Bluecatbaby asks…I recently read about a new Too-Faced product, called “Better Than False Lashes.” It uses a tube of mascara and a tube of nylon fibers. Has anyone tried this, because it sounds interesting. Too-Faced promotes it as an alternative to false lashes, not as an alternative to your current mascara. Whatever. Are there any ingredients in these two products (the two tubes) that are different than other mascaras? Are there any ingredients that would make it an improvement on other mascaras?
The Beauty Brains respond:
Typical mascaras are wax-based so they just provide a goopy thickening layer on top of your lashes. The activating mascara and top coat of Better Than False Lashes, like Blinc’s Kiss Me mascara, is based on acrylic polymers which are like hair styling gel ingredients. These polymers form a “shell” around each lash. (That’s how Blinc mascara makes those little tubes. The Flexistretch layer consists of nylon particles that give a textured effect, The combination of the two will give you an effect that is different than a regular wax based mascara.
One caveat -some people, especially contact lens wearers, have had problems with nylon fiber products because pieces break off and get caught under the lens resulting in eye irritation.
Better Than False Lashes Ingredients
Activating Mascara and Top Coat: Water/Aqua/Eau, Acrylates Copolymer, Propylene Glycol, Paraffin, Ozokerite, Phenyl Trimethicone, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Stearic Acid, PVP, Glycol Montanate, Cera Alba/Beeswax/Cire d’abeille, Triethanolamine, Silica, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Hydrogenated Palm Acid, Stearyl Stearate, Synthetic Wax, Nylon-66, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Ethylparaben, Propylparaben, Butylparaben, Isobutylparaben, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Black 2 (CI 77266).
Flexistretch Nylon Fibers: Nylon-66, Dimethicone, Paraffinum Liquidum/Mineral Oil/Huile minérale, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Ethylparaben, Butylparaben, Propylparaben, Isobutylparaben, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891).
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So it nylon based, polymer based or both? And dont cheaper mascaras have the same technologies to them?
Yeah I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Rimmel/L’oreal mascara ads that talk about forming a tube around each lash.
Nothing beats falsies though!
Nylon IS a polymer. And there maybe cheaper products that use this technology, we just haven’t come across them.
Mac Zoom Lash is a very similar concept, with the fibers, and I love love love it. Especially because I am a contact wearer, I close my eyes and use a makeup setting spray to help keep the fibers from flaking off into my eyes – Urban Decay makes a decent one.
It wasn’t until I was in my 30s until I found out that I was allergic to Propylene Glycol.
I bet alot of women don’t realize they have that allergy. It’s in lots of cosmetics and hair products. Thus, now, I always read the ingredients.