Huge disappointment. The brush is weird and delivers way to much product through the spare bristles. I don’t get the vibrating part. I don’t find it to do anything. The only thing that vibrates is the handle while my lashes get clumped up together. It does not lengthen, doesn’t give volume, separation, let alone their advertised dramatic look. I love Lancôme mascaras in general but to me, this was a huge fail; and I blame it all on the brush. The product itself has a very nice texture, as always, but the brush is terrible.
If you wanna dish out the 30$ stick to Hypnose.

I absolutely hated this mascara. It was difficult to manage the wand and you had to keep your finger on the switch to keep it oscillating. The mascara clumped terribly and unless you applied ot SUPER SLOW it was horrible

Honestly, what were they thinking? Are people in marketing and R&D;coming together and trying to think of ways to make everything vibrate so they can charge people more? First with the razors now with mascaras?

Okay, aside from the fact that this mascara vibrates and has plastic bristles (which seems to be the trend for most "new" mascaras these days) there really isn't anything else that makes it stand out.

It's not a great mascara. I'm not even sure it's good.... it's decent I guess. I tried used it with the vibrating wand but I find it makes the mascara clump. If I just use the wand as is, without it vibrating, it does a decent job of coating my lashes. I would say it's an average mascara, nothing special to write home about. However, I think it's way over-priced and not really worth the money.

But hey, maybe it works better on people with fuller curly lashes. Unfortunately it doesn't do much for my asian lashes.

So, what is the Lancome Oscillation mascara? Well, it's Lancome's newest innovation: a mascara with a "superior" formula that is applied with a gently vibrating wand. I know. Sounds crazy.


There is a motor in the wand and it sort of hums gently as you apply it. The idea is that the vibration helps the mascara coat each individual lash 360 degrees around, giving you fuller, longer & defined lashes without having to apply with that pesky zig-zag motion that makeup artists (and makeup junkies) use.


When I first heard about this mascara, I thought it sounded pretty nifty. They were toting it as the next great advancement in mascara, as well as a premium product. I understandably had high expectations.


Now I want to preface this by saying I have used other Lancome products and have been happy with them, except for mascaras. I find that the Lancome formulas in general tend to flake a lot at the slightest touch. They are also difficult to remove at the end of the day. This all applies to the Oscillation brand as well. But if you're a die-hard Lancome mascara fan anyway, then don't worry about that.



PROS
The packaging is beautiful and super-sleek. I was excited to open up my tube!
The tube is not as fat as my other favourite mascara, which makes it easier to stash in my purse
Lancome generally produces high-quality products
When applied correctly, it did perform as any mascara: darkening and bulking up my lashes slightly
It also seemed to define the individual lashes
After reading the instructions and taking a few practice runs, it became easy to apply it with the vibration on
The vibration is not so strong that you feel like it will get out of control
The final look is somewhat different from what my other mascaras will achieve. Sort of a light mascara look--not too bulky or voluminous


CONS

The price is a major downside for me. MSRP is $40, and as you'll see in my following comments, I just cannot justify that cost for a simple mascara, especially when you have to replace it every 3 months anyway. (A good point was made by Henna at CanadianBeauty.com that if you're already paying out the nose for a Lancome mascara, then what is $8 more? I can get on board with that, but I still don't think that I would pay that much for ANY mascara, period. All the other posters seem to agree with me!)
The formula sucks. As mentioned before, I don't really like the Lancome mascara formulas, and I don't think they made any major changes to this one
At first, the mascara was difficult to apply. I poked my eye the first time. Not pretty.
The brush is very small--I didn't feel that it was large enough or had enough bristles to adequately reach all of my lashes, I had to keep going over and over to achieve the look I wanted
The formula is clumpy and sticky--The vibrating wand is supposed to help avoid this, but I find it actually makes it worse. I had spider-leg eye lashes! The horror!
The formula is also difficult to build up. I need more volume in my lashes, but one or two coats just didn't cut it. But when I tried to apply more, my lashes stuck together and clumped. ugggh.
The wand did not manage to coat "even the smallest lashes" as promised. I still had to go in manually and poke around to get them coated
Overall Impressions:

Overall, I don't think this mascara is any better than what I am currently using. Especially considering the price. The vibrating wand is an interesting feature, but I don't feel that it lived up to its claims of producing better-looking lashes. It is definitely not worth the $40 bones to get this bad boy.

Maybe in the next few iterations of this product, Lancome will improve the formula and technology. I think that if they can do that and combine it with a more reasonable price (say, $20 range?) that it could possibly be a smash hit. It certainly is novel!

People will still buy this, some will love it and some will hate it. I don't mind it, but when compared to my run-of-the-mill $5 mascara, its really not that much better. Please do your research and think about it before you buy this puppy!