Mascara is undoubtedly the most transformative makeup item you can own, adding length, volume and colour to your natural lashes.
What I love most about mascara is that it is a makeup item that enhances your natural features rather than detracts from them.
When it comes to investing in a good-quality mascara, it all depends on what you’re looking for: Do you want length? Volume? Brown mascara or black mascara?
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There are many different mascaras on the market, and it can feel overwhelming at times.
That is why here at Best Picks we have compiled a list of our top five favourite mascaras of 2024. You’re welcome.
1. Benefit BADgal Bang! Mascara, from $49, Sephora
This mascara has been a must-have in my makeup bag for years, and if you prefer length over volume, then this is the one for you.
Benefit’s BADgal Bang Mascara is an unadulterated black mascara for dramatically full and long lashes.
This 36-hour, full-blast volumising mascara is like a set of black false eyelashes, without the annoying sticky glue.
It features a streamlined brush and weightless gravity-defying formula, and it will coat lashes evenly every time to build beautiful looks.
Shoppers are loving the transformation this mascara gives their lashes and are calling it “amazing”.
“I have tiny lashes, and this mascara transformed them. I still can’t believe it, looks amazing and I am stunned with the results,” said one.
“This mascara is great, it doesn’t clump or smudge,” added a second.
2. Maybelline Great Lash Mascara in Blackest Black, from $14.99, Adore Beauty
If you are wanting a good mascara that will give you thick lashes at a more affordable price, then this cult-classic Maybelline mascara is the ultimate solution.
This all-time classic mascara has lots of volume with no clumps and no mess.
In just one swipe, the grabber brush easily reaches all the lashes.
The result is a multiplied lash look with lots of impact and not a lot of work.
The mascara has a four-star rating on Adore Beauty and shoppers are saying it’s “a great everyday mascara”.
“I have tried many mascaras, and I always return to this one. It’s a great everyday mascara that is effective and long-lasting. Plus, it’s not difficult to remove at the end of the day” said one.
“Great mascara, it is a classic,” added another.
3. Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara, from $48.95, Amazon Australia
Waterproof mascara is an essential in every makeup bag and this mascara will give you dramatic volume with just a single swipe.
This vegan mascara lengthens, volumises and separates as you apply and it is created in the blackest black, meaning even the most subtle of eye looks will pop.
The buildable formula gives you curled lashes in two coats, and a false lash effect in three coats.
This award-winning mascara is suitable for everything from a glam look to a naturally enhanced eye.
What also makes this mascara so great is that it contains peptides, which deeply condition and strengthen lashes by infusing the hair cortex with vitamin building blocks.
Shoppers on Amazon Australia have described it as “magic”.
4. Lancôme Hypnose Mascara, from $71, Myer
This iconic mascara offers you custom-volume control; you can go as bold or as natural as you desire.
This soft-sculpt formula is enriched with Provitamin B5 which protects and reinforces the lashes.
The mascara features carnauba wax, jojoba oil and acacia gum — which smooths, wraps and curls lashes one luxurious layer at a time.
With this mascara, you can create day-to-evening looks and achieve eight times the volume of your natural lashes.
It’s also ophthalmologically tested and suitable for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers.
The mascara has a 4.7-star rating on Myer and shoppers say it gives your lashes “extreme length”.
5. Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes 4-in-1 Mascara, from $43, Sephora
This mascara does it all. It curls, thickens, treats, lengthens and volumises and will give you stunningly thick and alluring lashes.
This vegan mascara acts like a push-up bra for your lashes and features a 360-degree magniLASH wand for an instant lash lift.
Its shorter bristles add intense volume, and the longer bristles give instant curl.
This Tarte mascara is also 24-hour wear, 24-hour smudge proof, 24-hour flake free and delivers a 35 per cent increase in lash curl.
The mascara has a four-star rating on Sephora and shoppers are saying that “it’s a great way to make your eyes look bigger”.
“I go from no lashes to great ones,” said one.
“This makes my lashes look so good,” added another.