GROW YOUR OWN (eyelashes and eyebrows)
Every woman wants long luscious lashes and shapely, full eyebrows. Many of us aren’t born with great lashes and our brows are wispy at best.
Some of us are given a great set of lashes and brows but we’re hard on them. Curlers pull lashes out. Mascaras and eyeliners can weaken lashes with harsh chemicals that make them brittle. We over-pluck eyebrows, taking them for granted and assuming the pesky hairs will always return. Not the case.
Aging doesn’t help. As lashes get shorter and stubbier, they fall out and are replaced less and less. Our lash line starts to look like a comb with teeth broken out of it. Brows that were zealously waxed or plucked don’t recover. Hairs fall out and we develop bald spots in our brows that we try to fill in with pencil.
Many women get eyelash extensions. Although we’re told the extensions should last ‘up to six weeks’ they often start looking tatty and beat up after only two weeks. There can be a nasty stinging sensation during application. How many of us have worried about the chemicals that are so close to our eyes? Not all of us have the time and money to get them regularly reapplied.