I got a Shake Weight for Christmas.
I wonder where it went?
Hello, friends
and welcome to another video.
Today I'm trying out another strange dupe
that nobody really asked me to try.
A few months ago, a makeup company
called Hourglass came out with
a stainless steel mascara wand.
I think the idea behind a stainless steel mascara wand
is that there's no bristles
so you can't really get clumps on it.
So this is the Hourglass Curator Lash Instrument,
excuse me for calling it a mascara wand.
It looks like a very discreet adult toy of some kind.
And then at the end there are these little divots.
And after this thing came out I saw
a few YouTubers do videos about it
and a lot of the comments were rightfully upset
at the price of it.
The mascara wand is seventy-eight dollars,
and the lash primer and mascara that they
sell to go specifically with that mascara wand
are thirty-six dollars each.
I also saw a decent amount of comments who
suggested using a screw instead of this mascara wand.
So what did I do, you guys?
I went to Home Depot and I bought a couple screws.
I never thought that I would be heading to
Home Depot to find a mascara wand,
but that's what we're doing today.
So let's see if we can find one that's nice and similar.
See, these ones are kind of wide
because of course they are actual screws.
It's not perfect.
- Is this ours? - Yes.
Okay.
I was honestly very intrigued by
the product to begin with.
I was even more intrigued when
the idea of using a screw came up
because it kind of seems like it would work.
Woah, this is like pretty good!
Almost like this, kind of.
Similar thickness, not quite
as tightly coiled, but pretty close.
Machine screws, number eight.
Thirty-two by one and a half
for number six thirty-two by one-and-a-half.
Uh, got my mascara wands.
I'm gonna have to figure out how to clean these things.
I'm excited!
Do you think this is the first makeup haul ever
out of Home Depot?
Now, I just wanna say that
I'm not necessarily recommending that you
do this at home.
I am taking on the risk, personally,
to put a screw near my eyeball.
I don't want you to do this and
poke your eye out.
I'm going to do left eye screw,
right eye mascara wand.
Let's do this thang.
I'm gonna start off with the lash instrument.
Seems like the lash instrument
is the one bringing this metal mascara wand
thing to the table.
I got my lash primer.
I have my mascara wand.
Oh my god!
It's like a...
It's like a little... hat!
See, you can screw the lash instrument
right into the primer,
and I suppose the mascara as well,
kind of turning it into this very
pointy, dangerous, normal mascara tube.
Mix it around, I guess?
Looks like lotion on the mascara wand.
I'm just gonna put this primer on my lashes.
It doesn't really look like much is going on.
It looks, oh I can see a little bit of
gray, or white flecks at the end
of my lashes.
It looks like dandruff.
Why does this always happen to me?
Alright, so I'm just gonna go in with the same stuff
and put it on my bottom lashes.
It's a little bit disconcerting
to put this thin, stainless steel
thing right next to your eye,
so I'm excited to get to that screw.
Here's the lash primer.
Gonna try and shake it around.
Trying to get some primer on there, y'know?
Oh, yep. Jackpot!
Once again, it looks a lot like lotion.
The one thing about this screw
is that the divots are not
quite as close together as on
the Curator Lash Instrument,
but it's pretty close.
I was completely silent there
because I was so nervous.
I think it is actually applying it
reasonably well.
Obviously with the lash instrument
you have that fun weapon effect.
With this you kinda just got a shake weight effect.
Oh my god! Oh my god, I almost
touched my eye! Oh my god, wait.
Be careful with those things, guys.
BE CAREFUL!!!!!!!!
Okay, awesome. This is my
screw eye, and this is my curator eye.
It's not exactly the same, but it's
getting the general idea down.
The screw... it's not winning
but it's not losing...
yet.
Let's tackle the mascara now.
Back to the lash instrument,
I do absolutely love the look of this thing
when it's all screwed together, it's
WACHOW!!!!!!!
There we go.
The end is covered in mascara.
Hm...
Uh...
Okay, I've never used lash primer before,
and I wonder if I did something wrong
It just, it looks very spidery.
It looks like Charlotte, is you know,
trying to help me out, she's trying
to write a message in the lash.
Bottom lashes are not as bad.
The bottom lashes looks pretty normal.
Okay, I'm gonna show you guys up close.
Don't you think it looks like kind of spidery?
It's like a black widow, maybe.
The bottom lashes look pretty nice.
Just this end of the top lash
is kind of like going everywhere.
I'm putting the Curator back in its holster
and I'm going in with the screw!
The lash instrument has a long handle
and this has no handle, so I'm
about to get mascara all over my hands.
In fact, it's already happened.
It's pretty well coated...
Oh no...
Hm...
Mhm...
Alright, I'm gonna go in for the bottom lashes.
I don't know about this, you guys.
I kind of expected the stainless steel to really
separate all the lashes, just
almost like giving everything a thin coating,
but it's kind of clumpier than I expected.
This is the lash instrument side, and
this is the screw side.
Actually, looking at it up close, it's not THAT bad,
but it's just, it's not really what I expected.
In terms of comparing the screw to the lash instrument,
I think the screw did pretty well.
The lash instrument is definitely a little
bit better at separating, but it's not
that much better.
After looking at it for a while,
I'm definitely impressed by the lengths
to which my lashes have been brought.
They're very long right now,
they would definitely hit up against my glasses
if I were wearing my glasses.
Just because I am a little bit of a stickler
about the whole clumpy lash thing,
I'm gonna take this off and
just put the mascara on,
and we're gonna see if it looks any better.
Ten minutes later, I return.
This stuff does not come off very easily,
but I think I got it all off.
Okay, I think I already like the look of it
without the primer better.
Let's just do the screw really quick.
Where's my screw?
Oh, screeeeewwwwwww!
In Hocus Pocus, she goes,
"Book!"
"Booooooooook!"
There it is.
So this is the effect without the lash primer,
I actually like it better, I think
it looks a little bit less spidery.
I think the screw is a little clumpier,
the Curator's a little finer
but it's... pretty decent.
The Curator is a bit finer with
its divots so it can separate the lashes a little better.
I didn't think that it was that much finer
but you can kind of tell the difference.
Though to be fair, a pack of these two screws
is a $1.18, and the Curator Lash
Instrument is $78, so
I think, with that price difference,
I would say that the screw did pretty damn well.
This screw never asked to be a mascara wand, but
she served me well today.
In terms of generally using a metal mascara wand,
I think the effect is pretty, I think it's decent.
I don't think I like this more than my
normal Better Than Sex little mini mascara that I use.
I think I'm probably gonna stick with that,
but it's not that bad.
And the screw did pretty well.
Is this a dupe or a bad idea?
I think that this is both a pretty good dupe
and also probably a bad idea.
You know, is it a bad idea doesn't mean it didn't work
and I think it's just like should you put a screw in your eye.
I don't know, it just seems like it could end badly.
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