Your eyes are the first feature many people will notice. The expression “the eyes are the window to the soul” underscores how much you can learn from someone through their eyes; the size of their pupils, the direction of their gaze, their eye color, whether they have dark circles, and even their preferred makeup. For this reason and more, mascara is a great way to express confidence and enhance your eyes. However, you don’t want your lashes flaking at a job interview or on a first date, nor do you want clumpy streaks running down your face at an outdoor concert – so you want the right mascara.
Here are three top-notch mascaras from MOIRA Cosmetics, DABALASH, and Farmasi that not only conquer clumping, flaking, streaking, and smudging, but also are affordable and impart a lush, falsie effect, with no lash glue required.
MOIRA’s Maximum Volume & Lifting Mascara
On sale for $5.60 right now (regularly $7), MOIRA’s Maximum Volume & Lifting Mascara indeed delivers on enhancing volume and giving your lashes a nice sculpted lift. Thanks to its elegant hourglass shaped brush made up of soft fibers, it’s easy to get an ultra-intense curled look.
With the formula being a bit on the thicker, creamier side, it goes on smoothly. It is buildable and doesn’t dry super fast, allowing you to effortlessly achieve bold, dark lashes. Users have reported that MOIRA’s Maximum Volume & Lifting Mascara is truly waterproof and smudge resistant, even in humid conditions. It is also free of parabens, sulfates, oil, gluten, phthalate, and is cruelty-free.
Dabalash’s Vegan Mascara
Retailing at $14.95, the Vegan Mascara from Dabalash is another top-quality and affordable choice to wear on these hot summer days. Boasting a formula that is cruelty-free and made without salts and parabens, it is instead made with natural ingredients such as Jojoba Esters. This vegan mascara is efficient in keeping your lashes healthy and is very well-suited for sensitive eyes. You can forget constant touch-ups too, because it is also made for everyday wear.
The Dabalash Vegan Mascara features a silicone, cactus shaped brush with bristles that are uniform in size. It is specifically made to ensure the mascara will be evenly distributed from root to tip and give your lashes a fresh curl. The silicone ensures that bristles don’t get tangled or stuck together during use and over time, allowing users a more seamless experience to achieve fuller but also natural looking lashes, all while steering clear of clumping and separating.
Farmasi’s Double Lash Extend Mascara
Farmasi’s Double Lash Extend Mascara featuring an innovative 2-step silicone brush is a superb option for an extra boost in volume and/or definition from root to tip, especially if you’re on the prowl for a dark and intense smoky eye look. It’s also quite buildable which gives you the option to amp the drama up another level if desired.
What’s most impressive about this mascara from Farmasi is the brush design. It’s basically two different brushes in one that gives you the option of increasing volume or increasing length, but separately. The mascara wand is actually double walled, made up of two different pieces. The idea is that as you pull it through the inner part of the wand, the excess mascara on the brush will be removed (but remain in the mascara tube), giving you control over how much of the product gets on the brush depending if you want more volume or length.
Although Farmasi’s Double Lash Extend Mascara is slightly more pricey at $26.90, it is definitely worth it for the results!
Overall, any of these mascaras are perfect for customizing your eye looks while not breaking the bank.
