MAC's Haute and Naughty mascara has a two step brush system; the pink gives you light eyelash coverage; the purple gives you double the brush and therefore double the volume in your lash. It's a wonderful idea, giving you the choice of two different effects whilst only using one mascara tube. Which, when you are spending a lot on a mascara, is a real bonus as you don't want to necessarily have two tubes open at once, one for 'day' and one for 'night'. If, like me, you are meticulous in your mascara hygiene then you'll be getting through a new mascara every three months - that is 4 a year and at £17.50 a pop, £70 a year. Adding two to your buying schedule so you can have super almost false volume for party and simple girl next door chic for work brings this up to a whopping £140 a year. In which case, Haute and Naughty really does save you money.

Moving onto the mascara formula itself, it has a strong colour and the naughty effect really is striking and volumous and the haute side gives incredibly natural looking lashes. Both sides coat evenly and don't clump the lashes together. I have noticed a couple of disadvantages with this formula, however. The first is that it doesn't seem to have the staying power I would expect in that it smudges easily and by the end of the day has slipped and settled into my undereye wrinkles. If you want a MAC mascara that stays put until the end of the day, I'd recommend that you turn to Zoom lash instead. The second problem I have found is that it goes clumpy in the tube fairly quickly. I'm onto my third tube and again, within a month, it's clumpy and I'm having to wipe the wand every second application. Due to this, I've decided I'm not going to be buying myself a fourth, but it's pretty unusual of me to be getting to the stage of three buys in a row when it comes to make up so that tells you a lot about the quality of the look.