DHC Mascara Perfect Pro Double Protection, Black, .17 oz (5g) Net wt.

Best mascara. Love the small narrow brush, works great on my sparse lashes. The tech that works at my optician even asked me what mascara I use. It’s a “tubing” mascara so you only apply one coat. I’ve tried all of them and this is the best one.

This mascara is the best I have had. It does not clump up and smudge. The application is very smooth and it gives more of natural look rather than artificially creating unnatural volume. It is a little pricy for the amount you get, but I love the product. It is also water-proof and it does not run under my eyes even if I sweat, but it is easily removed with face wash. It is well worth the money!

Apparently I've bought 9 tubes of this on Amazon, and I am about to buy another! I've used this for about 5 years and it's my go-to mascara. I love the small brush and performance. There are no smudges under my eyes at the end of the day and I have normal/oily skin. (My other sometimes-used tube mascara L'oreal Beauty Tubes, does smudge a little). It provides good volume and length, but it's not dramatic - for that rare occasion I use L'oreal Lash Paradise or something like that.One thing to note is when you open a new tube, the formula is a bit thin. But after a couple of weeks the formula thickens and then it's perfect! I still use it from day one but I wanted to let people know that if they initially don't like the consistency.Removal is SO EASY with just water. Some people are using eye makeup remover, which has oil and I think that will prevent water from directly contacting the tubes, that's why they're having trouble. Water softens the tubes (let them soak 15-20 seconds) and they fall right off with light sweeping with my fingertips. In the shower I just wash my face as usual and it comes off easily. If I'm washing my face at the sink, I'll hold the warm damp washcloth to my eyes for about 10 seconds and gently wipe away. I use cleansing oil and foaming wash, and neither have gotten in the way of removal.

Update: Started out as 5 stars, went down to 4 stars after 2 months. Overall, it lasted about 3 months, and then, even though there is product left, it starts to get clumpy. I really do love it, for the price I wish it would have lasted a little longer, but I'll probably still order it again.I love this stuff. It's everything I've searched for in a mascara, and I have tried so many... from the average ones to the expensive ones. This doesn't smudge, doesn't budge, until you wash it off (which sometimes for me is a full 24 hours later). No makeup remover required, just wash your face as normal and after you rinse, gently pull/slide the coating off. I learned to do this after I've rinsed, otherwise I get soap in my eyes.I have thick lashes so they are prone to getting stuck together - since this is a small brush and I usually do better with deeper brushes, it took a little practice on the application. I learned I had to scrape much of the product off the brush, back into the mouth of the tube so that I don't have too much on the brush. Now I get it right every time.Proof is in the pudding: I recently went on a camping trip to the river... On the way there my friend asked if I had eyelash extensions (win!), then we floated around in the water (nothing too splashy, did not submerge, but still I was in the water several hours), then we went to sleep.... when I woke up, I did not look like a raccoon, it actually looked almost as good as the day before (some minor crumblies which I brushed away). So I was able to just leave it as it was - I didn't even mess with it or wash my face until we were home much later in the day. Long story, but to me, it really showed the awesomeness of this mascara.

I have blonde eyelashes and oily eyelids, so if I don't want to look like an albino I have to tint my lashes, and when I do it usually makes it look like I'm still in my goth phase that ended about ten years ago.I've tried just about everything on the market, drug store and high end. The problems I always ran into were thus... Sure my mascara would look great when first put on, but within an hour I'd be getting transfer to my lids both top and bottom. I was allergic to several formulas as well. And worst of all, many of them were so hard to take off, even with oils, that I'd lose eyelashes in the process of just getting my face clean. What a pain!I heard of this particular mascara through Lisa Eldridge on Youtube. I've used some of DHC's skincare products before and they seemed fine, but I guess I'd never really considered their makeup. Part of that is because they are NOT drugstore priced and there wasn't much for reviews or demos of the products either. Skeptical as I am of trying any product when I haven't seen someone else use it, I'm even more so when it costs three or four times what I pay for things I can walk down the street to a CVS to buy.I have to say, Lisa's use of it really did impress me, and even more so that she has used it several times. I loved the look of it, and when I finally got fed up and started looking for SOME solution to my raccoon problem I started seeing a lot of talk about tubing mascaras. It took a while for me to sorta connect the dots but when I realized that this mascara that Lisa had used not only looked great and performed well enough for her to recommend it, but that it was also geared specifically for people like me who want something that stays on but washes off easily, I snapped this right up.My general impressions of the product itself are thus...- The first thing you will notice is that the tube and wand are both fairly petite. I like this because I feel it gives more control and isn't like a brick in a bag (see: CG Lashblast).- In terms of application, it feels fairly wet going on but dries very quickly. I think it works best, particularly if you have light lashes, to coat the tops of the lashes first and then get the sides that show with your eyes open. This forms a more complete 'tube' which I feel prevents flaking, makes lashes look fuller, and prevents flashes of blonde when you blink.- The look of it is more toward length than volume, but the formula is not thin either. I think it is well-balanced and definitely doesn't need more than one coat for a nice "lashy" look without being clumpy, still relatively natural.- This stuff doesn't budge! I have yet to have it flake or transfer at all, even after 10 hours in a hot kitchen. If you get your face pretty wet it might start to come off, but it doesn't do it in a runny way, just little clumps that can easily be wiped off.- Removal is really easy and I don't find I have to use a separate remover for it. I wet down my face thoroughly with warm water, use whatever cleanser I feel like at the time, and just in the process of getting the rest of my face clean the mascara tubes peel off. It basically looks like little clumps of black goo which don't seem to stain or transfer pigment anywhere, it just washes down the drain. Any straggling bits still clinging to lashes wipe right away with fingers or just about anything else. You won't end up with mascara residue on showing up on your face the next morning, the stuff really is gone.