Tales from the Trenches: duo lash

Now you might know by now that Pigment is big on multi-purpose products. But just like how old-school makeup artists will tell you stories of how they used toilet paper, banana and some frosted flakes to create brain matter for some head wound in some movie, not every product's double life is so cute!

I was the Makeup Department Head on the recently released film Please, Give which had some very fun character makeups. I can say that now since it all turned out well but one gave me a little anxiety. The daughter of two of the leads was scripted to be battling a bad case of pubescent acne. I worried on both fronts. Either they would cast an actress who did indeed have acne, in which case, when she sat in my chair hoping to be reassured by her makeup artist's many beauty techniques, I would have to push her out telling her she looked "perfect already". That, OR they would cast some sweetie with perfect skin and I would have to apply makeup acne to her face every day and she would learn to loathe me. Oh dear! Well it turned out they cast the latter and I couldn't have been luckier. Sarah Steele is the cutest cute that was ever cute and her skin could not be more radiant. (And the lady can act) Fortunately for me, her previous role required a fat suit as Adam Sandler's awkward daughter in Spanglish. So "real" once again had to trump "glamour".

Now DuoLash is a wonder product that I use every single day on SVU applying strip lashes to strippers or individual lashes to bump up the power of a lashline. Just drag the base of the fake lashes through and stick 'em into your lashline and they will stay there until you wash your face (More on "please don't overdo false lashes" later). But we discovered that a combination of pinkish-red makeup stippled onto Sarah's face, accompanied by scattered dots of DuoLash throughout gave the perfectly unfortunate effect of teenage acne. Once dry, a little gob of Duo looks squeamishly like a big 'ol whitehead.

Just because its a makeup product doesn't mean devious minds can't devise other off-label uses. Do you think Duo will start marketing this use of it's product?