Two things..

[shadowkat]

1. Good Reads is insanely addictive site. I spent hours last night rating books I'd read in various categories via Facebook. And I entertain myself at work reading the book reviews (although I should probably pick work safe books not erotica books to read book reviews on).

2. How do you look up at someone through or beneath your lashes? Seems to be a common description in romance novels. "I looked up at him through my lashes."or rather "I looked at him from beneath my lashes." Sounds sexy, but impossible.

I keep trying to figure out how people do that. I have figured out how to raise or quirk one eyebrow, but you sort of have twist your face a bit to accomplish it. But the whole looking up at someone through or from beneath my lashes bit is lost on me. Possibly would help if I had longer lashes?

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[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

How do you look up at someone through or beneath your lashes?

I picture something like this:



Of course, it helps to be a cartoon mouse.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Big ol' false eyelashes also help.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Goodreads is highly addictive. Sometimes I think I spend more time playing with my Goodreads shelves than actually reading the books on those shelves :D

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Either heavy mascara as you said or squinting through the lashes... Not very sexy that! ;o)

I was just reading Jane Eyre. Bronte continually writes characters doing something with one eye as in - She looked at her with an icy eye. It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't constantly "a (fill in the blank) eye." I kept wondering, where was the other eye looking? Was it any warmer?

[owenthurman.livejournal.com]

Well, I often look at things through my eyelashes and it's darn annoying. My eyelashes are unusually long and thick and they can get in a position so that I need to blink and separate the upper and lower lashes to get a clean look at things. I'm pretty sure nobody finds the blinking and squinting sexy, though.

Of course they're blond so they don't give me naturally enticing eyes either.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I think you are too tall to look at anyone through your lashes (although if they walk up while you are sitting down you could probably do it)....
And I inherited my ability to raise my (right only) eyebrow from my Father... but he did it in such a critical/threatening way that I've never made it part of my repertoire of facial expressions....

Anyway I'm enjoying Good Reads too, they will notify me when John Green or Terry Pratchett or other authors I like have a blog or interview or anything I might enjoy. And of course that is where Felicia Day's Vaginal Fantasy Book Club is: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/62938-vaginal-fantasy-hangout
Although last night they were streaming online via youtube.