Lorac: Multiplex 3D Lashes Volumizing & Thickening Mascara (Deluxe Sample)

Hi everyone,

Hope you've all had a terrific weekend and that your week is off to a great start! Toady for mascara Monday I will be reviewing a deluxe-size sample of Lorac's Mulitplex 3D Lashes Volumizing & Thickening Mascara. A full-size of this mascara retails for $22 for 0.43 oz from Ulta and Lorac's website. Lorac describes this mascara as, "Take your lashes from 1-Dimensional to 3-Dimensional with LORAC Multiplex 3D Lashes. This buildable, smudge-resistant and multidimensional mascara contains Silk and Keratin, which help to nourish and condition your lashes. We created this mascara with a professional curved brush that easily grabs, lifts and curls for maximum coverage and length. Multiplex 3D Lashes is a volumizing mascara and thickening mascara that instantly delivers up to 3X the volume for a dramatic lash look. This is one of the best mascaras when creating that smokey eye makeup look!"

Overall, I think this is a good mascara, definitely not my all time favorite mascara but I don't hate it and will continue to use it. To start, the packaging of this mascara is very striking. It comes in a sleek black and metallic silver tube and when the silver on the tube catches the light, it has a rainbow prism effect that's very beautiful.

The wand of this mascara is very interesting, it's curved slightly and is unlike any other mascara wand that I've used previously. This wand definitely takes practice to perfect since it's unique. I don't really like this wand for applying mascara to all my eyelashes, but I do find that it's absolutely perfect for doing the inner and outer corners. The bristles on this mascara wand are rubber and are very flexible for easy brushing through lashes. While this mascara claims to be volumizing and thickening, I didn't find it to be overly volumizing or lengthening. It's slightly clumpy, but doesn't really provide much density to my lashes.

The formula of this mascara is very wet which makes for a very messy application. I do recommend applying all your eye makeup first before doing your face makeup so that you can easily clean up any mess from this mascara. The color of this mascara is a nice black, not overly dark, but great for everyday wear. For those of you who are sensitive to smells, I will say that this mascara has a slight smell, but I don't find it to be overpowering.

Final Verdict:
So overall, I think this is a great mascara, but it's definitely not one of my all-time favorites, and I probably wouldn't buy a full-sized tube of it. For being a volumizing and thickening mascara, I didn't notice too much of a difference in terms of the density of my lashes. I have relatively short eyelashes, so I probably won't repurchase this mascara as I prefer lengthening and volumizing mascaras.

Have you tried this Lorac mascara yet? What mascaras are you loving right now? Please leave a comment below, I would love to hear from you!

Thanks for reading!

-Meg

Lorac: Mega PRO Palette!!

Hi everyone,

I'm so excited to share this post with you! I just received my Lorac Mega PRO Palette and had to do a blog post on it! This is a special eye shadow palette for the holiday season 2014 as part of the Lorac Royal Collection.

This palette retails for $59 from Lorac's website, but is now sold out unfortunately. It is part of the holiday collection so they may restock since it was so popular and it's not even November yet, but I don't really know. Lorac says that this is a $204 value and the total makeup in the palette is 0.62 oz. You can still purchase other items from the Lorac Holiday collection here as well as at Kohl's, Amazon, and Ulta. Each site has slightly different products so do take a look at all of them.

The packaging of the Lorac Mega PRO Palette is the same as the Lorac PRO Palettes except twice the size. It is a heavy cardboard material with that sort of NARS covering that shows fingerprints.

This palette contains 16 matte and 16 shimmer shades similar to the first and second Lorac Pro Palettes but twice the size. This palette contains 28 new shades and 4 repeat matte shades but they're essential colors - white, cream, espresso, black.

The 16 Matte Shades are: Cream, Fawn, Camel, Sepia, Dusty Plum, Orchid, Mulberry, Espresso, White, Khaki, Brown, Stone, Lilac, Wisteria, Gray, Black

The 16 Shimmer Shades are: Opal, Sand, Copper, Sienna, Apricot, Blush, Merlot, Indigo, Vanilla, Cashmere, Smokey Topaz, Dusty Rose, Granite, Maroon, Deep Teal, Caviar

Photo on the left is with a flash and the photo on the right is without a flash in natural light

The formula of these eye shadows can't be beat! They are truly the best eye shadows I have ever tried and that's not an exaggeration, they're just that good! They are so velvety smooth and the color pigmentation is incredible. I have heard some complaints that these shadows do have some fallout, but honestly that doesn't really bother me because they are so creamy and pigmented. Oftentimes, the softer and smoother the eye shadow, the more fallout that will occur just be the nature of the formula.

And now without further ado, here are some close up photos of this glorious palette and a comparison of it with the original Lorac PRO Palette that I own! All swatch photos are courtesy of Lorac since mine is so beautiful and I didn't want to start using it yet.

Matte Shades: First Two Rows

The shades on the left are taken with a flash and the shades on the right are taken without a flash in natural light

The top row of swatched shades is on darker skin and the bottom row is on lighter skin

Shimmer Shades: Second Two Rows

The shades on the left are taken with a flash and the shades on the right are taken without a flash in natural light

The top row of swatched shades is on darker skin and the bottom row is on lighter skin

Comparison with the Lorac PRO Palette

In terms of size, the Mega PRO Palette is pretty much double the size of the original PRO Palette. They are both made from heavy cardboard and are the same material on the exterior. On the inside, the Mega PRO is pretty much identical to the original PRO Palette except with four rows of eight shades instead of two.

Can you tell that I LOVE my original Lorac PRO Palette?!? I've used it a ton!

Bonus items included with the Mega PRO Palette

The only real bonus item included with the purchase of this palette was a sample of the POREfection Mattifying Face Primer. I would have loved for them to have included a small eye shadow primer like they do with the original Lorac PRO palette.

Final Verdict:

I think this is a phenomenal eye shadow palette! Although I can't give a full review of it yet since I have not swatched it myself, I think the color range of shades and offering of both matte and shimmer eye shadows makes this an amazing palette. I absolutely adore my original Lorac PRO Palette so I'm sure this will be similar and I will love it too!

Were you able to purchase the Mega PRO Palette before they sold out? What are your thoughts on it? Please leave a comment below, I would love to hear from you!

Thanks for reading!