As a beauty junkie converted into organic beauty over 5 years ago I have tried several natural mascaras so far- Lavera, Logona, Sante, Dr Hauschka, Paul Penders and Inika, and i have to say that mascaras were my greatest dissapointment so far- just accepted the fact thai it's probably impossible to create a good product without synthetic waxes and polymers. I have given up using mascara completely for the last 18 mths- due to the smudging, unsufficient performance and generally poor results. Last week at The Vitality Show I have come across Elysambre make up counter- had my make up skilfully done, purchased the mascara, just because I loved the effect- I can honestly compare it to my former best non- natural mascara which is Effet Faux Cils YSL. But my amazement continued- good eight hours later there was not even a slightest trace of smudging, the lashes were nicely separated, and still glossy- not dried out and crumbling!!! By accident I have found a mascara that converted me back to haveing my eyelashes painted again- and that's great, because as a wearer od strong glasses I was probably missing on a little eye definition. I can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone!!!

Firstly the packaging is beautiful, really attractive, very high quality and an excellent way of re using packaging. Sadly the mascara doesn't live up to it's pretty packaging. The brush is awkward and delivers the product too thickly resulting in clumping. The colour is good (I have the brown) but doesn't stay put for long resulting in the dreaded panda eyes.