I spend all my time writing about technology and other nerdy stuff so this is a total departure from my norm. I’m about to go all girly on you so feel free to laugh and point, I won’t mind.
First, the back story: I’m a total tomboy and would happy to sack a quarterback by facemasking the crap out of him and taking the personal foul while laughing all the way to the sidelines. On the other hand, I own about 40 pair of shoes, 50 purses, and am typing this with the tips of my fuchsia-painted fingernails. I’m a bit of an oxymoron, but I’m fine with that. The fact that I’m about to write about making up is kind of making me want to slap myself in embarrassment, but I want to share something.
About two months ago, a company named Cilea Lash started following me on Twitter and we started chatting. I remember it because I mentioned I was nervous about an upcoming date and someone from the account wished me luck. I didn’t even know what the product was, but I immediately liked their social interaction — no selling, just conversation. I checked out what they had to offer and was intrigued — an all-natural lash growth product that’s a lot like the stuff Brook Shields promotes on TV. I added Cilea Lash to my wish list and kind of forgot about it.
Around a month ago, the company offered me a free tube of Cilea Lash and I accepted. No strings attached, no promises to write about their product, no nothing. Just a straight up offer to try it out for a while. Two things occurred to me when they extended the offer: First, this stuff is never going to work. Second, I spend six days a week writing my guts out for pay, I’ll never find the time to give them free advertising. But, hey, I thought, if they want to send me this stuff anyway, fine by me.
I was wrong on both counts.
I’m finding the time to write about Cilea Lash because, holy crap, this stuff works. My lashes have always been long, but they’re not particularly thick. After a month of use, I see lashes growing in and filling the empty spaces between my existing lashes — but that’s not the coolest part. Check it: My eyelashes are now so long they actually catch in my eyebrows. How awesome is that?
Aside from using Cilea Lash, I haven’t changed another thing in my makeup routine. I still use the same mascara (Great Lash!), haven’t changed eye cream, or otherwise altered anything I use on or around my eyes for months. My elongated lashes have to be the result of Cilea Lash. It’s certainly not from wishful thinking — if I had that kind of power, I’d have lost my thigh-jiggle.
Cilea Lash is dead simple to use: just apply a layer at the lashline on clean skin once a day. Though it’s meant for upper lashes, I’ve also been putting on my lower lashline and I now I can’t apply mascara all the way to their tips because I end up with little mascara dots under both of my eyes. It looks a little like Morse code, and it is not at all sexy.
About the only thing I’d change about Cilea Lash is that it would dry more quickly. I tend to sleep with my makeup on quite often (I know, I know), so I usually apply the product in the morning. It takes a while to absorb so I sometimes can’t do my eye makeup right away. On the other hand, I suspect it would need some alcohol help dry more quickly and I’d rather have my booze in a martini than millimeters from my cornea, so the drying time is a small price to pay for, y’know, vision.
If you know me at all, you know my ethics won’t allow me to take so much as a pencil in exchange for writing good things about a product. Yes, Cilea Lash gave me a free tube to try, but they did so knowing that if I thought it sucked monkey fur, I was going to say so. Happily, that’s not the case, though. I love this stuff and I’m saying so in the same vein I tweet about the other things I have strong opinions on (everything!).
So, now you know. If you’ve ever thought about trying a lash-lengthening product but worried the hype was just a bunch of sales talk — you might be right. I have no idea about other similar products but I can tell you Cilea Lash worked for me. I’m going to keep applying it until my lashes get long enough to trip the wide receiver the next time I play tackle football.
Posted by Lisa Hoover 
