Wand Woes...

I'm having a major bout of mascara mixed feelings with Clinique's High Impact Extreme Volume Mascara. It does things to my lashes that I'm pretty sure are illegal in some remote parts of the U.S. It ticks all the boxes. It lengthens, thickens and with a couple of coats, gives me serious 'falsie-effect' lashes that Sesame Street's Snuffy would be proud of. So why can't I love this?

Don't get me wrong, it's a decent mascara, despite the fact that it does have a tendency to clump more often than I'd like. They say a bad workman always blames his tools, but I definitely feel that the dodgy looking brush plays its part somewhat; although I'm fairly reluctant to call this almost bristle-free applicator, a brush due to its serious lack of, well... everything.  There's not much for the mascara to cling to so it just sort of sits on the bare bones of the wand and as a result, gets kind of splodgy. With anything else I'd probably run a mile, but I can't help coming back for more. It plays with my feelings and I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a bit of a soft spot for it.

Maybe I need to give it a bit more time. Perhaps it's a grower, and I'm not ruling out the fact that maybe the mascara wand isn't the one that's a problem, there's always the possibility that it's me. I feel like the only way to clear things up is if I take a fluffy brush to it and see where we go from there.

Does anyone else have difficulty bonding with certain mascara wands, I'm surely not the only one?