Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara Review

I picked this up on a recent trip to Hawaii as I'd heard nothing but good things, and I'm always up for trying anything that promises to make my lashes look big and luscious!

I love the pink packaging, it's super girly, but it's a huge tube compared to standard mascaras. It has a natural bristle brush, which I prefer, but it's huuuge, or perhaps I have tiny eyes, which makes it hard to get to the inner and outer lashes. Moral of the story - everything about this mascara is big.

The formula is wet, very wet, which for me means that it applies way too much product and clumps my lashes together. It also left blobs of mascara on my lashes that I'd have to go in and remove. I'd end up with big thick lashes, but it'd look like I only had 10 lashes per eye because it was so clumpy. I left it a couple weeks to see if it'd dry out a little, to no avail.

It also transferred on to my eyelid/brow area which is a pet peeve, I don't want to be having to check my mirror constantly to wipe off the transferred product. I never attempted to use it on my bottom lashes as the brush was so huge, it was never a possibility, but I know it would have transferred there as well. This was a big fail for me unfortunately, I will be sticking with my tried and true mascaras!

This mascara has been incredibly hyped up, so after seeing people raving about it all over Instagram, I decided to sneak it into my BeautyLish order. It arrived as glamorous as always with Too Faced - the packaging is fun, girly and high quality. This mascara is in a heavy (and huge) metallic pink tube with a large, hourglass shaped brush.

Unfortunately, this was where my excitement ended. The brush is far too large for my average sized eyes, making it difficult to get in close to the lashes to create length. It is not suitable for bottom lashes and it was rather tricky to avoid a mess. Adding to the difficulty of application is the formula, which is incredibly wet. I know us girls are hard to please, as we don't want a mascara that dries out quickly, but with such a large brush and an almost dripping formula, only the very skilled and patient would be capable of getting Better Than Sex results from this mascara. The end result was minimal length and clumping. I always resorted to using a separate mascara brush to finish off my lashes.

Formula has never been an issue for me with mascaras. I have never had a mascara transfer, smudge or run, and I have never seen my mascara anywhere other than my lashes. However, this mascara flaked off onto my cheeks when applying, as well as during the day. It smudged underneath my lower lashes, and ended up a mess when I sneezed. I occasionally get slight allergies, which has never caused issues with mascara, but on one particular day I ended up with black smudges all over the tops of my cheeks.

For a high end, hyped up mascara I was disappointed. I will not be repurchasing this mascara, and I do not recommend it.

Too faced better than Sex Mascara. This product has a lot of hype around it and I had heard so much about this product, both good and bad. However the majority of things I had heard about it were good and so I had to buy it because what sort of beauty addict would I be if I didn't.

It comes in a beautiful pink tube, which almost has a frosted pink metallic finish. The tube is cool to touch, and is quite heavy as well so it feels expensive which is nice because this mascara is not cheap costing around $20 USD dollars.

The mascara brush is really large, and is actually a bristle brush which I love because these are getting harder and harder to find (or maybe it is just me). The mascara brush is quite bulky which makes it awkward to get close to your eye, but still I had high hopes for this product.

The formula seemed nice at first; it is jet black which is perfect because that’s the only colour I wear. However, the formula is really wet, and I mean really wet which can work really well with some products, but it does not work well with this one.

Seriously, doing one coat of this mascara leaves my lashes clumpy and looking terrible. It does add length, and a bit of volume but the clumps are something I cannot look past. Seriously, I was so disappointed with this product, and put this review off for the longest time just in case I managed to love it. I have to say that now the formula has gotten a bit drier, I do like the mascara a little more, but certainly not enough to pay big dollars for it.

I've tried both the sample size and the full size of this as sometimes the formula acts differently but unfortunately this mascara is just not for me. It coated my lashes fine but nothing that "wowed" me. The issue is that this mascara flakes really badly on me and leaves black spots on my cheeks. I have tried powdering under my eyes in case it was the oils on my skin breaking down the mascara but unfortunately it made no difference. My sister found the same thing happening to her when she has tried the sample size.

I fully allow for the fact that this is personal preference though, as I then gifted my mascara tubes to my niece and she loved them.

I was so excited to try this mascara after a couple of work colleagues recommended it me but I found that it didn't really live up to the hype.

The pros for me are that it does add volume and lengthen the lashes leaving them looking quite good when you first apply it. However, the cons really outweigh any of those pros for me. The brush is quite large, difficult to use, and it clumps easily. The mascara smudges and requires an under eye finger sweep periodically throughout the day, which is far too high maintenance for me! Plus it is super expensive compared to its equivalents. I also found removing it quite difficult with a lot of product left at the base of my lashes after washing my face (which doesn't happen with other mascaras). Wouldn't recommend.

Now 8 years ago this was so good. It would lift lashes and stay all day but now it seems flaky during the day it starts flaking into my eyes, it doesn’t lift my lashes like it use to. It’s like the formula has changed. Definitely don’t recommend.

I bought this overseas after seeing much hype around it and not being able to find it here. It's certainly not cheap and looks fancy. To use however I found it oversized, the wand wirey (mind not to scratch yourself) and the mascara clumpy. Will not be repurchasing.

I found this really clumped on my lashes and was hard to get off at the end of the day. It flaked within a few hours and gave me panda eyes.

I was really excited to try this and absolutely loved the packaging and the tube it comes in, however, that's where my love for it faded.

I had to remove a lot of product before application, I did love the brush design and have since purchased a mascara with a similar brush.

The initial reaction was great, rich black colour and elevated my eyelashes nicely, however, over the course of the day it constantly flaked causing irritation to my eyes.

I was extremely disappointed and while I tried to use as much of the mascara as I could, it had to be in short bursts to avoid the flakiness.

I'm sad to say I can't recommend this product but may try it again one day (just in case it was a dud batch).