10 Best Mascaras for Volume 2023 | UK Makeup Artist Reviewed

Rimmel guarantees great results for a fraction of the price of many fancier cosmetic products; there's a reason they're a household name and have collaborated with huge stars including the likes of Kate Moss and Rita Ora.

This product contains natural beeswax which guarantees a fabulously thick consistency. The brush is also a gorgeous and easy to use oval shape; rounder in the middle with fine, sharp bristles that comb sleekly between each eyelash hair. It's a winner! 

Yves Saint Laurent's mascara range is much talked-about, mostly because the designer brand is always up on the newest technologies in terms of both product ingredients and application tools – nourishing coconut oil, jojoba oil, and walnut leaf extract feature in this one!

The Volume Effect Faux Cils brush has two parts; the first adds curl and shape while the second provides clean definition and volume. Winning exclusively five-star ratings from John Lewis customers, the product glides on cleanly and won't smudge or budge all day.

Lancôme's standout mascara is without a doubt this super-plumping offering, which drafts in beeswax to give it a silken texture that can be effectively layered to create fullness without clumps. 

The sharply-defined spikes on the wand are extremely useful for combing cleanly through messy lashes ensuring the formula is stretched from the roots to the tips. The lasting effects of the product also makes the eyebrow-raising price tag feel more than fair.

Maybelline's Lash Sensation mascara is a huge hit across eCommerce sites, largely thanks to its clever formula, which can be slathered thickly over lashes using one clean, sharp sweep of its multi-bristled brush.

The wands spikes have an impressive six different lengths, helping to guarantee you've caught every last hair, even ones you can't see. The bristles are sharply defined as opposed to fuzzy too, which gives astonishing definition alongside thickness. 

The whipped texture of this mascara is truly game-changing, giving you inflated lashes as the formula expands on lashes for up to 10x more impact. The big cushiony brush coats every lash with the Air Volume technology, locking in up to 24 hours of volume. 

The hypoallergenic and allergy-tested formula make this gentle on lashes, so you can get mega volume worry-free! The texture does not clump, so more coats can be added to build greater impact. 

This super-fuzzy bristle brush guarantees you extra-thick lashes that fan out around your eyes like a peacock's tail or an exploding firework. Twirl it a few times through your lashes and it gives brilliant coverage immediately.

Clarins's formula is described as 'tubing', meaning the polymers in its formula wrap each lash in a protective layer, which adds not only volume but length too. Trust us, your lashes will attract enough compliments to justify the price tag!

The best thing about this mascara, as well as the price, is the lovely, big, fluffy brush which allows you to make plenty of big, sweeping strokes through your lashes to build up some remarkable volume.

The wand is brilliantly effective too, mainly because of its curvaceous hourglass shape, so it's a cracking choice if you love to go wild with your eye-makeup and cake on plenty of layers for maximum impact.

For a buttery, raven-black mascara you can layer generously over lashes without fear of lumps and clumps, pick bareMinerals' Lashtopia. Skip out on smudges and flaking and stick to the important business of maximising the potential of your lashes.

The whipped-up formula is an easy-to-apply product that multiplies the appearance of lashes gloriously. Some customers will prefer to avoid it as the acrylates copolymers in the ingredients are technically a microplastic, which is why this product doesn't sit higher on our list. 

Sisley's So Curl Mascara not only coats your eyelashes in a gorgeous, thick layer of black, it also works its magic to potentially enhance the capacity of the hairs to grow thicker and more fruitfully. 

The vitamin-rich formula contains plumping peptides and rice phytoceramides, both of which give it a lovely waxy texture that can be built up in velvety layers. The rather hefty price tag may be off-putting for some, but if you've got the cash it really does perform.

For head-turning lashes, this product does exactly as it promises. The formula itself is a serum, which is said to separate each lash carefully before adding a thick smear of waxy pigment which enhances your eyes considerably with only one layer.

The wand is rather generously described as a 'nano-brush' but in reality, it's your standard pointed bristle-wand which does the job of seeking out tiny, hidden hairs just fine. But you may find the price-point quite high for what it offers.