one of these mascaras is going in the trash hello gorgeous welcome back to my
channel the past three months or so consistently one of my most popular
videos is my thrive mascara review and I have been using this mascara every time
I wear my makeup ever since I filmed that video I love it so much I talk
about it all the time but I recently found a drugstore dupe for it and we're
gonna try them out on camera one on each eye and see how they compare and we're
gonna go through the pros and the cons let's try them out let's first talk
about thrive mascara so this mascara is wonderful but it's pricey it is $24 and
the only way that you get free shipping on it is if you spend $35 or more on
their website I have recently heard that they're selling these in-store Ulta but
I have not checked that out to be sure so don't take that as Bible but it could
be possible it's a hundred percent vegan it's cruelty free it's I've had no
reactions on my eyeballs whatsoever to this and I think it's a wonderful
mascara this one is the liquid lash extensions mascara so I'm going to go
ahead and throw this on my left eye and we're gonna compare it after I put on
the other one
okay so I have one coat on of Thrive mascara I curled my lashes and I already
cleaned up a little bit one of the things that I love about thrive mascara
is how easy it is to clean up a mistake I literally just let it dry for I don't
know a couple minutes and then it just you just take your finger and it flicks
right off another thing that I love about v cosmetics is that every purchase
that you make on their website they make a donation to a domestic abuse shelter
so I really really love that part of the proceeds are going to such a great cause
but I love the mascara it's a little bit of a chunky formula which a lot of
people don't like I like it because I feel like it gives volume it's the
probably my favorite thing about the mascara itself is the way that it washes
off I literally just put some warm water on my eyes and it just slides right off
of my lashes I need does not give you raccoon eyes and that was so awesome
because as I'm getting older I hate pulling the skin around my eyes and
taking your fingers and going like this to take your mascara off and not at
night what is that doing it's like dragging and moving and pulling your
skin and you don't have to do that with thrive and that's one of the major major
reasons why I love it so much so this is what it looks like on the lashes with
one coat now we're gonna go and do another coat of the competitor which is
L'Oreal voluminous superstar X fiber this is a double ended mascara because
one end is the primer and one end is the mascara so I'm not sure if that makes it
less equal of a competition because this is only one coat and technically there's
two products with two coats we'll just have to see how it works out okay a
couple of things about this X fiber mascara its 997 at Walmart and the thing
that I find so unique about this is that the primer itself is black that is such
a game-changer because so much every primer I've tried before this is white
and I'm sure there's other black primers out there but this is so good that when
I put the primer on by itself it's almost like okay I'm done like you
almost feel like you don't need the mascara it has a primer so good I've
been testing this all out all week so I'm looking at the L'Oreal website here
and it says first prime my lashes with the black primer to instantly build
intense volume and color on / next apply the fiber infused mascara
with 20 times more lengthening fibers versus superstar original it's available
in regular and also waterproof so it's awesome so I went ahead and I'm gonna do
it really quick again and curl my lashes these lashes on this eye both both
lashes are a little bit funky I've got a crank over here on this eye and then
this my lashes go like this so it's really it's really awesome let's go
ahead and apply the primer first so the first thing that I want to point out is
the brush in comparison to the Thrive brush the Thrive brush was so
underwhelming the first time I used it because I was like there is no like it
is like little tiny stubs this one is a little bit thicker but it only on the
edges it's like a figure eight almost so the brush here is interesting on the
primer because the primer and the mascara wands are two different shapes
do you see that so the mascara is got like a u-shape but
then the primer is kind of like a figure eight shape so just an food for thought
okay so I've got primer only on this eye and this is mascara five L'Oreal primer
now I'm going to go ahead and use the L'Oreal mascara on top of the primer and
this is the the formula that has the fibers in it and you can so clearly say
I see that on the mascara wand
all right lore'l thrive what do you think I kind of think L'Oreal wins what
do you think I mean I feel like we're looking at Gucci goodwill well my
biggest concern when using these mascaras well when using this one was
does it come off as easy as the Thrive the answer is yes when I'm in the shower
at the end of the day and I'm washing my face it comes off the same as this I
don't have raccoon eyes I don't have to scrub my eyes it's so simple that's
amazing the price difference $24 for this eye 997 for this eye it's a
no-brainer what do you think babe yeah you like this one yes it looks nice all
right yeah that's wild for two years I have
been using this and loving it and now I feel like it's out the door this is the
winner it just looks so good sometimes drugstores just that's worth
that and this time L'Oreal you're wearing that I think it looks so good
the other thing that I love about this is that as soon as my lashes are curled
the primer holds the curl and I never have to curl my lashes the rest of the
day with thrive I always have to curl my lashes after the fact and sometimes I
throughout the day I'll go back and curl them again because it just they do
thrive does hold the curl but it doesn't hold the curl as well as this mascara
does all right guys Wow I'm looking at the screen playback and this I just
looks so much better doesn't it it's crazy let's see if this helps that
does help but this doesn't this I just looks chunkier and like this just looks
more polished and it just looks better this eye looks better so L'Oreal was the
winner hands down and honestly I mean $24 that's not even with shipping so put
an extra like five bucks on there for shipping you're looking at
almost $30 versus ten that's a third of the price it's awesome I hope you guys
enjoyed this video if you want to see me test out any other products let me know
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