Beauty Bets » obsessed http://www.beautybets.com Fresh beauty news and candid product reviews from the girl next door. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:55:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Just Look at My Eyelash Extensions! http://www.beautybets.com/2010/02/my-eyelash-extensions/ http://www.beautybets.com/2010/02/my-eyelash-extensions/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:24:11 +0000 Beauty Bets http://www.beautybets.com/?p=648 You aren’t going to believe this (I write a beauty blog for petesake), but I’m actually a fairly low-maintenance girl. I don’t color my hair. I don’t get regular manicures. I would rather sleep than spend that time primping. Now I realize that this very relative, especially if you’re the type who air-dries her hair, slaps on a little lipstick, and is out the door in 15 minutes flat (but then why would you be reading this blog?). My point is that I now find myself in uncharted territory. I recently “researched” eyelash extensions for this article in Minnesota Monthly. They took about three hours to apply. They cost $250. They are, in a word, FABULOUS. Just look at the before and after pics:

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I thought I had pretty great lashes before, but the extensions! They look like falsies, but feel completely natural. You don’t have to curl them or coat them with mascara. I hardly need a stitch of makeup because the extensions do all the work. I’ve never looked better. In fact, NUMEROUS people have said to me: “You look amazing. What’s different?”  UGH! It’s like my worst nightmare. Now I have to keep these bad boys up (re: have them filled in every month, which takes about an hour and costs $100). Or, I can return to my low-maintenance life of lash growth serums and Maybelline Lash Stiletto mascara. Oh to be a man.

NOTE: Amy Presson of Jett Makeup gave me my gorgeous extensions, but there are certified Lavish Lashes professionals everywhere.

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