El rímel resistente al agua no sale bien sin desmaquillante.

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Breakdown of El rímel resistente al agua no sale bien sin desmaquillante.

• sin: without
• no: not
• el rímel: the mascara

Questions & Answers about El rímel resistente al agua no sale bien sin desmaquillante.

Why is it el rímel and not la rímel?

In standard Spanish, rímel is usually treated as a masculine noun, so el rímel is the normal form.

A learner should also know:

• In Spain, rímel is very common.
• Another very common way to say it is la máscara de pestañas.

So you may hear both:

• el rímel
• la máscara de pestañas

They both refer to mascara, but the grammar changes because the nouns have different genders.

Why does rímel have an accent mark?

The accent mark in rímel shows where the stress goes: RÍ-mel.

Without the accent, a Spanish reader would expect a different stress pattern. Spanish spelling uses accent marks to make pronunciation clear, so rímel keeps the written stress on the first syllable.

What does resistente al agua mean literally, and why is it used here?

Literally, resistente al agua means resistant to water.

In natural English, that usually corresponds to:

• water-resistant
• waterproof (depending on context)

With mascara, resistente al agua is the normal Spanish way to describe something that does not wash off easily with water.