by Chrissy Iley
I had not heard of Kevyn Aucoin but apparently he was a guru of make up artists: Someone who knew about glamour, someone who was old-school. The Mascara King. I am always looking for better mascaras and just when I think I’ve found one it dries up on me.
I have thin, un-lustrous lashes that appear very frail. They are too weak to be able to hold onto mascara. They are sad.
I was recommended Kevyn Aucoin`s award winning mascara by a make up artist who I loved because she has a white cat. I instantly trusted her.
It is a tubing mascara. I did not know what that was either. But it means the lashes are not so much covered but coated in miniature tubes that become the lashes. The coat does not fall off.
It does not look particularly volumising when you put it on; it comes with a skinny brush, which means you don’t miss a lash.
Recently I have been using fat brushes as I have been told fat brushes make fat eyelashes. But the fat brush mascara does not stay on. The thin brush by Kevyn Aucoin has permanence power that surprised me.
It stays on and it is in fact hard to get off. It seems to add length – the tubes are much longer than your own lashes and it comes only in black. They call it rich pitch black, which has an elegant ring to it.
It comes in a gold box, and inside the tube it is very thin and light but incredibly potent. It feels strangely regal and I am in love with it.