The one beauty product I can’t live without is mascara. But even I — who has tried nearly every volumizing, lengthening, tubing, and waterproof formula on the market — needed to take a minute to wrap my head around the concept of a mascara-dry shampoo hybrid product. MAC Lash Dry Shampoo Mascara Refresher is alleged to bring volume back to hours-old mascara, the identical way you’d use a dry shampoo to refresh your hair. But in addition, huh? I definitely wasn’t about to blast a dry shampoo into my eyes (don’t try that at home!). Seems, though, MAC Lash Dry Shampoo Mascara Refresher isn’t a powdery spray in any respect.

At first glance, it resembles a typical black mascara. But after I began to make use of it, I quickly realized it has a somewhat oily formula that’s noticeably slicker than mascara, adding nonsticky volume with a black tint. So in case you had used your usual mascara that morning, and your lashes began to dry out by the afternoon, this clever formula can revive them.

As a substitute of the same old fluffy mascara wand, this product has a small, flexible comb that helps detangle lashes, so your morning mascara won’t look clumpy under a fresh coat of Lash Dry Shampoo. You may expect lashes that change into dry, flaky, and shorter by the afternoon to look refreshed again — long, shiny, glossy — almost such as you first applied your makeup for the day.

After I got some clarification of the concept, it made numerous sense: When you would like to reapply your makeup midday, or before an evening out, it’s easy so as to add a bit extra concealer, a swipe of black eyeliner, some bronzer. Getting your lashes as fluttery as whenever you applied mascara eight hours before, nevertheless, is almost inconceivable, unless you may have a bottle of micellar water nearby to begin fresh. Layering recent mascara over clumpy mascara is a recipe for, well, more clumps.

It took greater than two years for MAC to develop Lash Dry Shampoo since it was so different from creating a typical mascara. “We needed to be sure that it performed the way in which we intended over mascara,” says Jamie Lynch, executive director of product development at MAC. “It was necessary to be certain that that the formula combed through [easily]refreshed the mascara that was already on the lashes, and revived the look of the lash.”