L'Oréal Paris Voluminous Lash Paradise is the mascara buyers most often say keeps their curl: 27 of 28 who mentioned it said the curl held. For stubborn straight lashes, Kiss Me Heroine Make Long & Curl Mascara Super WP is close behind at 19 of 20.
Updated . How we count
Share of buyers who stated an outcome for holding a curl. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.
Praise and complaints are the points buyers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's first-hand reports.
L'Oréal Paris
Best for volume with a curl
Buyers pair the curl hold with volume (17% mention it). Smudging is the main complaint, at 7%.
Kiss Me Heroine Make
Best for a waterproof hold
Nearly every buyer who mentioned the curl said it held. Expect a fight at night: 12% say it's hard to remove.
L'Oréal Paris
Best for length and separation
Buyers credit it with long, separated lashes (12% mention separation) that stay curled.
Maybelline
Fewer reports than the leaders, but nearly all say the curl lasts. Buyers also mention volume (15%).
No repeated complaints yet.
Maybelline
Best for separated, fanned lashes
The classic fan brush. Buyers mention separation (16%) more than anything else.
Too Faced
Best for volume
Holds a curl for most, but complaints stack up: smudging (11%) and clumping (10%).
essence
Best for the lowest price
The budget favorite: 22% of reports praise the value. Smudging comes up in 15%.
We scanned 35,497 comments and found first-hand reports in 181 public threads on r/MakeupAddiction, r/Makeup, r/drugstoreMUA, r/beauty, r/Sephora and r/MakeupAddictionCanada, posted between Jan 2022 and Sep 2026.
A report counts only when the commenter says they used the product themselves. Recommendations repeated from someone else, questions and jokes are left out. One person counts once per product.
An AI model labels each report against a fixed list of points, and we review the labels before publishing. We publish counts and links to the threads, never the comments themselves.
L'Oréal Paris Voluminous Lash Paradise (27 of 28) and Kiss Me Heroine Make Long & Curl Mascara Super WP (19 of 20) have the strongest records in the threads we counted.
essence Lash Princess False Lash Effect: 17 of 21 buyers said it held their curl, and 22% of its reports praise the value.
It is mid-pack here: 18 of 26 buyers who mentioned the curl said it held, below the products ranked on this page.
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