I bought this mascara some time ago while buying some other products in Boots. It was on offer and I think I got it for half price - the full price being £12.50.

I usually balk at the idea of paying over £5 for a mascara so I thought this had better be worth it....

How more wrong could I be?

The chunky bottle contained a worms wine glass full of mascara (12ml) and the square 'wand' was a downright abomination. I may as well have daubed make up straight into my eyeball and saved myself a few quid. The coverage on my lashes was awful. I have quite nice longish lashes, quite blessed in that way, and wanted, like most women, to make them look even better. Instead I looked like an extra from the Rocky Horror Show. Goopy globules of black hung to my lashes like flies trapped on the inky spider webs of doom.

And then there was the smell....

The rank stench of fish which emanated from the bottle. I am aware that some make up, particuarly mascara, can often have a fishy smell. But oh sweet lord, no. It was like taking a sniff into a cod liver oil bottle (warning - don't ever do that unless you really want to puke).

While I am glad I didn't pay the full price for this barrel of bumpf, I still feel cheated that I paid half price.

Buy this if you hate your eyes.