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Best Mascaras

Attention, sleep-deprived (and glam-deprived) moms: Meet your new best friends, which open up and brighten eyes by volumizing and lengthening lashes.

By Marta Topran

oscillation
Ôscillation
Lancôme
 

To get maximum volume from mascara, makeup artists wiggle their wands back and forth at the base of the lashes, but now amateurs can get the same effect with Lancôme Ôscillation, which has a built-in battery-powered motor that vibrates to make the wand, not your arm, do the work.

$34, Lancôme. (Available in October)

 
Maybelline
Colossal Volum' Express
Maybelline
 

Maybelline perfected the drugstore mascara with its iconic pink-and-green tube. Its latest version, Colossal Volum' Express, has a superchubby brush to provide thick, volumized lashes fast.

$6, Drugstore.com.

 
Givenchy
Phenomen'Eyes
Givenchy
 

It might resemble a medieval torture device with its round tip, but Givenchy Phenomen'Eyes gives you control over every single lash for a dramatic date-night look.

$27, Sephora.

 
Christian Dior
Diorshow Mascara
Christian Dior

Christian Dior's Diorshow Mascara, which has an enormous cult following, delivers curled, lengthened, lush lashes in one fell swoop.

$24, Sephora.

 
 Revlon
Lash Fantasy Total Definition
Revlon

If you want thick, defined lashes, try Revlon Lash Fantasy Total Definition. The double-ended tube has a lash-building primer on one end and a separating mascara on the other.

$9, Walgreens.

 
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