Fly With Me

I'm always on a hunt for a good mascara and as much as it's a daily essential makeup item and something that I've always used since the start of me wearing makeup, I have never ever found myself loyal to just one brand of mascara. As you UK Beauty Bloggers will know that NYX is not a easy to get hold of brand over in the UK and when River Island started selling a few of their cosmetics, I was well up for giving them a try, particularly their Fly With Me Mascara. River Island where retailing this at £11.50 which I thought was pretty steep (even with my discount) for a mascara, especially when I hadn't tried any NYX products before. So when it went into the sale for £2.00 I was keen to snatch one up and give it ago.

The first thing that took my fancy with this NYX Mascara had to be the fancy packaging! I thought that it looked very sleek with its black shiny cardboard box and I love how you can see pictures of the mascara and wand on the side. 

As you can see from the picture of the wand, its a plastic one with small bristles, which are narrow one end and ball-shaped towards the other end. The application of the NYX Fly With Me Mascara was very easy to use and coated my lashes with minimal effort. As the name of this mascara suggests, its a lengthening mascara and the unique shaped wand really does help you to get each individual lash, which creates the illusion of longer, beautiful lashes. 

I was really pleased with the overall length of my lashes after using this mascara. However there were a few things which I didn't like. -

The mascara is not very wet (I don't know if this is the right term to use here) I found that the fomula was very quick drying, which is fabulous if your on the go and just wanting to do a quick coat on your lashes. But if your like me and like to give your lashes a few coatings of mascara, I found the NXY Fly With Me, dried too quickly for me to do so. 

Which brings me on to my next point, this is not a volumising mascara. I'm aware that it states this on the box, but like I said I normally give my lashes a few coats to add extra volume and because of the light weight formula I was unable to do this,

Overall this is a great mascara, especially if you are someone who does have shorter eyelashes. The NYX Mascara really will make it look as though your eyelashes are flying away BUT unfortunately this is not the right mascara for me and for its original price I would not re-purchase it. 

I always feel a bit meh about doing a review on something that I have mixed feelings on, but I know River Island don't sell this anymore so I'm hoping this review might help anyone who is thinking of going to all the trouble and order it online. 

(I think really I just was hoping my lashes would look like the models on the box as hers as her lashes are full of volume as well as them being long)