OK. Here are the pictures I promised =)
NO MASCARA.
Please excuse my ugly undone brows. I fell when I was little and am missing a chunk out of my right eyebrow =(
Sorry the colors are funny on this one. I must have selected the wrong white balance =(
WITH 1-2 COATS OF CLINIQUE LASH PRIMER + 1-2 COATS OF L'OREAL TELESCOPIC
This was taken about 8 hours after I applied my makeup this morning. I tried to do it in the morning but I was rushed for time. The curl has come out a bit (or, entirely) but you can still see that they're thicker, more defined.
Oops, I didn't get my mascara all the way to the base of my lashes. Good job, Sarah. Damn those babies look long =)
I took this picture so you could see the way it looks from a normal distance, since most people don't get within an inch of your eye. It's kind of blurry, but you can see my lashes. I'm just wearing very little eye liner [as you can tell from the previous two pictures it's not that thick) and nothing else on my eyes except for some Chocolate Brown pigment on the bottom (I think my eyes look weird if I don't have something on the bottom to draw attention to them) and a bit of Vanilla pigment on the tear ducts]. All that black stuff above my iris is, in fact, a lovely set of Telescopic lashes. Woohoo!
Now, for the ultimate experiment. Can we make this mascara clumpy? Keep in mind that this next picture was taken after I walked around for 8 hours with dry mascara. I then tried to add more mascara on top of it. I added a lot of mascara. I sat for quite a few minutes attacking my eye with the mascara wand. I probably got 15-20 coats in there. I couldn't stop.
So they got slightly clumpy from my experiment, but it's not horrible to the point where I have, uh, 5 lashes (some mascaras make my lashes all bunch together into one super lash after the 5th coat). It still looks like I have a bunch of lashes. Also they're really effing long! With my eye open all the way they're ridiculous. I should have measured them. I also added a few coats to the bottom lashes (which I don't think I did this morning) so you could see what it does to lashes with no primer. See this vs other pictures. I got some clumping on the outside of my lashes, which is weird because the tip of the wand was on the inside of my eye.
Hope this helps =)
S