The Best Mascaras For A Longer-Lashes Look

Makeup never feels complete without adding the final touches with a few coats of mascara. Unless you are genetically gifted with gorgeous lashes, most people turn to mascara to make their lashes look more beautiful and dramatic. The LA Times listed mascara among “the most popular beauty products you should definitely have in your makeup kit” because they have the power to let “anybody have thick and defined eyelashes.”

Claudia Soare, president and creative director of Anastasia Beverly Hills, told Today, “Mascara enhances the eyes in a number of ways. It not only darkens lashes but can lengthen and volumize for brighter, bigger-looking eyes. Fuller-looking lashes can help to give a more youthful appearance to the eye area.” And who doesn’t want to look more youthful, right? If you are someone with short, stubby lashes (like yours truly), lengthening mascaras are a great investment because “This type of mascara formula adds length to the ends of lashes to help open up your eyes.”

Did you know there is an “easy mascara trick” shared by actress Tippi Hedren, Dakota Johnson’s grandmother, that can make “your lashes look a million times better?” It is all in how you hold the mirror. Hendon told Johnson, “You hold the mirror down low and put the mascara on while looking downward, you will get the most coverage from the base of the lashes to the tips”…