It took me years to figure out how to properly apply a strip lash. The first hurdle? Finding fake lashes that looked natural-ish and not like I attached spider legs to my lash line. The second? Learning to get the glue to dry and how to secure the base by expertly tapping the tweezers—without poking my eye out. So when celebrity makeup artist Vincent Oquendo informed me that his celebrity-approved lash hack could cut my application time by 70 percent, double the thickness, and look so natural you wouldn’t be able to tell I was wearing fake lashes in the first place, well, I was all ears.
He calls the handy little trick lash stacking. “It’s a way to cocktail your lashes and add depth and dimension,” says Oquendo. “It’s been around for a hundred years with strip lashes,” but copying the technique with individual wispy lashes looks much more natural (so much so that I wear ‘em to work) and feels lighter on my eye. All you need is a pack of individuals with varying lengths to get the job done—Oquendo and I both love Kiss Lashes—a pair of clean, disinfected tweezers, and two minutes. To get the full breakdown, and shop my favorites, keep scrolling.
