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August issue, £2, free Benefit Gimme Brow, choice of two shades light and dark
Marie Claire, for twice the price, has benefit's newly relaunched brow product
I shall use it tomorrow and report back, since my left eyebrow has never grown back properly I use a brow pencil every day This looks like a mascara-type thing

Oh I shall look out for that, I'm out and about tomorrow, meeting a friend in the Quays

Thanks Di, I'll have a look later!

I actually bought a Benefit mascara last week while I was on my way to the meet. I've had problems with mascara sliding straight off, even waterproof, so resorted to dyeing my lashes and using a clear mascara.
I bought some MAC lipstick online and received a mascara sample with it. I tried it and it stayed on. I looked in MAC last week but they didn't have a brown in stock so I thought I'd try Benefit They're Real as they do a brown.
It's fantastic! I apply it first thing and it stays on until I remove it at bedtime.

Oh that's a result Jo I have trouble with mascaras too, but with me the problem is how straight and fine, but sparse, my lashes are They have no curl (just like the hair on my head!) and most mascaras just make them very clumpy and spidery The Clinique ones are good, never tried Benefit.

I thought your eye make up looked lovely last week Kaz.

I have had that Benefit one I bought it with some of the birthday money i got from the girls at work last year. It was good but seemed to go dry and unusable in a short time

I'm now using a different one, (can't remember which) but like you Kaz I have straight lashes where the mascara either clumps or looks as though i haven't put enough on. I am toying with the idea of having an eyelash perm....

Oh now that would solve a lot of probs Gal, but I am so damned sensitive with stuff that I'd probably react! Let us know if you go for it!

Thanks Ally, that's the Clinique mascara I use now, took me ages to find one that suited

Just a thought Gal. but maybe if you'd taken that mascara back they would have replaced it? Not the same company, I know, but my friend Emma returned a Body Shop concealer the other week, when we were in town - they didn't have the exact one in stock, but they gave her another similar one, with the promise of replacing the original when they got stock in I thought that was brilliant customer service! Always worth a go!

I had my eyelashes dyed once and loved them...there looked like a very fine line of eyeliner on the upper lashes that I really liked.

All 3 of my boys have very long thick lashes...typical!

Gal...what's an eyelash perm?

Er...where they perm your eyelashes Just like they did your hair back in the 80s - it makes them curl and they look better when you wear mascara