Daiso Base Coat Mascara

After watching Jenn from Clothes Encounters in her October favourites last month and seeing her rave about her new mascara primer, I remembered that I saw one in Daiso the one time I had been there. For those who don't know what Daiso is, its a store that stocks japanese products which are all priced at $2.80. Its a worldwide franchise, but from what I know, it's only been around in my city for about a year or so. I went there for the first time a few months ago, but didn't end up getting anything, partially because the friend that led me there didn't actually want to be there and only came with me because I insisted on seeing what the fuss was all about.

This time however, I went with a friend that wanted to pick up one of their eyebrow pencils (apparently they're not bad), so I decided to go with and pick up a mascara primer. The day I went, there were two mascara primers available, and in the end I admittedly chose the one with the nicer packaging. Since the descriptions were both in japanese, I couldn't decide which one was better and obviously the product with the nicer packaging means that it is a better product (don't fail me now irrational logic).

So here's the one I got.

Wow cute packaging

Now I'm the type of person who has to use waterproof mascara. Its not by choice, its because its only waterproof formulas keep my lashes curled. Believe me, if I could get away with non-waterproof mascara I would, I don't know why anyone would voluntarily go through the pain of removing waterproof mascara. When I apply ordinary mascaras to my lashes after I've curled them, I just watched my lashes fall, go straight, and hang downwards again. I had secretly hoped that this mascara be waterproof despite no mention of it on the packaging and the sales assistant telling me it wasn't, who by the way couldn't understand my non-waterproof mascara dilemma no matter how many times I explained it to her (she must've been one of those blessed with naturally curly lashes). I bought it regardless, it was only $2.80, so I hoped maybe, just maybe, it'd do something good to my lashes.

Review
It didn't do shit.
Alright, sorry that might've come out a little harsh, but its true. I guess maybe it gives my lashes a slightly more fanned out, less clumpy look, but its not really worth buying it, or wasting your time applying it. As expected, the mascara made my top lashes drop, so I thought maybe they'd be great to help enhance my lower lashes. Nope.
For some reason, I couldn't really get any product on my lower lashes (it worked fine on my top lashes), and the only way I could really get any product on my lashes was by using the excess mascara goop that sticks to the end of the mascara wand when you pull it out. When I tried to use the mascara wand to brush out the product, the product just disappeared again and I ended up with goopy mess (not unlike craft glue) under my eye. Also, when I applied normal non-waterproof mascara on top, the white base made my lashes less dark and black.
Maybe I'd use this if I had plenty of time to do my makeup and I wanted to add an extra step to my makeup routine out of boredom, or I'd use it for some fancy dress party to make my lashes look white. Overall, its quite a disappointing product, despite the misleading adorable packaging.  I will note that the sale assistant really liked it, so maybe it'll fare better on people with nicer lashes than mine, which is like 80% of the population.