I always pick up some l'oreal make-up when it is on offer in boots as the 3 for 2 deals really make it good value. I had been wanting to try the Mega Volume Collagene Mascara for a while after seeing the ad for it.
A couple of girl friends had used it and had nothing but praise for it so I was curious to see what it was like.

It is supposed to be one of the darkest mascaras that you can get thanks to the pigments in it and the collagen was supposed to really help thicken lashes and make them appear bigger and more dramatic.
It comes with a bigger brush than most mascaras which is what is supposed to coat your lashes individually and without clumping.

It is also more expensive than most high street brands of mascara at £10.99 so I was expecting good things from it. Unfortunately I didn't really think it was as amazing as I had been led to believe. The colour of the mascara is the best thing about it and it really is a lovely rich deep black and when it is on your eye lashes it does leave them looking intense and immediately after one coat my eyelashes already looked darker and more defined by a considerable amount.

It is when I came to layer the mascara that I found problems with it. Although it is supposed to not clump I found that in fact it actually did clump whenever I tried to add more than one coat. The first coat goes on perfectly and looks great but if I wanted a more dramatic look say for a night out and tried to build up a few layers it would just clump and stick my lashes together and not look very good at all.

I really liked the brush that came with this mascara as it was big enough to be able to get loads of the mascara on but not so big that it was awkward to use or touching my skin when I was applying it.
It also did do a good job of separating and coating each individual eye lash with just one application. If I was only looking for a day mascara that I wanted to apply once to give my lashes a bit of colour then this would be ideal but as I actually bought it for a night time mascara the fact it clumps when trying to layer it just doesn't make it suitable for that.

Other than the gorgeous colour this mascara was a waste of money for me personally as it just didn't do what I wanted it to do. My friends still rave about it and I do wonder if maybe there was something wrong with the formulation of mine to cause it clump so badly but as it is on the expensive side I won't be buying it again to find out if that is the case or not.