Lash technician at work on a client’s full set of lash extensions

Lashes are the frame for the eye area. They can completely make or break a makeup look and can be classified as “the accessories of the face”. When someone has full, thick, healthy-looking lashes they are immediately the talk of the room.

When done right, these little hairs can do a wonder on your daily routine. Less makeup to do. Get right up out of bed and go if you need to without feeling like you are ‘Naked Faced’. They can also be extremely helpful in event situations: weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, vacations. As well as high functioning careers and lifestyles where someone might not have as much time as they would like to themselves to get ready: nurses and doctors, working mothers, teachers, lawyers, servers and baristas. As long as people could add accessories their looks, they have been adding to their lashes.

The beauty Icon Marilyn Monroe, who was known for her sleepy bedroom eyes, wore a strip of wispy false lashes that her makeup artist Allan “Whitey” Snyder would cut in half and only glue on the outer corner of her eyes.

Elizabeth Taylor, a woman known for her thick and full lash line, had a rare condition known as Distichiasis that gave her TWO rows of eyelashes. Audrey Hepburn would go in after applying her three coats of the blackest mascara and use a needle to separate her lashes individually, so they looked fuller and longer.

It wasn’t just the golden age of Hollywood that was obsessed with having the most amazing lashes.

In Middle Eastern cultures, having long full lashes is a form of eye protection from the heat and the elements for all genders. In India and Southeastern Asian cultures full long lashes are used in expression and are coveted in dance and performance art. The world is filled with cultural refences and historical mentioning of the beauty and the desire of eye lashes.

Lash extension have become a fast fashion trend but did you know that the lash extension industry has been around and thriving since the beginning of the 1900’s? In 1902 Karl Nessler, a hairdresser and inventor, was the first to introduce woven lash extensions in the form of strip lashes. In 1911 a woman by the name of Anna Tylor was the first to patent strip lashes and mass market them. It was in the 1990’s and 2000’s that single lash extensions and semi-permanent lash extensions were started in Korea and then brought over to the United States in 2004. Now it seems you cannot turn around without seeing everyone and their neighbor in some sort of false lash.

AND WHY NOT? THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!

Light weight, customizable and convenient. What isn’t to love?

Lashes are the Accessories to the face