You apply mascara to them in the morning and wash them in the evening. You rub them when one of them gets into your eyes, you dry them while crying. You lift them up with a curler tool and decorate with glitter. Indeed, every single day your eyelashes have to endure quite a lot. If they are healthy and strong, they will be okay. It’s worse when they fall out and are brittle. In this case, you can do one thing: take care of them so they won’t cause you any problem ever again.

The secret life of eyelashes

Did you know that there are 150-200 eyelashes growing on your upper eyelid, and 50-150 eyelashes housed by your lower eyelid? It’s also interesting that they are arranged in two rows. The upper eyelashes can extend to 12 mm, whereas the lower eyelashes are approximately 4 mm shorter. The main task of eyelashes is to detect impurities and foreign bodies that might irritate eyeball. They also beautify eyes along with the entire face; they are recognized as a kind of a feminine attribute, just hair is. And eyelashes undergo the same life cycles determining their growth and fall out as hair growing on head.

The life of eyelash is divided into three stages: anagen, catagen and telogen. Anagen is the shortest phase – it lasts only up to 3 weeks during which an intensive eyelash extension takes place. Next stage is catagen also known as a resting phase. The last stage is called telogen and lasts up to 4 months. During this stage, eyelashes fall out to make room for new, stronger and healthier lashes. In each anagen cycle, there are more or less 70% of lashes growing.

How to condition eyelashes?

Make-up removal has a tremendous influence on eyelash condition. While rubbing or washing, or due to using ill-matched cosmetics, eyelashes might weaken and start falling out, also eye skin area might get irritated. Solution? Taking make-up off using products destined for sensitive skin combined with the appropriate technique of removing mascara, eyeliner and eye shadows should do. All possible types of milk, lotions and oils that feature moisturising and soothing substances will do the job here. A small amount of a chosen product has to be distributed onto a cotton pad and pressed to eye skin area so you can wait until the make-up transfers from eyes onto the cotton pad.

Use of good quality cosmetics is the basics when it comes to eyelash care. Effective and soothing make-up removers as well as mascara featuring nourishing substances might help to condition eye skin are and, naturally, the eyelashes. It’s advised against applying waterproof mascaras since their removal requires more intensive and longer wiping off, and this procedure might negatively influence the state of eyelashes. When it comes to mascaraing, before applying the coats, it’s better to use either a primer or a conditioner first.

Replace an eyelash curler with a lash curling mascara. Frequent use of such tools weakens eyelashes considerably and can encourage their thinning. On the other hand, if there is no other way to lift lashes up, then the best solution is to use an eyelash curler once in a while and treat eyelashes with regenerating cosmetics. Such products should contain hyaluronic acid, castor oil, plant extracts, panthenol and vitamins. Thanks to the very substances, eyelashes grow thick, longer and become resistant to mechanical damages.

Eyelash and eye skin area care – Rules to follow

How to have healthy and fabulous eyelashes? Learn a few simple rules which can be carried into effect even today.

1. Don’t rub eyes when something gets into them or when they itch you. Effect? Weakened and thinning eyelashes combined with irritated eye skin area.
2. Wash your eye skin area really gently. Be delicate also when removing make-up.
3. Remove make-up every single evening.
4. Replace a mascara every 3 months. Thanks to this your cosmetic will be always fresh and mascara coats long-lasting.
5. Eyelash condition improves thanks to following a well-balanced diet and having a good night sleep.
6. Use an eyelash serum to condition the hairs.

What should be done to get gorgeous and healthy eyelashes?

First of all, a visit at a beautician’s won’t be necessary. Eyelash condition can be successfully handled at home. Just reach for products that most of us already have in the kitchen: olive oil, aloe juice, green tea or almond oil. Making use of almond oil and cotton pads, you can have an eyelid and eyelash mask. All you have to do is dampen cosmetic pads in oil and then let it sit for 10 minutes on eyelids. Effect? Eyelashes will become shiny and eyelids moisturised.

Eyelash oiling – Does it even work?

In short, eyelash oiling depends on applying vegetable oils to lashes. Their task is to nourish and strengthen bulbs as well as restore elasticity to eyelashes. When it comes to eyelash oiling, the best oils to use for the procedure are: macadamia, coconut, argan and sweet almond oil. You can either use each of them separately or prepare a self-made blend. This type of treatment should be undergone a few times a week in the case of highly damaged eyelashes. How to carry out this procedure? Firstly, remove make-up precisely and then with the aid of clean mascara brush apply an oil. Just a few drops of the oil are needed for one application. The oil should get absorbed by eyelashes easily.