Key ingredients: copolymer, iron oxides, | Shades: 2
Best Drugstore Tubing Mascara: Essence Bye Bye Panda Eyes Tubing Mascara
Why it’s worth it: In terms of its lash-enhancing abilities, Essence’s Bye Bye Panda Eyes Tubing Mascara means business even though it costs less than an oat milk latte. This oil-free formula lengthens and defines in seconds, leaving you with fluttery lashes that last all day.
Editor’s tip: This mascara is easy to take off, using only warm water, but if you want to go a more official route, try out the brand’s Remove Like A Boss Waterproof Eye Make-up Remover.
Key ingredients: carnauba wax, synthetic beeswax, kaolin | Shades: 1
Best Lengthening Effect: Wyn Beauty Big Vision Lengthening & Defining Tubing Mascara
Why it’s worth it: Swipe on Wyn Beauty’s Big Vision Lengthening & Defining Tubing Mascara to reach sky-scraping (or, rather, brow-grazing) lengths with your lashes. This lengthening mascara contains conic polymer tubing technology that wraps snugly around each lash to enhance the length of each. This formula tag-teams with a curved, double-comb brush to define and remove any risk of clumping or webbing.
Editor’s tip: If you want a more voluminous look, we recommend combining this mascara with a volumizing pick of your choice.
Key ingredients: conic polymer tubing technology (acrylates copolymer), synthetic beeswax, jojoba esters, hydrogenated olive oil | Shades: 1
Best Multitasking Mascara: Milk Makeup Kush High Roll Tubing Mascara
Why it’s worth it: We get it: Sometimes you want a mascara that does it all. Reach for Milk Makeup’s Kush High Roll Tubing Mascara, a tubing mascara that defines, lengthens, and volumizes in one swipe. The smudge- and flake-proof formula also has conditioning benefits courtesy of hemp seed, castor, and sunflower seed oils to leave lashes looking and feeling fuller and thicker than before.
Editor’s tip: Keep the good times rolling with the brand’s original Kush mascara, a conditioning volumizer perfect for a day when you want more drama.
Key ingredients: acrylates copolymer, hemp seed oil, castor oil, sunflower seed oil, carnauba wax, jojoba wax | Shades: 1
Most Natural-Looking Finish: Hourglass Unlocked Instant Extensions Mascara
Why it’s worth it: If the “extensions” part of the Hourglass Unlocked Instant Extensions Mascara makes you think this is over-the-top, good news: we can guarantee that it has more of a wispy, natural-looking finish, kind of like a very subtle falsies set. Its tapered brush evenly coats your lashes with this ultra-light formulation, which stays put without flaking or smudging all day long.