Eyelashes

How to maintain healthy eyelashes

Curvy, long, healthy lashes can make your eyes look wider, alert and more youthful in appearance. It may be no surprise, then, that women want to accentuate their lashes. But maintaining long, healthy eye lashes is often no easy task, as lashes are constantly exposed to irritants such as pollution and smoke. In addition to these environmental stresses, your lashes also experience demands from continuous mascara application and curling, eyelash extensions as well as pulling and rubbing. All of these lead to fewer and thinner lashes.

Eyelashes can bring an instant glamour to your eyes that can be head turning. We have the same number of eyelashes we were born with but overtime, they can thin and fall out due to our beauty abuse to them. Beauty abuse examples are sleeping in mascara which can lead to the lashes breaking due to the stiffness, rubbing or tugging at our eyelids to remove makeup, ripping out false lashes, or wearing water-proof mascara too often which is very drying for your eyelashes. The more damage you put on your eyelashes will damage the follicle which will make the hair more shorter, fragile, and thinner. The hair may eventually stop producing hair!  So how can you maintain the lashes you have now?

How to keep your eyelashes in good shape:

• Use a gentle remover and pat or dab at the lids rather than rubbing or pulling.
• Never tug at lashes.
• If you use a lash curler, make sure you’re not pulling on your lids at all.
• If you want to remove clumps from mascara, you must do it when the mascara is still wet and easy to comb through.
• Replace your mascaras every three to six months.

Eyelash Conditioners

• Put a think layer of Vaseline, Un-Petroleum, or Aquaphor over your lids at night to condition lashes. Also Vitamin E and any level of Vitamin B-5 (will help grow while keeping them strong)
• Using over-the-couter lash conditioner s can be useful since they contain proteins like keratin or biotin to strengthen and moisturize lashes. There are possible side effects like irritation and darkening of the skin so use with caution.