Again as a male I must plead ignorance in this matter.
For many years I read the Archie comics without noticing that Betty and Veronica, and the other girls (and most other women, including Betty’s pretty mother 
), wore accentuated eyelashes, real or otherwise. It seems to be the general rule in cartoons; but in real life I saw actress Michele Lee, for one, with particularly full eyelashes (upper and lower), along with such as Carol Channing, Alexis Smith, and Mitzi Gaynor. Is this only a trait of adornment in the Western world, or common among women everywhere?
Are you asking if women accentuate their lashes (using either just mascara or fake lashes) because of style? If so I’d say it is a thing that is done often in the western world, I don’t know about the rest of the world though. Take a look at all those mascara commercials and how much is sold!
Personally I don’t accentuate mine in any way (I’m a natural girl) because my lashes are naturally long and dark. The tips of mine are clear/blonde though so when I do ever wear mascara my lashes are much longer.
Oh, OK…The only other example I could muster is my own sister, then age 17 (I was 19). We had just watched a TV commercial (about vitamins and such) for teenagers; the girl in the commercial accidentally drops one false eyelash. My sister told me she herself had been wearing false eyelashes for years and I hadn’t noticed that either. :rolleyes: :o
I’ve never worn fake eyelashes - never needed to But then, I’m not a ‘typical’ girl according to my housemates (hey, for starters, I’m an astronomer!!).
I have naturally long eyelashes, and if I were to put mascara on them, they’d just end up marking my glasses
So…I’d guess fairly common even amongst men - both my fiance and my brother have long eyelashes.
I’m not sure, but according to my friend, Sam[antha], I’ve got long eyelashes. I never really paid attention, except when they’d brush up against the lenses of my eyeglasses when I was little.
I’ve had unusually dark and long eyelashes ever since I was a kid, so much so that I was sent to the principals office for wearing makeup while in grade school! The only people who really ever noticed were other females. I’ve never had a male say “wow , what great eyelashes you have!” Maybe it’s more important to women to have great lashes.
I have really long eyelashes too. If I wear mascara and sunglasses, I have to wear the glasses a bit further down my face because my eyelashes get in the way.
They aren’t as long as they used to be (for whatever reason). I used to trim them down and thin them out so they were managable in mascara. I haven’t had to do for a few years now.
But I’ve met plenty of guys with long eyelashes, too. Now that’s sexy…
I have long eyelashes, too. They hit my glasses if I wear them (glasses, not lashes) too high up on my nose.
Most of my family has long lashes too; I’ve always thought of lash length as one of those weird inherited characteristics, like being able to roll your tongue or having detatched earlobes.
I’ve had women (and girls, when I was in grade school) comment on my long curly eyelashes. I think it’s something women notice, but I also think women are attracted to eyes, and notice them more than men do. But women alternate between falling in love with my eyelashes and envying me for them.
But yes, guys do sometimes have long, thick eyelashes. My son’s are even longer and fuller than mine, and we’ve noticed little girls just love him. He’s only nine. It’s starting already…
As long as I have L’Oreal Lash Architect, I have long eyelashes. I think women, as with any natural beauty trait, play up what they have. If they have great lashes, and choose to accentuate them, you REALLY notice it.
My boyfriend has ridiculously thick, full, long, dark lashes. I am so envious it hurts.
I wear mascara most days, and it really does make a difference in my face, I think, but maybe just to me. I will say that the one time I wore false eyelashes (for a Halloween costume to give me a doe-eyed look) my boyfriend really did notice and found it attractive.
I was once in the hospital at 15 years of age, and therefore in the peds ward. There was a boy across the hall from me of a like age, and we would hang out together, playing cards and stuff. His eyelashes were the longest, thickest, curliest eyelashes I’ve ever seen! I mentioned it to him, and he said I shouldn’t talk about that; then he confessed that in 3rd grade, his teacher had commented on them in front of the whole class, and he had been so humiliated that he’d gone home and cut off his lashes with his mom’s manicure scissors!!
I have, like, no lashes without L’ancome Defininicils mascara, but all 3 of my girls inherited their dad’s long dark lashes. Lucky them.