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Come Hell or High Water Mascara.

Cali Ray Come Hell or High Water Mascara
Eye Makeup

About this product

Cali Ray Mascara is an eye mascara designed to define and enhance lashes.

Guru Score

89%

Yay

Early verdict · Few reviews so far
3Gurus
3Yay
0Mixed
0Nay

What they liked

  • Tubing formula

What they flagged

    Nothing. None of the experts who reviewed it raised a problem.

    What the gurus are saying

    Cali Ray earns consistent love from gurus who reach for it regularly as their go-to mascara choice, but their takes are casual endorsements rather than detailed dives into how it performs or what benefits it delivers. There's genuine enthusiasm and clear repeat-use evidence from these active users, though there's not yet enough information to pinpoint exactly what makes it special for them.
    Synthesized from 3 expert reviews · most recent take April 2026

    What the gurus are saying.

    Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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    Yay
    "The Cali Ray mascara is a tubing mascara and it's incredible. That's still going to be my pick."
    Top Pick: tubing mascara
    Yay
    "For mascara, I love this one from Cali Ray. I'm wearing it today. It's going to give you really soft, subtle, fluffy lashes. It's actually a tubing mascara and it has a little brush wand. It's one of the best tubing mascaras. This is great for if you are running around chasing a toddler, you're sweating. Like, it's not going to smudge or flake, which is so important to me. And it's just really subtle. It's really soft and gentle looking on the eyes. It's not overpowering, which I think is great personally for everyday. Easy to remove since it's a tubing mascara. It's really fabulous."
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    "This is actually a tubing mascara from Cali Ray. This was a staple for me the last couple of months. Anytime that I know I'm going to be crying this is what I like to wear. I do a light layer or you can build it up but it's something that just really does not budge. It's so nice. I absolutely love this."
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    "For mascara, I love this one from Cali Ray. I'm wearing it today. It's going to give you really soft, subtle, fluffy lashes. It's actually a tubing mascara and it has a little brush wand. It's one of the best tubing mascaras. This is great for if you are running around chasing a toddler, you're sweating. Like, it's not going to smudge or flake, which is so important to me. And it's just really subtle. It's really soft and gentle looking on the eyes. It's not overpowering, which I think is great personally for everyday. Easy to remove since it's a tubing mascara. It's really fabulous."
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    "Summertime means you gotta have a pretty heavy duty mascara and for me it's this one from Cali Ray. I love it so much. It's a tubing mascara, it's also a clean formula, it doesn't go anywhere. This is like my go to if I know I'm going to be sweating. This is what I reach for."
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    "I'm gonna use my Cali Ray one today. I almost put this in my brows, oh my word that would have been insane. I'm gonna put this on my lashes. Hallelujah I didn't do that."
    Yay
    "This is a tubing mascara and I love that about it because I don't know why I have like leaky eyes and I always end up with mascara dribbles down here and with this mascara I never end up with dribbles. I put this one on this morning when I did this tutorial and then I took my dogs for a walk outside it was about 38° out today so pretty cold and my eyes were watering and look at that no running no smudging. This doesn't come off until you take it off but once you go to take it off it's really easy to remove. I love how it makes my lashes look it gives me volume and length and curl."
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    "I've been recommending the Cali Ray Come Hell or High Water Mascara for I feel like three, four years now and I love this mascara, it's still my favorite. It's a very wet mascara formula because it's a tubing mascara, so it basically wraps each eyelash in a tube of mascara, but I love that about it because it doesn't smudge, it doesn't chip, it doesn't come off till you take it off, but then removing it is very easy. What I noticed is that previously when I would pull the wand out there would be a little resistance and there was I think maybe a little gasket inside that would help to squeegee off a lot of the product from the wand. Now when it comes out it's just so coated with so much mascara I end up wiping it back on the package because I don't want to waste it all, but it's just so much and it's always like globbed on the end and it's making a big mess and I try to put it on and it's like too much goes on at once. I don't know if it's just this one that I bought, maybe the gasket isn't working or if they changed the packaging, but this is the most recent one that I got."
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    "This is my current Holy Grail mascara I absolutely love this, I just love it so much. It's a tubing mascara but it removes really really easily with my double cleanse routine and it doesn't leave little black specks all over my face. It seems to dissolve a lot better than most tubing mascaras do. I love how it goes on, I love how it makes my lashes look. It makes them hold a curl, it makes them look twice as long, twice as much volume, and it does it with one coat. So if you want really mega lashes you put on two coats and you've got enormous looking lashes. But I love that I don't have to be taking five minutes to apply my mascara like a lot of mascaras where you put it on and it takes so long to build up or you need a primer with it. This is so good you don't need a primer with it. It stays on all day, it never chips and never smudges, it never flakes, it stays on until you take it off. I have repurchased it. I like about it is it doesn't dry up in the tube."
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    "I love this for travel because it's waterproof makeup that's considered liquid is your mascara so I have my Cali Ray love that"
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    "The mascara I'm using today is also from Cali Ray, it's their Come Hell or High Water Mascara. This is my current Holy Grail especially for the summer because it's a tubing mascara and so even if it's hot or if I'm sweaty this doesn't budge, it doesn't flake, it doesn't smear, it stays in place so beautifully. I love it so much and then it's really easy to remove at night as well."
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    "This is a tubing mascara and I love that about it because I don't know why I have like leaky eyes and I always end up with mascara dribbles down here and with this mascara I never end up with dribbles. I put this one on this morning when I did this tutorial and then I took my dogs for a walk outside it was about 38° out today so pretty cold and my eyes were watering and look at that no running no smudging. This doesn't come off until you take it off but once you go to take it off it's really easy to remove. I love how it makes my lashes look it gives me volume and length and curl."
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    "This is a tubing mascara and I love it. I have never met a tubing mascara that I liked before. I like how they look and I like how they work, but I hate it when I remove them because instead of dissolving they break up into little bits and the little bits always cling to my skin. But this is the first tubing mascara that I've met that actually rinses away cleanly and doesn't leave little polka dots all over my face. It's really easy to remove, which is very important with mascara, but it's also super beautiful on the eyelashes. I like smooth, silky, beautiful lashes. I like it to give me more volume, more length, make my lashes look way better than they actually are, and that's what this does for me every single day. I absolutely love it."
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    "My holy grail mascara that I highly recommend is also by Cali Ray, it's their Come Hell or High Water Mascara. I've been testing mascara in five or six makeup testing videos in the last month or two, so I've tested that many mascaras and I've had so many mascara fails lately. I end up with flakes all over, raccoon eyes after three or four hours. I just keep coming back to this and being like I'm sorry, I will never leave you again. This is my new holy grail. I love it. It's a tubing mascara so it goes on and it doesn't come off until you take it off. It doesn't flake, it doesn't smudge, it doesn't budge. It's waterproof. If you're swimming or crying it will stay where you put it. The other thing that I love about it is that now that I'm a little bit older, every time I put on my mascara I manage to get some on my eyelid somewhere and the nice thing about this is that you don't have to wait to remove it, it removes so quickly and cleanly with just a Q-tip while it's still wet. It's amazing because it's made to kind of ball up and peel off."
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    "This is my new Holy Grail. This is a tubing mascara. I love this one so much. It gives my lashes so much length, so much volume. It's so easy to take off, so easy to put on, stays put all day. Absolutely love it. Definitely if you have like leaky eyes that tend to make your mascara dribble, then give this one a try—that should be able to solve that."
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    "The Cali Ray Come Hell or High Water Mascara has become my favorite mascara. This is such a good formula. With just one coat on one side and no coats on the other side, it's just amazing how it lengthens and gives volume and actually curls my lashes. I love this; I've never seen anything that with one coat made my lashes so big and so long, but this is amazing. It is a tubing mascara, and I have never liked a tubing mascara before because when you go to remove them they don't dissolve completely, they kind of break up into little flakes and those little black flakes are like in my eyes and all over my face and I just found them so annoying. But this one doesn't break up like other tubing mascaras; it more dissolves which I love about it. So it's really easy to get it off, and with this one I get no smudging, no flaking, and it's like the perfect mascara."

    Frequently asked.

    What is Cali Ray Come Hell or High Water Mascara?

    Cali Ray Mascara is an eye mascara designed to define and enhance lashes.

    Is Cali Ray Come Hell or High Water Mascara worth it?

    Yes. All 3 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 89%.

    What is Cali Ray Come Hell or High Water Mascara's Guru Score?

    Cali Ray Come Hell or High Water Mascara holds a Guru Score of 89%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 3 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.

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