Revlon Selects: Lash Potion by Grow Luscious

I was sent a tube of Revlon Lash Potion Mascara in the shade Blackest Black to try out for a bit and see if I liked it. I’ve been trying it out for the past week. It usually doesn’t take me that long to come up with an opinion on something like mascara, but I was really conflicted about this product.

The packaging is gorgeous. I love how distinctive it is when I’m digging through my makeup bag. It’s fairy-tale glamorous.

It’s a fibre brush, not a plastic/rubber one, which I prefer greatly. It makes me feel like it’s a higher end product, even though it’s a drugstore mascara. It actually reminds me a lot of one from a Chanel mascara I had. The wand has short and long bristles to provide you with both length and volume to your lashes. I’m not sure if the short bristles did much, because it seems like they’re all gooped up with mascara, but I did see a noticeable difference in the fullness of my lashes, as well as the length. It is super mega huge, so I did have to be careful not to get mascara on my eyelid/nose/cheek...maybe I'm just clumsy.

The effect is just plain lovely. It gives you this brilliant showy look that I can’t get enough of. A lot of days I’m running out the door to class, so I’m wearing my glasses, and I still got compliments on it.

So what could possibly make me conflicted about this brilliant, brilliant stuff?

When it fails, it fails hard. At around the eight hour mark, actually at nearly exactly eight hours, it flakes off pretty much immediately in a cruddy black mess that leaves me looking like a panda. It’s really not good. I have a hard time reconciling this with the awesome effect it had. There is a waterproof formula, and I think I'll be trying that to see if it works a little bit better, because I do like how it looks, just not it’s staying power.

I can’t say that I would purchase this mascara, but I will go get it in its waterproof version and see if that works better.