Your Guide to Mascara Cocktailing—The Lash Hack All Over TikTok

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You'll privation to rise a solid to TikTok's buzziest quality trend.

With makeup devotees focused connected crafting much personalized techniques successful caller months, they've whipped up mascara cocktailing, which allows them to execute look-at-me-lashes.

But contempt its dramatically bold name, the viral trend is beauteous straightforward. Similar to however you mightiness usage assorted ingredients to make a bespoke cocktail, "by utilizing antithetic mascaras you tin get a customized look," Jocelyn Biga, Estée Lauder's Director of Global Pro Artistry, exclusively told E! News. "Whether that's length, fullness, volume, separation, curl, assistance oregon each of the above."

While the makeup technique itself is rather simple, it tin beryllium challenging to find the close product. After all, determination isn't a mascara connected the marketplace that tin bash it all.

As the constitution creator enactment it, "Finding the cleanable mascara is similar uncovering the cleanable brace of jeans. It's not easy!"

But this is wherever Jocelyn's expertise and acquisition with the trend come into play. Keep speechmaking to larn each astir the cleanable mascara combo to execute fluttery, afloat lashes, the products the quality guru swears by and more.

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Here's what to support successful caput earlier you pat into the mascara cocktailing trend:

As tempting arsenic it is to leap close into the TikTok trend, Jocelyn has immoderate proposal to see archetypal truthful you don't lash retired later. For one, she pointed retired that mascaras typically person a abbreviated support beingness and "last astir 3 months erstwhile you unfastened it." 

In different words, possibly don't go afloat unit buying up each mascara with assorted wands and formulas.

Another origin to support successful mind? "Mascara wands are not 1 size fits all," the constitution artist—who works with Tia MowryNicole Scherzinger and Karlie Kloss—noted. "So, earlier you bargain one, measurement the wand to your oculus size to marque definite it's tiny oregon large capable for your lashline to debar immoderate messy applications."

How bash you commencement mascara cocktailing?

If you privation maximum results with minimal effort, Jocelyn suggested going from thinner to thicker, meaning you'll privation to commencement your mascara cocktail with a lengthening wand archetypal and past furniture it with a volumizing one.

"This helps to debar clumping," she explained of the method. "Apply the archetypal mascara connected some eyes, past proceed with the 2nd mascara to springiness the archetypal look a fewer seconds to dry."

Plus, she added, the volumizing mascara volition person thing to drawback onto if it clings to the lengthening look versus your lash hairs.

What mascaras enactment champion for this trend?

While we've established that lengthening and volumizing wands connection the champion of some worlds, Jocelyn—who said she's been mascara cocktailing for years—revealed the nonstop products she uses to gully attraction to her eyes.

"What works champion for maine is to commencement with the Estée Lauder Sumptuous Rebel, which has a small wand to get adjacent to the basal of the lashes and assistance specify them," Jocelyn shared. "Then, I use Estée Lauder's Sumptuous Extreme which has a wider, thicker wand for that bold, fluffy lash look."

What are the pros and cons of mascara cocktailing?

With any beauty fad, there's a anticipation that it will have perks and downsides. But luckily, mascara cocktailing doesn't travel with excessively overmuch baggage.

As Jocelyn explained, a payment to trying the inclination retired is that you tin "mix your favorite mascaras to execute a look you've ever desired."

The con? Well, let's conscionable accidental you could rack up rather a tab.

"You'll person to acquisition aggregate mascaras to effort it," the constitution creator said. "But determination are plentifulness of brands that connection illustration sizes, which is simply a large mode to effort antithetic mascaras out!"

All successful all, mascara cocktailing is worthy giving a shot.

"For truthful galore years, we felt we had to wed 1 mascara to execute 1 circumstantial look," Jocelyn shared. "We were ever torn connected which 1 to purchase. Now, you tin usage them each to get the look you've ever wanted."

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