Eyelash extensions
Eyelash extension is a cosmetic procedure that involves gluing synthetic eyelashes to your own eyelashes in order to achieve lengthening and additional volume. Currently, two technologies of eyelash extension are practiced: Japanese technology, which implies eyelash extension, and eyelash extension with bundles. Depending on the materials for eyelash extension, the individual features of the eyelid structure, the condition of the eyelashes and eyelid skin, the extension effect lasts from 1 to 3 months. Correction is carried out if necessary.
Japanese bunched eyelash extension technique. Advantages and disadvantages
The Japanese eyelash extension technique involves gluing each artificial eyelash to your own. This method of eyelash extension allows you to significantly adjust the volume and shape of the eyelash row, to create an additional effect. For this type of extension, piece artificial eyelashes are used, which differ in length (from 4 to 21mm), thickness (from 0.07 to 0.3mm) and bend (marked with letters).
For gluing eyelashes, hypoallergenic glue is used, colorless or black. The use of colorless glue allows you to get the most natural effect in eyelash extensions, while black glue creates an additional cosmetic effect of the tinted eyelid.
The advantages of this eyelash extension method:
- The duration of the effect obtained (the artificial eyelash is firmly attached to its own and actually lives the full cycle of its own eyelash, which lasts approximately 1 month);
- Natural effect;
- Loss of piece eyelashes is not as noticeable as the loss of a bundle (with bundled eyelash extensions).
Disadvantages of Japanese technology:
- Duration of the procedure (eyelash extension takes up to 3-5 hours, depending on the skill of the master and the desired effect);
- The cost of the procedure;
- The need for regular correction to maintain the effect;
- Certain lifestyle restrictions (it is forbidden to use oily creams, rubbing eyelashes while washing, touching eyelashes).
The technology of eyelash extension with bundles involves gluing bundles consisting of several artificial eyelashes to your own eyelashes. This method allows you to get the maximum volume of your own ciliary row, which is its main advantage. The main disadvantage of the technique is the fragility of the result. Due to their gravity, the beams fall off, leaving empty spaces in the ciliary row, which has an unaesthetic appearance.
Currently, masters use artificial materials for eyelash extension. Sable, mink, columns, silk - the names of artificial eyelashes, based on the effect that is achieved when using them. The use of natural materials for eyelash extension is not practiced in order to avoid the development of conjunctivitis and allergic reactions.
Eyelash extension at home
Self-extension of eyelashes at home is an unsafe procedure for health. When extending eyelashes, the client should be in a horizontal position with his eyes closed, which ensures a natural, relaxed eyelid position and its calmness. Also, this position prevents the eyes from flowing glue or cosmetic resins used to fix artificial eyelashes on the client's own eyelashes. Currently, some masters provide an eyelash extension service at home. However, it is worth considering that the eyelash extension procedure is a painstaking work that requires certain conditions, which are often extremely difficult to recreate at home. Inappropriate conditions can significantly affect the quality of the wizard's work. Nonetheless,home eyelash extensions may seem more comfortable to many women than salon eyelash extensions.
Contraindications for eyelash extension
Eyelash extension is positioned as a painless and harmless cosmetic procedure. However, there are a number of contraindications for its implementation. So, the main contraindications for eyelash extension are:
- Hypersensitivity of the eyelid skin;
- Chronic conjunctivitis;
- Allergy;
- Excessive lacrimation.
Eyelash extension masters also do not recommend carrying out the procedure to owners of:
- Thin, weakened eyelashes, as the procedure will only aggravate their condition;
- Oily eyelid, as sebum will help to shorten the period of wearing artificial eyelashes.
Also, with extreme caution, you should treat eyelash extensions for those who have poor vision that requires correction. Glasses significantly limit the possible length of eyelashes, while lenses provide daily mechanical damage to artificial eyelashes.
Eyelash extension: reviews, recommendations of masters
Eyelash extension masters strongly recommend that you read the reviews, both about the extension itself and about the master who will do the work. Testimonials are incredibly important in eyelash extensions. According to the reviews, you can not only determine the competence of the master, but also understand how this cosmetic procedure suits a woman. Poor-quality eyelash extensions, reviews of which can be found on the Internet, are fraught with a feeling of heaviness and foreignness on the eyelids, the development of an inflammatory process due to the ingress of excess fixing substance into the eyes, and infection.
Eyelashes after extension. Recovery methods
Eyelash extension is a process that leads to mechanical damage to your own lash line. The wrong size of artificial eyelashes leads to the fact that under their excess weight, your own eyelashes break off. The adhesives and resins used to fix fake eyelashes also adversely affect your own lashes. After extension, eyelashes need restoration. Eyelash extension specialists do not recommend walking with fake eyelashes for more than 2 months. Permanent mechanical damage during the correction and wearing of artificial eyelashes leads to the fact that one's own eyelashes become excessively weakened. Many reviews say that your own eyelashes after extension lose their shape and volume.
To restore eyelashes after extension, you can use specialized products sold in pharmacies. They contain a balanced complex of vitamins and elements that help strengthen and grow eyelashes. You can also use self-prepared vitamin mixtures to restore eyelashes after extension. The best ingredients for such a mixture are castor oil, vitamin A, vitamin E, which can be purchased at the pharmacy. Before using the mixture on the eyelashes, it is necessary to test for an allergic reaction on a small area of the skin.
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