Vibrating Mascara Wand Can’t Do You Or Your Makeup Well
The last place I’ve ever thought to stick a vibrating wand is in my eye. I like my vibrating razor, but this video tear down of motorised mascara makes me wonder why any lady would want to tickle her lashes.
The battery powered tiny motor inside Maybelline’s $US15 Pulse Perfection supposedly delivers 7000 vibrations per minute which is way faster than anyone can actually apply mascara to one’s eyelashes, but I’m told by my friends who have used it that you have very little control of the vibrator itself, it can be too rough on your lashes and comes out clumpy. I’d most likely poke myself in the eye and frankly if I am doing that I’d rather it be while putting on Terminator Vision contact lenses. [NotCot via Make]
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@Joanna Stern: Or at least a few lurkers :-)
@toblathe: I've got more than two friends. I think.
Lancome has a better vibrating mascara
AlyssaKlien
Women don't typically like gadgets. Sure you get the fabulous one or two on here, but this is clearly made for men. Men who put on makeup. They don't have any of these left in any Duane Reades in Chelsea.
What is with sticking vibrating things in household items?
Toothbrushes, disposable razors, and now mascara?! What sort of long thin object will they stick a motor in next?
thornapple
Men have vibrating gadgets as well. Like weed whackers and sanders to name a few. Of course they are only for weed whacking and sanding.
@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: slight curve to the left?
@SJRNWT:
No you just have to look harder.
I don't like toys, or hitachi magic wands, I got over all of it like 10 years ago (I had an early start).
I like my men straight up, neat.
@DennyCrane: And Fleshbot too...
@RenegadeIrishman_IsFullOfStars: But will it smudge when the owner cries?
@Curves:
If anything is to be said for the end results... maybe Alice Cooper has ahead of it's time...
aec007
@photophile: Just make sure you get all that mascara out of it first.
I'm sure a few dozen Rocky Horror Picture Shows will take care of that.
@Kaiser-Machead: I couldn't sign the contract....
SJRNWT
@DennyCrane:
with pictures or better yet, a video.
@RenegadeIrishman_IsFullOfStars: Emogina?
I think Jezebel should also review this product.
@Kaiser-Machead: Whoa, that's a great idea. I might just pick one up for my aquarium...
@ddmeightball: Well, they feel real to me, I just haven't tested them on anyone yet. Dammit, I've said too much.
@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Some of us are.
Lady products on Giz? I'm sure both female subscribers are ecstatic!
toblathe
@anexanhume: Had a few times guessing wrong I take it?
ddmeightball
@Kaiser-Machead: A few breast implants and a razor and you'll never know. I mean, I'd presume you wouldn't know.
@BikesAreNeat: Not exactly good enough for anything else either.
@Curves: Uhm I think this is for putting Mascara on your hoo-ha
hint: it's not for applying mascara.
BikesAreNeat
@SJRNWT: Good luck with that. You'll miss the boobies
Kaiser-Machead
@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: You gotta watch out for the ones that forgo the battery operated devices for those with a straight up AC adapter. You've seen them before - the women at the end of the bar that even tequila can't turn into an option at last call.
This can be acheived less expensively by applying mascara in a badly hung over state. The hand shakes are way better than a vibrating applicator. (I saw a rolling mascara applicator recently as well, and that one made a little more sense than this one does.)
A little competition's good for the game!
It raises the bar... or vibrates it, as the case may be.
LuciusMagumpus
I doubt it was ever meant to apply makeup. It's a vibrator cleverly disguised as a mascara wand. Whoever invented this is to women what Q was to James Bond.
@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: I'm sick of putting in all this effort, it's 2009. I'm switching teams.
SJRNWT
@LEWD98: Oh wait, it vibrates! Now I understand.
LEWD98
@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: We were never good enough, they just needed to convince us otherwise until we invented the electric motor.
Sounds like a horrible product. But what do I know, I'm not a female or drag queen.
LEWD98
Love the title. Subtle, yet sexily obvious.
But lemme ask you something. Can this thing be used to clean out old aquarium pump tubing?
Kaiser-Machead
What is it with you women and your battery operated, vibrating devices...??
Aren't us men good enough anymore?
It's for the WHISPERING eye!