• Tarte

Tarte

Overview

Tarte has a rating of 1.48 stars from 135 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Tarte most frequently mention customer service, confirmation email, and shape tape problems. Tarte ranks 213th among Cruelty-Free sites.

  • Service
    16
  • Value
    14
  • Shipping
    14
  • Returns
    10
  • Quality
    13
  • Full refund
  • Free shipping
  • Yes
  • Price
  • $ $ $

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  • I come from customer service at a well known company and the way I was treated was horrible.
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Top Positive Review

“Best makeup ever”

Angela R.
1/6/21

I've been using make up from this company for almost 8 years now. It is by far the best cosmetic line I have ever used. I am a professional make up artist and I use this for almost all of my jobs. I perform so well in last so very long. They have great prices awesome customer service and they do a ton of wonderful sales all throughout the year

Top Critical Review

“BUYER BEWARE - HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE and Product volume deceiving”

debbie t.
12/6/23

I bought several of the Lip Plumps and just found out that only half the product shown is available. There is no way to pump the rest out of the tube. Customer service told me to use a lip brush to access the remaining product. That COMPLETELY defeats the purpose of this design. I was on "chat" for over 30 mins trying to get clarification. NEVER AGAIN. Bad design - bad customer service. I'll be writing this review on every website I can. I don't want others to be deceived. Also - wouldn't let me connect t with a manager, although I asked more than once.

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Thumbnail of user lesleym54
1 review
12 helpful votes
August 10th, 2018

I have a good collection of Tarte products and so far I would recommend them all.
I've had a damaged item and they sent a refund when I sent photo evidence.
The delivery time is quite long as the are based in the US.
The main problem I have is the misleading information in the loyalty program.
It seems that we pay for otherwise free items due to customs rules. The deluxe samples are not always available. The website is prone to crashes when your ready to checkout the basket is gone. Then appears 5 days later.

Thumbnail of user teresac225
1 review
2 helpful votes
June 21st, 2019

I love the tarte lip quencher balm and lights camera mascara however there is not much in either. When you spend 22.00$ for a lip balm it should last longer than a month. Not even using it everyday

Thumbnail of user donnap844
3 reviews
16 helpful votes
February 19th, 2021

I had ordered the 3 mini mascaras for $25.00. I hadn't received them for awhile, so I dedcided to look online at my orders to see if it said anything. It didn't even show that I had ordered the 3 mini mascaras! I was sure I did, so to be sure I looked on my bank account and $25.00 WAS taken out from Tarte! I called them to see what's going on. They looked me up and said that I DID NOT ORDER THE 3 MINI MASCARAS! I told them that I did and that they took it out of my bank account from my debit card! They still insisted they didn't! They were pleasant enough about it and the woman said that she'll look into this and call me back. She said it may take a day or two, that was fine with me, I just wanted to find out what happened to my order. Strangely enough, I received the mascaras the next day! I was happy! I called to tell them and they were nice about it and seemed glad that I received it. But, they didn't have ANY record that I ordered those mascaras. At least I did get them, but if I hadn't, they would have had NO record (for some reason) I did have it on my bank app on my phone, so I would have had to get my bank statement mailed to me before they usually did and mailed it to Tarte to prove to them that they charged me! Luckily, that didn' t happen! I would like to say that they were very nice through all of this, I did end up speaking with 2 different people. They obviously just don't have great record keeping! They should have had that in record, somewhere that I ordered it. I would like to add that the all 3 mascaras are AWESOME! The camera, lights action is my favorite so far among the 3. The 3 that came with that are: Lights, Camera, Action--Big Ego--Maneater... I have only tried the last 2 one time, but they seem great! I was really impressed with the Lights, Camera, Action! It really appears to make your lashes long and thick! No clumping. Yet! I would say the 3 of them seem to have ALOT of product in them an the brushes are loaded with mascara! No dryness! You know, those mascaras that look so dried out and the're new! Not the case! If you happen to see the 3 mini mascara sale again, TRY THEM! I think they are about 3/4 of a regular tube, that's pretty good for a good mascara for about $8.33 a tube! Especially if you usually pay $15-$25 for one!

Thumbnail of user emmam105
1 review
12 helpful votes
June 28th, 2017

I love Tarte and I usually have no problem ordering through them. However, I made a purchase during a sale and got a nice discount on a few things. I realized after I checked out that I purchased two of one item so I quickly contacted them. They said that they would have to cancel the order completely. I replied saying I was nervous to do so since the promo code I had used wasn't working and they replied and said they cancelled the entire order and gave me a new promo code. Usually I would be fine with that, but I just saw the email now and was not aware that it was cancelled and the big sale they were having is now over so now I have to buy it at full price :( It's just annoying because I made sure to order everything before the sale was over and it just got cancelled when I didn't want it to be...

Thumbnail of user ellaz4
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 28th, 2017

I ordered my tarte products from the birthday sale and got it two weeks later, my pallete was cracked when I opened the box otherwise the product is great.

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