Comments on: Mascara Wars: Can ANYTHING beat Lancome L’Extreme?

By: b.

b. — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:00:32 +0000

Separation and curling. Like Claire, I can’t use mascaras that lengthen a lot, cause I wear glasses and the result of lengthening mascaras tends to get really messy.

By: Dollface

Dollface — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:32:23 +0000

Claire – I know what you mean: I wear contacts, but I have glasses as a back-up, and I HATE that feeling of eyelashes-against-lens!
Kirsty – I don’t think Fiberwig is available in the UK, unfortunately, although I’ll happily stand corrected on that if someone knows different! Ebay is probably your best bet if you want to try it.
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone else: looks like I’m definitely going to have to try Clinique – I can’t remember ever using their mascara, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about it now! Will try and pick up some of the other suggestions, too!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:45:00 +0000

You should try Loreal Telescopic in the gold tube. I think it meets all of your criteria and happens to be pretty cheap. I don’t have the curl problem so I can’t say for sure if that will be an issue for you. But at around $8 it is worth a try!!

By: Claire

Claire — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:56:53 +0000

My favourite mascaras are definitely from Clinique – no clumping and no glooping.
I like mascaras that seperate so you don’t end up with little pointy triangles of lashes, but as a ‘four eyes’ I can’t have too much length. It’s a very odd feeling when your eyelashes scrape the inside of your glasses every time you blink!

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:53:52 +0000

My mascara has to give length, volume, curl and separation with no clumping, flaking etc of course! Haven’t found my holy grail mascara yet but find Max Factor to be consistently good.
Dollface- Is Fiberwig available in the UK? I’m very keen to try it!

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:07:00 +0000

Oooh, are you going to review the Sephora mascara kit? I’ve been wanting to buy it but I’m afraid of only liking one or two and wasting the others. My mascara criteria are lengthening, defining and non-tacky. There are many mascaras that I want to love, and often what keeps me from falling in love is stickiness (case in point, Givenchy Phenomen’Eyes). I HATE that feeling when I blink and my top and bottom lashes stick together, it’s the worst feeling. I tend to like brushes that have lots of dense, fine bristles – the spiral brushes with spaces between the bristles and the very thin brushes with bristles made of plastic don’t do it for me. Currently I switch between Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes and Maybelline Full N’ Soft, but I’m always wondering if there’s something else out there.
I agree with you, as far as I’m concerned non-flaking, non-clumping and not runny shouldn’t even be criteria, they should be a given.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:42:06 +0000

My favourite mascara is my Clinique high impact mascara. I find it does a good job of keeping the curl in my eyelashes and it really thickens up the lashes. I think they have a curling mascara too which I’ll have to try out once I use up all my current mascaras.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:09:50 +0000

I’m a little older than you so volume is less important to me than length and separation. I think thick jet black lashes can look very ageing on older women. I tried Lancôme after reading your HG comments and those of Jen – Hypnose in brown. Best mascara I’ve ever used. Haven’t tried L’Extrême yet, but plan to pick one up the next time I’m in Sephora. Love your blog btw, keep up the good work.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:38:21 +0000

To me the most important thing when it comes to mascara is definetely volume. I have very long lashes but unfortunately not so many of them. So I need a mascara that is able to “add” some lashes
But according to all the other points I totally agree, especially the locking-in-the-curl-issue. Many many mascara fail when it comes to that..