Current Addiction- première partie

Caused by falsies. I never thought i'd say that.

My lashes haven't grown at all during the past month...it looks like they're actually receding. I am incredibly disappointed and angry...not at the products i've been using but at their natural growth rhythm. Hopefully it will break soon enough and get back on track again.

On a slightly different spin, i have recently fallen in love again with the Ardell 116 falsies. They're the most beautiful and natural looking lashes i have ever tried and the only model i've been constantly repurchasing. Couldn't help it after seeing how gorgeous they look and what  tremendous difference they make.

 Depending from the makeup style (uppercases explanatory), the effect can be dramatic, a bit over the top, really natural, etc, whatever you want it to be. If i go out i will obviously pack on the mascara and then apply them...otherwise, for a daytime glam look, i'll only use neutrals/golds, a bit of brown eye pencil and a tad of mascara (L'Oreal Lash Architect is perfect- doesn't clump if applied in one layer only) and the effect is still gorgeous. 

I always use a pair several times, quite a lot, between ten and thirteen from what i can recall. The natural hair they're made of makes all the difference- they're easy to clean (no thick, tacky band), easy to re-curl, easy to wear even after being technically worn off. If anything else fails- cut them in two and trim the edges accordingly. The effect is i might add probably even more charming than wearing the entire strip- Angelina Jolie-esque cat eyes all the way. It also looks a bit more natural yet dramatic at the same time, without giving exaggerated length (as it usually happens with full strip lashes).Here are the half-falsies from Ardell:

And about this 'technique' of cutting strip lashes in half...i'm doing it to all the other lashes i'm wearing. It's weird and probably not too budget-friendly but it surely pays off...i like how naturally elongated and almond-shaped my eyes look without giving the impression that i'm trying to hard. 

Case in point- some cheap Swedish eyelashes ( Depend is the brand) that looked gorgeous in the box but were an utter failure once applied. 

The band was thick and rigid, hard to stick to my lashline, and the design didn't do much for my eye shape.- the thick rubber line emphasized the 'eyeliner' - hello tired, droopy eyes. I ended up taking them off and resenting them...until seeing how easy cutting in half and attaching them on the outer sides of the lids was- pree-tee!

So now i've learned my lesson- if i ever come across some unwearable, trashy or plasticky pair of lashes, i know what to do- welcome scissors! 

One surely important, if not vital, aspect i've learned the hard way is that the adhesive is everything when it comes to wearing false lashes. I used pretty much everything from the original crappy glue lashes come with to unknown brands and never thought about investing in a good adhesive because i deemed it unnecessarily expensive. Wrong. My love for wearing false eyelashes and my actual ability of practically putting them on is due to the Duo Adhesive (in black...i wish i'd purchased the transparent one. when the black one dries, it looks like too much eyeliner so it's kinda fussy and tricky to apply it). If it wasn't for this one i would have never discovered how fun and gorgeous wearing false eyelashes is....*blushing*. Been living under a rock, i know, i know...