Brown, conditioning mascara?

[Skittlesandbeer]

What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I find any brands doing these any more?

I like a subtle mascara that emphasises each lash a bit more (ie not clumpy) in my natural colour (brown). Bonus points if it helps my lashes grow or be healthy, rather than just piling on the chemicals.

Don’t care which brand or country it sells in, I’m not UK based and I’m online shopping savvy. Any ideas?

I feel like a few years ago there were heaps, but now I’m coming up short?

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I think brown mascara is just a bit dated now, OP

I've just swapped to brown and find it suits me much better, not as harsh but you'd struggle to tell it was brown.

The only brown I’ve found which isn’t clumpy on me is Benefit’s They’re Real.

It’s still dark but not as harsh and unnatural against my pale skin as black.

I find Max Factor 2000 calorie in Brown is really nice. It’s not specifically conditioning but gives a soft rather than clunky lash. It’s not very fashionable but sometimes these are the best ones.

I use Clarins Supra Volume in Brown and it's fab. It doesn't clump and looks pretty natural - like my eyelashes but better. I'm fair haired and fair skinned and black just looks too harsh. It was recommended by Ruth Crilly of the A Model Recommends blog.

It's not you. It's the cosmetics industry.

Last time I went looking for a brown-black mascara to enhance my lashes without making me look like I had false lashes on, all I could find were extra-extra-volumizing ones promising a whole face full of lashes.

When I asked the (Orange faced, HD browned) sales girl, she was genuinely confused by the concept of a mascara that might look borderline natural.

I'm also on the search for brown mascara, because black is too harsh and DC says I look like a vampire. I sometimes dye my lashes, that makes them look natural and lasts for a few weeks.

Do you know if any of the above are any good for sensitive eyes?

I have fairly sensitive eyes and so far (a few months) the Clarins hasn't affected them.

Genuinely, I love that stuff - enhancing and natural rather than clumpy black spiders' legs.

Clinique have one that seems to fit the bill.

Wow sounds like even finding plain brown, without the conditioning effects, is pretty difficult.

Thanks to the responses so far, maybe someone will come along with my ‘holy trinity’ of brown, separating & conditioning. If not, I’ll try the brown ones suggested.

It seems strange to me that ‘the natural look’ or ‘no makeup look’ is a legitimate thing still in makeup, but it doesn’t follow through to a mascara to complete that look. There’s only black (or freakin electric blue, etc).

Black mascara makes me look like that description Clive James coined for Barbara Cartland (or maybe Tammy Faye Bakker) that ‘her eyes looked like two crows had crashed into a chalk cliffside’!!

@Kleptronic sounds good, but the link is failing on me... can you give the name of it? Cheers

Thanks burning !I'll give it a try.

It's the naturally glossy one from clinique.

Have you tried perricone M.D. no mascara , mascara ?

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There's an article on vogue about natural look mascaras here with lots of different ones

www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/everyday-mascara-natural-looking-mascaras-lash-primers

Oo I'll try again:

m.clinique.co.uk/product/1606/6096/makeup/mascara/naturally-glossy-mascara

It's called Naturally Glossy Mascara

I use Benefit Rollerlash for a natural look.