This should give you thick, lush, long, lashes.

For an even fuller effect, such as you might want in the evening, carefully brush some BABY POWDER on the lashes before applying the mascara. Or you might want to go as far as putting on a third coat of mascara. This should certainly provide sufficient buildup to give even sparse lashes a won- derful fullness.

.BUYING AND APPLYING FALSE EYE- LASHES.

For those women who want even more emphasis, with FALSE EYELASHES, I will out- line how that can best be done, although I must stress that I am no longer very fond of them. Their application requires a great deal of time and patience to produce an effect that mascara can amply and easily provide. They must be trimmed and fitted to you so that they look real, and putting them on proper- ly, really properly, is only accomplished in one way: lash by individual lash. Most women who wear them use the strip lashes, and the application must be perfectly done. So if you insist, this is the way to do it:

The first thing to be careful about is COLOR. The preferable shade, no matter what color your own lashes are, is CHAR- COAL or DARK BROWN. Black lashes are much too hard and

phony-looking. After they're applied, they will be mas- cara'ed along with your natural ones, and the color will even out.

Now the lashes MUST be trimmed carefully to fit you. The lashes should not go from corner to corner. If they do, it will be painful, if not im- possible, to close your eyes. Look at your own lashes care- fully. The little hairs do not start growing exactly at the inner corner of the eye. They start perhaps a millimeter away, and that is where the false

lashes should begin as well.

Most lashes sold come with their own adhesive; if not, you can buy surgical glue at any drugstore.

Before applying the lashes, coat your own with one applica- tion of mascara. Then, looking straight into the mirror, you're ready to begin. Place the strip of lashes over your own, push- ing down until they touch. Then press the strip down on the lid, where the eyeliner may be.

Then apply another coat of mascara, brushing it on both the false lashes and your own. If you have applied the proper amount of glue, the lashes should be well set in place, very comfortably blending with your own. At this point you can apply still another coat of the mascara if you think you need it.

If you have the problem of the ends popping up from the lid, then you have either not used sufficient glue or permitted it to dry before having pressed the lashes into place. If this happens, take a TOOTHPICK and dip one end of it into the glue. Touch it very carefully to the corner of your lid where the lash belongs. You need only the smallest pinpoint of glue. Then with tweezers push the lash back and it will stay. Now apply the second coat of mas- cara, brushing the lashes to- gether so that you can FEEL CONFIDENT that they are going to stay.

Check in your mirror be- tween each step of the applica- tion, always looking down into it so that you can see how you look when you close your lids. This is the giveaway time, when imperfect application always shows up. If you have put the strip close enough to your own roots, if mascara and eye- liner are properly applied, then there should be no demarcation to announce you're using false eyelashes.

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It is equally important to check the eyes against each other. The application must be true to the symmetry of the face and the relationship of the eyes. You can't have the lashes going in wildly different directions. This is one of the reasons that application of false eyelashes to the bottom lid is so tricky and that I don't recommend it for any but the most accomplished.

Open and close your eyes several times, rapidly, as a final test. Touch the lashes lightly to make sure that they won't be falling off. This touchability, this believability, is the most essential element in good make- up application, not only for the eyes but for everywhere. You should be able to touch every area of the face without fear of smudging, except for the lips. (The lipstick formulations today are so creamy they will always "run.") Just touch the very ends of the lashes to prove to yourself that they are on correctly.

Once you perfect the tech- nique of applying upper lashes, you may want to attempt to do the lower ones. I feel that this is not at all necessary and can have disastrous results. Lower lashes must look natural. Improperly applied lower lashes could look rather freakish. When experimenting, keep your eyes very steady and wide open. Stare right into the mirror. Hold the strip of false lashes with the tweezer. Go under your own with the false ones and pat the glued strip gently in place. (Individual extra lashes here will require a great knack, so be careful!)

I feel that usually it is easier for you to follow my directions and makeup tips than it is for me to describe them. Even things that sound ex- tremely complicated when you read them become very clear and simple once you pick up your tools and get to work. But this is not true here. Put- ting on any lashes, especially