If you want to make your eyes look bigger, use volumizing mascara. These mascaras are designed to add volume and lift to your lashes. They're also ideal for creating a false lash effect, which can be helpful if you're wearing falsies or want a more dramatic look. Here are some of our favorites.
$37.00
I like how smooth the mascara is--it glides and does not clump as much as other mascaras. ...This is the best mascara I have ever tried. It goes on easily, is the perfect black, and gives classy volume.
What it is: A mascara that kicks up the visible volume and length of each and every lash. Safe for sensitive eyes.
Formulation Type: Volumizing, Lengthening
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and phthalates.
What Else You Need to Know: This mascara creates lusher, plusher, and bolder lashes. The pure, deep color adds to the impact, while the lash definition draws attention to eyes. This product is also ophthalmologist tested, allergy tested, safe for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers, and free of mineral oil and fragrance.
Size: 0.29 oz/8.5 g·ITEM: 2894970
Color: BOOM - blackest black
$40.00
I like this mascara! It gives me really nice volume and it doesn’t flake off like a lot of volumizing mascaras do for me. ...This Kush big hit volumizing mascara gives you volume, lift instantly and a color that doesn’t budge or clump.
What it is: A clean, buildable, volumizing mascara for intensely fuller-, thicker-looking lashes that won’t flake, clump, smudge, or droop for up to 12 hours.
Formulation Type: Volumizing
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Weightless Cloud Fiber Tech: Cloud-like fibers puff up lashes for light-as-air volume and lift that lasts.
- Murumuru Seed Butter and Hemp Seed Oil: Condition and nourish for softer-, healthier-looking lashes.
- Buildable Vegan Waxes: Provide creamy, buildable texture that doesn’t flake or clump.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Get high volume that won’t weigh down lashes.
Size: 0.40 oz/ 12 mL·ITEM: 2556157
$39.00
Over tried other mascaras that gave me more volume. I do have Asian short lashes which is a bit tricky when it comes to mascaras. ...Not so limitless volume & length...#MacCosmetics ‘ Mac Stack mascara claims to have a buildable volumizing and lengthening formula.
What it is: An endlessly buildable, clump-resistant mascara that stacks on infinite layers of volume and length.
Formulation Type: Volumizing
Benefits: Long-wearing
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also vegan.
What Else You Need to Know: This never-before-seen, endlessly buildable, clump-resistant formula gives you customizable volume and length from natural to next-level. Clump- and flake-resistant, it's safe for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers.
Size: 0.287 oz / 8.5 mL·ITEM: 2793081
Color: Black
$44.00
Another mascara...This is comparable to other mascaras I've tried. It is not very waterproof nor does it volumize or lengthen. ...Great Volumizer!...This mascara is amazing! It goes on smooth with no clumps.
What it is: A long-wearing, buildable, and waterproof mascara that instantly delivers extravagant volume, length, curl, and lift.
Formulation Type: Volumizing, Curling, Lengthening
Benefits: Long-wearing, Waterproof
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Plant Leaf and Stem Extract: Promote stronger-, healthier-looking lashes.
- Olive Oil: Conditioning oil to nourish lashes.
- Copolymer Duo: Lightweight wax to hold lash lift.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan, gluten-free, cruelty
$53.00
Very good mascara...It also lengthens my lashes quite a bit and I happen to have short lashes. It does volumize but compare to Lancome's Hynose Drama, I believe this serves more as a defining mascara than a volumizing one. ...I'm surprised this is marketed as a volumizing mascara, because it packs far more of a punch with lengthening than it does with volume.
What it is: A kohl-pigmented mascara that delivers instant volume and super-saturated length for dramatically dark, stretched-out lashes for smokey eye looks.
Formulation Type: Volumizing
What Else You Need to Know: This creamy, kohl-pigmented mascara builds volume lash by lash, as opposed to traditional volumizing mascara formulas that create the appearance of volume by clumping lashes together. The result is thicker, longer, bolder lashes in an instant—the perfect complement to any eye look.
Size: 1.069 oz/30 g·ITEM: 2859718
$47.50
Hynose drama as the name suggests add volume to the lashes. This is my all time favorite mascara which is waterproof as well. ...I layered it as I usually do with my regular mascara, and my lashes were volumes and curled up. ...Long Lasting waterproof mascara...Volume and longer lashes
What it is: A waterproof mascara that delivers buildable, bold, and volumized lashes that is smudge-resistant for up to 48 hours.
Formulation Type: Volumizing
Benefits: Long-wearing, Waterproof
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens.
What Else You Need to Know: This ultra-buildable formula takes your lashes from day to night, allowing you to layer for a customizable dramatic look. The triple coating system allows the formula to glide evenly onto lashes, providing an intense, extreme-volume lash look that is smudge resistant and wears for up to 48 hours.
Clinical Results:
- Up to 48 hours of wear
- Smudge-resistant for up to 48 hours
- Sweat-resistant
Size: 0.47 oz / 14 g·ITEM: 2820066
Color: Blue - vibrant cobalt blue
$21.00
I love a good volumizing mascara and this one from Sephora Collection is both effective and affordable! ...this is an awesome mascara. It makes my eyelashes so nice and perfect and it volumizers so much it’s like the best and it comes in a pretty big size and it is cheap
What it is: An ultra-pigmented and buildable vegan mascara that quickly delivers larger-than-life volume with lengthening and curling benefits.
Formulation Type: Volumizing, Curling, Lengthening
Ingredient Callouts: It is vegan.
What Else You Need to Know: Get an extravagant lash look with just a few brush strokes. This ultra-buildable and long-lasting vegan formula allows you to take your lashes from friendly to fierce. The hourglass-shaped brush attends to every lash for a fast, volumizing effect. It’s available in a classic intense black, vibrant eye- catching blue, and a chocolate brown.
Clinical Results: In a test measuring brush strokes, results included:
- +122% volume after 10 brush strokes
Size: 0.3 oz / 9 ml·ITEM: 2751568
Color: Black - Black
$43.00
This is a really good mascara. I prefer to use a volumizing mascara that is black and non clumping, and this mascara gives lots of volume, making my lashes look thicker and bolder. ...Great Volumizing Mascara...This mascara does a great job with giving you extreme volume and elongating your lashes!
What it is: A volumizing mascara with waterproof wear—for up to 48 hours of deep color.
Formulation Type: Volumizing
Benefits: Long-wearing, Waterproof
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Iris Florentina Extract: Is sourced from the Yves Saint Laurent Ourika community garden in Morocco to help lashes feel soft and supple while adding dramatic volume.
Size: 0.33 oz / 10 mL·ITEM: 2510816
Color: 090 Black - timeless black
$45.00
The mascara did volumize my lashes. I didn’t really see a different with the length. ...Great mascara!...This is a pretty nice mascara! It definitely has more buildable volume, but also layers under a more volumizing mascara to make your lashes even longer!!
What it is: A mascara that builds perfectly defined lash-by-lash volume.
Formulation Type: Volumizing, Lengthening
Benefits: Long-wearing
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Cornflower Extract: Hydrates lashes.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also gluten-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This transfer-proof mascara is composed of 90-percent natural-origin ingredients and infused with cornflower extract to delivers up to 24 hours of wear and strengthens lashes with each c
Size: 0.34 oz / 10 ml·ITEM: 2751105
$45.00
🔳⚪ LASH VOLUME ON 1000! ⚪🔳...it definitely gave my lashes a lot more length and a lot more volume, so I’ll continue to use this product! I’ve never used a volumizer before, but I’m not disappointed in the quality of this one! ...Perfect mascara primer!...Great mascara primer! Similar formula to the lengthening/volumizing mascara.
What it is: A lash primer-serum that boosts length, volume, curl, and definition for lashes that appear oversized and revitalized.
Formulation Type: Volumizing, Curling, Lengthening
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Cornflower: Calming.
- Cotton Flower: Protecting.
- Chamomile Extract: Nourishing.
What Else You Need to Know: Diorshow Maximizer 4D lash primer-serum improves mascara performance with a four-in-one formula that lengthens, volumizes, curls, and defines, for lashes that appear oversized, immediately and for up to 24 hours.
Clinical Results: In an instrumental test on 25 subjects:
- Lengthens, volumizes, curls, and defines for 24 hours
