The Best Mascara–Super Thick Lashes NEW Review

 

Hello! So I recently went to put on eyeliner and realized… I forgot how! It has been so long since I’ve used liquid eyeliner I made a mess and it did not look very good. But this is a Good News / Bad News situation!

The Bad News is… Yes, I don’t know how to do eyeliner anymore. It’s not like riding a bike. I forgot! It might be over a year since I’ve done eyeliner!! So it was messy, uneven and squiggly.

The Good News is… One of the reasons I haven’t been doing eyeliner is that my new favorite mascara makes my lashes look so thick at the base I haven’t felt it was necessary. (The other reasons include: I’m messy, I’m always running late and don’t have time, laziness, a sense of sadness/hopelessness that I should talk to a professional about and the fact that I often lose them or forget to put the cap back on and they dry out.)

So I have an amazing Mascara to tell you about and it might be replacing my old favorite which I’ve recommended for years. And I’m sharing a short video with my thoughts on it…

So my usual go-to mascara is Maybelline Volum’ Express Colossal Mascara – I like Glam Black

 

I still use it and recommend it! I think it’s a great day time mascara or night time if you put on a few coats.

But the new mascara I’ve noticed is great to making my lashes look super thick and helping to define my lash line (so I didn’t feel the need for eyeliner) is:

Maybelline Lash Sensational Luscious Mascara – I like Blackest Black waterproof

Note: A lot of the Maybelline Mascaras have the similar names so make sure you’re getting the right one. There are similar looking tubes that also work… but I don’t like curved brushes for mascara so those don’t work for me.

 

Check out all my makeup favorites here – Make Up I Use Daily

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I've come full circle. This one is for all the relapsers out there.

This whole losing weight thing ain't easy, lol. I've always been fat. In may 2011 something broke in me and I decided it was time to take control of my weight. Between may and august I went from ~295 to 220 by way of cico and biking about 20 miles almost daily. It was hard but I felt very rewarded by my efforts.

I was feeling myself a bit too much though and as such let myself relax and enjoy the fruits (more like beers and burritos) of my labor. In no time I was back to 250 where I plateaued for a bit. At this point I started having issues with bone spurs in my achilles which really derailed me physically and mentally.

Funny thing about me, when I'm injured I get depressed about it very easily, and so I began my rapid ascent back to the starting point of 295 and fully blew by that and settled around 330. And there I sat for a few years. Miserable and self loathing. At least I could still eat and drink and enjoy those things. That is until I couldn't.

I began to have terrible acid reflux whenever I would indulge. I'd wake up in the middle of the night choking on my own bile. I had other signs that things were going badly, my neck and cheeks began to blacken. If my back was feeling tight I'd have a hard time reaching back to wipe after pooping. That one was what broke me and started me back down the path of weight loss.

Here I sit today, still fat but less fat, weighing in at 272 this morning. My acid reflux and skin blackening has resolved itself as has the wiping issue lol. I've been at it since mid feb after a few years of wondering if I would ever again have what it would take to dig deep and put forth the effort needed to do this thing.

I know there's a lot of you who have relapsed and fallen back into habits that you thought were behind you for good, and maybe you're lurking around here hoping to get a spark of motivation or something to nudge you back onto the right path again. Look into your life and ask yourself if you've normalized things that really should be major red flags. When I realized how many things I'd normalized and rationalized it really steeled my resolve.

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NSV: Despite over a month of having a lot less control over what I was eating than I’m used to, I maintained!!

I’ve been posting here and in other weight loss subs a lot more recently, largely because the past six weeks have been extremely challenging to me food- and weight loss-wise.

A little backstory: I’ve been overweight or obese for my entire life. I started losing in earnest about a year ago, and I’m down 75lbs from my starting weight through CICO. I have about 15lbs to go until my goal weight.

Originally, I had said I was hoping to reach my goal weight by my college graduation. This was always a loose goal, but I realized as graduation got closer that I didn’t have it in me to maintain a deficit that would allow this to happen. The last six weeks or so of my semester were incredibly stressful and I was struggling with motivation and discipline. I was super sleep deprived and struggling to work two jobs and finish up my classes. I had been on a 1300cal/day plan for awhile, but I realized that I couldn’t maintain that level of deficit and keep my sanity for the rest of the semester. I upped my calories to 1500/day and promised myself I would look at upping them again in a few weeks if I needed to.

This period of time was one that was full of food related events and treats everywhere I turned. I told myself I would use this time to learn what it means to be at maintenance and treat it like an experiment. On days where my schedule was pretty typical, I would eat at my 1500 cal limit, but on event days and days I had less control, I would relax a little and just try to make pretty good choices as much as I could. This month included a Mother’s Day lunch that featured a giant chocolate cake and a Mexican food lunch, Easter with all of my grandmother’s specialties, countless meals out to celebrate my graduation and my family’s annual reunion, and many other indulgences. I didn’t have time to meal prep, and for a lot of days I had to guesstimate what I was eating in a way that I hadn’t really experienced since I started my weight loss journey.

I’m not going to lie, it was a stressful time for me. Even though I knew that I was objectively doing well, I didn’t like the feeling of having very little control of what I was eating and eating out so frequently at places that have limited healthy choices. However, I enjoyed the time I got to spend with people I love, and I did get to eat a lot of really good food.

Today was the day I decided to get back on the scale. I weighed in a couple of times over the past month, but I didn’t record those weights because I knew that the restaurant meals and eating on an erratic schedule would mean that I would fluctuate a lot. The last weight I recorded was on April 8, and I weighed 145.2lbs. This morning, six weeks later, I weighed in at 145.6lbs.

In the past it would have been easy for me to still count this as a bad thing, because I theoretically could have lost around 5 lbs in that time if I had stuck to my deficit. But instead, I’m counting it as a massive victory, and a break that I needed. I made a conscious choice to relax and enjoy the events that were happening in my life even though that meant I wasn’t going to lose weight for awhile, and I successfully maintained the loss I’ve already achieved. I proved to myself that I can make this lifestyle change work once I’m at my goal weight, and that I can adapt and still meet my goals when I’m not extensively meal prepping and planning. Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled to be back at the meal prep game and ready to tackle those last 15lbs, but I have more grace for myself when I mess up and I know more concretely that it’s the culmination of all of my habits that produces results.

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mindful eating and hunger queues.

let me start off by saying that i've lost aprox 26 to 28 pounds and currently trying to recover from binge eating disorder, which is why i've put my weight loss on hold, just so that i can focus on recovering. whenever people talk about not overeating and not binging, they always mention mindful eating and hunger queues, and this makes me so mad sometimes. they tell you to focus on the food on how you feel before, during, and after eating and to be mindful, but that's EXACTLY what i do and i still binge and overeat and i can't stop it. i'm someone that literally NEVER feels hunger, it's so so so so rare for me to feel hunger, and i constantly ask myself "am i hungry" and the answer is ALWAYS "no i'm not" even if i haven't eaten in 12 hours. so when people tell me to "listen to your body" and "ask yourself am i hungry" and "if you're hungry then eat and if you're not hungry then don't eat" i get annoyed because i WISH i could do that, i wish i could have these hunger queues and be mindful when i eat, i really do. i never feel hunger but i still overeat, i never feel hunger and i still binge, i never feel hunger and idk how to stop overeating. i don't know the difference between feeling hungry and full, because it all feels the same for me. but i do know the difference between feeling normal and stuffed, and that's the feeling i almost always go for when i eat....... i hate it. this is a very random post and it's so disorganised i'm sorry, i just wanted to vent in a way.

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Trying to get Started...

Hi all, I have been trying to get started on my weight loss journey for some time now. I was always thin in college but have continued drinking (in addition to not staying active) through my 20s.
Fast forward, currently around 217 lb, 6'3 with the "dad bod" physique of skinny build with a gut. I have no one to blame but myself due to my FOMO attitude regarding weekends and having a job that requires alot of traveling and taking clients out for dinners (drinking usually involved).

I keep on telling myself I will take a weekend or a month off drinking to work out or count calories but always fall back into bad habits and no progress occurs.

Again, only person to blame is myself. Are there any good methods for holding yourself accountable? Easy ways to edge into things? Tools? Or will I just have to suck it up one day? I have told my friend that I am starting to be healthy so many times now that I have lost count

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100 lbs down!! My journey so far...

First, the pics, because that’s what we’re all here for anyway, right? https://imgur.com/a/Del6wlG

36F, 5’3”, starting weight 240 as of July 4, 2018. Now 140 lbs as of May 22, 2019. Embarrassingly, this is my fifth time go-round on the weight loss machine. First time was starting at 191lbs when I was 23. I moved pretty quickly into extreme restricting at that time, and every subsequent weight loss attempt was an extension of that, until this one. There are still days where my lizard tells me to over-restrict, but I’m 95% successful at shutting him up.

I started with two promises to myself: I would weigh myself every day and record it, and I would record everything I ate. All of my previous weight loss failures have been associated with some sort of large meal, whether a binge or an appropriate event (Thanksgiving, for example). Then I would not want to get on the scale because I didn’t want to see the evidence, I didn’t want to track it because again, evidence, and so began the slippery slope of gaining it all back, and more. This time, once I started recording everything (MFP and Happy Scale), I decided to cut down to 1200 cals a day,. I thought about easing into it, but I figured if I went straight to 1200 and stayed there, I would better be able to control the “if a little is good, less is better” mentality of restricting. At the beginning, all I did was walk, trying to hit 6000 steps a day. I increased it bit by bit up to 10k a day. In August, I had surgery on my ankle, which has residual damage from a fracture in 2016, so when I say walking, I really mean walking. I added in a 3 day lifting split just a month ago, so the grand majority of my progress really is CICO and walking.

I had a lot of anxiety around anything that caused me to deviate from my routine, including vacations and any days away from my scale. About six months into my journey, I went to Las Vegas for a few days and had an epiphany. My goal was to lose weight and get healthy so that I could enjoy my life—here I was in Vegas, freaking out about not knowing the calorie content of anything and not being able to weigh. But I was missing the whole point—I wasn’t enjoying my life. I’d lost 63 lbs already. I didn’t have any particular date or goal in mind, so it wasn’t like I “needed” to be a certain weight at a certain point. I was just trying to improve myself. So I stopped being my worst enemy. I still made healthy choices, walked a ton, but allowed myself to indulge. I got home after having a great time and I still lost 2 lbs that week!

The things that made this possible and sustainable this time are planning, forgiveness, and support. Every weekend, I sit down and plan all of the food for the week, including snacks. I go grocery shopping, meal prep, and enter it all in MFP. I work long days and have a long commute (out of the house 630a-8p during the work week), so when I get home, I don’t want to figure out what’s going on the next day. I just open MFP, look at what I’ve scheduled, and pack my bag. I have also learned to forgive myself—there are going to be days where you eat more than you planned. There are going to be days where you’ve eaten perfectly and the scale still goes up. Forgive yourself, forgive the scale, and just keep doing what you’re doing. You know it works, you just have to be patient and give it time. Weight loss is not linear.

I cannot stress the importance of support enough. I’ve made accountabilibuddies through this subreddit and the challenges, and they are my lifesavers. Shout out to u/madmae16, u/nukaprincess, u/capitulum, and my challenge teams (Luma, Suicune, and Arithmancy). These folks have kept me sane, reminded me to have grace, and listened to me complain and whine about stupid stuff. I’ve had multiple 3-4 week plateaus that have made me want to tear my hair out, and I’m not sure I would have been able to stay the course without them.

I have 13 lbs left to go to goal weight, but my goal weight is a totally random, made up number that I picked out of thin air. I’d like to be comfortably into the healthy BMI range so that I can go on vacation, indulge, and still be within that category. I’d like to feel strong and healthy. And I want to fit into my clothes. Beyond that, I just want to enjoy my life.

Good luck on your journeys, wherever they take you. Live your best life. 😘😘😘

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When people say diet is 80 to 90% of weight loss and exercise 10 to 20%...it sure is the case!

I (33m) have been trying to lose weight and throughout my younger years, would always try to do so through exercise. I was never really successful.

I have made changes to my diet recently including more greens (50% vegetables), white meat, fish or eggs (20% proteins) and a bit of carbs (10%). The results have been fantastic. I've lost close to 5 kilos in a bit over a month. The results happen super fast especially when you combine the good diet with regular exercise 4times a week. I'm amazed.

Exercise is great but it only really helps when you've got your diet in check. It might seem as an evident statement to many of you... to me it wasn't necessarily.

Open to any advice and encouragement.

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