Here's an exciting development for those of us who are always on a quest for longer, more luscious lashes: Polymer mascaras. These mascaras, which feature elastic polymers that actually coat each of your eyelashes with tiny flexible tubes, claim to both extend your natural lashes to surreal lengths and solve the whole flaking/smearing/fading problem that plagues typical mascaras. I first heard about them when I read a review of Too Faced Lash Injection over on Slice of Beauty, and after a little supplemental investigating, I was immediately intrigued: "This exclusive, 3D formula actually builds tubes around each lash. ...Lash Injection comes off in tiny tubes, like little lash socks!" Little lash socks?! How adorably bizarre! (Slice of Beauty, however, said that the lash socks never materialized for her, mainly because the mascara just stubbornly stays put - apparently you can cry, rub your eyes, go swimming and, presumably, survive a nuclear blast and this stuff will stay put.) Then, today, one of my close friends mentioned that she saw a similar product in Target that claimed to create little "tubes" around each of your lashes for a really dramatic look. Of course, this inspired me to find other examples of polymer-based mascaras. Here are a few more promising prospects:
From left to right, we have Blinc Kiss Me Mascara, Prestige Lash Matrix and Cargo TexasLash. Like Lash Injection, all of them claim to be totally resistant to smudges, runs, flakes and water, all promise to increase your lashes' length and volume to positively unnatural proportions...and all swear that you'll find "little lash tubes" in your hand after removal. Is it weird that I'm just as excited about that as I am about the pretty eyes thing?!
