for years, shu uemura ruled the world when it came to eyelash curlers (remember that mocking scene in ‘the devil wears prada,’ when anne hathaway is shamed for not knowing a shu?).  you simply couldn’t find anything else that got so close to the roots of your lashes and provided a serious, lasting curl, all without painfully pinching your eyelid in the process.

so, when shu announced last month it was pulling all of its merchandise from stores in the US, i panicked!  what if my curler broke?  what would i do?  i mean, you know, oil spills and flash floods and all that, but…my eyelash curler!

luckily, the lovely folks at tweezerman came to the rescue, assuring me their pro curl curler would be an excellent stand-in.  and they were right!  in fact, i’ve been doing some side-by-side tests (much to the hubs’ confusion), and i might even say the tweezerman pro curl gives a stronger curl than my trusty old shu.  plus, you know i’m a sucker for rose gold, so how could i resist this one on looks alone?

so, the tweezerman curler is now living a very nice life in the front of my makeup drawer…and my shu has, sadly, been pushed to the netherlands (right behind that old coral blush from 1995).  in truth, i haven’t even looked back.

pick up the tweezerman pro curl here for $20…and bonus, it comes with enough replacement tips to last for years!