These are my faves:

The Shu Uemura Luxe false lashes in Black. The layers of lashes plus the crisscross pattern give you the fullest lashline but they aren’t obvious. It’s ahhmazing.

You know, in an ideal world, we’d wake up at 7am after having gone to bed at 3am because of some magnificent, exclusive event, do yoga and spend an hour getting ready, false lashes included. But seriously, I’d much prefer the sleep-in. Furthermore; I can’t imagine all of that lash glue (albeit super-sensitive surgical glue) to be too good for those wee eyes of ours, so our next best bet is mascara.

In my kit I have eleven mascaras. Yep, ELEVEN! They all have different textures, consistencies and colours and I really couldn’t live without all of them, but right now for the sake of this post and your sanity, I’ll stick to the black ones. I must have tried and tested hundreds of mascaras (ok, maybe 50?) and these are my current faves..

For lashes at the beach, out all night, at weddings or sappy chick flicks, you need waterproof mascara. Easily the best, and the one I know most great makeup artists have in their kits is the “Maybelline Full ‘N Soft Waterproof Mascara” in Very Black. You can buy it from Coles or Woolies, therefore it’s cheap. Bonus!

For good daytime natural lashes that won’t flake and create little craters of black under your eyes, and super easy to remove, I love the Shu Uemura “FibreXtension Mascara” in Xtra Black. It also just seems to disappear (not run, panda eyes)  when you cry or remove with water. Amazing.

And finally, for a sexy rockchic, clumpy, heavy lash, there is no better than “L’Oreal Paris Original Voluminous” mascara in Blackest Black. The consistency is really quite runny, the first coat extends the lashes and grabs them together and the second really makes them heavy, so it’s so exaggerated it looks like you blink in slow motion. Crazy.

Are there any others I should be trying??

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