How do you know if your mascara has run out?

[BadgersArse]

I know it sounds a bit dm... but I can never see... unless i never HAVE run out and always bin early.

[BadgersArse]

wtaf is this?

[BadgersArse]

that girl is the weirdest..

[SqueezyCheeseWeasel]

For me, when it goes dry and flaky, or really blobby or starts to smell like liquorice, it's time to bin it.

I don't think I ever 'run out' as in empty tube.

[BadgersArse]

SMELL - oh god I never thought of that

[BadgersArse]

Its clever, isnt it....

[BadgersArse]

anyone?

[luckingaround]

I never know. The mascara might get a bit dry and thick/clumpy and so old that I feel guilty for using it. V scientific

I had a look at your YouTube video. Funny girl. With her 'pop' sound. Maybe she's right. No one else seems to know better anyway.

[cuntyMcCunterson]

i find it goes dry, flaky and more difficult to get my lashes to look decent and the brush looks a bit funky/clumpy! I'm a make up junkie so very rarely have a mascara go off and start smelling.

[BadgersArse]

that is how they make money out of us!

[CointreauVersial]

I chuck mine after a few months, whether or not it's empty.

It starts growing bugs after a while; the warning signs are sore eyes and eczema on my eyelids.

[dun1urkin]

When it doesn't make that slightly wet 'pop' sound when I remove the wand. I've not watched the video but assume that's what's going on there...
Also, YY to smell. Off mascara does have a certain unique aroma

[slippermum]

It goes dry and smells like a wet brolly! lol

[dexter73]

I'm going to have to smell my mascara later.

[BadgersArse]

I keep coming upstairs to sniff it then forget what I've come up for

[dexter73]

I just went for a sniff but I'm none the wiser as to whether or not it is still ok. It smelt a bit like shoe polish maybe. I'm not even sure when I bought my mascara!

[dun1urkin]

dexter you'll just know
I think you should keep it and see what happens. It's not guaranteed to go off though, it might just dry up...

[BadgersArse]

Mine smelled ok

[Iloveangel]

I have had my current one for ......2 years!! Smells fine, hasn't dried up and never had so much as an eye infection. I admittedly don't use it every day but even so I will keep going with it until it drys up!!

[ItsRainingInBaltimore]

Oh my God, that child! Her mother should not let her loose on the internet for her own good.

I agree about the sucky-plop sound when you open the mascara though - an empty one doesn't do that.

But you can usually just tell when it starts to go dry and flaky and doesn't go on very smoothly. It's not rocket science!

[BadgersArse]

Well. Obviously it is

[FrugalFashionista]

My children are going to a new school in autumn, we visited it last week, and the teachers sounded, erm, progressive. Children do 'projects' instead of homework, and this seems to involve 8-year-olds producing rap videos and uploading them to Youtube - we actually saw one

Oh and cursive writing is about to be taken off the curriculum there.

[BadgersArse]

Mascara?