Yes Kathy Ed Milliband has surprised quite a few people. I believe in overall terms, as the Labour Party has an odd way of calculating who is in fact winning, he seems to be in the lead with regard to winning this leadership. He was always just a guy on the fringes of power, readily and always available for tv interviews, but once given his head here as it were, he has rocketed up the scale and even grasped the support and backing of the major unions.
Burnham does indeed look like "he has a weird mascara thing going on" and this observation has cropped up on TV in the past, he does look a little odd like that but perhaps it isnt mascara at all but maybe he naturally comes that way. He also has odd ears too but it could be seen by some as endearing.
When the real gunfight starts and the smoke clears from the room, I suspect the last man standing will be David Milliband.