Worth the hype? Kevyn Aucoin eyelash curler

Magazines have been trying to get me to buy an expensive eyelash curler since Gutenberg times. It’s like their boilerplate article they run every spring alongside bj tips, rinsing your hair with cold water, and having a few squares of dark chocolate as a snack. (I haven’t actually read a fashion magazine in over a decade but I stand by this statement.) I’ve never trusted them because they’re out to make a buck and I already had a shitty $6 Revlon eyelash curler. Who was I, Catherine Zeta-Jones? (This is only relevant if your brain also retained a snippet from a 1998 interview with CZJ where she insisted on getting her eyelashes curled in between every single take while filming The Mask of Zorro. Thanks, brain!)

But then last year I had a Sephora gift card and actually needed a new eyelash curler and decided what the hell, let’s act out, so I bought the Kevyn Aucoin eyelash curler for $21.

Was it worth it? My friends, I’m sorry, but yes, and how. The first time I tried it I honestly gasped at how good and thick and full it made my lashes look. I didn’t even need to apply mascara after! I took a picture and sent it to all of my friends and everyone bought one and I made zero dollars but that’s not the point. The point is this $21 eyelash curler is one hundred times better than all the $6 eyelash curlers I’ve bought so far in my life, which is at least eight. How is it better? I don’t know! But it definitely and significantly is. Kevyn Aucoin eyelash curler, I deem you worth the hype. Goddammit.