This happens often in New York, and it can get a little uncomfy: You show up at a posh restaurant to have a fun lunch with one of your gal pals, and they seat you side by side on a banquette rather than across from each other. Just for good measure, they remove all chairs so you can’t even pull a switcheroo once the hostess toddles off.

What that means is that you and your meal-mate are THISCLOSE to one another for a good solid hour. (Longer, if wine is involved. And it always is, because you’re so weirded out by the whole thing.)

But here’s what it’s great for: Scrutinizing facial flaws at close range.

You’ve already “met” my hyper-groomed friend Jenny in a previous blog post. She’s the one who is always (and I mean 15 solid years of always) impeccably turned out. But sexy. And super-friendly. Not uptight in the slightest.

Because she could win an Olympic medal for pulled-togetherness and she’s super-friendly, I didn’t flinch when she gazed into my eyes and said, “I think you could use some Line n Grow. It would really help with that…sparseness.”

Après dejeuner, I of course immediately Googled the mystery beauty brew. It turns out that Line n Grow is an “Extreme PM Lash & Brow Enhancing Treatment” that might just be able to do double-duty by helping with my eyelashes and that loathsome thyroid-induced bald patch on my left brow.

(There’s also a companion product, a tinted liquid liner, available in a bunch o’ eye-friendly shades. Like eggplant. Trust me, although it sounds wacky to line your lids with a super-deep purple, it can be right purty…)

For now, I’ll start small, with the lash and brow goo, which I figure is definitely worth a shot. Especially since Jenny recommended it.

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