It's So Cold in Siberia, People's Eyelashes Are Literally Freezing
The Northeast may be feeling as cold as Siberia lately, but in the actual Russian region, below-zero temperatures are causing people's eyelashes to freeze up. (Yup, that's not a myth. That actually happens to people.) In a stunning group photo posted on Instagram by Anastasia Gruzdeva, who lives in Yakutsk, a city in East Siberia, she's seen with her friends with chunky, white lashes. Instead of glopping on white mascara and [glitter](https://www.allure.com/gallery/amazon-prime-glitter-makeup?mbid=synd_teenvogue to achieve the winter wonderland look, the frozen eyelashes were au naturel.
Temperatures in Siberia have plummeted to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit this month. (But that's nothing compared to the all-time record low of minus 98 degrees Fahrenheit, as the Washington Post reported.) Despite these freezing times, Gruzdeva wrote on Instagram, "Yes, we get out of the house (have to) and walk the streets." She also said that she didn't use special eye makeup to make the eyelash icicles happen. "It's just the way it works in -47 [after] 15 to 20 minutes on the street," she added. Yikes. I commend Gruzdeva and her friends for making the effort to leave the house. I stay in bed all day at the first sight of a snowflake. I'm getting a chill just looking at their Instagram posts.
Here's a closer look at the frozen eyelashes, courtesy of Gruzdeva's friend Irina Petrova. Her brows and "slightly hairy cheek ", as she pointed out, got frosted, too. She even said the snowy conditions gave her a unibrow. I'm calling frosted unibrows as the next big trend of winter 2018.
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