Just when you thought there were enough drugs on the market, you learn about a brand new drug. While watching TV this evening, I saw a commercial for a new prescription for your eyelashes. Yes, your eyelashes. You rub the ointment on your eyelids, and it is supposed to make your eyelashes longer, thicker, and darker. I can see how something like this would be important for someone with health problems or for people who have lost their eyelashes because of chemotherapy. For that and for those people, the new drug makes sense and I wouldn't object to its use. But when the commercial shows tall, beautiful women mingling at a party and batting their eyelashes at handsome men, you can't help but think that the whole point of the drug is for vanity purposes. If you use this drug, you will have full eyelashes and therefore you will be beautiful and you will be the center of attention. Show me a cancer patient in your commercial and your drug will be a little more noble and a lot less laughable. But, no, this is for women who are not quite beautiful enough because they don't have full lashes. So let's have them pay around $120 a month to make themselves feel beautiful. I suppose when pride and vanity are at stake and when pharmaceutical companies have dollars to make, who really cares? If you are not happy with yourself and what you were born with, when all else fails take a prescription drug.
I wonder if there is a prescription drug that will make me 5' 10"?
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