Maybe She's Born With it...

Recently I was coerced by my Mom to go make-up shopping. I hardly wear make-up and when I do it seems to melt off my face faster then it takes for me to put it on. For me, the most fascinating thing about make-up shopping is the overwhelming variety of colors. On this particular trip, I couldn't help but be infatuated with the assortment of mascara that was being peddled. Mascara, after all, was once rumored to be made of bat poop; I can neither confirm nor deny this allegation.
Anyhow, it amazes me how a little wand can be transformed into accomplishing so much; let's name a few: High Impact Volumizing/Thickening , Lash Doubling Volumizing/Thickening, Long Wearing, Long Pretty Lashes, Natural Gloss, High Impact Curling, High Definition, Gentle Waterproof, Waterproof ... the list, and hopefully your lashes (bad joke), goes on and on and on. The whole experience left me in desperate want for a long, curly, "everlasting", Jessica Rabbit lash. The kind of lash you could bat a baseball with.
So now I'm starting to see commercials for some prescription eye lash creme that promises "longer, fuller, darker lashes", it also warns that it may cause " skin darkening which may be reversible"..."potential for increased brown iris pigmentation which is likely to be permanent", and "potential for hair growth to occur in areas where the solution comes in repeated contact with skin surfaces". Geez...all for the price to seem alluring? From where this arbitrary idea of darkening and lengthening your lashes originate? Well, apparently Egyptians use to darken the area around their eyes, with something they call kohl, to ward off evil spirits. As for adding to the length of the lash...maybe they battled the evil spirits with there long lashes, using them as spears. What ever the case was, somehow this transpired and fixated into our definition of beauty.
Needless to say, I was allured into buying a $16 wand of mascara that promised to be "smudge proof". While it is that, it clumps and flakes and I have to use something like a Brillo Pad to remove it from my face, yet somehow it makes its way into my hair. What can I do but go back to the store and buy the eyelash primer, the eyelash separator and the mascara remover. Shouldn't that have come with the mascara, in a little kit? Maybe I should just dig up some kohl and use it to encircle my eyes? At least then the evil spirits wouldn't try and mess with me, then again nobody would.