Oct
27
2006

eyeliner

Slate’s William Saletan points out a new cosmetic procedure that makes my skin crawl just reading about it:

Dozens of surgeons are learning to do eyelash transplants. The doctor takes follicles from your scalp (as with hair transplants for baldness) and sews them into your eyelids. Cost: $6,000. The procedure was developed to treat burn victims, but now four out of five patients get it for cosmetic reasons. Doctors’ spin: “Eyelash transplantation does for the eyes what breast augmentation does for the figure.” Counterspin: Except your breasts don’t keep growing the way your scalp hair does when it’s put in your eyelids. Cynical spin: Coming next, the eyelid shaver.

Eww. Eww. Eww.

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