Miscelaney

Middle-of-the-road eyelashes. Yep, that’s me. Wish that they were longer, fuller, and definitley darker. And no amount of makeup will ever transform these fair eyes into that four-star, Kardashian-level of Armenian smolder. But I can’t knock my gene code too hard. I’ve seen people with far less lash potential than myself.

Over the years I’vd dabbled in various types of mascara. In my twenties I usually could skate on the small tubes of complimentary Estee Lauder I used to receive as a beauty bonus from buying their perfume. Worked well for the handful of times I’d wear it (back then I was a wash ‘n wear type of girl). In my early to mid-3o’s I decided I needed a “blacker”, thicker, more dramatic look. On the recommendations various beauty rags, I settled on the extra-black, pink-tubed Maybelline.  It was good, although often I ended up with panda eyes. I know I shouldn’t,  but I chronically rub my eyes. Can’t help it. And I’m not a fan of waterproof products if I have to use an oily make-up remover to get it to go away at night. I’m a simple girl with a simple beauty routine.

More recently, I’ve upped the anty a bit and have been throwin down for some Sephora-level product. I started with fresh Supernova Mascara. The tube was all swirly and pretty. I liked it, it was good, but still panda eyes at the end of the day if I wasn’t careful. I then switched to the DiorShow. I’d been wanting to try it out for several years and finally gave it a go. It is very dramatic, but goes on clumpy, at least for me. I have to wash the brush all of the time (seems like a waste of good product) and work deliberatley to keep  away the Tammy Faye (God rest her soul). While the panda eyes were all but gone, I did notice occassional flaking (but again, only from my hardcore, chronic eye-rubbing). I continue to use DiorShow for going out, to achieve my most intense lashes. But I still needed an everyday something which could withstand my incessant eye-rubbing yet easily wash off at night. Plus I swim a lot, so this was another consideration (I don’t need to look like my eyes are bleeding-out every time I take a dip).  And no clumping or flaking, please.

Enter in divine beauty intervention. On a recent visit to see my Rents (translation: parents) in Tucson, my step-mom dropped a brand new, unopened tube of blinc Kiss Me mascara into the void which is my cosmetic bag (and I’m going to overlook the fact she told me to buy this product over a year before). But’s what important about Kiss Me is it is fundamentally different in that it tubes your lashes, as opposed to merely painting over them like traditional mascaras. When I say tube, I mean it forms waterproof tubes around each individual lash which won’t smudge, flake, clump, or even run until you wash your face to remove it. Regardless of how many times you watch Love Story in a row. And the best part? It easily washes off at night with soap and water. Now, there is a talent to applying and removing (and who really cares that when you wash your face, the tubes come off looking like water-logged strings of black dryer lint?). But as with all innovative things, you need to stick with it until you get the hang of  it. The results are absolutley amazing.