The Eyelash Lengths We Go

Why do women care so much about their eyelashes? From science and ancient history to to a mascare inventor named Rimmel, Cristen and Caroline get deep about these not-so-superficial hairs.

Episode sources:

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"Beauty Beat: Eye-Catcher" by Robin Nixon. Psychology Today. July 01, 2008. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200807/beauty-beat-eye-catcher

"Encyclopedia of Body Adornment" by Margo DeMello. ABC-CLIO. 2007. http://books.google.com/books?id=s0122BsqrZwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

"Evolution of Lash Enhancers." U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/EnforcementActivitiesbyFDA/WarningLettersandNoticeofViolationLetterstoPharmaceuticalCompanies/UCM182629.pdf

"Eyelashes in History." http://eyelashesinhistory.com/ancient_times.html

"Faces Around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face" by Margo DeMello. ABC-CLIO. 2012. http://books.google.com/books?id=9dcr4U0yBRAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

"Gender Differences in Comics" by Trina Robbins. Image & Narrative. September 2002. http://www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/gender/trinarobbins.htm

"Longer eyelashes without mascara, thanks to scientific breakthrough" by Richard Gray. The Telegraph. Aug. 15, 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6034510/Longer-eyelashes-without-mascara-thanks-to-scientific-breakthrough.html

"Long Lashes Without Prescription, but With Risks" by Catherine Saint Louis. The New York Times. May 02, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/health/02latisse.html?pagewanted=all

"Sore eyes, bad backs, low pay: the cost of false eyelash glamour" by Gethin Chamberlain. The Guardian. Dec. 28, 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/28/false-eyelash-industry-indonesia-low-pay

"The Arts of Beauty, or Secrets of a Lady's Toilet" by Lola Montez. 1858. https://archive.org/details/artsbeautyorsec00montgoog

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Academic insights:

"Children's Search for Gender Cues: Cognitive Perspectives on Gender Development" by Carol Lynn Martin and Diane Ruble. Current Directions in Psychological Science. April 2004. http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/13/2/67.short