Mini Miracle Eye Wand

7 Reviews

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   jumpyLizard9

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   The concealer has very light to minimum coverage, it’s better to use it during the day on top of an other concealer to fresh up your makeup. The eye cream is very light and easily absorbed but I don’t get on well with silicone based eye creams because they tend to make concealer ball up and this eye cream was no exception. I much prefer the Retoucher concealer!

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   crushedHyena3

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   Gosh, this is probably the worse Charlotte Tilbury product I have ever tried! I love Charlotte and her work, but this product has not only the worse package, (impossible to control how much comes out of the tube) but also does nothing to my under eye area… Making me look older is the only thing it does, I guess. The eye cream feel so cheap and poor quality, takes a while to absorb. Please avoid it, use your money to buy other Charlotte’s product. Otherwise, you’d want to kick your own butt after the purchase.

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   cruelWhiting4

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   I was sad to read all the poor reviews on this product. The salesperson at Nordstrom said to at least try it. Actually, I do not see why it got so many bad reviews. It is truly not a bad product. This is far, far better than Clarins or Bobbi Brown, at least on me. As far as a repurchase, I am not sure on that one. I want to try another one first. But I would not return this. I do not think it is horrible at all. That said, my circles are not real bad. 🙂

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   aboardBoa4

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   Oh when will I ever learn. I only wish I had read reviews on this…stuff from makeupalley rather than trolling sites from beauty gurus and you tubers. Are these people paid, honestly what has happened to honesty and integrity. I have spent a small fortune over the years on over hyped products from people claiming this product and that product is the holy grail of all mothers. Yeh yeh blah blah. Well let me give you my honest opinion.
   In essence this stuff sounds like the stuff dreams are made of especially if like me… Getting older, eyes becoming saggier, wrinklier and creepeier, lacklustre…you with me. Any ways, the first problem the click system. 50 clicks later and half the product comes out in a huge blob, this is the cream. It did nothing and I mean nothing… Where’s the smoothness, the lift, the tightening, I mean I’ve used half the bloody product in one fell swoop, nada.
   Praying to Jesus, please let the other side come out a small bit at a time…guess he ain’t listening. Thin, peachy and irritating to my eye area which I’ve never deemed as sensitive. Was so bad I now have dry flaky skin on the outer edges. On the plus side…laughing to oneself, it did brighten the under eye area for all of three hours max before it totally disappeared. It’s now sitting in my cosmetics graveyard with all those oh wow, amaze balls products that you’ve just got to buy. One of my worst buys ever.
   I’ve had some lovely products from charlotte tilburys line, sadly for me and my purse this ain’t one of them.
   If your looking for a brightener ysl touche eclat is far superior, and that is my honest opinion.

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   needyGelding5

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   I have an odd relationship with this product. I love the idea of this and in many ways it is lovely but in others its kind of a bust.

   The premise of side 1 is that it is a lifting serum for the under-eye. I don’t see any lifting/tightening, but it might work for you. It does however create a nice smooth base for the concealer on side 2. It has no colour and you can blend with the brush provided, fingers, another brush…. whatever really. Now for side 2. It is quite a thin formula and produces a brightening effect, think something similar to the touche eclat but less highlighting. It has a really pretty satiny finish and pretty much lives up to what it claims to do ‘Illuminate. Soft focus. Eye brightener’. If you want a concealer you will be disappointed – it doesn’t have enough pigment to conceal.

   I have noticed that when I use side 2 on top of other foundations/primers it flakes, goes on patchy and looks gross. Used on top of side 1 it blends smoothly and looks great. I found that my fingers and the beauty blender tend to remove lots of product and are more likely to result in a patchy application, any blending brush does the job just fine.

   This did not resist creasing no matter what I tried – primer, setting spray, powder, layering etc. I do have pronounced creasing and oily skin so YMMV. Without setting the product lasts 3-4 hours and, because it is so thin, it wears away evenly and cleanly. As I age and working long days, I’ve found I prefer something that wears away nicely to something which stays almost all day and then looks like hell.

   I do not have sensitive skin but side 2 tingles a lot. To be honest it almost feels like it’s burning but it settles down after a minute and didn’t do any damage so I’ve continued to use it. I cleaned the wand (thinking it might have had some other product on there) and tried on the side of my face – the tingle was still there. If you have sensitive skin you definitely want to test before buying.

   Overall, I like the visible lift it gives without looking like you’re wearing anything at all – even at close range. For reference I’m MAC NC45/50 and I have this in shade 4. I leave it in my makeup bag in case I need a lift during the day and I can touch up without it looking cakey or odd. That’s a pretty niche usage but it does that one thing very nicely. Most similar products I have are either corrector shades, which look obvious, or add too much of a highlighting effect to look natural at close range. This is skin tinted and falls nicely in between the two extremes.

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   vengefulRuffs7

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   This is such a disappointing product. If it was cheap it wouldn’t matter so much but this was about 30 pounds.

   Packaging
   A good idea in theory to have the two ends but I find that it doesn’t work – nothing comes out with a few clicks and then far too much comes out! Also, after you’ve put your eye cream on trying to twist the clicker to get the actual concealer out is tricky as your hands are greasy from the cream.

   The packaging wouldn’t be that bad if the product was great but its not.

   Product
   The eye cream does very little for me, but the concealer is awful, it sits horribly, it looks patchy and is very visible under your eyes. I am 32 and have a few fine lines. I would imagine if you were 21 with beautifully smooth under eyes it might work but it’s an expensive miss for me! CT has some fab products in the range (foundations, powder, blusher lips!) – this isn’t one of them

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   pacifiedPiglet6

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   The idea sounds great: a double-ended product that contains eye cream on one side and a concealer on the other side. Having had luck with the lipsticks, lip pencils, and powder products, I thought I’d try this wand to see if it could deliver on the “8 hours of sleep in 2 clicks” promise and make my under-eye circles disappear. Unfortunately, this morning I slapped my return label on the box and waved good-bye to the Mini Miracle Wand.

   To be fair, I am not a fan of clicking pens in general. With this or most other similar clicking pens, most complaints revolve around the fact that customers don’t feel they have enough control over how much product is dispensed. Either you can’t get the stuff to come out or too much comes out, so you play a game of Russian Roulette to see how many empty clicks it takes before *boom* something happens. Because the barrel of Tilbury’s Mini Miracle Wand is opaque (a milky pink color that reminds me of Mary Kay), you can’t see how much product is inside, so you have to guess when you’re almost out. Luckily, I’ll never get to that point.

   I used to buy Stila Lip Glazes and those were clicky pens, too, but at least the barrel was clear, so you could see how much you had left. Ultimately I abandoned them purely because I didn’t like the design of the pen, and went back to tubes with doe foot applicators, which are far more cooperative and don’t waste product when clicked one too many times.

   After I opened the new box and clicked each side of the Mini Miracle Wand at least 40 times, the brushes were still bone dry. Kept going. Then when a few drops of eye cream sputtered out, it was not enough to moisturize both eyes, and I was disappointed to discover that the cream is heavily fragranced. It’s also more of a lotion than a cream; creams are usually thicker in consistency. On the web site, the ingredients were apparently only listed for the “corrector” side, because if I’d seen “Parfum” listed as an ingredient, I wouldn’t have placed the order.

   The corrector side was equally stingy, and after several minutes of begging and clicking, it finally allowed me to have a few drops of peach shimmer. I applied this thin layer to the undereye area. Peach does help neutralize blue, but after tapping it in, it did not look like skin. I felt obligated to put a flesh-colored concealer over it, which makes the double-ended wand less convenient than I had hoped.

   Tilbury makes another concealer called The Retoucher, which comes in skin-like shades. I guess you are supposed to apply Charlotte’s $35 Retoucher over the $45 Mini Miracle Wand. The Retoucher is a click pen, too, but that one started right up for me and I have been happier with that formula.

   Maybe my Mini Miracle Wand was a dud and the others from the factory perform better; I can only comment on my personal experience.

   I wouldn’t buy this again for the following reasons:

   1. The eye cream has fragrance and I’d prefer it fragrance free. I have sensitive skin so I avoid putting fragrance, a common irritant, on my face.
   2. Click pens do not allow the customer maximum control of dispensation and getting this one started was time-consuming.
   3. Can’t monitor how much is left, which you can with a transparent barrel.
   4. The peach corrector was thin and glimmery and definitely a corrector shade rather than a realistic flesh tone, so I didn’t like the look of it alone.
   5. Expensive for what you get.

   However, there is probably a Vogue beauty editor out there somewhere who doesn’t mind fragrance and doesn’t share my opinion of the peach corrector, who will herald it as the new cult favorite among concealers.

   This is the first disappointment I’ve had from Charlotte Tilbury’s line. I have been happy with these Tilbury products: K.I.S.S.I.N.G. lipsticks, Matte Revolution lipsticks, Lip Cheat lip liners, Blondie Lip Lustre, the eye palettes, Light Wonder foundation, Full Fat Lashes Mascara, Rock N Kohl eye pencils, and my two Charlotte Tilbury blushes. I love those.

   I ordered from charlottetilbury.com and the return process moves at a snail’s pace in the U.S. Tilbury’s company provides a pre-paid shipping label for returns but it is standard post which is the cheapest United States Postal Service rate and it takes the longest. I wish I had paid to ship it back Priority Mail so the return would be reconciled to my account more quickly.