No, I am not naughty. I just wanted to be completely sure that this works because I started out skeptical and I was all set to hate this.
L'oreal Renewal Lash Serum
Available: I haven't seen this in my drugstores for ages, but Ebay has a lot.
Star Properties: Intense Boost for a renewed lash look.
Packaging
This came in a jewel blue cardboard box, the same blue as the cap. Looks good, looks pretty, I would have bought even if they simply cling wrap the tube though.
The Wand
Unscrew the cap and you will pull out a crescent wand as seen in photo below. It works pretty much like a mascara, just that wand has no bristles.
Usage
The wand is soft and bendy, but it is definitely firm enough to grab your lashes. When I say soft, I mean, it is not iron-hard which will feel weird, but it feels absolutely comfortable when it touches or accidentally touches the skin around your eyes. So usage-wise, it is soothing rather than foreign.
When to Use
I use this whenever I don't put mascara, because the instructions say that you should let it dry naturally, and don't rub it onto your skin, or else maybe hair will start growing all over your face.
So basically, use at the last part of your daily skincare, and because of this, I normally only use it at night. There is no time in the morning to let this thing dry, and then start doing makeup. So use at night.
Product
The product is a gel-serum. I call it a gel-serum because it reminds me of glue a little as sometimes, it can feel a little tacky. But rest assured that this is nothing like lash glues, far less tacky. Obviously, L'oreal thinks this is a serum. =P
Effect
If I bother to blog about it, it is either a big rave or big rant. haha. In this case it is a big rave! It works! It works!
I have been using this on and off for the past one year, and at first, I only suspected that it works. But because of the way I did it on and off, I found that more lashes would grow during the period I use it, and then no lash would grow when I didn't. That's how I confirmed that this really works.
The funniest thing is that I found out the lashes on right eye grew more, and grew longer than those on my left, because I am a right-hander, and when I pull out the wand, the first thing I do is use it on my right eye!
Now, the first pull always grabs the most product out of the tube. The second, third, and fourth will never take out as much product as the first. In this way, my right lashes probably got more serum than my left, and over time, my right eye has more and longer lashes.
This is not too good, and I am trying to reverse my habit and go for the left eye first.
Also, the second point that allowed me to confirm is my lower lash. I don't have much lower lashes, but in the past year, I begin to find myself having lots and lots of lower lashes that even the makeup artist would remark at how she can put mascara on my lower lashes, because they exists, they are even spaced all across my lash line, they are thick enough, and they are long!
If you follow my FOTDs very closely, I remember commenting in one of them that I could use the Shisedo eyelash curler, curl the upper lash, and also put mascara on the lower lashes, and it would make my eyes look really round and big, and doll-like. At that point, I already had enough visible lower lashes.
The third point that allowed me to confirm is that my upper lashes are uneven. This is not exactly a good point. But it's something that I should caution you if you run out and buy this. My upper lashes are now kind of double layered, in the sense, people only have one row of lashes right at the lash line, but I seem to have two, and that makes drawing eyeline a little more challenging. Often, I really have to push the eyeliner marker right through the bushes of lashes, something that I didn't have to before (when I only had one row of sparse lashes).
The lashes that grow out would be slightly uneven because the way you put the lash serum on cannot be absolutely even. The serum is potent enough that it will effect lash growth when it touches your skin. So if you really want to make sure your lashes stick at one row, do not allow the wand to touch your skin. In fact, L'oreal's instructions did specify to keep the serum on the lash only, and don't touch the skin, if I don't remember wrongly. (The instructions were on a piece of paper in the box, or maybe on the box itself, I think. I probably threw it away.)
Oh wow, that's a long rave.
Speed
I actually think this works pretty fast. I took this long to write a review because like I said, I was skeptical, and I only used it on and off. Even till now, I am using it on and off, when I remember. But given how infrequently I've used it, my lashes still grew significantly. So I am guessing, if you are diligent, and do it every night, you will see effects in two-four weeks.
Conclusion
So from those three points, I can give verdict that this lash serum works, at the very least, it works on me.
So 5/5!
Who would have thought that a drugstore brand can come out with a lash serum that works?
At that time, Talika just hit the market with its much-raved and swear-by lash serum, and Talika is a $100 - $200 brand (if you go to Sephora now and check, pretty much anything you pick up from Talika will be three-digits). Nobody would believe L'oreal can do it too, at a fraction of the price.
But of course, there are people who gave L'oreal a chance, and one of them was Laura from Buy Now Blog Later (her blog link is permanently in my left-side bar). Laura reviewed the L'oreal Renewal Lash Serum and she said it worked, so I trusted her and bought it.
So once again, 5/5 for an affordable lash growth serum! You did it, L'oreal!
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