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To find false eyelashes a bit freaky and cheap looking?

37 replies

Hownoobrooncoo · 22/04/2012 18:43

they are just everywhere now. I thought it was only the very young that wore them and for special occasions. But they seem to be everywhere now and for everyday wear like the girl working the morning shift in the co-op. Does anyone say over 25yrs old wear them and is it only me that thinks they look a bit freaky and cheap in a glamour, fake tan kind of way?

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trixymalixy · 22/04/2012 18:47

I have just discovered the eyelure individual lashes. They look quite natural and I have had so many compliments on them from people. I put them on for a wedding and they are supposed to last 4 weeks, so I'm planning to wear them until they fall off! I am 35.

Panzee · 22/04/2012 18:48

How natural can they be if you're being complimented on them? I mean, they're eyelashes. Nobody I know comments on eyelashes - although that may just be the people I hang out with. :o

AmberLeaf · 22/04/2012 18:51

Individual lashes are nice, you dont have to overload your lashes with them so can easily pass them off as natural.

I dont like the full strip lash ones, mainly because ive seen far to many pics of women wearing them in a drunken state with one half off!

I wear individual ones occasionally, im in my late 30s.

squeakytoy · 22/04/2012 18:52

I wear them occasionally when I go out, but I dont wear the drag queen style really long ones.. and people have asked me if they are real or not because they do look natural..

HecateTrivia · 22/04/2012 18:54

My husband bought me some one year as part of my christmas present. I could not figure out how the hell to put them on, tried a couple of times, gave up and threw them away.

PinkChampagneandStrawberries · 22/04/2012 18:56

I'm 26 and get fake eye lashes put on every 3 weeks Smile

trixymalixy · 22/04/2012 19:36

Panzee, people have complimented me, said I was looking fab and asked if I've done something different, so I have then told them about the eyelashes. Not that they have said "oh your fake eyelashes look good".Grin

trixymalixy · 22/04/2012 19:38

Oh and then most of them have run out and bought some for themselves!

trixymalixy · 22/04/2012 19:40

...apart from the bloke in my team that commented!!!

Goldenbear · 22/04/2012 19:49

I think it looks like too much effort.

When they are noticeably false I don't like them. However, I suspect I wouldn't notice natural looking ones and would assume they were real!

I think people do talk about lashes, particularly if someone has stunning naturally long full ones. My DP has very full lashes and my DS and DD have inherited them. People frequently comment on them to me with regards to my DC!

LRDtheFeministDragon · 22/04/2012 19:54

I think they can look fine, but often - a bit like fake tan or wearing perfume - you get used to them so you put on a bit more, until someone who's not got used to them can find it quite a shock! Also you have to remember - you only see them when you are looking in the mirror from that angle. Everyone else sees what they look like when you move your face/blink, and it's not the same view.

I went to an old friend's wedding a while back and she'd gone down that route, and I'm sorry, but she looked ridiculous.

OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos · 22/04/2012 19:55

My friend has professionally applied individual false lashes, and they look fabulous. You can't really generalise, because they are all so different. I wouldn't expect ones that you put on yourself from a £5 packet in boots are going to look the same as expensive ones that have been applied by someone who does it all the time.

rhondajean · 22/04/2012 19:55

I'm 35 and I have constant semipermanent eyelash extensions.

They are very natural as I am dark haired and eyed and people always stop and ask if they are my own because they are not overdone but just at that wow are they or aren't they point.

I have saved fifteen minutes every morning for the last year - I only wear eye makeup on a night out now, they are enough on their own for every day.

I think if you put them with fake tan etc it gets a bit much, there is a line not to cross, and the cheap ones like most cheap things look just that, cheap.

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Hownoobrooncoo · 22/04/2012 19:58

Obviously if you don't think they are fake then they don't look fake. Just make me think Drag Queen for some reason, remember Dick Emery with them.

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 22/04/2012 20:02

I think if people keep asking you if they're real you've crossed that line and then some! Grin

I can imagine they could look quite cool in a trendy way, though. You can get ones that are funny colours too, can't you? There was a lass I saw with ones done like butterfly wings, and though they were completely OTT they were rather fabulous too.

sue52 · 22/04/2012 20:05

I think they look good on twenty somethings. On older woman they do tend to look a bit too try hard.

OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos · 22/04/2012 20:06

My ds has very long and thick eyelashes. Twice I got asked if I'd put falsies on him when he was still a pre schooler. TWICE!! What planet are some people on?

tittytittyhanghang · 22/04/2012 20:07

im in the same camp as stranded bear, fake eyelashes, fake tan, hair extensions the lot Grin

TattyDevine · 22/04/2012 20:09

I've not been truly content with the individual extensions I've had done in a salon, twice now, about 2 years apart. I love MAC 33 lash, which are very natural but I don't want to faff around applying them daily. On Tuesday I will be having the LVL lash treatment (it stands for Length, Volume and Lift)

Its like a lash perm but instead of curly rods they make your lashes stick straight up (though there are 3 grades of erm erection depending on how long your lashes etc, I'm going to have the medium) so it makes the most of your natural length, and something about it volumises your lashes a bit by swelling the hair, and they dye it too for definition.

Here is their website

Its costing £45, so I'll try and remember to update and tell you how I get on! Lisa Eldridge did a video of before and after when she had it done, (some of you will have heard of her, she's a makeup artist) and it looked pretty great, now its local to me I will try it! We shall see!

But I was feeling the darkness and heaviness of extensions were ageing me unnecessarily - hopefully this will be a "natural" alternative because I just want a bit of a boost really...

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Hownoobrooncoo · 22/04/2012 20:10

Outraged - like this, you mean

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ethelb · 22/04/2012 20:10

I'm 25 and I am loking at getting an eyelash tint so I don't have to go down the fake eyelash route for mig occassions/holidays. But I wear glasses and wonder if they would even fit behind them!

ethelb · 22/04/2012 20:11

i would consider a couple of professionally applied individual lashes for a wedding though...

AmberLeaf · 22/04/2012 20:11

Eyelash tints are fab too!

OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos · 22/04/2012 20:12

Oh!! That's horrible Hownoo! I hate to say that about a child, but Shock