CoverGirl Exact Eyelights Eye-Brightening Mascara in Black Gold

Ola Bonita Chica’s,

It’s amazing the things that the marketing divisions of cosmetic companies do to get us to buy their products. It’s also amazing how we women are lured by such tactics. The mascara I’m reviewing for you today also lured me in with its celebrity-endorsing and over the top claims. So get your browser into the top gear and read on to find out if it was a good decision investing in this, or possibly one that I regretted? The suspense is killing me- dun dun dduuuunn!

Covergirl Exact Eyelights Eye-Brightening Mascara in Black Gold

Product description:
This Covergirl mascara is actually bulkier and chunkier than what I’d like my mascara size to be. It is made of hard plastic white packaging. The different shades available are colour coded at the bottom to make them easy to spot in your makeup stash. The shade I have, Black Gold, fades in from black to grey to white at the bottom. The cap twists open to reveal the mascara wand which has hard (white coloured?) plastic bristles. I mean to say that they’re not solid hard, but harder than the fibre bristles that mascara wands usually have because it is plastic. The wand size is also smaller than I expected, from what were used to seeing in normal mascaras.

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Ingredients:
Not listed on the website, the product and there was nothing on the primary packaging.

Price
For some reason the different shades vary from USD 7.30 to USD 8.99 for 7.2 ml of product.

My experience with the CoverGirl Exact Eyelights Eye-Brightening Mascara in Black Gold:

The initial hoopla about this product that roped me and thousands of others in was that there were different shades of this mascara made for different eye colours. I have a love- hate relationship with companies when they do this! The Black Gold that I bought was especially formulated for hazel eyes, and even thought I don’t have hazel eyes, I thought that this was the perfect shade to flatter my eyes. It’s a shame the brand didn’t specially formulate something for jet black eyes as boring as they might be, considering millions of us have them, me included. Boo! Anyway this is a really pretty colour of mascara- it is a basic black mascara with teeny tiny absolutely iddle widdle gold sparkles in them. They make your lashes look beautiful when they catch the light and they’re not like obvious glitter or large chunks of glitter that a person standing in front of you would notice. It is only as you flutter those lashes will the effect of this mascara fully get noticed when the light hits it.

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The stay time of this is pretty long and you do not need to reapply at any time in the day. And boy do they mean this is waterproof. If anything, it is hard to remove this mascara, it will not budge in the rain or through your tears making this the perfect mascara for bridal makeup! You need a little extra shimmer on that special day of course! I really like the mascara wand as well and it works pretty well for me considering the bristles are hard plastic. This mascara doesn’t elongate the lashes but definitely makes them thicker. I have had no clumping problems, although I do need to go over my lashes with a spare dry spoolie to separate them but that is just a pet peeve I have. This mascara takes not more than a minute and a half to dry and I can easily use the wand both over my upper and lower lashes as well as the inner corner of my eyes. If I would have any complaints, it would be that this mascara straightens my lashes out and takes away that natural curl that they have otherwise. For this reason, I feel that this is not the best mascara to use with fake lashes, it does not help them gel in with your natural lashes.

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What issue I do have about this product is that the product claims are a little over the top. I don’t know if it gives me four times brighter eyes, come rain or shine and I should have had the sense to realize otherwise, but when Rihanna was batting her lashes with the hints of metallic glimmering away in the print ads, I could not resist purchasing this. Otherwise, this is actually a really surprising product in terms of delivery and come rain or shine it will not run on your skin and the tiny shimmer particles (that are different in all the shades) do not disappoint!

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Pros of CoverGirl Exact Eyelights Eye-Brightening Mascara in Black Gold:

  • Very unique metallic shimmer
  • Different colors of shimmer in each ‘shade’ of mascara to suit every eye colour
  • Non-clumping
  • Very waterproof

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Cons of CoverGirl Exact Eyelights Eye-Brightening Mascara in Black Gold:

  • Not sure if it brightens my eyes four times, but it does the job otherwise.
  • Needs a lot of makeup remover to take off.

Would I repurchase or recommend the CoverGirl Exact Eyelights Waterproof Mascara in Black Gold?

I would love to try out the other shades available in this and I definitely suggest you try them out if they are available at a drugstore near you. I’ve seen that one of them has a red metallic shimmer, now doesn’t that sound intriguing?

IMBB Rating:
4/5 and not a full five only because it is hard to remove!

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