eye candy

i have always had a bit of an obsession with make-up (mostly eyeshadow and mascara). i've found my soul mate eyeshadow (hi, MAC!) and thought i found the best mascara in christian dior's diorshow...now i realize that it was only runner-up. yes - those of you who know about my blazing love affair with diorshow, pick your jaws up off the floor. there is another woman.

i read about imju fiberwig online. it uses the tubular technology where it coats your lashes in a quasi-cylinder of mascara, and is supposed to be better than the mascara that alerted me to the technology in the first place: blinc's kiss me mascara, which i saw at trade secrets - seems to be a stupid place to find the perfect mascara, not to mention a stupid name for said mascara if you ask me. but i digress.

imju fiberwig is a japanese mascara, and is the best-selling brand there. it boasts that it imitates the look of fake eyelashes, minus the fake-ness. the brush looks different than the one on the sephora website (perhaps because mine is straight from the source - more about this later); mine is definitely more dumbbell shaped which i surprisingly enjoy. it seems like the wider ends help evenly coat the shorter lashes at the edges of my eyes.

application is easy and quick. i was most impressed by the fact that i had beautiful lashes in seconds, thanks to my new friend whom i've named ms. fibby. ms. fibby effortlessly lengthens and separates my lashes and seems to take curl well, despite the reviews that i read that said she can uncurl your lashes. the second time i wore her, i tried following advice i found online, and applied the mascara before curling, first from above on my top lashes, then from below like you normally would apply it...i let it dry, curled and applied a second (technically third?) coat. this was definitely too time-consuming and the curl didn't hold as well as when i just applied it normally the first day. and my lashes got all stuck together, rendering separation with a lash brush necessary. so don't believe everything you read on the internet, folks. except everything that i tell you. like, go buy this mascara, now. and buy two for me while you're at it.

my friend amy and i have been doing some experimenting with mascaras recently. we've been sharing and comparing (*gasp* i know, it's wrong to share eye make-up, so sue us, neither of us have contracted a fatal eye disease from each other, so we're good. for now. sorry, i'm digressing again...), and while i have found that eyelash primers are pretty neat, it just adds an extra step. that's why i like ms. fibby so much, my lashes look great with no extra steps and very little effort.

ms. fibby doesn't smudge, even after hours of wearing it. when you look at the brush straight out of the tube, the formula looks very clumpy but applies cleanly and easily. another huge plus is that she practically falls off your lashes with just a bit of warm water - i don't need to use make-up remover! amazing.

the only downside is that i find ms. fibby doesn't add volume as well as diorshow. so...if diorshow is better at volumizing, and ms. fibby is more about lengthening and separating, what would happen if i combined the two? and if i were to combine them, which would go on first? or do you think it's like mixing cleaning products - the combination creates a toxic gas and makes the user lose consciousness? no?

in terms of price, she sells for about $30 here (same as diorshow). i always feel a sense of guilt indulging in $30 mascara...but. my brother recently went to japan on a business trip and so i asked him to buy ms. fibby for me - it was about $10 with the conversion! woo hoo! $10 is definitely < $30, which makes me > happy. what also makes me > happy is how awesomely i just used the greater-than and less-than signs. uh, miko...grade 3 called, they want their math lesson back.

why am i so crazy today? since i've apparently resorted to talking to myself, i am sending myself to bed. and apparently i've thrown out the idea of writing concise and succinct blogs, sorry k-zo. i'm just long-winded by nature, i guess. maybe i could go back and delete every other word? better yet, if you're still reading this, you should go back and re-read this rather psycho post but only every other word, just for kicks. and since you're not supposed to believe/follow everything you read on the internet with the obvious exception of my blog, this means you have to.