I am such a klutz when it comes to tightlining my eyes...for some reason I can't get them to stop watering when I get really close with an eyeliner. It's so weird, especially since I wear contacts and am totally comfortable touching my eyeballs on a daily basis! But as soon as that pencil touches my inner lash line, the tears start coming. I'll never understand...
So when I saw the new L'oreal Voluminous Butterfly Sculpt mascara at Target that promises to create a tightline effect, I put it right into my shopping basket. I had good luck with IT Cosmetics Tightline mascara...I know the reviews are hit or miss on that one, but it actually worked well for me (see my review here). Even though the brush on this one is completely different than Tightline, I was hoping it could possibly be a dupe and maybe save me a few bucks. Let's take a closer look!
Price/Where to Buy: $8.99 at drugstores (I found mine at Target)
Quick Verdict: It's a miss for me.
L'oreal Voluminous Butterfly Sculpt has one of the funkiest mascara wands I've ever seen. There are bristles on only one side and the other side is totally smooth.
The section of the brush that has bristles looks kind of like a zipper to me...there are longer bristles along the sides and one row of short, stumpy bristles down the center. They start close together at the top and then open up as you go down the brush (hence the zipper effect).
When you apply this, you're supposed to put the brush up against your lash line and those tiny little bristles in the center get right up against the roots of your lashes to deposit mascara between your lashes for that tightlining effect. Then as you comb the brush up and out, the longer bristles are supposed to separate and fan out the lashes.
Those little tiny bristles actually do their job well and deposited a lot of product at the roots of my lashes...but maybe a little too much. In my before and afters below, you can see that this product definitely darkened in-between my lashes to create the effect of wearing black eyeliner, but the formula is extremely wet and the brush holds way too much product. This made my lashes clump together, and the more I tried to comb them out, the more product the brush added, making the problem worse.
On top of that, I had raccoon eyes within a few hours of applying, which is the biggest deal-breaker for me (I didn't get the waterproof formula so maybe that fares a bit better).
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| Before, After, and After shot looking up so you can see the underside of my lashes. |
Have you tried this one yet? I'd love to hear what you think!