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While in China, do as the Chinese do!
It began with a couple of Shanghainese commuters. Petite and effortlessly fashionable, they boarded the crowded train with their ebony waistcoats, shimmering pumps and matching Celine bags – fake, I guessed, (wished, with uncontrollable envy) not that it mattered. Not like you could tell the difference. Their sing-song voices faded behind the scuttle of metal as the train jerked into motion. I continued to track them. Wedged between the sweating pits of a rotund man, my roommate and a trio of schoolgirls, their beauty became a retreat from the radiating body heat around me. What fascinated me most were their eyes. Even across the train I could distinguish their intolerably long, dense eyelashes sweeping the lens of their glasses, eyes enormous and enlivened; a Chinese doll or an anime perversion.
What kind of mascara do they make in China, I wondered.
“They’re fake, everyone gets them here” came my roommate’s bemused voice from behind me. Clearly she had noticed my staring. “Asians don’t have eyelashes like that,” she continued, nudging into me as the train lurched to a stop. I looked over at her and her toothy smile. She fluttered her eyelashes as me – dense, but short and unimposing. “I should know, being Asian and all.”
So started my obsession with fake eyelashes – not the ones you get in a box and pop on with some white glue before a long night, but the semi-permanent lashes you get at a salon. A few days after that fateful train ride I found myself a reputable salon that grafted eyelashes. Between Silk and Mink, I opted for the latter, which doesn’t last as long but gives a more ‘natural’ appearance. The procedure took around 30 minutes and I even fell asleep in the chair while it happened. It was painless, quick and in no time at all I had enviable lashes. Even with no makeup on having such prominent fixtures made me appear awake and alert; great for someone like me who isn’t one to wear cosmetics during the day.
They last two to four weeks and slowly fall out unless you go back to a salon to have them removed, which I would advise you do should you wish to forgo them, seeing as they are attached to your natural lashes. Here is what they look like on me!
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