lashes

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The Lashes - Shu uemura lashes are amazing, they are so fluttery and natural ... you can use a couple during the day for accent or 3 - 4 at night for more oomph.

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  1. noun A stroke or blow with or as if with a whip.
  2. noun A whip.
  3. noun The flexible portion of a whip, such as a plait or thong.

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  • And in the brightness of that smile the tears on her lashes were dewdrops that had caught the morning sunlight Speak up! —  The House of Toys
  • The woman kept her eyes veiled by her lashes, as of yore, but her face seemed to have aged and grown harder in its lines. —  Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
  • The tears still hung in her long lashes, and her cheeks were white My Lord! —  Country Neighbors
  • So she was suffocated in his passion In the morning when it was light he turned and looked at her from under his long black lashes, a long, steady, cruel, faintly-smiling look from his tawny eyes, searching her as if to see whether she were still alive. —  The Lost Girl
  • A glimmer of mirth began to scintillate beneath her long brown lashes, and she spoke first. —  Una Of The Hill Country 1911
 

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