Suddenly, tubing mascaras are everywhere – about time too and especially with autumn coming right up – wind and rain ahead! I wasn’t expecting Stila to release their own version – Made-U-Lash – but here it is.

I spent the whole day wearing it on Wednesday and can say that it certainly has staying power. A windy, drizzly walk did not phase this mascara one bit and by the end of the day, it looked the same as when I applied it in the morning bar a tiny (and I mean, tiny) amount of – I can’t even call it smudging – drift by end of play. Annoyingly, I managed to coat my lid as well and didn’t notice until half the day was gone. The curse of the early morning selfie!

You’ll find that with tubing mascaras you don’t get the volume that you can or do with traditional mascaras. It’s a different formula so it can’t work in the same way – a tubing mascara wraps the lashes (and you take it off with warm water rather than make up remover) and sets softly rather than just coating. Coating mascaras can be formulated with fibres for volumizing and lengthening whereas it’s more difficult to do that with tubing mascaras because you’d disrupt the polymers. You could layer them – use the tubing as the base – but I’m not sure why you would.

Tubing mascaras are great for giving a strongly defined lash fringe that you don’t want to disappear before the end of the day. Because tubing mascara formulas are oil resistant, your face creams and bases won’t disrupt them – people who have problems with their mascaras migrating downwards will usually find that switching to a tubing formula sorts that out because the cause is often oils in either skin or other products.

Anyway, this is a long way round to say that Stila Made-U-Lash performed excellently – it’s an easy win with a lash hugging, curved brush for £25 HERE .