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The Deal Breaker: It Smears Down Your Face
Why You'll Love It: If you've got oily eyelids, super long lashes or watery eyes, you're used to your freshly applied mascara looking like last night's makeup. But once you apply this lash-thickening, volumizing mascara, it's not going to budge. Besides staying where you put it, this mascara won't clump like some of the thicker M.A.C. products -- the brush only picks up a little bit of mascara, so you can apply it precisely how you like it.
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The Deal Breaker: Your Mascara Is a Flake
We've all been there -- you glance in the mirror a few hours after applying a mascara that worked wonders for your lashes only to find that a dusting of tiny black flakes is darkening your under eye area. That's why my favorite mascara is L'Oreal Double Extend Beauty Tubes Mascara. It checks off all the boxes (lengthening, volumizing, easy-to-remove) without compromising the flake factor. Bonus: You won't lose precious eyelashes in the makeup-removing process, because it's another tubing mascara. One simple swipe and all of the mascara peels off with water.
Beauty editor confession: I hate mascara. I hate it so much that I frequently spend large stretches of time on a treatment table with my eyes taped shut, getting falsies glued to my lashes. Yep, even the torture of eyelash extensions was preferable to applying and removing eye makeup every day and night. I loved my extensions almost as much as I hated mascara -- until they made my lashes short, stubby and unhealthy.
Forced to abandon my extensions while my lashes could grow back, I decided it was time to find a mascara that I could love without reservation. Because even though I crave fluttery, long-as-sin lashes, I can't stand the clumps, smears and flakes that come with trying to achieve them.
I had a strict list of stellar qualities I was looking for in a mascara -- I wanted it to stay on all day, but also be easy to remove; it needed to be lengthening without being crusty or clumpy; and I wanted it to curl without the use of an eyelash curler (because those break off my already-delicate lashes). After testing out 30 different formulas with every type of wand, I've finally found them: the best clump-free, smudge-proof, long-lasting, easy-to-remove lengthening and volumizing mascaras that turned me into a believer -- and will do the same for you.
Forced to abandon my extensions while my lashes could grow back, I decided it was time to find a mascara that I could love without reservation. Because even though I crave fluttery, long-as-sin lashes, I can't stand the clumps, smears and flakes that come with trying to achieve them.
I had a strict list of stellar qualities I was looking for in a mascara -- I wanted it to stay on all day, but also be easy to remove; it needed to be lengthening without being crusty or clumpy; and I wanted it to curl without the use of an eyelash curler (because those break off my already-delicate lashes). After testing out 30 different formulas with every type of wand, I've finally found them: the best clump-free, smudge-proof, long-lasting, easy-to-remove lengthening and volumizing mascaras that turned me into a believer -- and will do the same for you.
