One of the weirdest beauty inventions to make headlines in recent months (if not actually years) is the so-called “Flylash.” Created by a British artist, the Flylashes refer eyelashes made of fly legs.

Sculptor Jessica Harrison somehow came to the conclusion that there was a clear advantage to be drawn from the similarity between fake lashes and fly legs – so she combined the two to create the Flylashes.

This happened in mid-August but, as it is to be expected with an invention of the type, people are still talking about it. And they’re just as appalled anyone would deem this a “beauty” trick as they were at first.

Apparently, Harrison didn’t make more than a pair of these special eyelashes, for lack of a better term. After she posted a video of her wearing it, not much else was heard of her creation.

Instead of going for the traditional fake lashes or their more modern cousin, lash extensions, Harrison thought breaking off flies’ legs and then gluing them to her eyes would be a better idea.

The result, as Styleite puts it, is not only original but also creepy and even “flat out disturbing.” PETA too would say that this is wrong, arguing the mere resemblance between flies’ legs and lashes should have not been enough for this atrocity to come out, The Gothamist informs.

“I can see how she might find tiny flies' legs to be reminiscent of human eyelashes, but couldn't she just leave it at that?” a spokesperson for the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals said.

“I mean, my beagle Lulu had ears that felt just like velvet, but that didn't inspire me to go around hacking off hounds' ears to make a beagle blazer,” the rep added.

Aside from the gratuitous act of cruelty against flies, as PETA sees it, there are also other considerations that would advise against using fly legs for eyelashes.

Ironically, Harrison herself was the first to say that, noting that “flies do naturally carry disease and I was lucky not to contract an eye infection,” The Gothamist further says.