Kitty Coner – Beauty Buzz: Benefit False Eyelashes
by Kat
So for the wedding, I thought I’d go all out and get some really nice false eyelashes. I wear falsies often, and love the look they give me – but I’ve always worn inexpensive, drugstore lashes. I was thrilled when I saw the lush, full, long look of the Benefit lashes – tiny hairs, crisscrossed for fullness, a variety of options in length and styles:
And then I wore them.
Ok, that sentence was all dramatic. But seriously, I was disappointed. Yes, they were long, lush and full – but they were NOT made for my eyes.
I suppose my lids may be more curved than these were made for, but even after trimming the excess length on the strip of lashes, they kept pulling up on the inner corners of my eye – no amount of glue I used would hold them down. The ‘strip’ of these was much thicker than the drugstore brand lashes that I typically use, and therefore had more tension – not allowing them to lay properly.
I thought it might just be the ‘prima donna’ variety that I had tried first, so I bought another pair – the debutante – same thing. All in all, I spent about $30 on them, just to wear my go-to $3.99 110′s at the wedding. Lesson. Learned.
All-in-all – pretty – but not worth the extra cost.
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Kat Cooper makes up the ginger half of Ginger and the Geek. You can follow her on Twitter, @katcooper.
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Good to know! I’ve been thinking of trying false eyelashes for my photos in August. I’ll need to play around with them as I have never done them before!
i’ve been happy with both Sephora brand and Makeup Forever’s falsies. That’s not to say that they are better than drugstore lashes (I don’t wear them but for special occasions, so I splurge a little as a rule), but those might prove to be better than Benefit’s. The strip on both brands is small, and fits easily into the crease between the lash line and the lid. Might be worth a revisit if you ever want to swank up your lashes for another special occasion (not that there is any occasion more special than the nuptials – congrats, by the way).
thanks for the review – super specific and very, very helpful.
Interesting and helpful review. I’ve always been terrified (well, maybe that’s not the right adjective…) of false lashes, but then again, I was blessed with pretty full ones to begin with. I still remember this wonderful gal on my dorm floor freshman year who told me to play up my lashes, that I was lucky to have great ones and that I should never go without mascara.
I’ve worn them in a couple plays (most recently when I played Yum Yum in Mikado) and had to wear them in my brief stint singing in a women’s barbershop chorus. But I think in each of those cases, I got a lot of help putting them on.
Well, I’ve gotten lazy these days with makeup in general anyway but perhaps I’ll try them sometime. I’m guessing the lashes I have aren’t as lush as they once were–perils of being in my 50s, I guess.
I bought some fake eyelashes from MAC and tried to put them on once to disastrous results. Got any tips for applying them?
I Do! Here’s a post on that: http://gingerandthegeek.com/2011/01/19/kitty-corner-beauty-buzz-how-to-apply-false-eyelashes-in-5-easy-steps/