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Ever since Egyptian Empire reigned supreme, women have been fixated on the appearance of their eyelashes. Cleopatra and her girlfriends though that evil spirits could use the eyes as a gateway into your soul, so they began concealing their lashes with kohl, water, dung and honey in order to make it more difficult for the spirits to enter. They viewed heavily made up eyelashes as almost the Brinks Home Security of eyeball soul stealing.

In the Victorian Era, women used petroleum jelly on their eyelashes to make them look played up and flirty. The year 1916 brought the creation (by director DW Griffith according to Hollywood legends) of false eyelashes made of gauze and human hair. In 1917, Eugene Rimmel created the first manufactured and packaged mascara product and 1938 brought the first waterproof mascaras, which were reformulated in the 1960s to make them safe for eyes (prior waterproof mascara boasted a 50% dose of turpentine!).

In our current times, the love and obsession of dramatizing our eyelashes shows no signs of stopping. New mascaras with new gimmicks hit stores monthly, all promising to change the thickness, shape, length, colour and lushness of what our Mothers gave us. You can purchase artificial lashes, luckily no longer involving gluing gauze to your eyelid and blending over it with concealer, in strips or individual hairs, made of synthetic or natural fibers.

This passion for eyelash fashion often leads women down the road of Missing Eyelashes over the years, because the constant pulling, tugging, combing, colouring, washing and rubbing of your natural hairs causes them to pack their bags and look for greener pastures (usually your cheek where a stranger then plucks it off and asks you to make a wish and I reply to have my eyelashes back!).

This plight has led to the invention and marketing of eyelash serums; miracle formulas that will stimulate hair follicles and lead to thicker, more natural eyelashes. The serum explosion has filtered down to mascaras as well, with almost every major brand advertising mascaras that will not only make what little eyelashes you have left look fabulous but will also help grow more.

I doubt Cleopatra would have ever guessed the world of eye lash hair would have become such a huge daily routine and issue for the every day woman.

In order to help alleviate some of the questions you may have about eyelash extravagance, I have compiled some short informative write ups of each of the common eye lash tools that I will be posting as a runner up to this article.

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