Flylashes from Jessica Harrison on Vimeo.

A number of thoughts ran through my head simulteanously when I saw Jessica Harrison using dead flies’ legs as false eyelashes.  They included :

• “NUH-UH”
• “I haven’t watched Aeon Flux in awhile”
• “Those are totally weird little pipe cleaner thingies”
• “I wonder if she still used the tweezers to pull the legs off on her eyebrows”
• “Kids these days”

What say you, friends?

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1. Garnprinzessin Says:
   August 4th, 2010 at 7:57 AM

   Hope it’s a video-trick like the mouths in the other vid… Killing animals for fun is disgusting.

2. Qais Says:
   August 4th, 2010 at 8:23 AM

   Looks like a fabulous way to get an eye infection.

3. :: smo :: Says:
   August 4th, 2010 at 8:44 AM

   flies hang out in poop and eat their own puke; i want that as close to my eyes as possible!

4. LovleAnjel Says:
   August 4th, 2010 at 9:17 AM

   EW

5. .typhoid Says:
   August 4th, 2010 at 9:31 AM

   Qais has articulated my thoughts exactly: flies are not clean little creatures, I’d be genuinely worried about getting their various bacterial flora anywhere near a mucous membrane. As smo says, they’re not averse to spending time around faeces or other decomposing waste, and I don’t even want to tell you what kind of nasties like to hang around in the intestinal tract or in rotting meat. Garnprincezzin also makes a fine point for any of you of a more vegan inclination: as unwelcome as flies generally are, I think a lot of us disagree with using animals for cosmetic purposes. I really hope they’re fake, personally. It looks wonderfully unnerving and macabre, but the practical side of it also unnerves me on a safety level. I wouldn’t recommend that people try this at home.

6. Synesthesia Garden Says:
   August 4th, 2010 at 9:44 AM

   I think it’s a cool idea, but way too gross for me to ever try out. And funny you should speak of Aeon Flux, I was watching it just the other day!

   And I really hope she didn’t kill those flies just for her fashion statement. Maybe she found them lying around dead in windowsills and such?

7. ffiend Says:
   August 4th, 2010 at 10:11 AM

   I had to re-post this on my fb, it’s so gross!

8. Aishe Says:
   August 4th, 2010 at 12:13 PM

   I almost lost my lunch…

   I completely agree with typhoid: Sanitation score? = 0.

9. MissMercurial Says:
   August 4th, 2010 at 3:06 PM

   EWWWW.
   This squicks me out greatly. I physically shuddered when I read it.
   But…Flylash is a cool name/neologism.

10. Ronin Says:
    August 4th, 2010 at 4:40 PM

    That could not be any more weird if you TRIED. I’m not gonna lie, I’m a little disgusted right now, but I think I’m in love with it.

11. Jamie Says:
    August 4th, 2010 at 10:34 PM

    Grosssss. D:

12. Spartan Says:
    August 5th, 2010 at 7:48 AM

    Maybe those legs are from retired medical maggots. =]

13. Beast Says:
    August 5th, 2010 at 1:22 PM

    That is SO disturbing.

14. jenni Says:
    August 5th, 2010 at 4:25 PM

    It seems a lot of people share my same concerns with eye infections. Flies carry some serious bacteria. I’d also be concerned with blindness that can be caused by many different diseases that flies can carry. Repulsive, absolutely repulsive.

    If these were fake eyelashes they might be interesting with well done makeup.

    I only hope for her sake that those aren’t real fly legs (which, they could very well be fake; she is getting her PhD in sculpture).

    (However I did like the mouths as eyes video!)

15. SANDRA Says:
    August 5th, 2010 at 5:29 PM

    i DON’T BELIEVE i’VE EVER SEEN ANYTHING THIS REPULSIVE

16. Olivia Says:
    August 9th, 2010 at 9:29 PM

    No. Why?!

    No.

    There is a reason ‘spider lashes’ is an insult.

    Just…no.