What do you do when you’re home alone and really missing your partner?
Why, you soothe yourself by wearing their fake eyelashes, of course.
That’s the premise behind a popular Twitter thread that has both men and women sharing photos of themselves wearing their partners’ forgotten falsies. Started by Nathan Ontiveros, a YouTuber from Dallas, the thread chronicles the seemingly niche but apparently extremely relatable qualm of partners plagued with their loved one’s leftover lashes.
https://twitter.com/NATEGAWD/status/859238081588854784
Tens of men and women joined Ontiveros—whose girlfriend is professional makeup YouTuber Brittney Kay Graza—in putting their partners on blash, sharing selfies featuring fake lashes under their eyes and as mustaches and more.
https://twitter.com/localfvckboy/status/859252399462125568
my girl takes her eyeballs off every weekend and leave them shits around my house too flee I’m bout to set up shot and resell 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/9AgDipHGV3
— IVO (@Davinci_beau) May 3, 2017
Ontiveros told the Daily Dot over email that he took the picture after Garza asked him if he had seen her lashes around the house. However, he had no idea the photo would bring such a shared response.
“When I found them I took these pics thinking it would be funny to post,” Ontiveros wrote. “When I saw that people were tweeting pics with their partners’ lashes on their face, I was more happy than anything! It’s nice to see people having fun on Twitter and not being so serious all the time!”
Garza told the Daily Dot that she has a “bad habit” of forgetting to put her lashes in their boxes and leaving them with Ontiveros instead. She’s been happy to see so many couples sharing photos of each other, though, and feels the tweet is a reflection of their relationship, too.
“We have been together for a year, and yes, our relationship is extremely goofy and full of pranks and jokes,” Garza wrote. “My boyfriend makes tons of parody videos, so every day it’s something new.”
I can relate. pic.twitter.com/OVHe9nMf9u
— Miguel Juarez (@miguel_dlosacme) May 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/JulietteStark/status/859595935881588737
https://twitter.com/LaylaBug04/status/859610753468420098
I know the feel, bro pic.twitter.com/MjmFhdZwNe
— stove (@stovederen) May 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/All_American94/status/859544593590833154
https://twitter.com/Too_Eazy23/status/859590454903525376
Just look at all these beaming dudes, daring to put on your day-old feathers—caked up makeup, stale glue, and all—and just straight-up grinning about it. I wouldn’t even do that with my own dirty falsies. Now, that is love.
One man even keeps a pair of his girlfriend’s falsies “close.” For when he misses her too much, y’know.
It be like that sometimes, that’s why I always keep a pair close pic.twitter.com/pyYoJk5JeL
— Hen (@henryymolina) May 2, 2017
relatable on so many levels😭 pic.twitter.com/PETmabHGpL
— 1106 (@ImKentagious) May 2, 2017
Same pic.twitter.com/llWA5e0Vkw
— J-Abad (@JAbad28) May 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/chriskeefsossa/status/859491650837655552
https://twitter.com/_jameskey/status/859528560771559426
@_jelloiellie left them in my car pic.twitter.com/Rfyi1oooek
— AngelWho? (@AngelLowKeyyy) May 3, 2017
Even the women in these eyelash-sharing relationships have posted pics of their boos trying on their falsies, no shame.
https://twitter.com/trinaaajaneee/status/859592768271732738
— mallory smith (@mallorysmith97) May 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/Nicolakakos10/status/859547773892530177
My boyfriend can relate pic.twitter.com/xfNvYcNySq
— 𝑀𝒾𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓁𝒶𝒹𝒶 𝒬𝓊𝑒𝑒𝓃 👸🏻 (@Jessica_Diaz25) May 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/Supwidit_eliz/status/859537717230620672
https://twitter.com/annastaziax/status/859550172686290947
— bri (@BBYMIN9YU_) May 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/bianca9782/status/859519517457829888
Single ladies, too, have men in their lives who are curious about the wonderful world of false lashes. Honestly, how can you not be? They’re gorgeous and easy to apply (if they’re just going for a trial run, that is)—which is about as good as it gets when it comes to makeup.
https://twitter.com/_ohannasun/status/859646284411670528
My brother cuz I ain’t got a man pic.twitter.com/zyI0cpz4HI
— moma (@arredp1) May 3, 2017
And, yes, women are aware they’re leaving behind precious lash gold, and they’re owning it without batting an eye (lash… OK, OK, last pun, I swhair).
Yup pic.twitter.com/sdflR3GLlH
— b. (@eerb_nnz) May 2, 2017
At least some of them are trying to get it right.
@BumbaJones 😂😭💖 pic.twitter.com/hCKNdIMPc8
— sorry nah (@sorry__nah) May 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/IZABXL/status/859596643129339904
— Luis Luque (@luque1435) May 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/SereySlowik/status/859586078042243073
Though, to be completely honest, the winner of this lash-off is the original photo of Ontiveros, but with just the lashes.
https://twitter.com/delovelylany/status/859580598389809153
Update 4pm CT, May 3: This story has been updated with original responses from Ontiveros and Garza.
