Vaseline on eyelashes
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free skin care · Mon May 16, 2005 7:54 am

I keep reading vaseline is great for putting on eyelashes for keeping them soft but do you put it on with fingers or a brush and does it not irritate eyes if it gets in them?

free skin care · Mon May 16, 2005 10:27 am

Hi

I did this a lot as a teenager, no it doesn't irritate your eyes and I used my finger. I've always been convinced that using vaseline helped my eyelashes to grow, now they're so long I have to trim them (believe it or not), otherwise I think mascara makes them look way toooooo long, my friends are dead jealous! Smile

free skin care · Mon May 16, 2005 10:36 am

I put lip balm on my lashes, at the moment Dr Hauschka one

free skin care · Mon May 16, 2005 7:48 pm

Theres no proof that anything put on lashes will make have any benefit. I would leave lashes alone.

free skin care · Tue May 17, 2005 12:09 am

Surely moisturising them with vaseline keeps them soft and stops them from breaking? I didn't have really long eyelashes before using vaseline on them. Coincidence? Maybe.

free skin care · Tue May 17, 2005 6:59 am

sarahb wrote:

Surely moisturising them with vaseline keeps them soft and stops them from breaking? I didn't have really long eyelashes before using vaseline on them. Coincidence? Maybe.

I am sure it did help them Sarah Smile

I use Talika cream and gel on mine, and I know it has helped me tremendously.

free skin care · Thu May 26, 2005 4:37 am

FYI - castor oil is known to be a proven eyelash condition. As you get older, your lashes become more brittle and have more breakage (especially if you regularly use waterproof mascaras), so it is a good idea to use some kind of conditioner for your lashes, whether it's a homemade remedy like vaseline or castor oil, or the Talika, Mavala or Lamas lash conditioning products. If you google "castor oil" and "eyelashes" you'll get some returns with good info about it.

free skin care · Thu May 26, 2005 8:02 am

I can't imagine being able to keep the vaseline or oil from making it's way into the tear ducts.....does anyone ever end up with puffy eyes from doing this?
Pudoodles

free skin care · Thu May 26, 2005 8:29 am

Actually, if you use a spooly-brush (i.e.: clean mascara wand), it lets you apply the vaseline or castor oil just like mascara, without the same mess than if you applied it with your fingers. It works like a charm! You don’t need to drown your lashes in it, just a light coat will do the trick and that means it won’t get in your eyes or tear-ducts.

BTW, if the thought of vaselline/oil in the eye freaks you out, be glad you don’t have an “iris nevus” (sp?)!! I have this growth on the iris of my eye that the doctors liken to a beauty mark or mole. It doesn’t bother me or affect my vision (I’m 20-15), but if you look closely at my left eye, you’ll see that the pupil is oval/oblong rather than perfectly round. Because of this iris nevus, I’m required to get my eyes checked out by a specialist (actually, my doctor is THE most foremost authority in the world on these freaky little “eye moles”!!) to make sure that the ‘beauty mark’ hasn’t grown in size or changed characteristics. You know, like they tell you to go to the doctor immediately if you have a mole on your body that suddenly changes appearance b/c it could be a sign of melanoma or something....

Anyway, these tests that they run are much more involved than your regular checkup with the optomologist. Among other things, they dilate my pupils, and then take closeup photographs of my eye. By “closeup,” I mean that they actually put the lens of the camera against the surface of my eyeball and snap the pics!! In order to be able to put the camera lens on my eye without scratching or damaging the cornea – here’s the part that’s gonna make you cringe – they actually coat my eyeball with K-Y jelly (yes, the same stuff the OB-GYN uses on the speculum when he goes “spelunking”) and then I’m told to hold my eye open as wide as possible and I’m forbidden to blink while they proceed to shoot off about 4-rolls of 36-exposures 35 mm film, and if I *do* blink or flinch while the flashbulb is going off brightly at my defenseless, fully dilated pupil, then they have to start the process all over again!! Needless to say, I dread when it’s time for my yearly eye checkup...the exams aren’t really painful, but they are EXTREMELY uncomfortable!! If that’s not bad enough, during the 20-minutes that it takes for them to shoot off the pix while I sit in the chair tearing up but unblinking, I can actually feel the K-Y jelly m-e-l-t-i-n-g and running down my face. Obviously this is one day per year when putting on my makeup is an exercise in futility!

Anyway, after all of that, the possibility of getting a little vaseline or castor oil in my eye doesn’t even make my bat in eyelash (no pun!)!!

free skin care · Thu May 26, 2005 9:01 am

Wow, Carrie!! That really sounds horrific actually. I don't know how you stop your self from blinking...

free skin care · Fri May 27, 2005 1:34 am

Poor carrie- is terrible eye exam. Speaking of eyes, am getting my first pair of reading/computer glasses next week!
I use my finger to smear vaseline over my eyelashes, and it looks really good- bit less dramatic than mascara, is good for daytime.
Pudoodles- have never found that it got into my tear ducts yet. Hadn't thought about it but it may happen I guess. Not sure.

free skin care · Fri May 27, 2005 4:50 am

Carekate - do you have to look really closely to notice it or is it a "David Bowie two different coloured eyes kind-of-look"....your eyes sound like a conversation starter, that's for sure! WOW!
Pudoodles

free skin care · Fri May 27, 2005 5:00 am

No, you can’t see it unless you get right up in my face, or look in my eyes with the little penlight thingy that most doctors use....

Actually, my specialist eye doctor once gave me a Polaroid closeup photo of my eyeball and I hung it inside my cubicle at work. Whenever people notice the picture, they invaribly ask me if it’s my mammogram!!!! Shock

Don’t ask me how the hell they think my eyeball is my tit, but they always do!

BTW, did you know that up close (i.e.: the closeness it takes for them to photograph my eye-mole), EVERYONE’s eyes are actually brown? I’m serious! My eyes are greenish-grey with gold flecks, and when the eye doctor handed me that Polaroid picture, I told him that it must be a mistake, it couldn’t be my eye in the photo, because the eyeball was actually brown. He told me it wasn’t a mistake, everyone’s eyes are really brown under that degree of magnification. He said something about the way that someone’s eye color is perceived to be blue, green or hazel is really just an optical illusion based on the composition of the “cones” and “rods” in the cornea of the eye. I thought that was fascinating but I was a little disappointed because I’m quite proud of the unusual color of my eyes....

free skin care · Fri May 27, 2005 5:46 am

Holy Smokes - I didn't know that! VERY interesting!!!
Pudoodles

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