Carmen Baustert

Tried and Tested: Manhattan Volcano Precise Mascara


From time to time the German drugstore dm needs people who try the products they want to sell and some weeks ago I was lucky enough to be among the people who got to try a new mascara by Manhattan. You know that I´m quite picky when it comes to mascaras so I was really excited to try this one. It´s the Manhattan Volcano Precise Volume & Definition Mascara in 1010N black:




As you can see the mascara has one of these silicone brushes which I personally like because my favourite mascara (L´Oréal Volume Million Lashes) has one, too. The design of the bottle is not that viewy but in fact that doesn´t matter as long as the quality is good, right?
Now what can we expect from this mascara? The description on the bottle says: "Explosive Volume, intense colour & perfectly separated lashes. Ophthalmologically tested. Suitable for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers." Ophthalmologically tested is of course great because we don´t want to ruin our eyes but as I´m not a contact lens wearer I can´t say much about this subject. However I noticed that I didn´t have as much mascara-crumbs in my eyes as with other mascaras (like for example Essence). When it comes to "Explosive Volume, intense colour & perfectly separated lashes." I cannot totally agree. The colour is of course great, you can´t go wrong with black. When it comes to volume I never really see what they mean because in my opinion volume is something for your hair, not for your lashes. I tend to rather take care of length and "swing". The length was okay with this mascara but my lashes didn´t really turn up but remained rather straight (okay my mascara vocabulary is quite bad but I hope that you get what I mean, haha). And finally the last point also disappointed me because when I hear "perfectly separated lashes" I think of a mascara that manages to make you eyes look as if you had hundreds of lashes, even catching the shortest lash. This mascara however rather made my lashes stick together and I had to reuse the brush quite often in order to separate them at least a little bit.


As you can see the result doesn´t look that bad after all and as a conclusion I must say that this is none of the worst mascaras I tried so far. Unfortunately I don´t know the prize and I´m not even sure if they are selling it already but if it turns out not to be too expensive I might even rebuy it. Also let´s not forget that today was the first time I used it and mascaras tend to change their texture a bit after they came in contact with air.
What do you think? Have you been trying Manhattan mascaras and would you buy this one?


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