Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara Review

This mascara has lots of ups and downs. The ups to it are that it gives you lashes to die for and looks amazing on. It works so well up until it gets a bit dry from using it so much. Then it goes downhill. From about a month or two in, the mascara gets flakey and falls off after a day of wearing it INTO YOUR EYES. I thought it may be the batch but I got it more than once and the same thing happened. I mean for the price you expect it to be amazing.

Don't get me wrong! If it lasted longer I would buy this again and again. But unfortunately it's not meant to be. Onto the next!

I purchased a mini version of this and perhaps this is where I went wrong. This mascara wasn't as good as I expected it to be. The brush is rather large so I found it difficult to get into the corners of my eyes. The formula was dry and clumped my eyelashes together while leaving flaky bits under my eyes. It did increase the volume of my lashes but at the expense of looking messy and not the look I was after.

This isnt my type of mascara because I need to use either. Waterproof or tubing mascara. I have sparse asian lashes that tends to droop down and uncurl. The bristles are way too big for my eye shape and the formula can get a bit too clumpy.

Having purchased after reading the 5 lip reviews and others raving about it on blogs I have to admit I was a little disappointed.

Too Faced packaging is again flawless with this mascara, it is sexy cute in it's metal effect pink barrel with the letter all raised, embossed into the container. But that is where it stops impressing me, the second I opened the lid and pulled out the wand to apply onto my lashes I saw nothing about the wand to suggest it was any different to hundreds of others I have tried before.

Formula is the problem for me, it is true it is a very dark black which is wonderful, but the texture is rather thick and gloopy. After my usual application of zig zag and pull I looked in horror to find little balls, clumps! and then my lashes started to stick together. This was from one swipe! I grabbed a disposable wand and played with the lashes, teasing out the extra mascara and working it through but it never looked wow! Second attempt I brushed off about 99% of the mascara from the wand and dragged through my lashes, again almost instantly like static my lashes clumped together and again I spent ages working a disposable wand through to get them to behave. I was frustrated as I really wanted to love this mascara but it is just not meant to be with me. Perhaps it is a dodgy batch but I brought it from an official Too Faced stockist, perhaps it is my lash type. Who knows, all I know is that for me this now resides in the bin

I had heard of so many things about this mascara that I just had to try it for myself. It is blimmin' expensive and I picked it up in a beautylish haul. May I just mention I hate the name, it is so much of a marketing gimmick. If any mascara lives up to this name you are doing something wrong.

The packaging is pretty intense for this mascara. It feels like a metal tube and has a light pink finish which is pretty cute. The name is embossed down the side which I really like as it means it won't wipe off like so many of my other makeup products. The brush is really fibrous which I like. It seems to be able to get onto every single lash and coat them in plenty of product.

Now the formula of the actual mascara is what I don't really like. When I first got this it was so wet! I put it on and I would always get mascara everywhere. Now I have been applying mascara for quite a few years now so it isn't like I am a novice or anything. So I had seen a few reviews saying this gets better with age so I left it a few months (ignoring best before dates or anything) and tried it again. Suddenly the formula was drier and much easier to use. It still coats every lash in a black as black formula, defines adds volume and keeps my lashes curled. Also I don't find it to hard to remove at all. BUT the reason I won't purchase this again or recommend this to anyone is that it flakes all day. I get to a mirror around 3pm and their are black flakes all around my eyes! It is so annoying because I love the look on my eyelashes but I can't stand the flaking and won't put up with it when there are so many great mascaras out there.

So this mascara is now way past its used by date and I think it is time for me to move on to something (hopefully) better.

This mascara I so badly wanted to love, it made my lashes full, long and really dark without using alot of product however what I was finding it halfway through the day I would have black transfer under my eyes that no matter the situation if it was hot or cold this would still end up transferring

This product was a bit of a disappointment to me. I love the packaging, the metallic pink is quite pretty. Unfortunately after a few uses the mascara became clumpy and I had to apply it several times before I reached the thickness I desired. The black shade is a nice one but the texture of the product is not my favorite and certainly not better than sex.