Review (1/5): TL;DR Not worth hassle, better off with glue ons
Bought these as a test to see if the magnetic eyelashes are worth it. I’d never tried them before and figured, what the hell. As a long time eyelash fan, I completely understand the idea of spending hours on make up just to have that final step of putting glue-on lashes ruin it all, they’re not easy... so the appeal was here to give this new way a try.
Let me be frank, they’re terrible and not worth the money. I’ll take my chances on the glue...
To explain why... I can’t speak to all brands but the magnetic eyeliner for this has not been perfected yet. Despite shaking the container vigorously for 10-20 shakes per instructions, the eyeliner is thick. Even using my tiny regular eyeliner brush to apply I still ended up with thick raccoon lines. Fine, a night out it might be a little thicker than normal... I looked past it... however when it came to putting the lashes on...
They provided a metal applicator?! Why? The eyelashes stuck to it and make applying it to the eyeliner difficult. I switched to a plastic applicator that I get from my regular glue on lashes. That made it a little easier. However, you have to be excessively careful not to get the eyeliner on your actual eyelashes or it will stick to them.
Okay, second try, reapply trying to make the eyeliner thinner and avoiding my eyelashes, waiting a little while for the eyeliner to fully dry, bam they stick! However, they’re a little higher than my lash line so I go to adjust them, the eyeliner flakes off and there’s a chunk of eyeliner missing (it’s attached to the magnet of course.) I take my small eyeliner brush, fill in the hole, wait for it to dry and place it right back.
They’re on, they look decent (albeit thicker eyeliner than usual even for a night out) however I can’t apply any mascara to make them blend with my natural eyelashes (or they move and I do the patch job all over again) and I feel as though one swift gust of wind and they’ll be out of alignment.
There’s a few reviews here with people who have had success and if that works for them that’s great, I will be going back to my regular glue on eyelashes. It takes practice, I’m sure, just like regular glue on eyelashes but if the convenience isn’t there why would I buy them over glue ons?