What The Fake! Volumizing & Lengthening Mascara
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Essence What The Fake! mascara is a lengthening formula that stretches and elongates lashes, but it won't add volume. One creator notes it lasts 15 hours without flaking on top lashes, though she suspects flaking on bottom lashes and warns those prone to flaking may want to skip. Clumping can occur if the brush isn't wiped, and the drag-like application is unique but not for everyone.
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POSITIVE
Variant: Black
- “I've never had a mascara drag my lashes like that before”22:16–22:20
- “It's like it stretches and elongates your lashes”22:41–22:46
- “They do not budge all day”
- “Once it dries down, these eyelashes are going nowhere”
- “It's not going to give you volume”
- “If you don't wipe off the brush, just in my experience, you're probably going to get clumping”
- “I don't think that this mascara is going to be for everybody, but I like it”22:02–22:08
- “Definitely one of the best new Essence mascaras that I've tried in a long time”23:36–23:41
- Source: Best new makeup I've tried in a while (MAC, Dior, L'Oréal, Essence, Benefit) - Mar 19, 2026
- “This is a really good mascara”
- “I've never had a mascara like this before where it literally clings onto every lash that exists on your eye, literally”16:01–16:09
- “I've never had such a draggy mascara and I love it”16:14–16:21
- “It's just dragging them and I just love that because it just stretches out your lashes. It's phenomenal”16:16–16:26
- “This isn't going to give you a lot of volume at all. It's going to give you length”
- “I really like this mascara”
- “It lasts super well on me. Like, I wore it for a really long day on Saturday for 15 hours, and I didn't have any flaking”
- “I do have a suspicion that this flakes on my bottom lashes”16:26–16:38
- Source: Full face of new Essence makeup: hits, misses & absolute gems - Mar 23, 2026
MIXED / NEGATIVE
No negative reviews yet — creators have only had good things to say.
WHAT CREATORS SAY
- Consensus
- 4.5 / 5 from 2 creator reviewsGrailPeople ratings based on creator reviews.
- Features
- Lengthening (2) · Long-wearing (2)
- ⚠ creators flagged issues with volumizing (1)
- ⚠ fiddly to use (1)
Product details
Details
- Type
- mascara
- Finish
- matte
- Shade
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- Key ingredients
- aqua, paraffin, rhus verniciflua peel wax, glyceryl stearate se, acacia senegal gum, butylene glycol, vp/eicosene copolymer, palmitic acid, stearic acid, rice bran wax
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