Best budget mascara

[Hollysberries]

Okay give me your tips!

I'm not going to keep paying £25+ for Lancome which lasts about 3 months.

I read a review in Good Housekeeping where the Maybelline The Colossal (yellow tube) was voted as 'the best' yet online reviews say it's rubbish.

Also L'Oreal Volume Xpress gets some great reviews and other terrible ones.

For the record- I have zero lashes- sparse and short and they need at least 3 coats of Lancome Hypnose to look like eyelashes.

I've had freebies of Clinique High Impact and don't rate it.

I've got freebies of Bobbi Brown- not much volume.

I've had freebies (samples) of other Lancome Lash Idole and Big Monsieur.

Ideas?

The best cheap one is Essence Lash Princess in the black and green tube. It's about £3, you can get it on Amazon or Just My Look and it's great. The best expensive one imho is Better than Sex which is soooo effective.

Soap and Glory

Essence as above. The black and green one is good, but the gong goes to Dior Pump and Volume.

I know you said budget @Hollysberries but your eyelashes sound like mine. I've used high end and low end and what happens is, I buy the latest cheap one, use it for a fortnight, think this is shite, and buy a different cheap one. That all adds up and I've decided I'm going back to my HG of Dior Pump and Volume. It's amazing. My boss introduced me to it, she came back after lunch one day and I thought she'd had a tint or extensions.

For the record: the only Lancome I rate is Monsieur Big. The Hypnose this and Hypnose that do nothing for my lashes (am currently finishing a set of 3 minis I got for Christmas all from the Hypnose stable and all very meh)

Clinique High Impact really really isn't. Benefit smells funny and goes gloopy.

My boss also rates YSL Lash Clash.

I used to use Lancôme but have started using L'Oréal Panorama Mascara. The one advertised by Kendal Jenner. I only need one coat, it doesn't budge all day and somehow it's really, really black.

I have fairly pathetic lashes.

My go to are:

Maybelline
Elf (although I find the waterproof one - which is essential for me - is their least good one but if you don't NEED waterproof, youo're golden)
the new Bourjois one that is a double brush - that's the one I use day in and day out.

Essence Lash Princess, the black and green one. I buy from Just My Look.