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ELLE Edit: Best Mascara For Volume, Length And Curl

Bigger lashes are better.

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If you asked the ELLE UK beauty team for our desert island beauty picks, you'd be prying multiple mascaras from our tightly gripped hands. There's a reason that it's the product we reach for first if we can only make time for one. Wider-looking eyes and fluttery lashes? Sign us up.

Luckily for us, big, bold lash looks have stormed the AW23 runway, with a full spectrum of dainty to OTT eyelash looks making a case for a well overdue mascara update. From Vivetta to Chet Lo, extending your lashes to their full potential is at the top of our 2023 make-up priorities.

A splash of lengthened wispy strands is the perfect way to bring your lashes to life this season and these are the formulas we go to first. Whether it's cult classics or the latest lash innovations, we've rounded up the best mascaras you need for your most outrageously fluffiest lashes ever.

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Yves Saint Laurent Lash Clash Mascara

Lash Clash Mascara
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Yves Saint Laurent Lash Clash Mascara

£22 at LookFantastic£22 at Debenhams£29 at Harvey Nichols

Lengthening, volumising and totally clump-free, this XL mascara brush has been making the rounds on the ELLE UK beauty team. Notorious for giving nothing but fluttery, extension-like lashes, this is the ideal mascara for mans of a big applicator and dramatic results.

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Chanel Noir Allure Mascara

Noir Allure Mascara
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Chanel Noir Allure Mascara

Looking for bold but defined lashes? This slim, flexible brush makes short work of catching every single lash as you apply. Housed in sleek, click-in packaging that screams quiet luxury, here you'll find a formula that both delivers longer results and looks chic in your make-up bag.

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Ilia Limitless Lash Mascara

Limitless Lash Mascara
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Ilia Limitless Lash Mascara

If your current mascara has commitment issues and makes a smudging attempt to leave your lashes mid-way through the day, let us introduce you to this reliably flakeless formula. With a nifty comb for definition and separation, it gives your lashes a natural lift without every looking clumpy.

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Maybelline The Falsies Surreal Mascara

The Falsies Surreal Mascara
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Maybelline The Falsies Surreal Mascara

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Everyday falsies wearers will know that no mascara can match the look of a faux set of lashes, but this formula comes pretty close. Its helix shaped brush means that no lash is left behind and your eyelashes look thick and voluminous thanks to its lash extending fibres.

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Fenty Beauty Hella Thicc Volumizing Mascara

Hella Thicc Volumizing Mascara
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Fenty Beauty Hella Thicc Volumizing Mascara

Thickening formulas can often be tricky; the wrong move and you're left with a smudgy imprint, the wrong formula and you're left with an avant-garde, racoon-resembling eye look by midday. This fluffing mousse guarantees neither, only maximally full lashes that are both thick and lengthened all day long.

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Glossier Lash Slick

Lash Slick

The ultimate day time mascara, one application of Glossier's Lash Slick gives satisfyingly fanned out, clump-free barely-there lashes. What's more. you can layer and layer this au natural formula for a false lash effect without the glue or the effort.

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Benefit Bad Gal Bang Volumising Mascara

Bad Gal Bang Volumising Mascara
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Benefit Bad Gal Bang Volumising Mascara

Our history with Benefit's cult mascaras is a lengthy one; first it was the iconic They’re Real, followed by the definition-boosting Rollerlash and now, its ultra-voluminous and maximalist Bad Gal Bang. This deceivingly skinny brush gives you all-in thickness, drama and lift all in one formula, never failing to deliver that faux lash look.

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Victoria Beckham Beauty Future Lash Mascara

Future Lash Mascara
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Victoria Beckham Beauty Future Lash Mascara

Bestowing the gift of 'your lashes but better', we present Victoria Beckham's Future Lash. The uber-thin brush will win over those who favour precision with their mascara, and a couple of coats will leave you with glossy, natural but defined lashes. It's not just called Future Lash for the fun of it either- the formula is enriched VB's C2 complex which conditions your eyelashes and improves them over time for stronger, healthier, future lashes. Geddit?

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Lancôme Lash Idôle Mascara

Lash Idôle Mascara

It's not often you can get the ELLE beauty team to agree on their favourite beauty product, but it turns out this was the mascara to unite us all. Its curved tapered wand allows you to get right into the corners, picking up lash hairs we didn't even know we had, and it's curl-holding ability is truly something to behold.

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Hourglass Unlocked Instant Extensions Mascara

Unlocked Instant Extensions Mascara
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Hourglass Unlocked Instant Extensions Mascara

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While eyelash extensions are a great time-saver, getting them too often can sometimes damage your lashes and leave them worse off than what you started with. For the closest thing to lash extensions in a bottle, try Hourglass' Unlocked mascara, with an inky black formula that gives you defined and dramatic lashes in an instant.

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Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Push Up Lashes

Pillow Talk Push Up Lashes
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Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Push Up Lashes

If fluttery, flirty lashes are what you're after, Charlotte Tilbury's Pillow Talk mascara lengthens lashes to their fullest and defines with a jet black coating. Not a fan of that ultra noir drama? Opt for its newest Pillow Talk shade, a berry-brown hue perfect for auburn hair shades or making blue eyes pop.

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Milk Kush Mascara

Kush Mascara
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Milk Kush Mascara

Thicker lashes are the dream, but the upkeep it takes to get them there (aka a lot of lash serum and vitamins) can be a bit tiresome. Enter the Kush High Volume mascara, made with cannabis seed oil, which not only gives you immediate fluffy full lashes but conditions them too.

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Merit Clean Lash

Clean Lash
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Merit Clean Lash

When it comes to tubing formulas, this is the everyday mascara we've been reaching for lately. As effective as it is chic, this buildable texture lengthens and defines effortlessly, with a post-wear removal that's just as easy.

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NARS Cosmetics Climax Mascara

Climax Mascara

This big bushy wand never fails to deliver super long, separated lashes with a formula that won't flake or smudge onto your eyelids. Think Nars' signature drama for your eyes. Described as a hard core lift with a soft-core feel, it gives your lashes maximum volume without every feeling clumped or heavy.

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Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara

Better Than Sex Mascara

While some historically viral products have you conjuring the words 'you just had to be there', Better Than Sex does not fall into that category. A cult classic for almost ten years, this voluminous formula has withstood the test of time, boosting your lashes from lacklustre to impressive in just a few coats. Not to mention, it now comes in a delicious chocolate brown hue.

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