Eyes That Pop!

This is a silly post - and not about my reading glasses.

 I'd like to share something cheery and cheer to do with your eyes and mascara - colored mascara!  Not colored glasses like the misleading picture above.   I got the idea to blog about it when I was at my dentist a few weeks ago and her assistant, who had the blinding light and magnified mirror on my face commented that I had "really cool eye lashes".  I told her it was the colored mascara so she peered closer and told Dr. Soutcheva, my dentist, who is female, to look at my eyes.  She agreed, after apologizing that she spends her time looking in mouths and not enough at eyes.  My dentist exclaimed about the eyelashes and asked me to share.  Women do that.  Soon, other female office personnel were gathering to look at my eyes and hear about the lashes.  Colored mascara, people.  But subtle color.  Where the eyes pop but you can't really say why (unless you have the super powered dental lights and mirror).   I've had many people comment about my eyes since I started doing this so this wasn't the first time.


I got the idea for it when I was in Paris last year and noticed a very young woman with cobalt blue mascara on her eyelashes. The color was so bright it was hard to miss but she looked quite lovely and she had no other makeup on.  During the day, I kept thinking about it, it was that striking, and if I dared do something like that, especially when you're of a certain age.  Well of course you don't do that.  She was a teen ager.  So fast forward a few weeks - one day I was in Sephora looking at their makeup and I noticed they had that glorious blue color mascara and I wondered how it would look if I applied it on already black mascara'd eyes so that it gave a hint of blue without being obvious.  I bought some, tried it over applied and dried black mascara and I loved it.  I loved it so much I sent a tube to my daughter Gabe and then I told my three sisters about it at our reunion a few months later; they loved it too so we all went to Sephora together and bought the cobalt blue.  When my own tube got used up, I went back for more and Sephora no longer had the blue!  Panic!!!  So I went to Ulta and they not only had blue, but purple too, so I bought both, did some fun experimenting and found both work well at making your eyes pop without being obvious why they do.  When I went back to my dentist last week, she informed me the she had gone to Ulta and bought the purple to craftily accentuate her dark brown eyes.  The purple looks beautiful on brown eyes.  And the blurry pics below don't do it justice.

The goods from Ultra

Blue!  And pores.  Remember to apply over DRIED black mascara - if you do it wet, they mix and you also get black liquid in your blue tube - I know because I did this unthinkingly one morning. 

Purple day -   I take turns with the colors. 

Purple day

Blue.  I love my wrinkles, really.  And I need a macro lens. 

Pop!  Isn't this fun?