Eyelashes are in. You knew that didn’t you? You could tell because there isn’t a female appearing on TV that isn’t sporting mega-eyelashes. I liked the look, maybe because it took me back to the days when slapping on a pair of false eyelashes was as natural as putting on mascara. That was back in the ’70s, when I also drew in Twiggies with eyeliner beneath my bottom lashes and wore my skirts hemmed way up to here.
I used to be a dab hand at applying false eyelashes and I figured it was like riding a bicycle; I’d do it from muscle memory. So I bought myself a new set of lashes at the drug store that came with their own little tube of glue and set about applying them. Muscle memory indeed! The trick to successfully applying false eyelashes is that you’ve got to get them as close to your natural lashes as possible. To put it bluntly, I couldn’t. Maybe it was me or maybe it was the lashes or maybe it was the glue, but I never managed to get them closer than a quarter inch away. Not good, I tell you. Not even passable.
Did this mean I had to give up the idea of lush eyelashes? No, it does not….
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