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Learning how to perfectly curl your lashes without annoyingly folding them into an unnatural L shape does take a lot of time and practice. It seems as if the beauty industry too is looking to create foolproof products that naturally curl lashes—from mascaras with curling properties to battery operated wand-like contraptions. But at the recent Cosmetologie: Beauty, Wellness and Trends Expo 2010, I saw the single most unique eyelash curler I’ve ever seen: a spoon!

Yvonne curling her model's lashes with a spoon.

But a little background first. I was actually attending a makeup demonstration done by Yvonne Hawker from the cosmetic school Make-Up Designory or MUD for short, which created its own eponymous brand of makeup products and tools.

The audience was pretty much content watching Yvonne do her thing from a distance up until it was time to curl her model’s lashes. Taking out a spoon, she carefully curled her model’s eyelashes with the protruding side of the utensil facing the ceiling and her thumb secured on the model’s face right below the lashes. She described the process to be like curling ribbon using a pair of scissors. The result was evenly curled lashes from the inner to outer corners of the eye.

I’m not too sure that I’ll be trying this on myself or on any of my friends anytime soon, but it’s always refreshing to see how it’s not always the newest, most technologically advanced products that produce the best results. Sometimes all it takes is a little creativity to see that effective makeup tools could be found right in our homes, or as Yvonne will probably tell you, right on the dinner table!

Reggie