After four tequila shots? Yep. When you've been working for 12 hours and, frankly, you-just-can't? You can. Though you feel like you sweat off every lick of makeup at the gym, anyway? Yes, yes — yes! King says many women don't take the extra time to remove their mascara, which can cause their lashes to break off on your pillow while you're sleeping.
Sabah Feroz, lash expert at Blink Brow Bar in London, also recommends overnight treatments that condition and moisturize your lash after spending all day with caked-on mascara. She recommends BBrowBar's Luscious Lash Oil
that restores and conditions lashes from root to tip. "Wear each evening as an overnight treatment for your lashes and let the formula work its magic," she swears.
It's not only what you apply to your face, lids or skin that impacts your overall health. As with any other spectrum of your vitality, what you eat plays a big part in how well you can sprout lashes. King says those who seek to have softer, more natural eyelashes should maintain a nutritionally robust, balanced diet that's ripe with protein, iron and biotin. While you can derive many of these nutrients from smart food choices, talk to your trusted physician or nutritionist who can recommend a supplement if your levels dip too low.
For Halloween, a fancy celebration or when the mood just calls, false eyelashes are a fun way to upgrade your look. But as an everyday stick-on? Natural skin care expert Debbi Burns says it's dangerous for the durability of your lashes. "What's causing women to lose their lashes and have them not grow out is putting all of those toxic glues in the fake eyelashes. These actually pull out some of your eyelashes and if you don't keep putting them on, you tend to have fewer eyelashes," she says.
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Consider mascara wands.
To avoid infection and serve as a way to apply moisturizer, oils or other remedies, consider purchasing throw-away mascara wands that limit bacteria. This inexpensive way to keep your eyes super-clean can be the difference between long, lush lashes and ones that feel stunted. Much like you'd take care of any other part of your face, why not give the same TLC to your eyes? "It's important to be careful about what you put on your lashes as it does go into your eyes," Burns shares.
