TikTokers are using Vaseline on their lashes for a natural lengthened look—but is it safe for your eyes?

Vaseline eyelashes: three close up images on women's face and eyelashes, and one image of someone curling their eyelashes/ in a pink template for MIL's 'Real Influence'

With new trends hitting our feeds every day and countless influencers working to decipher them for us, the overwhelm over which ones deserve our attention is *real*. So our Real Influence series takes the latest social media trends to the experts—doctors, dermatologists, sex experts and more—to go behind the trend and debunk what it's really about, if it'll actually work and, most importantly, whether it's safe to do.

It seems mascara is out and 'Vaseline eyelashes' are in, with TikToker's dubbing this so-called Vaseline eyelash curler trick, the secret to achieving long, gravity-defying natural lashes. But is this hack actually safe for our delicate eyeballs? We quizzed the experts and even tried it out ourselves...