a truly smudge-free mascara. really

OK, I know mascara isn’t traditionally considered a skin care product but according to kidshealth.org (back off, I like how simply they explain stuff) hair is actually a modified type of skin.

That said… Imju FiberWig mascara is amazing. (Not surprisingly, it’s the top selling mascara in Japan.)

I have very thin, dwarf-like, toe-head eyelashes. Any mascara can make my upper lashes look thicker, longer, darker. That’s not my problem.

My problem is my lower lashes. Whenever I apply mascara to them it smears down my face and I end up looking like a mascara-wearing raccoon, who’s just been shooting heroine while watching Terms of Endearment.

Fiberwig claims to be the mascara equivalent of false eyelashes. I think it’s more like the equivalent of eyelash plugs. Because this stuff just won’t come off. Not for cleansers, make-up removers, sweat or tears. The only thing that does remove it is warm water. (I think they deserve a Noble Prize for inventing such a confusing scientific anomaly.)

Just how stay-put is this stuff? I torture-tested it on a yoga retreat in Costa Rica. 90 degrees. Jungle humidity. Super-sweaty yoga. Any other mascara would have been down around my ankles by the end of class. This stuff didn’t budge or smudge in the slightest.

I no longer hate people with naturally long,thick lashes. As much as I used to.

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Comments

[Brown mascara]

I totally understand your problem.. Smudged eyes.. Oh god.. Does this work??
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