Mascara is a staple in most makeup routines, and it’s often one of the only makeup products worn when we're running out the door. We all have our preferences when it comes to lash looks—extra-long, thick and bold, natural, to name a few. Lancôme offers a range of mascaras with carefully designed mascara brushes and wands to help you achieve these looks. In this guide, you’ll learn how to identify the different types of mascara brushes and how to select one that will help create your desired lash look.
Mascara Brush Bristles
Consider the shape and size of your mascara brush as well as the materials and fibers that make up the brush. Many mascara brushes use a classic fiber bristle with a soft and classic style bristle. These brush styles are great at applying a lot of formula to the lashes and creating a feathery and volumized lash effect. Mascara wands with a more plastic style bristle on the other hand give a “cleaner” defined, and lengthening effect as they comb through the lashes, reducing the likelihood of mascara clumping. These mascaras are usually a comb mascara brush type which helps to separate and lengthen the lashes with ease.
Mascara Brush Shapes for Different Lash Looks
For Natural, Defined Lashes: Try a Thin Mascara Brush
When you prefer a natural look, reach for a thin and sparsely packed, almost comb-like mascara brush. Unlike thick and densely packed mascara brushes, which often coat lashes with a lot of product, a thinner brush, like the one used in our Définicils High-Definition Mascara, allows for a gradual and even application. With a fine comb-like brush designed with a hedgehog bristle pattern, Définicils dispenses the perfect amount of product to each lash without clumping. The formula itself features bio-selective polymers that cling to lashes for an even application while lengthening and defining lashes from root to tip.
Définicils High-Definition Mascara
Lengthening & Defining
For Extremely Long Lashes: Try a Tiny Brush with Short Bristles
For lengthened lashes that look like lash extensions, use a mascara wand with a tiny brush and short bristles. Lancôme’s Lash Idôle Flutter Extension Lengthening Mascara offers extreme length, and up to 24-hour lash extension look. Our tiniest elastomer brush has 480+ nano-bristles that lengthen and separate every lash for multiplied lashes. The smart infinity brush reaches even the smallest lashes for crazy long length and a fluttery lash effect. The clump and flake-resistant formula features an airy, wax-in-water emulsion that elongates lashes without weighing them down and provides lasting wear. Gently apply the nano-bristle brush from root to tip to build length, use the tip of the brush to elongate inner and outer corner lashes, and build layers of mascara to achieve your desired look.
Lash Idôle Flutter Extension Lengthening Mascara
Extreme Length & 24H Lash Extension Look
For Full-Volume Lashes: Try Shaped or Hourglass Mascara Brushes
Not quite the same as a curved mascara brush, shaped and hourglass mascara brushes are designed to create a dramatic, full-volume lash look.
Our Le 8 Hypnôse Mascara uses an ultra-soft vegetal fiber for the bristles and a uniquely shaped “8-Shape” Mascara Wand. The 8-shaped brush features a curved hourglass mascara brush (to build plush volume) which can then be turned to the side for a flat sided mascara wand which sculpts and lifts the lashes. The two together work to smoothly coat lashes for even, volumized, full-bodied and plush looking lashes. Use the brush in an upwards swiping motion for the top lashes and downward swiping motion for the bottom lashes.
The “S-Shaped” curved convex mascara brush in our Hypnôse Drama Mascara is shaped to coat each lash with ease. Unique and oversized, the mascara brush gets full lash contact and delivers a full coat of mascara for maximum lash coating and instant volume. Aided by a creamy gliding formula which evenly coats lashes from root to tip and a triple coating system with a texturizing complex, the combination of the brush and the formula gives lashes dramatic volume.
Le 8 Hypnôse Serum-Infused Mascara
Buildable Volume & Revitalizing Care
For Clean, Lifted Lashes: Try a Curved Mascara Brush
Applying mascara with a curved mascara brush is one of the quickest and easiest ways to give lashes a lift. Our Lash Idôle Mascara features a curved mascara wand which pushes up and fans out lashes to give an instant open-eye and lash-lift effect that lasts for up to 24 hours. Instead of using a more traditional mascara brush bristle, this wand uses 360 micro-bristles which work to grab every lash from root to tip—no matter how short they may be—for longer looking eyelashes without clumps. The curved mascara brush and bristles work in harmony with the lightweight gel formula, which doesn’t weigh on lashes but rather, leaves them feathery soft. It won’t flake or smudge while giving lashes a stunning lifted look.
Lash Idôle Mascara
Lash-Lifting & Volumizing
For Big Volumized Lashes: Try a Plush, Oversized Mascara Brush
For big, bold and voluminous lashes, look for an oversized brush. Lancôme’s cult classic, Monsieur Big Mascara features a big, soft brush which pairs perfectly with its ultra-black, volumizing, and long-wearing formula for bigger-looking lashes. The wand is carefully crafted, with wavy fiber bristles that allow for quick volume and a sensorial application, and bulk reservoirs, which hold and encapsulate the formula, deliver the perfect amount of mascara to the lashes. Monsieur Big gives lashes a false lash effect with up to 12x more volume* than natural lashes and up to 24 hours of wear.
