McEvoy Mascara: It's No Joke

Trish McEvoy High Volume Mascara

The recent "Batman" movie is raking in the compliments. Fan favorites Batman and the Joker will inspire dozens of catch phrases. What they shouldn't inspire is make up. Talking like the Joker? Okay. Looking like the Joker? Never a good thing. And yet many of us makeup-loving ladies are doing just that when we emerge from a dunk in the pool with mascara streaming down our face.

Have the makeup gods not caught on to this unmet need? You would hope they have, considering they uncovered the critical need American women have to, say, vajazzle. And indeed one makeup company has discovered the lash disaster we face each summer.

In her lab, makeup maven Trish McEvoy has cooked up a magical mascara recipe that makes lashes basically bulletproof. And humidity and sleep and waterproof too. The mascara forms tiny, tubes around each of your lashes. Somehow this process makes your lashes look lush like the jungle, not tacky like Tammy Fae Baker.

The mascara is waterproof, looks fresh for 24 hours and slides off when warm water is applied. My friend Christina swears by this stuff. I have yet to try it as I am still in the money-spending-penalty-box from my speeding ticket (chronicled a few posts ago).

But I have spent many a poolside afternoon with Christina, and when she emerges from the water, there are never any visions of Gotham. Christina has a few delicate mascara “mini tubes” (for lack of a better word) that rest delicately on her cheek. She brushes them away, and it’s all good. This is a serious improvement over the mayhem wrought by my Maybelline.

Grab some of this stuff (Available at amazon.com for around $30 or at Neiman Marcus.) and spend your next pool session bringing images of Sofia Vergara to mind, not Heath Ledger.