THOUGHTS

September 20th, 2018: I know hate is a strong word, but oh my god I hate this mascara. This has a super liquid-y wet formula that gets EVERYWHERE. I've never had such a messy mascara application in my life. Not only did it get ALL over my eyelids, it even transferred onto my lower lashes and coated them in mascara every time I blinked in addition to smudging all over my lower lash line...which wasn't even the worst part.

The worst thing about this mascara is that it turns your eyelashes into velcro...very weak worn velcro that isn't strong enough to rip your lashes from your eyelid, but nonetheless there was enough stick that every time I blinked my eyes my upper and lower lashes would stick and "velcro" together before separating again when I opened my eyes and therefore I could feel my lashes every single time I blinked, which was crazy annoying...and I mean CRAZY ANNOYING...and it remained that way. That velcro feeling did not go away with time, so yeah...I ended up just having to take if off after an hour or so because I just couldn't take it anymore...so this is a definite pass in my book.

Oh and also, aside from the debacle mentioned above, this doesn't even do anything for the lashes. It maybe lengthens the teeny tiniest bit, but other than that nothing. No volume, which yeah it doesn't claim to be volumizing, but definitely no curling either, which this is called the power curling mascara, but nope...there was no power curling. Not even a regular curling. My lashes fell so limp.

I hate to be so negative, especially without mentioning at least one positive, but I honestly cannot find one redeeming quality about this product...the application process sucks, it does nothing for my lashes, it bothers and annoys me after application and it doesn't even have cute packaging. This was just an all around dud and disappointment for me...although perhaps I actually did get a dud? The picture of this product (as seen above) shows a curved mascara wand, but mine wasn't curved at all. It had an ever so slightly, and I mean slightly...like maybe a 2 degree slant, not curve but slant, to the wand...like I had accidentally bent it. I mean does this look curved to you?

So maybe it's possible my entire tube is just a dud product? This is me trying to not be such a hater and try and find some type of positive, but at any rate that was my experience with this mascara and if you couldn't tell by now, I do not recommend giving this a go.

References...

1. Beauteque

INGREDIENTS

Water, Mineral Oil, Propylene Glycol, Isopropyl Myristate, Glycern, Petrolatum, Polysorbate 60, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Microcrystalline Wax, Fragaria Chiloensis (Strawberry) Fruit Extract (150mg), Yogurt Extract (150mg), Sodium Hyaluronate, Betaine, Allantoin, Beeswax, Cetearyl Alcohol, Stearyl Alcohol, Sorbitan Stearate, Sorbitan Sesquioleate, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Dimethicone, Carbomer, Phenoxyethanol, Methlparaben, Propylparaben, Triethanolamine, Disodium EDTA, Fragrance

VERDICT

January 14th, 2017: OMG it smells so good, but OMG I hate it. This cream is so heavy and emollient and suffocating feeling on my face I ended up rinsing it off afterwards and re-starting my skincare even though you're not supposed to...you're just supposed to wipe off the excess product not rinse it off.

Unlike the description, this DID NOT leave my skin wonderfully satiny smooth or without any oiliness. My face was crazy shiny, greasy and oily afterwards...like crazy oily. It was like I had a layer of grease on my face which was suffocating my pores. The only thing that rang true was that it wasn't sticky. That I will give to them. It definitely wasn't sticky.

Even though this is a yogurt massage cream, it's got a thicker consistency than yogurt. It's not like the yogurt mask that I tried from Etude House: https://ahnspired.blogspot.com/2016/01/etude-house_30.html, which really did look and feel just like yogurt...and was great, FYI. This truly is an emollient cream...which I guess since this is supposed to be a massage cream, you would want a thicker, slick and oily cream to lubricate your face for massaging and not something that is thin so as not to create friction which would be bad. This isn't something that just sits on the face...so logically I do understand why, but it doesn't change the fact that I still hate it.

If you're someone with very dry skin that really needs some deep hydration then perhaps you will like it, or if you're someone that doesn't mind that heavy greasy feeling on the face since massaging the face is a good skincare habit to have, but for me this is a definite pass...which is a shame because it smells so so good...although looking at the ingredients list it does contain mineral oil as it's 2nd ingredient, which is an ingredient you should avoid in your skincare and it also contains fragrance, FYI.

References...

1. Beauteque

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