Sephora Collection LashCraft Length & Volume Mascara
Price: $12
Claims: A jet-black mascara with a unique two-sided, flat paddle wand. Sephora LashCraft Length & Volume Mascara lengthens, defines, and volumizes lashes with a unique paddle brush. The flat shape and flexible bristles expertly lift lashes up from the root for smooth length and definition to the max. The jet-black, high performance formula is infused with nylon for a sleek, clump-free and stay-all-day look.
Ingredients:
Water: Primarily used as a solvent in cosmetics and personal care products in which it dissolves many of the ingredients that impart skin benefits, such as conditioning agents and cleansing agents. Water also forms emulsions in which the oil and water components of the product are combined to form creams and lotions.
Iron Oxides: Natural oxides of iron (iron combined with oxygen); pigments are used to enhance colors in cosmetics.
Cyclopentasiloxane: Lightweight silicone with a silky, slippery feel that functions as a skin/hair conditioning agent.
Acrylates Copolymer: A stabilizer mostly used in styling products to set the hair, add body, and protect it from humidity. It possesses a multitude of functions and can work as a film forming agent, hair fixative agent, suspending agent and antistatic agent. It’s also sometimes used as a waterproofing agent, as well as an adhesive.
Palmitic Acid: Obtained from palm oil; used as a surfactant.
Stearic Acid: Fatty acid used as an emollient and emulsifier. It has been shown to protect skin's surface against water loss and help shore up skin's protective barrier. Stearic acid may be synthetic or animal-derived.
Triethanolamine: Used in cosmetics as a pH balancer and emulsion stabilizer.
Acacia Senegal Gum: Herb that can have skin soothing properties, but is used primarily as a thickening agent.
Polybutene: A oligomeric oil, sometimes derived from petroleum, that is used in its hydrogenated form, as a binder, epilating agent, thickener and lubricant. It is naturally tacky or sticky and is also used for its adhesive properties.
Nylon-12: Powder substance used as an absorbent and texture enhancer. When present in high amounts in skincare or makeup products, nylon-12 tends to have mattifying properties.
Phenoxyethanol: A glycol ether and bactericide (that functions as a disinfectant, antiseptic or antibiotic) that is primarily used as a preservative. It is also seen as a fragrance additive.
Aminomethyl Propanediol: Used to adjust pH in cosmetics.
Panthenol: Member of the B complex family of vitamins. A moisturizing humectant and emollient.
Polyvinyl Alcohol: A synthetic polymer of vinyl alcohol that functions in cosmetics as a gel-based thickener, film-forming, and binding agent. Used quite a bit in peel-off facial masks, this type of alcohol may pose a risk of aggravating skin unless combined with other ingredients that offset this potential, such as glycerin, emollients, or other skin-repairing ingredients.
VP/VA Copolymer: A film former. Has the ability to inhibit the hair (or lashes) from absorbing moisture; it dries and forms a thin barrier on hair, nails or skin. When used in hair care products, it allows hair to hold a style longer by preventing moisture from entering the hair shaft. VP/VA Copolymer is also used to hold together the ingredients of a compressed tablet or cake and helps to distribute or to suspend an insoluble solid in a liquid. Also used as viscosity builders of water-based and oil-based types of products.
Polyquaternium-10: Conditioning, moisturizing, anti-static agent. A water soluble, white granulated powder. It is also considered a film former, supplying a sheen and coating to hair strands by easily being absorbed by proteins.
Ethylhexylglycerin: A synthetic skin-softening agent also used as a preservative, a carrier, or suspending agent for other preservatives such as phenoxyethanol.
Hydrogenated Olive Oil Stearyl Esters: Acts as an emulsion stabilizer and hair and skin conditioning agent. It considerably facilitates the application of a cosmetic product and at the same time provides the skin with outstanding emollience, softness and a fine silky touch at the time of application. It is also important to mention that it does not leave a greasy finish since it is present in the product in a very low proportion.
Acrylates/Ethylhexyl Acrylate Copolymer: Film Former
Copernicia Cerifera Wax: Natural, hard wax obtained from the leaves of palm trees. Used primarily as a thickening agent, but also has film-forming and absorbent properties.
Laureth-21: Surfactants, cleansing agents, emulsifiers and solubilizers.
My Thoughts: I received Sephora Collection LashCraft Length & Volume Mascara in my February 2017 Play! by Sephora box. I was really excited to try the mascara since it had a uniquely shaped brush. It best described as a paddle shape brush. I use the flat paddle side first basically to coat all my lashes with the formula which it also lengths it. I take the comb side to separate the lashes from root to tip. Than I use the comb on the tips to lift and curl the lash. The end results is long and lush lashes.
What really sucks is that Sephora Collection LashCraft Length & Volume Mascara formula goes bad very quickly once I opened the mascara. I was only able to use it twice in its prime before it went south. The formula tends to get very stringy and clumpy. Mostly likely due to the Nylon formula. It completely destroys the brush as well, but just the comb side, it tends to get clumped together. Which is bad for application because I can’t separate the lashes. I always end up with fallout during application and after, its a big mess and annoying. On the brighter side regardless of how old the formula is, its super easy and painless to remove. It can even be removed with just water, however I don’t use this method since not all my makeup can be removed with water. But the best part is I never wakeup with raccoon eyes the next morning thats how easy the removal process is.
Would I purchase Sephora Collection LashCraft Length & Volume Mascara? No the formula is terrible its gets old way too quickly even for the cheap price point.
Pros:
Received from February 2017 Play! by Sephora box
Uniquely shaped paddle brush
Flat side coats & lengths
Comb side separates & lifts
Easily removable with water
Cheap
Cons:
Formula quickly gets old
Formula is stringy & clumpy
Clumps up the comb side of the brush
Clumped brush can no longer separate the lashes.
Fallout during & after application
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