The Best Mascaras for Adding Volume to Your Lashes

By Southern Living
August 06, 2019
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Bless the heart of any woman who is dedicated enough to apply fake lashes to acheive volume every time she goes out: The patience she must have! The precision! Instead of reaching for the falsies, save time and the hassle by reaching for a tube of volumizing mascara. With just a few swipes and minimal effort, these top-rated volumizing mascaras will give your lashes a dramatic makeover. These are our absolute favorites—and the ones that'll make strangers ask if your eyelashes are in fact real.
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Lancôme Monsieur Big Mascara

Macy's

Buy It: $25; macys.com

This mascara delivers unparalleled volume and drama that will last up to 24 hours. Feel free to blame us if people ask you if you're wearing false lashes.

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L'Oréal Voluminous Lash Paradise Waterproof Mascara

Amazon

Buy It: $9.99; amazon.com

Reminiscent of a designer formula, this drugstore option comes with the same high-end results at a lower price point.

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It Cosmetics Lash Blowout Volumizing Mascara

Ulta

Buy It: $25; ulta.com

Two of our favorite brands, It Cosmetics and Drybar, came together to create a mascara that will give your lashes 19 times the volume.

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Marc Jacobs Beauty Velvet Noir Major Volume Mascara

Sephora

Buy It: $26; sephora.com

Don't just take our word for it—check out the before and after pictures in the reviews section to see the results you can achieve with a few coats of this seemingly miracle-working formula.

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CoverGirl LashBlast Mega Volume Mascara

Amazon

Buy It: $5.23; amazon.com

One of the best-selling mascaras on Amazon, this hypoallergenic formula will build to give your lashes 10 times the volume and the brush helps make sure every lash gets coated.

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Diorshow Mascara

Dillard's

Buy It: $30; dillards.com

Using microfibers allows this conditioning formula to build dramatic volume onto your real lashes to make them look full and long.

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Chanel Le Volume De Chanel Mascara

Chanel

Buy It: $32; nordstrom.com

The little black tube may be a splurge, but it’s worth every penny. The volume-boosting formula separates and plumps up the look of every lash, even the baby bottoms ones, to create a doe-eyed effect that Twiggy would approve of.

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L’Oréal Paris Voluminous Million Lashes Excess Mascara

Amazon

Buy It: $8.50; amazon.com

L’Oréal Paris’s Voluminous line of mascaras always deliver wow-worthy lashes, but this formulation delivers the most dramatic look. Its oversized brush is designed to coat eyelashes from root to tip with a deep black hue.

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It Cosmetics Superhero Mascara

Sephora

Buy It: $24; sephora.com

One of the times you may think you'll absolutely wear false lashes? Your wedding. This mascara gave such three-hundred-degree thickness, length and fullness you can skip the falsies and use a couple of coats of this instead.

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Maybelline New York Volum’ Express The Colossal Washable Mascara

Amazon

Buy It: $5.92; amazon.com

This drugstore is still just as good as when it hit the market over 10 years ago. It’s infused with collagen to plump up each lash, and you can layer it on for extra fluttery ends.

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