Ardell Individual False Eyelash Duralash review

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There’s a reason I don’t do many make-up reviews! I am just not comfortable taking photos of my face. And they always come out blurry! Argh!

Any way, you may remember that the fabulous Dawn from Radiant Babe sent me an Ardell Duralash kit to try out. I’m really starting to love false lashes, especially after getting my weekly dose of Strictly Come Dancing (Ali & Brian FTW!) where all the girls  – and probably some of the boys – wear them, and look fantastic.

So, here we go. Here’s a naked eye for you, just so you know what we’re working with.

In the box, you get two sets of lash flares (brown and black), a pair of tweezers, adhesive and remover. The instructions are lengthy to say the least, but the principle is straightforward.

Pour some of the adhesive onto a square of tin foil, and then, grasping it as close to the bond as possible, pull one of the sprigs out of the casing and dip the blobby, bonded end into the glue.

You don’t need a lot of glue  – the instructions cite a “pinhead” size as being enough.

Then, the tricky bit. Manoeuvre the lash so that the gluey end faces your lash line, and deposit the sprig onto your lashes. Don’t glue it to your eyelid, rather, place it at the root of your natural eyelashes and hold it there until the glue bonds.

I didn’t use the shorter lashes at all as found they were the same length as my natural lashes. I started by using a few of the mid range ones on the outer corner of my eye – about three for each eye – and then added one of the mega-long ones at the far end.

There were several things I found tricky here. Make sure you do this in front of a stand alone or wall-mounted mirror, rather than what I did, which was try and do it all one-handed due to using a hand-held mirror. The other thing was that I found that I’d often end up with the lashes upside-down, or the wrong way around, and waste time twizzling them around to make them face the right way. Finally, I didn’t think the tweezers were of the best quality, and a couple of times realised that I’d gripped too hard, putting a kink into the lashes I was trying to hold.

However, once you get the hang of this, it’s relatively straightforward. Putting the first one on is the hardest but then it gets easier as you can just build them up. I love the fact that you can choose as many or as little as you like, giving you more flexibility than if you just have one strip of false lashes.

Here’s a non-Duralashed eye to the left for you. I am lucky in that I have quite long lashes anyway but I do like being able to enhance what I have!

Also, a couple of full-face shots for you. I have no idea where that hamster-style lump on my jaw in the first one same from. It’s not there in real life!! Trick of the light? Gobful of mince pie? Who knows…

So, what are my conclusions? It took me about 45 mins to get the hang of placing these on the right way up. But I like them a lot. However, I think you need to be a seasoned mascara-wearer to pull these off. Otherwise they just look like little bunches of nylon stuck to your own eyelashes. The mascara serves to blend them in, and although not necessarity giving an all-natural look, they are not bad at all.

Also, I like the smaller nature of these lash flares. You know, when you see a drunken lady at the office Christmas party with a row of lashes that have unglued and got stuck to her cheek, taking on some kind of spidery formation, much to the fear and confusion of all the men in the room.

Also, this glue has sticking power. Unlike other individual lash kits I have used, the Duralash did just that, and has survived my rather drunken make-up removal attempts last night. I don’t know how long they are going to last but I am informed that gentle make-up removal without using oil-based lotions should enable your Duralashes to stay put for a while, although you do also get a bottle of removal liquid in the kit too. I’ll keep you posted!

In conclusion, as long as you give yourself time to apply these and get the hang of it, at £11.99 for a kit (where you should get at least three uses from it), these are a far more recession-friendly alternative to the extremely expensive salon alternatives I’ve read about.

So thankyou Dawn for sending me these – I enjoyed trying them out, and am still enjoying the results!

*****EDIT***** I wore these lashes for three days and they were still looking as good as new on the morning of the third day. They did, however, fall out on the third evening – mainly as I had got so comfortable with them that I forgot I was wearing them, and so removed my make-up more vigorously than I should have done.

Ardell Duralash can be purchased for £11.99 plus P&P from Radiant Babe

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