Long eye lashes latest trend
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As if there isn’t enough to worry about every morning
As false eyelashes gradually shed their tarty image, cosmetics companies such as MAC, Shu Uemura and Vincent Longo have begun offering false eyelashes at Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys New York or their own tony boutiques, training the sales staff in application techniques.
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Eye-catching: Long lashes latest trend Scan the celebrity tabloids, flip on daytime TV or even the national news and you’ll see them. Amid the amazingly ample breasts, the unlined foreheads and the full lips are sets of long, dense, fluttery eyelashes. You may cynically, and rightly, assume that implants, Botox and collagen have worked their magic on more than a few of these body parts. Guess what? The lashes are fake, too. Look closely at Angelina Jolie, Oprah Winfrey, Eva Longoria, Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan and a long list of cable news anchors, and you’ll spot the telltale signs: thick eyeliner (to hide the false-lash strip edges); lashes that nearly touch the brows (only freaks of nature grow them so long); a spidery pattern of spikes that would make Liza Minnelli proud. The old obsession over big lips has given way to a new fetish for big lashesObsession over big lips has given way to a new fetish for big lashes. It started with the troupes of thick-lashed lasses walking the runways for lofty fashion houses. Fashion magazines and celebrity stylists picked up on the notion, and now the rest of us are buying record numbers of “fortified” mascaras and flocking to salons offering the latest beauty fad: eyelash extensions. False eyelashes have lost their tarty image and are stopping traffic at upscale cosmetic counters, such as at Barneys New York and Saks Fifth Avenue. And at last, top makeup artists are coming clean about how they make the stars’ eyes shine so bright. “False eyelashes are the best-kept secret in makeup,” said Vincent Longo. “I’ve been doing lashes for 22 years, and I don’t think false lashes have ever left my kit.” Lash extensions are creating the most buzz. In the painstaking, two-hour process, a technician glues about two dozen individual, artificial lashes onto each eyelid’s natural lashes, one by one by one. The service is becoming popular nationwide. It can cost anywhere from $45 in a makeup boutique to $250 in a Beverly Hills hair salon. Some practitioners say the single lashes are an aesthetic improvement over the three-lash, semipermanent lashes that have been around for 30 years or more and cost less than $10 at a drugstore. |
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I just thought I would drop a little bit of advice for you guys. There is something I have been dong religiously for five years that takes 2 seconds, and makes my lashes look as if they have had $250 put into them.And I promise, nearly every one of my girlfriends has asked me at one time or another if I use falsies (and when I deny it, most look skeptical).
When applying your makeiup, take your mascara wand and -as gently as possible- flick just the tipe of your lashes. Do this until you notice the effect it is having (it should visibly extend yoru lashes quite a bit). Then go and fill in just the roots to gice them more thickness.
This can be done using a $30 dollar tube of Lancome Hypnose, or a $5 tube of N.Y.C mascara. I have used both, and both have been equally effective, I have naturally long lashes already, but this is garunteed to step anyones up.
But Ssssh! Don’t let the secret out. None of my girlfriends know my secret, and I get so flattered when they ask me to do their makeup for special occasions. I guess they just love the effect I have.
Loves-
Ashleyy*
Comment by Ashley — November 14, 2006 @ 12:32 pm