Presence and confidence are now as important as good skin, long eyelashes and plump cheeks.

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For them, lenses would have gotten in the way of long eyelashes, another accessory of choice.

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My aunts kept remarking how brave I was and how unusually long my eyelashes were, and teased me about my Cairene accent, my skin.

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His eyelashes were long and black.

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