Category Archives: Beauty Inventions

A Week Without Mirrors

What would a day be like without looking at ourselves in a mirror? The idea of seeing our own reflections – first thing in the morning, or anytime we want to check something out – is so easy and automatic that we don’t even think of it. Mirrors surround us – in our bathrooms, our bedrooms, and even on the street if we live in a city. The ubiquity of mirrors in our lives mean that we are constantly checking …

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Beauty Inventions: The Eyelash Curler

The modern eyelash curler is iconic – and for those of us in the beauty business, it’s indispensable. It seems simple enough, but the eyelash curler has been through many, many revisions.

 

Eyelash curling doesn’t seem to have been a big concern for women before the rise of the moving picture. Stage actresses darkened their lashes and brows with burnt cork and greasepaint, but those looks were designed to be seen from afar.

 

Hollywood changed all that – …

1936 Tuttle Eyelash Curler
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