
Unless you've been hiding under a rock or living in space (and even then, its still quite questionable) you absolutely know who Kim Kardashian is. But if the name is not so familiar, you might recognize her full, voluminous, touchable... ahem... eye lashes!
It was movie magic that launched a famous beauty trend. In 1916, legendary movie director, D.W. Griffith wanted Seena Owen, the leading lady of his epic, "Intolerance", to have glamorous lashes so long they would gracefully touch her cheeks when she fluttered her eyelashes or looked down thoughtfully. A wig maker wove human hair through fine gauze and gummed them to Owen's eyelids creating...