Thursday, August 7, 2008

Upgrades Department: Electric Mascara

Posted by Edith on Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:20 AM

Would you put a vibrating stick cloaked in oily black paint within millimeters of your eyeball? ... is how the 8-year-old in me would respond. The adult part says, "Neat!"

Battery-powered mascaras promise to more evenly and thoroughly cover your eyelashes--and now there are two of them, Estée Lauder's TurboLash and Lancôme's Ôscillation. They both sound exactly the same, except one's $30 and the other's $34. Has anyone given these a whirl (a buzz, ha) yet? They've been selling out everywhere, and are, apparently, in the midst of a mascara war. It's kind of like the Iraq War.

Where's Maybelline in this? They should make a pink one, a la Great Lash (males, have you stopped reading yet?), and call it RoboQueen. Or LashBot. BuzzStick. Makeup Machine.

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Is this like a discreet vibrator for the masses type thing. Like the "personal massagers" tucked away in K-Marts and such?

Posted by lild on August 7, 2008 at 11:21 AM | Report this comment
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Yeah, first you apply it to your face, then you just drop it into your pants.

Posted by Edith on August 7, 2008 at 11:22 AM | Report this comment
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you know, i was just looking at a mascara ad and thinking mascara was about the most useless, let's-add-a-billion-pieces-of-plastic-to-the-environment-for-nothing product out there.

and then came this.

glad to see they've added toxic heavy metals and tiny moving parts to the equation. and we're expected to pay $30 bucks for the privilege.

firing squad! for inventors and users!

Posted by Anonymous on August 7, 2008 at 11:23 AM | Report this comment

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