I bought this eye makeup remover gel because I realized that my facial cleanser wasn’t removing my eye makeup, especially my mascara, easily at all. In order to get it all scrubbed off I would have to wash my face about 3 times, and I’d have to use a bit more pressure than I normally did, and most of the time I’d still wake up with raccoon eyes because all of the mascara hadn’t been removed after all.
I knew that I was drying out and roughing up the delicate skin that makes up the eyelid so I decided to invest in a eye makeup remover. I found the Almay Eye Makeup Remover Gel and bought it because the bottle claimed that Almay was America’s Number 1 Eye Makeup Remover Brand (which I later realized probably had nothing to do with this product, but the combined total of all of their eye makeup removers), I naively thought that if this product works for America, it’s going to work for me.
I used the Almay Eye Makeup Remover Gel a few days later, and realized that it isn’t a gel at all, it’s basically grease in a tube. If you use a very small amount of it, it does feel light enough to be mistaken for a gel, but if you need to remove eye makeup you need at least a dab of it to do so, and then you realize that it’s oil.
I found everything about this Almay product to be inconvenient, even though it’s main purpose is to make life a bit more easier. First of all although the tube is relatively small, the hole that the gel comes out of is so tiny and the gel is so thick that it takes forever and a lot of effort to get it out of the tube. Once it does finally come out I have to really coat my lashes with the gel to moisturize my lashes enough so that the eye makeup, especially the mascara can be swiped away.
The tube states that it should be massaged over the lids and lashes and then rinsed with water. I have to say that after massaging the gel onto my lids I could see the mascara and other eye makeup being smudged so essentially it was removed, yet the gel doesn’t rinse away with water, because it’s full of mineral oil, the water just glides across it.
If I would’ve just used water my face would’ve been an oily, smeared makeup mess, so I had to use a cleanser to wash it off. I thought that would’ve been it, but the Almay Eye Makeup Remover Gel is even harder to remove than makeup alone, since it’s so greasy it takes a lot of cleansing and effort to really break the oil and the makeup down. So I was essentially back to square one. I’d have to cleanse my face twice to get most of it off.
The only thing that Almay helped was in keeping my skin moisturized while I cleansed the same amount of times that I normally did. But besides that it made the task of removing my eye makeup even more difficult because of all the oiliness, and I’d still wake up the next day with smudged raccoon eyes.
I gave up on this product awhile ago and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone I think it deserves 1 out of 5 stars. Instead I would recommend saving your money and just using Vaseline to remove your eye makeup which is thinner and easier to apply and remove. Or I would recommend purchasing Almay’s Makeup Remover Towelettes (which is so much better than their eye gel).
