping up.  After using several brow products, I have come to the realization that I prefer a small spooly on the application wand so I have more control when I apply the product.

I thought I would give the Maybelline Great Lash Mascara in Clear a try as a brow gel, thanks to many rave reviews.  This does a nice job at holding my brow hairs in place, but there are a few downsides of this product.  It takes a good five or so minutes to fully dry down, so I would end up walking around with shiny brows until it dried.  This mascara also has a spooly brush where the bristles are spaced too far apart.  As I ran it across my brows, it would push my hairs into lines, going in the direction I swiped.  I would say this clear mascara has a medium strength hold and left my brows crunchy.  When I would move my eyebrows, it felt like my eyebrows were stiff.  But, if I happened to itch my eyebrow, the hairs would be out of place again.

This bottle lacks the typical stopper that scrapes off excess product.  This mascara allows way too much product to get onto the spooly.  When I first started using this, I would scrape the wand on the sides of the top.  After I ran the spooly through my brows, I would run through them again with an alternate spooly to get rid of excess product and any lines the mascara wand left.

I was able to re-apply this product without it flaking.  I also noticed that since it is sort of watery, it sometimes removes some of the color from my eyebrows as I apply it.  You can see in the picture that the gel turns a light brown because of this.

I got this product at CVS for $5.99 but you can buy it at Target for $4.49.

I would put my own picture but I used it up and threw it away before I had the idea to create this blog.  The picture is from: http://kmakesithappen.com/maybelline-great-lash-clear-gel/