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Wearing mascara on your lower lashes?

131 replies

needcha · 14/09/2024 14:52

I’ve tried it but my eyes are too watery and it looks a mess. But I absolutely love the look.

Does anyone do this? I rarely see this look.

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Hemiola · 14/09/2024 20:40

I've never done the bottom - like a previous poster, it was due to something like Cosmo/just 17 in the 90s saying not to and so I never have!
Then I watched a YouTube thing the other day saying not doing your bottom lashes is as ageing. I've decided not to care and just do what I want!

Illegally18 · 14/09/2024 20:39

EmeraldIsla · 14/09/2024 16:21

Long lashes here now, due to eyelash serum, and have lashes and brows tinted. No mascara needed!

Please tell me which eyelash serum!

personally, if I put mascara on my bottom lashes, I just 'touch' them with the brush, no attempt at lengthening

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needcha · 14/09/2024 20:26

I’d love to see photo of the women wearing top and bottom. Just their eye - wouldn’t expect people to start posting their faces.

When I think of how I’d like my lower lashes to look, it’s like the photo, not dark and heavy like the top but still volume.

Wearing mascara on your lower lashes?
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Putthekettleon73 · 14/09/2024 20:25

Nomither · 14/09/2024 20:21

I look a bit clockwork orange with my lower lashes done. It's also quite ageing I feel. They say you can deffo tell over 40s from their side partings and mascared lower lashes.

Oh my god! Is this true?! I'm 43 and I've always done my lower lashes. I feel like an ageing cliche now 😂

Nomither · 14/09/2024 20:21

I look a bit clockwork orange with my lower lashes done. It's also quite ageing I feel. They say you can deffo tell over 40s from their side partings and mascared lower lashes.

Chillimuma · 14/09/2024 19:08

I only do top. It looks too heavy under on me (I’m quite pale)

HauntedbyMagpies · 14/09/2024 18:37

I prefer to put it just on the top ones. I think it makes my top ones look that tiny bit longer

IDontHateRainbows · 14/09/2024 18:35

I never do the bottom lashes, too afraid of smudging. It's quite a 60s look. I have naturally full, dark lashes anyway so don't really need the bottom ones doing.

rainbowsparkle28 · 14/09/2024 18:33

I have never done mascara on bottom lashes!

HolyMoly24 · 14/09/2024 18:31

I have done too and bottom since a teenager, my eyes look weird to me if I only do top.

I always use a tubing mascara to stop any smudging

SafeToUse · 14/09/2024 18:28

Both, always. Used to only do top lashes but since turning 60 my lashes have got sparse and somehow shorter than they used to be! Also eyes have got a bit hooded.

So for the past few years I've gone minimal with the eyeshadow, just use a brightening concealer on lids and underneath, and then use a tubing mascara - usually Estee Lauder double wear - using it to tight-line the waterline rather than using a harsher eyeliner.

I do however wear glasses so I always think I need to emphasise both sets of lashes as eyes can disappear a bit behind specs.

Gulbekian · 14/09/2024 18:27

I used to do both but found from about age 48 onwards that just doing the top set made me look younger and "fresher", so now I only do the upper lashes.

WhoOfWhoville · 14/09/2024 18:23

JADS · 14/09/2024 14:58

I have never been able to wear mascara on my lower lashes. My eyes are very sensitive and I can only really wear Clinique mascara and eyeliner.

Clinique sell a specific tiny bottom lash mascara with a microscopic wand for getting right to the route.

PorkPieForStarters · 14/09/2024 18:22

Only ever on the top (eyeliner and eyeshadow, too), it makes my eyes look brighter and bigger.

MartinsSpareCalculator · 14/09/2024 18:19

I put Mascara at the root and fan it out through my lower lashes.

WetBandits · 14/09/2024 18:15

I do top and bottom, but I use tubing mascara so it never smudges!

britespark1 · 14/09/2024 18:14

I only do the top lashes. I don't like the way my bottom ones look plus they smudge really easily even with my favourite tubing mascara

Tangerinenets · 14/09/2024 18:09

I do my own lash lift and dye both top and bottom. Mascara smudges on the botttom for me.

Zanatdy · 14/09/2024 18:08

I never put it on lower lashes

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needcha · 14/09/2024 18:07

Youremylobster86 · 14/09/2024 17:35

Definitely both. Every time I've had my make up done by a make up artist they also do both.

But are you getting your makeup done for an occasion? Where you’d want your makeup more “dramatic” than your every day look?

(Not saying your makeup looked dramatic just more noticeably than your day to day)

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ThatMakesSense · 14/09/2024 17:51

It makes my eyes look like spiders. Only top lashes for me.

BookHimDanno · 14/09/2024 17:39

On occasion I do the bottom will do one eye with and one without tomorrow and see what I prefer!

OldTinHat · 14/09/2024 17:39

I don't put mascara on my lower lashes because I look like a panda about three minutes later.

Youremylobster86 · 14/09/2024 17:35

Definitely both. Every time I've had my make up done by a make up artist they also do both.

Giggorata · 14/09/2024 17:32

I read on here about a year ago that most people do only the top eyelashes now.
I think it looks odd on me if I don't do the lower lashes.
I haven't really noticed what other people do, I will have to start checking.
(Imagines self gazing earnestly into everyone's eyes. I wonder how they will react)