So, you can see the state I was in, standing in the make-up section at Target.  Do I go with a tried and not-too-bad brand that works for the first week?  Or do I buy into yet another glossy promise and steel myself against disappointment?  When suddenly a young woman breezed by, pulled the new Cover Girl LashBlast off the shelf and told her friend that it was “the best mascara she had ever used.”

I stood there, motionless, thinking, “Either I have entered into an alternate reality where dreams really do come true or Cover Girl has some serious in-store stealth marketing.”  Most of me thought I was probably being tricked into purchasing another wand of disappointment.  But, there was something else there too.  Something small, that had been pushed down for too long.  Hope.

So, dear readers, I took a chance.  Took a chance that maybe, just maybe, I could have long, dark lashes without all that nasty clumping.  Took a chance that I could feel easy, breezy and beautiful with Cover Girl.

And…it actually works.  Wait, let me repeat that in case you momentarily fell asleep.  IT ACTUALLY WORKS.  I swear. My eyes look wider; my lashes look long, yet natural.  There is zero clumping and it swipes on easily, just as the package promises.  My boyfriend even said how pretty I looked (although then he asked if I had needed to fix my contacts – something to do with excessive eyelash fluttering…).  I’ve been using it for over a month now and it hasn’t started to build up like so many of the other brands.

Because I am not one to keep a secret to myself, I’ve been forcing all my nearest and dearest to try it and guess what?  They love it too! My best friend even went so far as to say that she really only bought it to shut me up; but now, she is very, very glad she did.  If that’s not a ringing endorsement, I don’t know what is.

Have I put to rest my mascara fears?  Temporarily.  Am I a one-mascara gal? Tentatively.  For the moment, I will believe that my mascara can fulfill the promise set forth by LashBlast.  For the moment, I’ll keep on swiping.