Lashes, lenses and the marks in between

A smudge-proof tubing mascara from a range designed throughout for people with reduced movement or strength.

Smudge-proof and tubing, which together solve both of the mechanical glasses problems: nothing flakes onto the lens, and contact with the back of the lens does not soften or transfer the product. The supported-grip handle also helps with the practical awkwardness of applying mascara accurately when you have had to take your glasses off to do it.

A tubing mascara that wraps each lash in a polymer sleeve and removes with warm water rather than solvent.

The tubing formula with the most visible length, which makes it the right choice if your lenses shrink the eye area. You get the definition that compensates for the apparent reduction, without flaking onto the lens or softening where the lashes touch it.

The original tubing mascara, oil-free, sold in black and brown, and removed with warm water and gentle pressure.

The right choice if you wear reading glasses or varifocals, because a magnifying lens is unforgiving of clumps and this formula stays clean and separated rather than building. Modest volume is an advantage here rather than a limitation: under magnification, less is more.

A lengthening mascara built on beeswax and carnauba, with a dual-sided brush for separating fine lashes.

The dual-sided brush separates as it deposits, and separation is what a magnifying lens rewards — clumped lashes look much worse through a plus lens than they do bare. On a varifocal, where the reading portion sits over your lower lashes, that separation matters most.

A budget tubing mascara that coats each lash in a water-resistant polymer tube.

A tubing formula at drugstore price, so you can test whether switching format stops the marks on your lenses without spending much. It does for most people, because the mechanism — a continuous polymer sleeve rather than a drying wax film — is the same as the expensive versions.

A fine, waxy brow pencil with a spoolie, sold across a wide shade range that includes cool grays.

Included because behind glasses the brow does more work than the lashes do: the frame draws a horizontal line across your face, and a defined brow above it keeps the eye area from reading as flat. A fine pencil with a wide shade range — including cool grays — lets you define without the hard drawn-on look that a magnifying lens exaggerates.