Elf Lash Tint Mascara Review

Elf Lash Tint Mascara ($4 eyeslipsface.com) is part of the brand new Beautifully Bare collection that Elf released a few weeks ago (see my post on all of the new products here). Beautifully Bare is all about "makeup so flawless it looks like you are not even wearing makeup". I purchased all of the products in the line for review, and being the mascara junkie that I am, I decided to test out the Lash Tint mascara first. 

Lash Tint Mascara comes in a beautiful, sleek silver tube that's a nice change from the matte black packaging we're used to seeing from Elf...it looks a bit more upscale and modern.

Here's the description from the Elf website:
This mascara creates a flawless look that's beautiful and natural-looking. This innovative and revolutionary applicator expertly combs and coats every individual lash for weightless coverage. The rich formula creates buildable volume from root to tip for fuller-looking lashes. If you want your mascara to work double duty, use a small brush grab the mascara on the applicator and smudge along the lash line as an eyeliner for a more dramatic effect! It's makeup so flawless, it feels like you're not even wearing makeup!

The brush is teeny tiny and actually reminds me a lot of IT Cosmetics Tightline, in that it allows you to get right into the base of your lashes and even deposit a little color there for an eyeliner effect. But that's where the similarities end...Tightline thickens and lengthens, acts as a lash primer, and contains peptides, proteins and vitamins. It's also paraben free. Elf Lash Tint mascara is a pretty basic formula that does contain parabens, so I would only compare this to Tightline in terms of the brush...the formulas are vastly different.

Here's the brush next to Benefit's They're Real for comparison purposes.  They're Real has a pretty average sized mascara brush, so you can really see how small Lash Tint's brush is!

Elf Lash Tint, Benefit They're Real!

Here are my before and afters:

Before

After

Elf Lash Tint gives your lashes a very subtle, natural look and added some length but not a lot of volume or oomph to my lashes, even when building multiple coats. I found the formula to be very wet and it felt like it took forever to dry, however I didn't have problems with clumping- the tiny brush gave my lashes nice separation. Later in the day, the heaviness of the wet formula seemed to weigh my lashes down a bit, but on the plus side, I didn't notice any smudging or flaking under my eyes.

Overall, I'm not super impressed with Elf Lash Tint. It's very inexpensive but there are many drugstore mascaras I like more than this one. Maybelline's Lash Discovery has a very similar tiny brush and I like that formula a lot better, so if you're looking for a drugstore mascara with a skinny brush, you may want to check that one out instead. 

Stay tuned for more reviews of the Elf Beautifully Bare collection!