Maybelline "The Rocket" Volume Express, Mascara Review

Hello world! Loooong time no see!!! I wasn't able to make a decent post for a long time due to my exams and some health problems that I still deal with and also other issues. How y'all been? I hope you have a great summer, I tried for so many months to make a monthly favorites but I failed :P I still owe you some reviews like the Sephora makeup removing oil (i know, since like January! I'm so bad!) but obviously I haven't forgotten. For those that they don't know I've also started a blog in Romanian where I will mostly review products mainly available in Romania only or other closer countries (I've only done one post yet but I promise as soon as my health is ok I'll come back stronger and with many many posts). For whoever interested my blog in Romanian is: Vreau sa fiu frumoasa so check it out and subscribe :)

Anyway to get to the point of this post, this is my review on Maybelline's mascara "The Rocket" Volume express. Now you probably know that I love Maybelline mascaras, the original Colossal, the Colossal 100% black and the Falsies (the flared version) are those that I have tried so far and loved them. But I thought since 3 out of 3 Maybelline mascaras are awesome I'll try the rest of them. Why not, they are around 5-7 euro anyway. So after seeing a lot of YouTube videos and reviews I saw that a lot of people liked "The Rocket".

When I saw the tester at the store I noticed that the wand's bristles are plastic and super duper short especially at the tip of the wand and that made me think that this can't be for sure good because short bristles will make hard grabbing all the lashes and plastic bristles mean if you get close to your eye you will scratch yourself but I acted against my instinct and followed the internet crowd that loved it. And guess what.... I was wrong not to trust my instinct!

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As I mentioned and as you can see the bristles are plastic that makes it impossible to apply mascara from the root of your lashes because you'll simply scratch your eyelid. You can also see that the tip of the wand almost doesn't even have bristles anymore so you can't apply mascara to the lashes of your inner corner of the eye. Therefore this wand is absolutely useless and I just can't understand what they were thinking when they made this mascara for volume when you can't even apply it properly! It is possible that they were trying to make a similar mascara to the L'Oreal telescopic which as well has plastic bristles but it's far easier to apply product with that. 

Anyway, to avoid getting off topic, as I said, this wand is really poorly designed, in my opinion it's pretty much rubbish. Now to the formula of the mascara and the effect that it gives. As I said it's impossible to apply it properly therefore I didn't see any volumizing effect so from this point of view for a mascara that offers volume, this product is a complete failure. It can give some length if you manage to apply it as close to the lash roots as you can (without taking your eye out or smearing mascara everywhere) but it's not that big of a deal. Lastly, I believe it makes the lashes very stiff which is not nice or desirable and even though it's not the waterproof version it's a pain in the butt to remove even with oils.

In other words, if you want a volumizing mascara save your money from this one and just get some other maskara like the Colossal or the Falsies.

PROS:

- Cheap

- Okay formula (kind off)

CONS:

- Not practical wand.

- Difficult application.

- No meritorious effect on the lashes.

- Hard to remove.

- Makes the lashes feel weird.

My overall grade for it is: