Mascara: Revlon Double Twist Mascara

I didn't want to review this mascara, I wanted to throw it in the bin and forget I'd ever spent money on it. But, I promised to review as many mascaras as possible and this is just another review.

Revlon Double Twist Mascara is available at all the usual Revlon stockists: Boots, Superdrug, Supermarkets, etc for about £8-£9. I'm not sure how many colours it's available in. When I bought this, only black was sold.


Nice, eye catching red tube. It's really, really fat. I can easily pick this one out of my mass of mascaras, if I actually wanted to use it of course.

Usually, when I see the adverts for mascara in magazines and on TV I just completely ignore them. Generally, they're full of crap (styled with lash inserts, blah blah, show us how it actually works!). But this wand caught my attention. It was a mix of the more "traditional" stiff bristled wands, plus the rubber, flexi wands that are available now.


Yeah, can you see just how much mascara has glooped on the wand? No matter how careful I've been with wiping the wand off, I end up with way, way too much mascara on a very huge wand. Bet you can't guess where this is going?


Quite possibly the worst mascara I have used up to this point. I'm sure there is worse out there. The huge size of the wand, plus the fact it's covered in chunks of mascara, make this a very difficult mascara to apply. This picture is after one coat of mascara. I twisted the brush as I applied to get the effect of both brushes and ended up with a clumpy, lumpy mess over half of my lashes. A little (very) careful wiggling later and I was able to add some to my outer and inner lashes. It's also a very wet mascara, which I dislike as they take forever to dry. This one smeared all over while I was waiting for it to dry.

The concept of this is pretty neat. The two types of wands together could easily have made this a really solid product. Unfortunately, the formula is completely wrong for the wand. A drier formula probably would have helped out here.

I washed the mascara off the wand so you can see how it looks. Mascara is not packed in the same way in the UK as it is in the US. We don't get the wands outside the tube with our new mascara. Most of the time, they're just on the shelf so you have no idea if someone has gone and helped themselves. Maybelline have got better by packing theirs on card though.


So much potential.

I've seen bad reviews of this absolutely everywhere. Don't bother buying this, there are far better mascaras on the market these days.