cannot do without [SEP] i received these gratis in exchange for an impartial review had not heard of them before what a great idea one of those products you do not know how you ever did without i hate to admit it but i am old enough to have used maybelline mascara when it came in a little red box you moistened a brush looked like a little hairbrush stroked it across the dry mascara making a paste and applied it it took a lot of work everyone i knew kept an extra dry brush for thinning clumps and distributing the mascara evenly later i kept an old empty mascara tube brush for brushing lashes and evening out mascara applications these work so much better lashes are much longer and not clumpy with these wonderful brushes also great for using after applying false eyelashes for blending interspersing the false lashes with your own i gave some to my niece and my aunt to try they like them as much as i the magenta color is nice too fantastic