Glue on your fingertips, a lash corner lifting by dinner, and dried white clumps on the band when you peel them off? You're not bad at lashes. Wet glue is just a hard way to hold one.

If you've bought the strip lashes, three kinds of lash glue and the tweezers that end up stuck to everything, here's why it keeps going wrong at the same step, and the way around that step entirely.

You've done it. Glue on the band, wait for it to get tacky, hold your breath, place it. One corner pops up. You press it down, and now there's glue on your fingertip, the tweezers and the mirror.

By the end of the night you're checking every mirror for a lifting edge. At home you peel them off and the band has little white clumps of dried glue on it. Into the trash they go.

If you wear false lashes, or gave up on them, some of this probably sounds familiar:

It's your friend's birthday dinner. You're already late, and the left lash won't sit. Third try. The glue's gone stringy and there's a smear of it on your eyelid.

You go without lashes on one side and take the other off in the car. At dinner someone asks if you're tired.

Every one of these still depends on wet glue. The glue is the step that goes wrong.

False lashes aren't hard. Glue is hard.

Placing a lash takes a second. It's the glue that makes it tricky: too wet and it slides, too dry and it won't grab, and you've got about ten seconds in between.

Then it leaves residue on the band, so the lashes rarely make it to a second wear.

The problem isn't your hands. It's using wet glue to hold something that small.

Swap the glue for a magnet. Tiny magnets along the lash band grip a magnetic liner you draw on your lash line.

No tack to wait for, nothing sticky on the band, and when you take them off, they're clean enough to wear again.

So a better way has to do three things

That's exactly what the Magnetic Eyelashes Kit does.

Meet the Magnetic Eyelashes Kit

Here's how it works

Draw the liner. Let it dry. The lash clicks on.

First time: practice on a night you're not going out. Two thin coats of liner, wait until it's dry to the touch, then bring the lash in from above and let it click. Once you've found your spot, it gets quicker.

In the kit: magnetic liner, reusable lashes from natural to dramatic, a tweezer applicator and a mirrored travel case. Buy 1, Get 1 Free means two kits.

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What changes this week

Next birthday dinner, both lashes are on before you leave, and nobody asks if you're tired.

Strip lashes are often done after a wear or two, and the glue is one more thing to buy and dry out.

Two kits for $30

Every order is Buy 1, Get 1 Free. You get two kits for $30, so you can keep one at home and one in your travel bag, or give one away.

Bigger bundles work the same way: 4 kits for $60 or 6 for $90.

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Here's what to do next

Get mine: 2 kits for $30

It’s your call

Or you can keep fighting the glue

Next time will go the same way: tacky glue, a corner that lifts, and a band you end up throwing away.

Or you can draw a line, let it dry and click your lashes on.

Questions people ask

P.S. The short version: the hard part of false lashes is the wet glue. These lashes click onto a magnetic liner instead, and you wipe them and reuse them. There's a short learning curve and you should patch-test first. Buy 1, Get 1 Free: two kits for $30, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Get yours here.