Experts who tested it rank it among their all-time favorite mascaras, praising how it holds a curl, delivers length, and resists smudging without waterproof heaviness. The tubing formula does wash off more easily than traditional waterproof mascara, though it won't survive tears without some migration. A tiny amount goes a long way, and people often repurchase it in multiples because it's hard to find a mascara they prefer once they've tried it.
"I already had my repurchase of these in hand. I typically use these a little bit longer than you're supposed to. I think a tube is supposed to be used for three to four months, but I usually use them for six months. I haven't had any eye infections or things like that. There's still a ton of product left in there."
"Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions, it's ruined playing with other mascaras because it's so good. It's a tubing mascara, so tubing mascaras are awesome. They're kind of annoying to wash off but not as annoying to wash off as waterproof regular mascara is."
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"For mascara, the Thrive Liquid Lash Extensions. I haven't not used Thrive mascara in years. I'll try something out and then I always end up going back to this one."
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"I already had my repurchase of these in hand. I typically use these a little bit longer than you're supposed to. I think a tube is supposed to be used for three to four months, but I usually use them for six months. I haven't had any eye infections or things like that. There's still a ton of product left in there."
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"Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions, I really enjoy this. My favorite mascara of all time and I already have my backup in place and I already have my other backup in my drawer."
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"Thrive Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara, great tubing mascara. I absolutely love it, I repurchased it. If you're into mascaras, I really like tubing mascaras. I just find they stand up, they give you more length. This is my favorite and it kind of has ruined trying new mascaras for me unless they're tubing mascaras. I've still tried a ton of other tubing mascaras and nothing quite has held up to the standard of that one."
"I just got this tube of the Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara, opened it yesterday and today's the first use. Love that stuff."
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"I just use my Thrive mascara that holds a curl."
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"I love the Thrive mascara. I've been testing it against the Tarte tubing mascara and I find them very similar. I don't find much of a difference, though I think the Tarte one maybe separates a little bit better."
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"I'm still loving the Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions. I love it, love it, love it. I've got two backups of it."
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"My mascara is the Thrive Liquid Lash Extensions and I love it. Just a very tiny amount is all you need. I wonder if there'll ever be a mascara that I'll find that I like more than this actually, it's probably going to be very impossible to find because I really stopped trying new ones."
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"The Thrive Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara is a tubing mascara and if you haven't ever tried a tubing mascara I think you should try it. Some people, most people end up liking it, not everybody but a lot of people end up really liking it. It doesn't smudge, but it's not waterproof. So if you tear up, it ends up everywhere."
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"I love their mascara, their Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara. I've been using it for years now. I took the fun out of testing other mascaras because it's just so good. Nothing else really compares."
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"This is my go-to mascara. I love it. It's wonderful and it feels nice and it washes off."
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"My mascara Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions, love this stuff. Now they have a bunch of different colors but I always just go with the black. One coat of this does the trick. I think curling the lashes makes it apply better, it makes it look better."
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"I love this. I've got my friend using it, she loves it now too, and I already had a backup of it. This is probably one of the longest makeup products I've been using, if not the longest single makeup product I've been using, for years. If you have not tried this, try it. I'm serious."
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"The Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara, it's 26 bucks, I love this stuff, it's wonderful. I always have one backup. It's a tubing mascara so it doesn't run as easily as a non-waterproof mascara does. It has silicones in there that kind of wrap little spheres around each eyelash, so when they come out they come off like little tubes. It's easy to get a nice length of lashes with this one. I really like the brush they use. They also have many different shades of this mascara now, so if you don't like black they have a brown, if you don't like brown they have a plum. I've repurchased this one many times and I've gifted it many times as well."
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"Thrive Cosmetics makes my favorite mascara, the one I'm wearing today, the one I'm wearing pretty much most days, almost every day, the Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara. It's a tubing mascara, and they have it in several different shades. I used to love trying different mascaras out, but after using this one, nothing has compared to it. The only thing that's slightly compared is the Milani one. It's taken the joy out of testing any other mascara because nothing compares so far. I typically buy mascara from this brand a couple times a year, and this is always one of them."
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"The Thrive Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara kind of ruined testing other mascaras out because I ended up liking it so much no other mascara can really compete. I've tried dozens of other tubing mascaras but for me nothing is as good. It's a love-hate thing because it takes the joy out of trying other things, trying to find the Holy Grail, but at least I found the Holy Grail."
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"Thrive liquid lash extensions mascara absolutely love love love love love. I was just looking at getting lash extensions done, and I read how expensive it is and how you have to go back like every two weeks, and then if you ever decide to take them out you're not going to have any lashes left. So yeah, I'm just going to stick with mascara for now or probably forever. I'm just not reliable enough to maintain that."
"A lot of people had recommended the Thrive Cosmetics mascara. It's called Liquid Lash Extensions and this is great. This is just about as good as my Cali Ray. And when you pull the brush out, the squeegee, you can feel it squeegeeing. And I really like the brush on this beautiful mascara. It really makes my lashes look like long and sleek and just great. So, loving this and it is easy to remove as well with the double cleanse that I use."
"I have been reaching a lot for the tubing mascara from Thrive Cosmetics called the Liquid Lash Extensions. It has a great stiff applicator which allows me to really hit every single lash. It gives incredible lift and of course staying power. Every other mascara I have is starting to smudge, but this mascara stays put until you take it off. I have this in brown and I also have it in this deep blue which is just so fantastic and really cool in the sunshine."
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"This is the Liquid Lash Extensions by Thrive, this is a tubing mascara which I actually really like. I didn't like them in the past, I like them now. I have this both in brown as well as cobalt blue because I'm having a bit of a blue moment. It's just so nice in the sun when it catches it."
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"I have been reaching a lot for the tubing mascara from Thrive Cosmetics called the Liquid Lash Extensions. It has a great stiff applicator which allows me to really hit every single lash. It gives incredible lift and of course staying power. Every other mascara I have is starting to smudge, but this mascara stays put until you take it off. I have this in brown and I also have it in this deep blue which is just so fantastic and really cool in the sunshine."
"I love the Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara. This is their tubing mascara. I have been using mascara for gosh over 10 years. I love it because it doesn't smudge, it doesn't wipe off on my upper lid because I have hooded lids, it's important that it not wipe off on the top part of my lid. It does not irritate my eyes, it doesn't crumble or go into my eyes throughout the day. It washes off with just water, so easy. It gives me good volume and good length, it's perfect volume and length, smudge proof, no crumbs whatsoever type of tubing mascara for me. It also contains some nourishing ingredients to promote lash health over time. It does have some castor oil in it, some shea butter, so it helps hydrate those lashes and keep them healthy. It's also safe for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers and there's no irritation whatsoever even with my eyes which are super sensitive, very dry."
"I've been really liking this and this one best mascara from aure. I was like hesitant to try it because I'm such a diehard fan of the Thrive tubing mascara, but I really do like this. It's really really nice."
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"I'm going to use my Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara. I'm going to make sure to really get the roots of the lashes with this especially since this eyeshadow look ended up being a little bit more like pearly. I like to have a little more definition at the lash line with mascara and then it kind of helps create the illusion of a little bit of a thin eyeliner without actually applying eyeliner."
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"This is a great tubing mascara, one of my favorites if not my favorite. The brush makes all the difference, you could have the same formula with five different brushes and you're going to get a completely different effect on the lashes. I like how the Thrive one applies with that more grippy brush, the more silicone molded brush versus a bristle brush."
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"I've been really liking this and this one best mascara from aure. I was like hesitant to try it because I'm such a diehard fan of the Thrive tubing mascara, but I really do like this. It's really really nice."
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"When the weather heats up it's really important to pick a mascara that's going to hold up through the humidity the heat the water whatever so for me personally that's when I go into my tubing mascaras my two favorites are the CI Ray one and then also the one from Thrive Cosmetics. I love a tubing mascara because you literally just don't have to worry about it smudging or flaking and then it comes off so easily at the end of the day or for some reason like you end up going swimming okay and you have a tubing mascara on you can just simply like remove it and it's not going to create raccoon eyes all around your eyes so anyway I love a good tubing mascara for me it's essential for summer."
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"This is the Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara, one of my all-time favorite mascara formulas. I'm just going to really layer this up on the lashes."
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"I'm going to go with my Thrive Cosmetics mascara and then I'm going to add some falsies so I'm gonna really go and ham with the mascara and then we're going to kind of exaggerate things with some falsies after."
"The Thrive tubing mascara is a cult classic for a reason. It kind of ranked in the middle somewhere in my tubing mascara roundup this year, but what I have found is that I need a lash comb with it. If I use the Thrive comb through and then remove the little bit of residual that I get, it doesn't transfer. I've also let it stand open for a little while. Since learning that tubing mascaras when they're very wet, if you leave them open for a little while and they have the opportunity to dry out just a touch, they apply so much better. That was a tip that I learned, and picking up this lash comb has been the perfect combination. I'm getting less fallout. I like the look a lot better because it's more of a natural look as opposed to the spidery look I was getting. The comb just helps comb out the additional clumps and smooth everything out."
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"The Thrive tubing mascara is a cult classic for a reason. It kind of ranked in the middle somewhere in my tubing mascara roundup this year, but what I have found is that I need a lash comb with it. If I use the Thrive comb through and then remove the little bit of residual that I get, it doesn't transfer. I've also let it stand open for a little while. Since learning that tubing mascaras when they're very wet, if you leave them open for a little while and they have the opportunity to dry out just a touch, they apply so much better. That was a tip that I learned, and picking up this lash comb has been the perfect combination. I'm getting less fallout. I like the look a lot better because it's more of a natural look as opposed to the spidery look I was getting. The comb just helps comb out the additional clumps and smooth everything out."
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"Thrive is the tubing mascara that put tubing mascaras on the map in socials a few years ago so this is the one that most tubing mascaras are compared to now. As far as application I was really disappointed in application it does give a long separated look but it's so wet and there's so much cleanup involved. I mean I can't blink my eyes I would have to sit there and let it dry forever so this only got a two out of five for application. The look is really pretty they're long the lashes are separated they're glossy not as natural as some alternatives but still kind of what you would expect from a tubing mascara and because they were just a little bit too shiny and spiky for me personally I gave this a four out of five for the look. Smudging this thing doesn't budge no smudging at all during my smudge test I was very impressed. As far as wash off it did take a little bit of work I was thinking that it would only take three swipes and then come off nicely in tubes it only got a three out of five for wash off it took me a while to get this off."
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