best waterproof mascara for sensitive eyes

Everything you loved about Définicils Mascara—the famous lengthening, separating and lash defining power—is now in a waterproof formula. Make a splash in black, brown or navy. Ophthalmologist tested and suitable for contact lens wearers.

What it is: A lash lifting, waterproof mascara that targets every single lash for instantly longer, thicker, and more lifted lashes with no clumps.

Formulation Type: Volumizing, Lengthening

Benefits: Long-wearing, Waterproof

What Else You Need to Know: This mascara has up to 24 hours of waterproof wear and pushes up lashes for an eye-opening effect to create fully fanned-out volume with no flakes. The lightweight formula doesn’t weigh on lashes so it’s comfortable all day and is the perfect mascara for sensitive eyes or contact lens wearers.

Clinical Results: In a consumer test realized on a panel of 103 women:
- 95% saw instant lash lift
- 94% saw instant volume
- 90% saw clump-free lashes

What it is: A volumizing mascara that delivers up to 17 times more volume and up to 24 hours of ultra-dramatic wear—the buildable formula you love, now with more volume.

Formulation Type: Volumizing

Benefits: Long-wearing

Highlighted Ingredients:
- 2% Bonding Complex: Helps lashes look stronger and fuller.
- Onyx Black Pigments: Provide an ultra-black intensity.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance.

What Else You Need to Know: Lancôme’s most volumizing mascara&r

What it is: A mini mascara to volumize, lengthen, curl, and condition, delivering 100 percent sexy lashes with a 98 percent naturally derived formula.

Formulation Type: Volumizing, Curling, Lengthening

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Bamboo Fibers: Lengthen and volumize.

What Else You Need to Know: Infused with a goji berry blend, this mascara delivers sexy length and volume. Its iconic hourglass-shaped brush coats every last lash with an intense black formula, stretching your look to unbelievable lengths—all with a 98 percent naturally derived formula.* It’s also ophthalmologist tested and safe for contact-lens wearers and sensitive eyes.

*Per ISO 16128 Standard from plant sources, non-petroleum mineral sour

What it is: A buildable, tubing, black mascara delivering all-day smudge-proof lashes that mimic the look of lash extensions with instant volume and definition.

Formulation Type: Volumizing, Lengthening

Benefits: Long-wearing

Highlighted Ingredients: 
- Shea Butter: Softens and conditions lashes.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Enter the one-coat-wonder, two-coat-wow mascara. This buildable, black, tubing formula delivers smudge-proof lashes with immediate volume and definition and all-day staying power. Clinically shown to

What it is: A long-lasting and smudgeproof volumizing mascara that enhances your eyelashes with up to 15 times more volume for a false-lash eye makeup effect.

What Else You Need to Know: The soft-fiber brush and wavy bristles wrap around the lashes from root to tip, volumizing and lengthening the lashes without smudging or flaking. The light, creamy, ultra-black mascara formula evenly coats eyelashes for buildable, clump-free volume that holds all day. Tested under ophthalmological control. Suitable for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers.

What it is: A clean, volumizing mascara that wraps each lash in weightless, buildable volume without flaking, smudging, or irritating even the most sensitive eyes.

Formulation Type: Volumizing

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Arginine: Supports stronger, healthier-looking lashes.
- Provitamin B5: Nourishes to promote thicker-looking lashes.
- Weightless Wax Blend: Adds full, flexible body without the weight.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: The violin-shaped brush thickens and defines lashes from root to tip with fluffy, flexible fullness you can’t miss. It is also ophthalmologist tested and safe for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers.

What it is: A vegan mascara that visibly lengthens, defines, and holds a curl with Aquaflex® Technology for amped up, natural-looking lashes.

Formulation Type: Curling and Lengthening

Benefits: Long-wearing, Waterproof

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Aquaflex® Technology: Conventionally used in haircare styling, this ingredient actively works to define curl using memory hold (it memorizes the wave of your lash) while leaving lashes touchably soft. Technology helps keep lashes humidity-proof, visibly lifted, and curled.
- Panthenol Vitamin B5 and Castor Oil Blend: Helps keep lashes looking healthy, strong, and conditioned.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes i

What it is: An innovative, up to 24-hour visibly lifting and volumizing mascara with two unique brushes and formulas for endless ways to achieve your ultimate lash look.

Formulation Type: Volumizing

Benefits: Long-wearing

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Berry Complex: Thickens the appearance of lashes.
- Ceramide-Like Structure: Strengthens lashes.

What Else You Need to Know:
Inspired by MAKE UP FOR EVER’s professional techniques for showstopping lashes, Step 1's skinny brush and lightweight formula lifts and separates lashes with ultra-precision. Step 2’s fiber brush and creamy texture adds flake-free volume. Use Step 1 alone for a naturally defined look or Step 2 for immediate, clump-free volu