i've bought expensive and i've bought cheap, they all dry up in the same amount of time and there just isnt any significant difference in pricier mascaras to justify spending more, so i snap up bogo cheapie mascaras for me and my daughter....i'm usually at CVS grabbing a variety of covergirl formulas
my daughter likes the fat orange covergirl mascara (the brush seems too big and it goes on gunky for me) and i like covergirl lashexact