Guylashes: Cosmetics Brand Launches Fake Eyelash Collection For Men

Fake Lashes For Men By Eylure

The Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 03/11/11 17:33 GMT Updated: 03/11/11 17:48 GMT

First there was 'guyliner', 'manscara' and 'male varnish', now cosmetics brand, Eylure, has taken the male grooming industry to another level with the introduction of 'guylashes', the first fake eyelash collection for men.

Men who are brave enough to sport the Bambi look can choose from two types of 'Natural Lashes For Men', (thick or fine), both promising to recreate the 'Hollywood gaze'.

The male lashes were created after an "innovative response to the growth in the male cosmetic market", and are more discreet than female eyelashes. Subtle yet effective, the £5.57 pack of lashes aim to give men a "natural, fuller look" without them looking obviously fake.

But who would actually wear 'guylashes'?

"I'm all for men doing whatever it takes to look their best but can't see false eyelashes for men (I can't bring myself to say 'Guylashes') being anything other than niche," Men's Health Online Grooming Editor, Lee Kynaston, told The Huffington Post.

"I mean, cosmetics for men was the big trend in male grooming a couple for years ago - a trend that had huge potential - and yet the companies that heralded a new age in male grooming with concealers have now quietly discontinued them.

"Why? They simply didn't sell. The way I look at it, if you can't sell men a concealer - a genuinely useful product for them to have in their bathroom cabinets - how on earth are you going to sell them a set of false eyelashes?"

But niche or not, there is evidence of a growing market. David Walker-Smith, beauty and menswear director at Selfridges, told The Daily Mail: "We first noticed this increased interest in male eye-grooming when the new Blink bar was bombarded by men."

The Blink & Go bar at Harrods also reported a high number of male clients asking for top and bottom lash extensions, according to the newspaper.

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First there was 'guyliner', 'manscara' and 'male varnish', now cosmetics brand, Eylure, has taken the male grooming industry to another level with the introduction of 'guylashes', the first fake eyela...
First there was 'guyliner', 'manscara' and 'male varnish', now cosmetics brand, Eylure, has taken the male grooming industry to another level with the introduction of 'guylashes', the first fake eyela...
 
 
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Red45
We can turn the tide
06:56 PM on 11/19/2011
Either Simon Cowell uses these or he uses multiple coats of globby mascara lately. His new look is scary.
12:03 PM on 11/04/2011
hmmmm, I had never thought of this. My partner has worn them for 20 years. She has a train sized case with all the accoutremonts required for wearing false lashes.
My lashes, while there, are white. I have had white lashes since I was aboput 18, and to be honest, have considering dyeing them.
If the application were easy, and they stayed put, and required no fuss, I might try them. I will however alert my military friends from Iran and Afghanistan who have had their lashes burnt off. That could be of some help I suspect.
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AlanDente
Noses: made to hold glasses
10:42 AM on 11/04/2011
What's more ridiculous - men wearing fake lashes or other people caring so much about it that they have to decry men for wearing fake lashes?

Jealousy is a terrible thing :D

Fortunately, I was blessed with beautiful lashes from an early age, so will not need to 'enhance'...
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Red45
We can turn the tide
06:56 PM on 11/19/2011
congratulations.
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AlanDente
Noses: made to hold glasses
07:37 PM on 11/19/2011
Thanks guy
09:26 AM on 11/04/2011
I already have long & voluminous eyelashes.
08:42 AM on 11/04/2011
No! This is going to far in male grooming.

Where are the real rugged men going to?
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jf12
Esta vez saldré como las otras y me escaparé.
03:09 AM on 11/04/2011
No. Most men already have longer and thicker lashes than most women.
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emmaziff
The Sexpert!
05:14 PM on 11/03/2011
How freakin' ridiculous. Perhaps an effeminate gay man would wear these. However, it would really put you off your stride if you're in the throws of passion and they fell off.
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one1byke
Easy no Man.
03:46 AM on 11/04/2011
well, if he was pulling a wrestling move during coitus, it might.

now... throes of passion.... ah! still gay.
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littlepuffycloud
I propose a toast to my self control...
04:51 PM on 11/03/2011
I'd laugh my head off if I saw a man wearing false lashes and then I'd rip them off and feed them to my dog.