Many people swear by mascara as their go to makeup item (hey Sammy!) - but I think this mostly applies to girls who don't have dark coloured hair and/or have really long eyelashes that just don't show up as dark or thick as they would like. I have dark, shortish lashes - they're not bad length for an asian but are super short compared to average european lashes. Mascara barely makes any difference to my appearance - if I want to have visible lashes, I just go straight to luscious fake lashes.
The evidence:
