Benefit Prrrowl ($28) sure is sneaky.
(How sneaky is it?)
It’s SO sneaky that it had me expecting something entirely different before we met.
New for fall, it’s a duo with a peacock blue iridescent mascara on one end and a sheer, shimmery pink gloss with blue glitter on the other. The iridescent blue mascara’s designed to work as a glittery topcoat for regular mascaras (or applied to bare lashes), and the gloss end’s designed to either be layered atop lipsticks or worn alone. The two are an unusual pairing, if nothing else, so I gotta give props to Benefit for originality.
For the record, I really wanted to like Benefit Prrrowl, what with the name (kitty on the prowl, meow!) and all, and I totally love the idea of sparkly blue glitter on my lashes and lips…
Benefit Prrrowl swatches on NC35 skin
The mascara on bare lashes…
…and applied on top of two coats of a black mascara
But the glitter is almost invisible on my lashes, no matter how much I use. I mean, what’s the point of invisible glitter, right?
Saving it from the land of entirely forgettable makeup, the gloss end delivers a pretty iridescent blue sheen that should look great layered on top of bright lipsticks, but the texture feels kinda gritty (and sticky). And I’m not into the scent AT ALL. Nope. It smells like strong fake watermelon to me.
Prrrowl is cute, and I do think the gloss is unusual in a pretty cool way, but I sure wish the mascara end of this duo packed a little more POP! Available at Benefit stores and online at benefitcosmetics.com. Makeup and Beauty Blog Rating: C-
Late night party people
I stayed up way too late reading for the second night in a row, and now I’m paying for it (yawn) in a BIG way. It’s all Mockingjay’s fault. It’s the third and final book in The Hunger Games series.
Something tells me I’ll be sobbing uncontrollably by the end (like I did with Stephanie Meyer’s The Host). Just a hunch…
Well, we can cross Monday off our lists. Whatcha doing tonight? Working out? Staying in? Plotting world domination? Tabs says hi. 🙂
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
As far as mascara, I fell in love with your lashes after reading the Giorgio Armani Eyes to Kill review and went out to buy my own tube. Love it! My YSL Faux Cils should arrive tomorrow from Sephora. So excited! I’m hoping it exceeds Eyes to Kill.
I can’t see the blue at all on your lashes here. 🙁
Hi Myr,
Faux Cils is AWESOME! It’s fantastic at building thickness at the base. If you want big drama, you’ll get it with Faux Cils.
Yikes! I was SO excited to try this, but now not so much. I guess it’s a good thing I find out ahead of time – better to save for Venemous Villains, LOL!
This is just okay… but Girl Meets Pearl = awesome!
Yeah, I think I’ll pass on this one, but the Girl Meets Pearl looks great.
Just winding down for the evening. Have to rest up for tomorrow. I’m taking my Mom to the hospital for some outpatient treatment. She’s getting a steroid injection that hopefully will alleviate some of her ongoing back pain. So, fingers crossed.
I’m watching the replay of last night’s Mad Men. I fell asleep during the last part of it last night so I’m hoping to catch what I missed.
Oh, and tell Tabs that Missy says hi, too. She’s got quite the crush on him. She loves a man secure enough to be photographed with makeup!
Tabs says, “Meow-meow!” back to Missy. 😉
Sooo I’m a little apprehensive about Don Draper 2.0. I have a feeling the writers are setting him up to fail miserably again.
oh, that’s disappointing.
tonight, i took a glorious, warm bath (i used lush products). i’ve just finished re-painting my nails and i’m off to go looking for a late night snack, then it’s probably off to bed.
as for plotting, well… i’m plotting ways to get more votes for this contest i entered :p
Oh, what color did you paint your nails?
Girl, I wanted to like Prrowl but just couldn’t do it. I like the concept but it didn’t work out for me at all.
I need to get into these books. I started reading the first one but couldn’t get past the first chapter. Maybe I will try it again.
Have a great week!
Give it another chance. Trust me, it does get good.
As for the makeup, did you try Girls Meets Pearl?
Bummer, I was hoping it would be good! But, ces’t la vie, and maybe other, better variations are in the near future!
*c’est. My French is horrific. :-p
LOL, no worries, Molly. I barely scraped by in my high school French classes. I try but mangle the language all the time, unfortunately.
Oh, no! What a shame and I was interested in this item 🙁
Yeah, it’s just… okay. I like it more for its looks.
OMG mockingjay is INCREDIBLE. but very, very sad- and thats all im saying! but id really had high hopes for prrrowl… :'(
I have the sneaking suspicion not everyone will make it out of 13 in one piece, but I’m keeping the hope alive.
do you like gale or peeta better?
I like them both for different reasons — Gale because he holds a big chunk of Katniss’ heart, Peeta because he would move the earth if he could to protect her. How about you?
peetas very sweet, but ever so slightly clingy… gale is more interesting, i think!
aw im so disapointed. i hoped it would be a SHOCKING pink and a BRIGHT blue, all party- like and such. but no. a normal pink gloss and navy mascara. *tear*
Yeah, me too! It sure does look pretty in the tube though, sigh.
AWWW! that sucks, i was looking forward to this.
The Hunger Games is an awesome series! I stayed up all night reading Mockingjay when it first came out. So worth it! I can’t wait for the movies!
Me too! The movies BETTER do the books justice. If they don’t I’m betting there will be a lot of cranky fans!
How disappointing 🙁
With a name like prrrowl I was expecting something dark, dramatic and smoky
Yeah, no kidding! I wanted makeup that made me feel like I was on the hunt, rrrrrrow!
The glosses from Benefit’s Glitz & Glam set are the same way: gritty, and smell like watermelon candy. I think I could deal with the smell, but I don’t like the way they feel. Even the ones without glitter are gritty!
Anyway, too bad about this set… I usually like Benefit. The mascara seemed so promising.
Yeah, the gloss is from their gloss line (and not the Ultra Shines line).
If anybody wants to read the review, here it is just in case:
Quietly Shine with New Benefit Lip Gloss
What a shame! I love the concept and was really excited about trying it, but this is just so disappointing. 🙁
Yeah, I wanted it to look more blinged out!
It all sounded great until I read the comments. I think I am going to hold on this one too!
I thought I was reading the caption wrong because I was expecting to see electric blue lashes, but you’re right, not a hint of glitter (or blue) in sight. The gloss is pretty.
Ah, Mockingjay. Mine will be on my doorstep this afternoon. I haven’t read any reviews or anything yet, but have a feeling that our characters are not headed to a happy place (as usual). I was choked up plenty of times during the first two books, so I’m mentally preparing for the worst! I mean that in a good way, of course. I’ve really enjoyed this series so far. Remind me of that when I’m blubbering in the comments in a couple of days. 🙂
I can’t even count how many, “Oh, Peeta!” moments I had in the second book. 🙁 I just hope they all make it out of Panem alive.
Have you read The Host by Stephanie Meyer yet? If you like The Hunger Games, you might like it too.
Oh, I agree. I read the first chapter last night and thought “well, I guess this is setting the tone”. I’ll have my kleenex handy!
I have not read The Host yet, but my friends and I have a mini book club going and one of them has it. I’ll definitely give it a read. 🙂
Did you say if you’d read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (series) yet? It has some rough spots, but overall keeps you turning the pages! As the weather cools down, my thoughts are turning to re-reading War and Peace and Crime and Punishment. I guess something about winter in the northeast makes me want to read Russian classics. 🙂
Such a shame! I took one look at the colour of the mascara and almost fell off my chair with excitement, but on second glances I guess I’ll be saving my pennies on this one. I’ve always wanted a mascara that was colourful but not tacky.. hmm.. It was such a promising idea 🙁
Hmm, have you checked out their Bad Gal Blue? That sounds like it might work for you:
http://www.benefitcosmetics.com/gp/product/B000KYXEBI/sr=1-2/qid=1284477813/ref=sr_1_2/184-1350187-7348213?ie=UTF8&n=1289302011&bcBrand=core
Dior also makes one called Azure Blue that I’ve heard is pretty good, too:
http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml?id=P40404&shouldPaginate=true&categoryId=1073
I watched Gossip Girl and slept! LOL …
Ohh thats pretty – Benefit is sure catchin’ my eye these days!
I never got into that show. I’ve heard it’s pretty good though!
GG is a hoot to watch! I mean srsly — teens getting into the most absurdly insane and impossible situations? And getting out of it?
The clothes and some of the makeup plus the bag pr0n is pretty fun to watch though. 😀
That colour combo reminds me of the old school erasers with the pink end for pencil and the blue end for pens! 🙂 I think that will keep rolling pennies for MAC Villians.
Last night cleaned my birds cages and studied for class. It’s a white knuckle ride at my house!
LOL, yeah, the party never stops here, too. I went running, made dinner and then watched the season finale of The Closer.
Man, that’s so disappointing. I was expecting Prrrowl to be a lot better. I mean, you’re right. There’s no point to invisible glitter. Although the lip gloss looks awesome on you.
Too bad this stuff doesn’t do much. If it were on sale for $9 at sephora I’d be all about it. But $28 for nothing too much isn’t worth it. Thanks for road testing it for us.
Wow! Seems pretty disappointing! Seems like the main appeal would have been the glitter and if you have to turns your head all cockeyed just to show that you’re wearing it, what’s the point!?!
Benefit Prrrowl looks delish in the tube, but not so much on the lips. :/
u made me jealous by putting that product of the MAC Disney collection in the pic..haha, I was immediately distracted!
grtz from belgium
xoxo
ohh that’s a shame, thanks for the review I love glitter so much I would have gone and buy it just to look at it from the tube…I’ll pass…
AWW! i was really looking forward to this item!the book is amazing by the way!i loved it(:
Benefit is always dissapointing me… :(. The pairing of a lip gloss and mascara just seems silly…. you definitely don’t need to reapply mascara as much as you do gloss… just seems impractical… and I’m a beauty junkie! 🙂
aww man I thought this was going to be a giltterbomb 🙁 and OMG mockinjay was good! not as good as the first book, but I thought it wrapped things up nicely
I love the idea of a teal blue glitter mascara, but I wished that the glitter is more obvious. After all, that is the point of glitter right? I love the Hunger Game series and I have read to first two books twice thus far, while I am wait listed at the library for Mockingjay. I can’t wait to read that one. I even have the Hunger Games and Catching Fire audio books on my ipod. 🙂
You are so pretty stripped down!!! Not many ppl can do that.
Thank you so much for this honest review =)
Was wondering if this unusual pair is worth a try but I guess not ey?!
I LOVE the hunger games series!!! It’s incredibly addictive and SUCH a good read!!!
Have you read Mockingjay yet?