Tarte Tarteist XL Tubing Mascara: a Guru Score of 72%

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Allie Glines

829k subs

~Yay

"This is one of my favorite personal tubing mascaras. I always have one sitting here on my desk. [...] It's a great little tubing mascara in case you need to stock up on one."

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"I've been loving the Tarteist XL Tubing Mascara. I was not expecting to love this. [...] This one gives crazy volume, it's what I'm wearing today. [...] I was hesitant to try it because I'm such a diehard fan of the Thrive tubing mascara, but I really do like this. It's really, really nice."

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"For mascara I'm going to wear the Tarte Tarteist XL mascara that I've been really liking lately. I also love doing a good lower lash mascara."

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"I'm going to take a little bit of the Tarteist XL Tubing Mascara, I'm going to apply this to just the top lashes for now. [...] Just going to do one nice layer of this mascara."

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"I'm going to pop on a little bit of the Tarte Tarteist XL mascara to create more of a bold lash look. I always love to apply a good amount of lower lash mascara when doing a smokey eye, especially if you've got some eyeshadow on the lower lash line."

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"I found a mascara, a Tarte one, a brown Tarte one I want to use. This is the Tarteist Tubing mascara in the shade brown. I just felt like with the softer color palette, a brown mascara would just kind of like fit the vibe, you know?"

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"This is one of my favorites and I'm thrilled to see that it's going to be 50% off. If you like tubing mascaras, this is really great. It reminds me quite a bit of the Thrive one. [...] It's beautiful. It's a great formula. It comes in black and brown."

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"Another mascara that wears extremely well on me is the Tarte Tartelette XL mascara. It reminds me so much of a tubing mascara, which is probably why I like it so much. It gives quite a bit of volume and wears like a dream because it's a tubing mascara. [...] It's really nice when you want a foolproof voluminous everyday mascara."

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"The best tubing mascara went to the Tarte Tartelette XL mascara, which is [...] a different formula from the regular Tartelette. The volume is definitely there almost instantly, which I love. [...] Tubing mascaras often get a little better once they dry out slightly, but this is building up nicely. It ended up being the star of [...] the show and [...] I really like how it looks."

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"This is one of my favorite personal tubing mascaras. I always have one sitting here on my desk. [...] It's a great little tubing mascara in case you need to stock up on one."

The Budget Dermatologist

725k subs

~Yay

"The Tarte Tartlet tubing mascara is on sale, about 40% off, and it's super high on my list of favorites. [...] I love this one and so many of you guys love it too, you actually recommended it to me, so I tried it and I love it."

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"Now, Tarte, another highly recommended one by you guys. I got the brown color in this one. And I'll link both brown and black, but I wanted something a little more like subtle for not subtle, but like more of a brown tint. So, I got brown and this really like that one."

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"The Tarte Tartlet tubing mascara is on sale, about 40% off, and it's super high on my list of favorites. [...] I love this one and so many of you guys love it too, you actually recommended it to me, so I tried it and I love it."

No BS Beauty

89k subs

~Yay

"I'm wearing it right now, is the Tarte Tartist XL Tubing Mascara. I personally I love tubing mascaras. The Thrive is great. This is very similar to be honest. I probably could switch the two ones and not notice the difference once they apply. Very nice. And right now it's 16 bucks. So it's 40% off."

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"I've been testing the Tarte against the Thrive and I find them very similar. I don't find much of a difference. I think the Tarte one maybe separates a little bit better."

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"I'm wearing it right now, is the Tarte Tartist XL Tubing Mascara. I personally I love tubing mascaras. The Thrive is great. This is very similar to be honest. I probably could switch the two ones and not notice the difference once they apply. Very nice. And right now it's 16 bucks. So it's 40% off."

Dr Dray

2.69M subs

~Yay

"My Tarte tubing mascara arrived that I got from Amazon for Prime Day, and I'm pretty happy with it. It works well."

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"My Tarte tubing mascara arrived that I got from Amazon for Prime Day, and I'm pretty happy with it. It works well."

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"I've been getting a lot of compliments on my eyelashes I will say that but that being said I'm not like enamored with this mascara. I don't know why I just feel like for a mascara I kind of don't enjoy the price point. One of the things I don't like about it is I end up whacking my upper eyelid getting a lot of little hits which does flake off."

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"It doesn't really perform quite like a tubing mascara though. Tubing mascaras basically coat your lashes and put a little tube around the individual lash hairs and then they're kind of fun because at the end of the day when you use your makeup remover or whatever these little tubes come off. This isn't really like that, but it is a pretty good mascara. [...] It really has a good lengthening. [...] It really does provide a lot of length and lift, but I don't know that it's mindblowing."

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"I've used the Tarte Tarteist tubing mascara before, and it's pretty good. I bought it for Prime Day because it was on sale. It's a tubing mascara, and it really does give a good amount of lift and length. It stays on well and doesn't get too flaky. [...] I don't normally want to spend $27 on a mascara, but when it's on sale, I don't mind getting it. I think I got this XL one, which, come to think of it, I've always used. So we'll see how the XL one is."

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"I'm still using the Tarte Tarteist tubing mascara and I've rather been enjoying it. It was locked underneath the Tarte tubes and when my sunscreen adhered to my eyelashes, the combination of my tears and the sunscreen just started breaking apart in these chunks of the tubing mascara covered in the sunscreen, going in my eyes. But an oil cleanser really just helps to melt it all away and break it all up."

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"I haven't hated it. It does give a nice lengthening and lifting effect. I've actually gotten some compliments on TikTok about my lashes when I'm wearing [...] this. I like it, but I haven't been blown away. I probably would not repurchase it, especially since I find it to be very similar in performance to the Milani tubing mascara, which I really like. [...] For the price point, I would just go back to the Milani tubing mascara."

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Abbey Yung

887k subs

~Yay

"One of the best tubing mascaras I have ever tried. It comes in black and brown, and it was featured very high on my tubing mascara showdown last summer."

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"One of the best tubing mascaras I have ever tried. It comes in black and brown, and it was featured very high on my tubing mascara showdown last summer."

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"This was the winner of my tubing mascara showdown where I reviewed 20 top rated tubing mascaras last summer. It still is amazing, but I think I like the new Too Faced Ribbon Wrapped Lash Tubing Mascara even better now."

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"I did a giant tubing mascara showdown testing 20 of the top rated tubing mascaras and hated [...] so many of them, but this one blew me out of the water. [...] The wand has short, stumpy bristles which [...] normally doesn't work for me, but it does with this formula. I curl my lashes but don't use primer with it since primer [...] doesn't mesh well with this tubing formula."

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"Length is amazing, volume is amazing, and separation is amazing. The wear could definitely be better, [...] but comparatively it holds up really well. Removal might be a deal breaker for some, it partially tubes and mostly smears off, though it still comes off super easily, so if having the actual little tubes come off [...] is a must for you, you might want to skip this one, but don't skip it because it's amazing. This is without a doubt the best tubing mascara I have ever tried."

Beyond50Skin

32k subs

~Nay

"The Tarte mascara only got a one out of five for application. It was messy to apply, it transferred, and I had to do a bit of cleanup. [...] For appearance, a one out of five. It was clumpy, it didn't really look like it extended my lashes much at all. It didn't have that nice sleek individual lash look like I would expect a tubing mascara to have. For smudging, it got a three out of five. It did smudge and have a little bit of fallout, not too bad. For washability, it got a three out of five."

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"I purchased the bundle with the tubing mascara, the fake awake liner, and their lip plumper. This was a huge fail for me. First of all, it doesn't give any color whatsoever. I thought it would give at least some color, but it's barely there. [...] The smell is a very strong coconut smell, and it's slightly sticky and not very hydrating. Unfortunately, this was a fail for me."

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"The Tarte mascara only got a one out of five for application. It was messy to apply, it transferred, and I had to do a bit of cleanup. [...] For appearance, a one out of five. It was clumpy, it didn't really look like it extended my lashes much at all. It didn't have that nice sleek individual lash look like I would expect a tubing mascara to have. For smudging, it got a three out of five. It did smudge and have a little bit of fallout, not too bad. For washability, it got a three out of five."

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"The fake awake liner came in a trending bundle by Tarte along with their tubing mascara and their lip plumper so I bought that little bundle. I haven't tried the lip plumper yet and I'm also getting ready to do a video on tubing mascara and I'll give you my review of the Tarte tubing mascara. I have always found tubing mascaras to be somewhat troublesome so I'm going to have that video out probably at the end of March beginning of April."

HotandFlashy

1.23M subs

~Nay

"Problem was at the end of the day it had left me like a little dribble over here by the corner of my eye. I have one eye that's always like a little dribbly, and when I wear my Clinique tubing mascara I never end up with the little dribble at the corner of my eye. With this one I had it. So not in love with this, even though it was pretty. [...] I think that the Clinique is far superior because it stays put until I take it off."

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"Problem was at the end of the day it had left me like a little dribble over here by the corner of my eye. I have one eye that's always like a little dribbly, and when I wear my Clinique tubing mascara I never end up with the little dribble at the corner of my eye. With this one I had it. So not in love with this, even though it was pretty. [...] I think that the Clinique is far superior because it stays put until I take it off."

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"I like Tarte as a brand. This goes on much drier than the Ci'Ray, which is very wet. [...] It's giving me really pretty lashes—seems to be more of a matte formula, and they don't really seem to be very glossy. However, I got some flakes from the mascara. Usually tubing mascaras don't really flake, but this one has quite a few flakes under both eyes. I like the Ci'Ray tubing mascara a lot better than this one."

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Frequently asked.

What is Tarte Tarteist XL Tubing Mascara?

A tubing mascara from Tarte that is designed to add volume and length to lashes, with a separated, tube-like finish.

Is Tarte Tarteist XL Tubing Mascara worth it?

The gurus are split. 5 of the 7 gurus give it their stamp of approval while 2 would skip it, which lands it in the middle at a Guru Score of 72%.

What is Tarte Tarteist XL Tubing Mascara's Guru Score?

Tarte Tarteist XL Tubing Mascara holds a Guru Score of 72%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 7 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.