No, unfortunately, these aren't mine!
I have spent most of my lifetime lusting after other people’s gorgeous long, lush eyelashes, probably because my own are more than a little bit sparse. I’m one of those pale English Rose types with mousey hair, mousey eyebrowns, white skin (verging on mauve at the moment) and light blue eyes framed with just a sprinkling of lashes. I’m also over 6’ tall. As a result, I would give my eye teeth (whatever they are!) for the kind of dark, fluttery, flirty, film star lashes that people like Penelope Cruz, Monica Bellucci and so many other women seem to have. The kind that are utterly feminine, deeply seductive and ever-so-slightly dangerous-looking. It seems to me that enhancing your eyelashes is one of the quickest ways to “oomph” up your sex appeal and powers of persuasion … hence, I guess, the umpteen million dollar market in mascara!
I’m sure I am unhealthily fixated. Anyone who knows me will know that it’s often the first thing I comment on when I meet someone new. And I’ve realised that, for some bizarre reason, it’s usually little boys, who have no need of them whatsoever, who have the best lashes going – another one of life’s great mysteries!
Anyway, the whole reason for this ramble is because I have discovered something that actually “oomphs” up my eyelashes. Having tried many many mascaras over the years, I was a little bit cynical about all the claims made for Cargo Lash Activator. And, to be honest, I don’t think it has made my eyelashes actually grow. But however it does whatever it does, somehow or other it seems to make them look a bit thicker, a bit darker and, dare I say it, a bit more lush than any mascara gone before! The effect remains even when I take it off, which makes me think perhaps I’m not taking it off properly … but then again, who cares?! Until the day that I can afford regular eyelash extensions (never had them but I hear they’re fab!), I guess I’ll be paying £19 a pop for Cargo Lash Activator. Unless, of course, you’re going to tell me about some other miracle product that I just have to try!
Right now, I’m wondering whether perhaps it’s time to brave a brow ‘shaping’ experience as well? A manicure? A pedicure? Even a wax?!!! And maybe, just maybe, I’ll wake up one day … sometime soon-ish … and find I have finally metamorphosed into that grown-up well-groomed woman I really ought to be by now!
PS. This is not a sponsored post, it’s entirely genuine.
