A for Alphabet Eyelashes : Blogging from A-Z Challenge April 2012

A for Alphabet Eyelashes

Alphabet eyelashes - why not?

Perfect for the starter Blog for Blogging from A-Z April 2012 Challenge. Nothing like some tomfoolery on April first. 

This brings to mind a story about eyelashes, true or false? 


When you haven't seen a particular school friend for many years, the immediate response is to check out physical appearance, while desperately trying to recall their appearance at last sighting, before going on to small talk to find out if they are still working or retired etc. 


You mentally tick off a check-list. 


Hair - style, thinning, receding, colour, roots; face - nip & tuck, nose jobs, lifts or best guess as you wonder if the jaw line was as chiseled as you remembered it; neck - the degree of turkey waddle (compared to your own) or the lack of it.


Travelling down to the trunk - Hmmm...generally thicker than before especially around the middle; wearing monochrome loose fitting clothes but compensated by branded accessories - a Louis Vuitton handbag, Omega diamond-rimmed Ladymatic and Farragamo pumps. QED: Well turned out to an Old Girls' reunion luncheon.


But wait, rewind to the face please. Do I detect some furry action in the eye area? Double take! Yipes! False eyelashes. Looking for a baseline comparison of eyelash length and thickness, I turned to have a good look at my neighbours' lashes. As I suspected, slight thinning, like the eyebrows and definitely not in fluttering full bloom like our long lost friends'. 


Voted at school to be 'most likely to succeed', hardly the type to have an intimate relationship with fantasy eyelashes. We are all dying to know what brought all this on...