Maybelline Great Lash BIG Mascara

I have never really been a fan of great lash. But I saw the bigger brush and I was willing to give it a try. I know that there is a huge cult following behind this one but I don't get it :S. The formula is just not thick enough or something, not effective either. And as I have read in other reviews the "five fat lashes" thing is really true.

I didn't get seperation or volume like I had hoped, length was okay, but meh. The formula was too wet, even more wet than Fresh supernova. Now that is a wet formula BUT it has lots of building power, a great brush, and a certain velvet-y component to it, everything that this mascara doesn't have.

As part of my most recent hunt for the ulitmate mascara for myself, I picked this new formula up from Maybelline. The Great Lash formula has been around for years, this new one, Great BIG Lash is a little wonder at a mere $6.99 no less!!

I have been truly surprised with this mascara.....it has a great big brush, and really coats every single lash exeptionally well.You get tons of volume with this formula, and the" Very Black " colour is super super black and velvety! I wear it a lot, as an every day type go to mascara. (I save my expensive stuff for special occassions, or when I want a more made up look) So far.....no smudges, no flaking, and it lasts without clumping up at the end of the day. It washes off easy too.

I love this stuff! It's an amazing deal of a product!

Hi everyone! Today I’m going to be reviewing Maybelline’s Great Lash Mascara BIG. I saw this mascara advertised everywhere and I must admit, the picture in the ads is pretty cool (see the picture above). I mean, look at that wand. It’s humongous. My sister and I were at Walmart when the Maybelline promo girl spots us in the makeup area, and takes out of our cart all the products we had picked up and replaces them with similar Maybelline products. How rude is that? We ended up not taking any of the products she was trying to force on us, except,w ell… the mascara. We got one each. My sister looked at the picture in the package and said “Oh, that’s a pretty wand! It’s pink and green!”. I was excited at the big, green and pink want until I got home and noticed -”Oh yeah, the wand is actually pitch black since it comes inside the mascara tube”.

Moving on… the wand colors weren’t that disappointing. I got this mascara in “very black” and I have to give the product props in terms of pigmentation: it is an amazingly beautiful, rich black. I’m not used to wands as big as this one, so when I was going to apply the mascara it did feel a bit weird and uncomfortable at first, but nothing unbearable. The size does make it somewhat hard to reach the inner corner lashes, and applying it on your lower lashes must be done very carefully especially if you’re like me, who doesn’t have a lot of lashes down there.

My upper lashes are very long but I don’t have a lot of them, so what I look for in a mascara is fullness more than length. I was able to lengthen my lashes quite a lot creating a dramatic look, and it becomes more dramatic as you add coats. It is a very buildable mascara as it promises. This mascara, however, fails to separate my lashes. Like I said, I don’t have a lot of lashes – and what this mascara does, is it groups my lashes together. In a video review I saw for this product someone said it looked like you have “five fat lashes” or something. I was very skeptical, I thought “that can’t be!” – but I’m telling you… it’s true. At least for my ungenerous amount of lashes, it just groups them together in like five fat chunks. I’ve tried curling them, not curling them, wiggling the wand, wiggling it a lot, not wiggling at all… I always get the same results. It’s such a shame, I actually like everything else about this product except this. I rarely use it anymore, since it makes my eyes look strange, especially if I wear it during the day. You know, like if I had cartoon lashes. I haven’t tried using this mascara for a night look, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if you have dark eye makeup on.

This is not waterproof mascara. As for removing, I simply use oil-free makeup-remover towelettes and it comes right off. In conclusion, I don’t hate the this Great Lash Mascara BIG, but it doesn’t work for my long-but-sparse lashes. I would really like to hear from someone with abundant lashes who has tried it, so that I know how it works for you! By the way, this product was around $7.00 for 0.34 FL OZ.