Beauty-fuls: We heart a doe eyed gaze...and loooooong lashes!

How many times have you gone out and bought the "amazing" new mascara from the commercial you saw on TV only to be disappointed and $10 poorer?

How many times have you watched Drew...

Penelope...

and Kate...

...bat their gorge doe eyes, that they got from the tube that you are holding in your frustrated polished hand, only to find out that their loooong lush lashes (say that fast...ready GO!) didn't come from the tube your holding but from false lashes from a pro!

We think last year there was a whole controversy about it saying it was false advertising but that disappeared in a flash...

So here we sit...with short eyelashes afraid of extensions, you should be, they are expensive and you can risk losing your own lashes when the extensions fall out...wondering what we can do for that coveted doe eyed gaze.

Well, once again the gals o' t.w.h. are here to aid you on your way to yummy long lashes...

You can either put on falsies...which we lurve to do when we are going out...they are quick, inexpensive but totally temporary (don't sleep over a new boys house with these on...trust us you might wake up with "spiders" on the pillow case)

or grab a tube of the new lash enhancers on the market for naturalish, super long and somewhat permanent lashes.***

Here are the benefits of lash enhancers...

Although this is a picture from Lastisse...one of our closest friends tried one below and got these results!!!!

Here are the top 5 lash enhancers we found...

***But buyer beware...we did a ton of research on the top 5 to buy but since they all have very similar ingredients we do not know which works the best ....we didn't test them all ourselves...

And we do not know which are the safest...***

Lastisse- Probably the most recognizable due to the huge amount of advertising they do and the fact that they got the patent first. It was used to help Glaucoma patients with eye pressure and people started noticing the beautiful side affects! (My grandma..and her eye lashes are thick! she is 80!)

So they re marketed the medicine and voila!...long lashes for everyone.

The side affects they say are the most common, although a small percentage, is the darkening of your iris and irritated eye lids.

Use at your own risk.

Revitalash- This is the next most popular one with similar side effects but with out the Glaucoma medicine that Lastisse has. It is said to work just as well and just as fast.

LiLash- We found this one from a site that rated a few different lash enhancers by testing them on herself.

She said this one was the least irritating, best priced and by far the best of the ones she used!

Sign us up!!!!

Tarte Mulipleye- The super cute and much loved cosmetic company's answer to the LE world.
This one has more natural ingredients (but still chemical) to condition and help the "health" of your lashes and the side effect of healthy lashes is lushness and thicker hairs.

We are not sure how much longer they get but some testers found they were definitely more dense.

Lash Alive- The natural (real natural) gals answer to the LE world. Made up of Organic ingredients...yay...this product does a similar job to the Tarte one.

It helps your lashes get healthier and thus they look more plump and luscious...and organically....YES PLEASE!!!!

MD Lash Factor- OK...this is the real reason for this post. The one we mentioned above.

While we were lovingly gazing at one of our most gorge gals, we noticed how crazy long and supermodel worthy her lashes were. She whispered her secret to us and it was MDlash Factor.

Her lashes were getting soooo long she had to use MDlash every other day to keep them at bay (hee hee we are poets and didn't even know it).

Um...yeah...I think we will pick up a tube of that too!

Not ready to try the medicinal route or a commitment? Go false!

They come in soooo many shapes, sizes, colors, types, brands...you could try a different pair every day for a year and probably not have tried them all.

They are super easy to apply, with a bit of practice, and can look as natural or as dramatic as you want!

Here are the top fancy pants (yet totally worth it) 2 brands for your shopping pleasure and guaranteed satisfaction...

Makeup artists around the globe use these 2...

MAC

Shu Uemura

OR

Visit Madame Madeline for any brand of falsies you can ever imagine!!!!

Here is a super cute girl doing a demo on how to apply falsies...sooo good! Love her eye makeup too ;)

Still not ready? Grab a great tube of mascara and the perfect liner and you will be GTG and still have enough moolah in your wallet for a new pair of boots ;)

P.S. Thank You N.K.Y. for your gorgeous DYG (Doe Eyed Gaze) and inspiring us to write this post

P.P.S. You are beautiful no matter how long your lashes are!

xoxo t.w.h.

Beauty-fuls: Totally Tubular! We heart tube mascara ;)

Just the other day us gals at T.W.H. were cursing technology after 1 of our Blackberries decided to erase everything just because it felt like it.  

But then it was as if a message came from the Geek (yes GEEK not GREEK) Gods...my friend called me and said "Wow!  That mascara we bought together is amazing!..I loove technology!"  

And that was that...the Geeky Gods were telling us to give technology a second chance.

So we did..and you know what? We are back on the techno bandwagon.  

Its prob for the best because 1 of us is most likely is gonna want the new Iphone and the other is a wee bit too obsessed with the new face lasers (you, you're right...we smell that post coming too).

Oooops..we digress...anywhoo thanks to the Science-y guys in the beauty labs we have yet another amazing way to get longer, more doe like lashes.  Tube Mascara.  (Not to be confused with mascara in a tube.)  

This mascara creates small tubes around each lash creating a longer and thicker look. Not only that but it doesn't flake, run, it's water resistant (perf for Summer), and you don't need those crappy eye makeup removers anymore!  

It literally comes off in tubes with a slight tug after splashing with warm water :)  Super cute right?  Little lashy tubes in your paws?  

Here are the top 4 on the market.  There are others, but these are the easiest to get and the ones that work the best.

OK, the one that the stunning E.F. was talking about is Kiss Me, By Blinc Cosmetics.  

She normally has normal, light colored lashes, and when we saw her with this mascara on, we fell in utter heart (well more than we already are).  Her lashes were gorge!  They looked long and full with no clumps!  

Plus she said when she slept at a "friends" house and didn't wash it off, there were no raccoon eyes or marks on her "friends" pillow.  Um, hello!  Sounds great, looks great...we are in!  

Another T.M. (Tube Mascara) that's getting rave reviews is the cheapest one in this post.  Perf for us recessionistas. 

Loreal's Double Extension Beauty Tubes.  

It's a bit different than the others because it uses a 2 step process.  The first step is a lash conditioner and sealer to keep your lashes healthy then it's followed by the tubes.  It uses the same technology as the others and at half the price...yes please!

Here is a pic that a cute girl on the web posted after she used Loreal's version.  
While her lashes were totally long to begin with, it still made them look fuller and more feathery.  Thanks web gal for your super scientific test!

Kevin Aucoin (may he rest in peace) was the God of amazing makeup application.  He was the OG of beauty application before Scott Barnes and Mally Roncal.  

There was not a person on Earth he couldn't make totally gorgeous.  And right before he passed away, he began creating his beautiful makeup line.  

The Volume Mascara is one of his best sellers and can be found at the one and only Sephora! Another one of our beautiful friends, the fab J.N., swears by this mascara. 

She hearts it sooo much she makes pilgramages just to get it.  Everytime we see her, her lashes are perfection. Not too thick, not too curly, just long and lovely, like a movie star. 

And she never has smears, even after Piloxing!  This one is for sure on our beauty wish list.

The O.G. of tube mascara has got to be Tube Your Lash.  Hmmmm wonder what it does?  Hee hee...
T.Y.L. is the company that put this technology on the beauty map. It's results are very much like the others and works fantasmically. 

A bit hard to find, but worth its since it's really the Momma of all Tube Mascaras.  

So ladies of T.W.H. get tubing.  Bat your glamorous lashes and see how many more boys fall prey to your gorgeous gaze.

xoxo t.w.h.