NARS Audacious Mascara Review
Today I’m sharing my review of the new NARS Audacious Mascara with you. This is a brand new mascara from NARS for 2015 and it has a pretty amazing formula. François Nars says that ‘Anything less than audacious is boring’ and that’s certainly true when it comes to mascara!
NARS Audacious Mascara Review
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Price
$26 for .32 oz
About NARS Audacious Mascara
Intensity for the making, control for the taking. From instant definition to blindsiding impact, NARS Audacious Mascara multiplies every layer. Designed with over 200 molded bristles and lengthening hooks, its lash-catching brush evenly grips and coats lashes from roots to tips while simultaneously separating, lengthening and amplifying. Its tapered tip finishes off the inner and outer reaches of your imagination while enhancing lower lashes. An extraordinary balance of suppleness with staying power, this uniquely fluid first-to-market formula offers unprecedented buildability. Lightweight. Long-wearing.
Above you can see my before and after shots with NARS Audacious Mascara. I applied one coat. My friend Brooke (Blushing Noir) created an awesome video for the best way to apply the Audacious Mascara.
Here’s how I applied it
- Curl my lashes with my seki lash curler, pumping them all the way to the end
- Put my enkore mascara shield behind my lashes
- Use the zig zag left and right to apply the mascara, making sure to end in zig inwards towards my nose
- Remove the shield
- Pull up through the lashes
- Then my lashes clump
- NOOOOOOO! Grab a lash comb, no use.
- Grab a spoolie and spool through and that helped
By following Brooke’s technique, I’ve experienced far less clumping. Yay!
For me, the formula is pretty great. It’s super black, which I love. It lasted for over 8 hours without flaking on me. This is a necessity! I got great length and my curl held up pretty well, even my outer lashes which are always prone to drooping. If you’re better at applying mascara than I am, I think you can apply 2 or 3 coats without experiencing any issues.
The brush is a little scary, not gonna lie. It’s got lots of little bristles and then several really long bristles. It doesn’t feel good on my waterline when I get the mascara that close because it’s hard and pointy. I’m afraid I’m going to poke myself in the eye with those long bristles (and hey I’ve done that). However, I think it’s that unique shape that seems to do such a good job of grabbing all of the lashes and coating them.
If you’re in the market for a new mascara, you might fall in love with the NARS Audacious mascara. The formula is pretty amazing and the brush seems really adept at getting to all the lashes.
What do you think of the NARS Audacious Mascara?
This looks like a brush I’d love! I like bristles that get all up in every lash, haha.
Okay next time you do a mascara review, DO NOT do your brows.. I was so distracted by the beauty.. after I got past your perfect purple brows, I finally saw the gogeous product ;P I haven’t tried anything from NARS, but I might start with mascara!
LOL thank you! I figured that having no eyeshadow on, but purple brows, would be less distracting.
Looks great on you!
The brush definitely scares me since I have such short lashes, I get pretty close to the lash line. But it sounds like the formula woul be a great one.
Nars never lets me down, I’m excited to try this mascara.
I am actually a big fan of how this makes my lashes look.
It looks pretty audacious! I need to try it.
I love how the formula looks on your lashes!
I hate those big pokey brushes too. I’m intimidated by this!
I like your brows here more than anything
The wand looks intimidating, but I am a mascara junkie so I’ll have to get it!
I really want to try this!
That is a really interesting brush. Your lashes look great and not over the top.
Your lashes look pretty!
Look at the hooks on that brush. It sounds so interesting.
I would love to try this out, I hope Sephora gets samples of it!
I tend not to invest too heavily in mascaras, but I would definitely try it out if I got a sample.
It really lengthens those lashes! Very pretty indeed.
I really like how the mascara is a deep black. But do you think it is comparable to Too Faced Better than Sea mascara?
How would you say this compares to Perversion? I really want to try this, but I have yet to find a mascara I covet as mush as UD’s!
Unsure about this one…I don’t like clumpy mascaras. I’d have to try before I buy with this one.
I love mascara from high end to drugstore, I will give this a go!
I wasn’t sure about this. I am a Perversion fan and not sure how this compares. (I got to be a Perversion fan after your review a while back!)
I’m so glad the video helped, the mascara looks lovely on you! Thank you for the link-up!! =D
Hmmm, not sure about this one. Although I love NARS, I like a mascara that I can just apply without a lot of rigamarole.
I personally struggle with mascara application, no matter how many youtube tutorials I watch to try and improve my technique. Brooke’s video helped a ton though! She applies the top / back part of the lashes first.
I think I need to acquire a sample size and test drive it before diving into a full size.
let me know what you think of it!