By now you have probably, like me, watched To All The Boys I've Loved Before on Netflix about five times. Released just this past Friday, it's already reached Internet-breaking levels due to the fact that it's an achingly-sweet, funny, and unproblematic teen rom-com that stars an Asian-American teen as its leading lady. Lots to unpack here. Based on the novel by Jenny Han, the film centers around Lara Jean, a typical boy-crazy but also boy-wary 16-year-old whose love letters to her past secret loves have unintentionally been sent to them all. Panic ensues...but also an incredibly sweet romance with her school's hottest hot-boi, Peter Kavinsky, who has somehow inspired several adult women to lust after 22-year-old actor Noah Centineo or at least reflect fondly back on their own adolescences and their own Peter Kavinskys.

TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE, from left: Noah Centineo, Lana Condor, 2018. © Netflix /Courtesy Everett Collection©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Colle

Look, it's just a really good, sweet, and life-affirming movie and you should watch it. It's on Netflix, it's free, what have you got to lose?

Anyway, it only took the first viewing for me to become fixated on protagonist Lara Jean's epically dreamy lashes. I wagered that they were false lash strips at first, but upon subsequent viewings, after seeing them from different angles, I doubted myself. They could be extensions, but I've never seen lash extensions so... full and voluminous. They were multidimensional. So I'm to just believe that this overachieving, love letter-writing bookworm just happens to have the most bomb lashes in the school — even better than mean popular girl and nemesis, Gen? (Everyone knows that bomb lashes are mean popular girls' thing.)

TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE, Lana Condor, 2018. ©Netflix/courtesy Everett Collection©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Colle

I'm not one to characterize who and who wouldn't wear lash strips, but on Lara Jean, with her sweet-natured but no-bullshit demeanor (executed with aplomb by Lana Condor), those lashes gave some edge to what might otherwise have been your run-of-the-mill ingenue, who just has stuff happen to them. I tracked down the film's makeup department head Sharon Toohey to inquire what this whole lash situation was about. She confirmed that Condor was indeed wearing lash extensions, but "sometimes individual lashes were added in for certain scenes."

Those individual lashes specifically were from M.A.C., which serves them up in the M.A.C.'s 30 Lash set, she mentions. The set has three different lengths, so you can get creative with dimension. You know, so maybe use the shorter ones for a study sesh, and break out those long-daddies for the ski trip.


If your lash budget is more on the weekly allowance level, however, Ardell also offers nice realistic-looking individual lashes for just $5.

I may not ever be able to relive my youth and I would never want to because it was way less exciting than this movie (even though I, too, was a goody-two-shoes and no hot lacrosse boys ever made out with me in any hot tubs goddamnit), but I can level-up my lashes to Lara Jean levels of rom-com-heroine excellence.


After all, bomb lashes are ageless.

TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE, from left: Anna Cathcart, Janel Parrish, Lana Condor, 2018. © Netflix /Courtesy Everett Collection©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection

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