My mother always tells me that she can't believe my eyelashes didn't got darker as I got older.
One bad thing about having ghostly eyelashes is that it takes 3 coats of mascara to see any difference. And even then they just become blobby spears.
One great thing is that when they get wet I have my own personal kaleidescope to look through. When light refracts on them I get to look through a bunch of little rainbows shaped like bubbles. Weird!