Growing up, YouTube tutorials were my primary source of beauty education. It’s where I learned to blend Urban Decay’s Half Baked shadow into my crease and, more questionably, to heat my eyelash curler with a blowdryer for ten seconds to give long-lasting curl. In hindsight, that sounds wildly unsafe, but as a founding member of the stick-straight lash club, I was desperate enough to try anything.

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GrandeLASH-LIFT Heated Lash Curler $39

NORDSTROM $39

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Fortunately, heated lash curlers now exist, which means I no longer have to dig out my Dyson every morning or risk singeing off half my lashes. Heated curler technology is nothing new—they’ve been popular in Japan for years and are easy to find at most Japanese drugstores. The one I reach for most, however,

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