To: tips@fashionista.com

From: curly@q.com

Hi Fashionista,

I posted this as a comment, but perhaps you can make it a post on the site?

I’m not sure if you’ve covered this before, but I was wondering if you have any recommendations for a good eyelash curler? I desperately need a new one. I’ve used Sheseido and Shu Uemura in the past, but are there superior brands I’m overlooking?

Your help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Well, we haven’t used a curler that wasn’t Shu in many years, so honestly, we don’t know, but we’re guessing our readers do! So act merry, and go to it - please.

And now, a note from Faran…

Last night, I couldn’t find my mascara, so I grabbed my Lancome liquid eyeliner and gently painted my upper and lower lashes with its little, skinny brush.

I think it’s the best eye makeup I’ve ever had.

Instead of sticky clumps or threads, I just got a row of simple black lashes that looked quite natural and a little bit shiny.

I think it’s going to be my new routine, but I’m curious - does everyone else do this, too, and I’m just clueless? Or have I stumbled onto something so obvious, it’s perfect - you know, like the “xoxo” tagline in Gossip Girl?

Lemme know. And to the left is Chanel Iman, whose prowess with liquid eyeliner is astounding, considering when I was seventeen, I could barely use a hairbrush. Seriously, there are yearbook pics to prove it.

We never realized how cool false eyelashes could look until Fashion Week, when girls became sex bombs with a little bit of glue.

Now that the Sweet Charity vibe has transcended fad and become the way some girls want to look all the time, it’s getting even more tempting to visit Shu Uemura and see what they can do in their famed lash bar.

But then there’s the downside:

If false eyelashes aren’t applied perfectly, they can sadly look like this.

And there’s also a part of us that feels like they’re a little bit gross, just another enhancement along with lip plumpers and body-shaping tights that we don’t really love, or necessarily want to endorse, even if they look amazingly lush, sometimes.

Would you wear them?