I purchased mine online from eBay - Love Alpha Fibre Lash Mascara
It was very affordable costing around £7. This included a hard leopard look case, similar to a glasses case, which included, instructions, a secured translating gel and a secured fibre wand. Both the mascara tubes were in a golden leopard look tube. Overall the package was with the money itself, very durable and looks pretty.
When opening up the transplanting gel it just looked like a normal mascara, it was a normal mascara wand with black liquid similar to mascara, however I found it more watery than a normal mascara.
The fibre wand was a really thin mascara wand and was just covered in lots of tiny little black fibres. Exactly what I was expecting.
The instructions says to firstly apply the transplanting gel to your lashes in the same was as a mascara, then immediately apply the fibres, finished with a top coat of the transplanting gel.
When applying the transplanting gel it was very watery and seemed to go everywhere all over my lids and wasn't very thickening, however it did look the same as a mascara, just thinner than a normal mascara. You could get away with only wearing this if you wanted a natural look. Then I applied the fibres, you have to be very careful doing this as fibres did seem to come off the wand a lot and I was very cautious of these going in my eye. After the fibres I applied the finishing top coat of the transplanting gel, I found this just seemed to take off most of the fibres and didn't add any extra length at all! I tried the whole process 3 times to try and build and layer the mascara, however I still had no luck, my lashes just started to clump together and gave no separation, length or thickness!
With seeing these results, I was convinced that people apply a coat of their normal mascara first and leave that to set before starting the fibre mascara steps. I gave this a go by firstly applying a good coat of my YSL Babydoll mascara as a base to the transplanting gel. I then followed the required steps to apply the fibre lash mascara. Again I done the fibre lash steps twice and this gave much better results, however not much difference to if I was to layer my normal mascara.
Overall, I don't think this product worked for me very well, however I am fortunate enough to have quite long natural lashes, so this may make a difference to someone with shorter lashes. Although it doesn't state that this mascara is for certain lash types, I would of thought it gave me a little extra length!
So this product didn't work for me, however I do think it worked better when I added the mascara base coat. I am not bashing this product in any way at all, I am just giving an honest opinion of how the product worked for me and my lashes, but that is not to say that this product may not work for you! I am going to carry on using it and try to make it work and if I find a way that works for me I shall keep you updated!
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