Beauty

[Annabellethecat66]

I thought I'd post how it's done for those who don't click on websites...

First, lashes are coated with a special adhesive and wrapped around mini foam rollers or equally diminutive heated clips. This holds them in the curled position that you’re hoping to achieve. As you squeeze your eyes tightly shut, a perming solution or cream is applied to your eyelashes with a tiny brush. The esthetician then covers your roller-wrapped fringe in plastic wrap and lets the chemical concoction cook for about five minutes. After the perming chemicals have taken full effect, on goes a neutralizing solution. More plastic wrap is applied. You sit for another few minutes. Voila: curled lashes in a visit that takes about 45 minutes and costs anywhere from $25 to $70, depending on where you live.

The curl in your lashes will last anywhere from four weeks to three months. As your lashes grow and fall out (the life cycle of lashes is about 60 to 120 days), the effects become less noticeable.

Though to some the procedure may seem like a steep price to pay for beauty, when all goes well the results are supposedly sublime.

RELATED: Heated eyelash curlers exist: Here's why you need one now

What are the risks of eyelash perms?

Of course, the procedure isn’t without its risks. Eyelash perming, like many other lash-enhancing beauty treatments, is not FDA-approved. If you were around in the ‘80s and were unfortunate enough to experience the hair perm first-hand, you already know that perming solution can burn. Eyes and the skin around them are extremely delicate, and can incur damage, including irritation, burning or even blindness. If the solution is left on too long, it can fry your lashes, making them break or fall out.

An extra word of caution: Be sure to seek out a qualified professional who performs multiple eyelash perms on a daily basis. This is an instance where you should seek out the best, not the cheapest.

[Irshgrl31201]

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@Annabellethecat66 wrote:

I thought I'd post how it's done for those who don't click on websites...

First, lashes are coated with a special adhesive and wrapped around mini foam rollers or equally diminutive heated clips. This holds them in the curled position that you’re hoping to achieve. As you squeeze your eyes tightly shut, a perming solution or cream is applied to your eyelashes with a tiny brush. The esthetician then covers your roller-wrapped fringe in plastic wrap and lets the chemical concoction cook for about five minutes. After the perming chemicals have taken full effect, on goes a neutralizing solution. More plastic wrap is applied. You sit for another few minutes. Voila: curled lashes in a visit that takes about 45 minutes and costs anywhere from $25 to $70, depending on where you live.

The curl in your lashes will last anywhere from four weeks to three months. As your lashes grow and fall out (the life cycle of lashes is about 60 to 120 days), the effects become less noticeable.

Though to some the procedure may seem like a steep price to pay for beauty, when all goes well the results are supposedly sublime.

RELATED: Heated eyelash curlers exist: Here's why you need one now

What are the risks of eyelash perms?

Of course, the procedure isn’t without its risks. Eyelash perming, like many other lash-enhancing beauty treatments, is not FDA-approved. If you were around in the ‘80s and were unfortunate enough to experience the hair perm first-hand, you already know that perming solution can burn. Eyes and the skin around them are extremely delicate, and can incur damage, including irritation, burning or even blindness. If the solution is left on too long, it can fry your lashes, making them break or fall out.

An extra word of caution: Be sure to seek out a qualified professional who performs multiple eyelash perms on a daily basis. This is an instance where you should seek out the best, not the cheapest.

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Hi @Annabellethecat66 thanks for posting this. This is one way it is done but not the lift I have done. No rollers involved. I am glad you put this down for those maybe interested in more of a curl as mine is a lift. I am not even sure if the ones with curlers give more of a curl.  I haven't see how the ones with this roller look when finished so I will take a look. Thanks!

[Annabellethecat66]

@On the website I went to they showed pictures.  I don't know why but I'm wondering if maybe because when I clean my face every night with the microfiber rags with warm water, I also get every bit of waterproof mascara off.  My lashes (for some reason are pretty long.  It's funny though because my hair is thin and very thin in the front so I wear a wig (which looks very natural).  When people tell me I don't look 70, it's sooooo hard not to lift off the wig and say, "Now do I look 70"?  Ha!  I've actually done it but not recently.  My friend gets embarassed!

I can't wrap my head around rollers on my eyelashes!  How much patience does that take?  If I was younger I'd go in for some of this stuff (I think I might be vain...Ha!).  But the only thing I have going for me is I have no brown spots or wrinkles, other than that....I'm a mess!  Ha!

Take care and thanks for teaching me something!  I can't wait to tell my friends.

Here's a beauty tip I just saw when I went on the eyelash (perm) website.  Kinda interesting.  It's Kathie Lee and Hoda and that young woman on her show.  You might want to click on and see the video.

http://www.today.com/style/eyelash-perms-bigger-brighter-eyes-no-makeup-required-t74201

[Irshgrl31201]

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@Caaareful Shopper wrote:

I never knew eyelash perm was even a thing.

I have the opposite problem -- my eyelashes curl TOO much.  All my life my lashes curl back up to my eyelid, so it looks like I only have on eyeliner.  My eyelashes are nearly invisible. 

I have to put mascara on backwards, that is, on the back of my lashes only, just to make them a little heavier to lay out a little.  Of course this means getting gobs of mascara on my lids as I comb or brush my eyelashes down with the mascara.  Then take a moist Q-tip to erase all the excess mascara from my lids.  Very time consuming, but sadly I have found no apparatus that helps uncurl lashes. 

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I have a girlfriend who has the same problem. She is honestly the only person who I have heard complain about too much curl in her lashes. She is Italian and has very curly long hair (gorgeous) and her eyelashes are just as you described. I do think that having a lash lift would suit you too @Caaareful Shopper. I know that may sound crazy but lots of people use perm solution to straighten their hair but just comb it out straight. A perm works by the solution restructures the hair shaft by raising the cuticle layer and breaking down disulphide bonds.  Next the ammonium thioglycolate solution is rinsed from the hair with warm water and the rods are blotted with a towel. Each rod is then rinsed with a hydrogen peroxide solution or neutralizer, which sets the new shape of the hair by reinserting the disulphide bonds. Depending on the size of the perm rod, it sets to that size. When I worked as a hairstylist before becoming an esthetician, many girls with naturally curly hair would come and get a perm using the largest rod. They didn't want to straighten their hair, but loosen the waves. It worked too. Now, it has been a while since I worked as a stylist and I do know there are many other products on the market that work better and are less damaging to the hair than this so I would choose one of those but back in the 90s and early 2000s we used that because that is what we had.

If you have this process done the ammonium thioglycolate most certainly would loosen your curl and your lashes would take on the new shape. I would at least get a consult if this is something that bothers you enough to change. It couldn't hurt.

[Caaareful Shopper]

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@Irshgrl31201 wrote:

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@Caaareful Shopper wrote:

I never knew eyelash perm was even a thing.

I have the opposite problem -- my eyelashes curl TOO much.  All my life my lashes curl back up to my eyelid, so it looks like I only have on eyeliner.  My eyelashes are nearly invisible. 

I have to put mascara on backwards, that is, on the back of my lashes only, just to make them a little heavier to lay out a little.  Of course this means getting gobs of mascara on my lids as I comb or brush my eyelashes down with the mascara.  Then take a moist Q-tip to erase all the excess mascara from my lids.  Very time consuming, but sadly I have found no apparatus that helps uncurl lashes. 

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I have a girlfriend who has the same problem. She is honestly the only person who I have heard complain about too much curl in her lashes. She is Italian and has very curly long hair (gorgeous) and her eyelashes are just as you described. I do think that having a lash lift would suit you too @Caaareful Shopper. I know that may sound crazy but lots of people use perm solution to straighten their hair but just comb it out straight. A perm works by the solution restructures the hair shaft by raising the cuticle layer and breaking down disulphide bonds.  Next the ammonium thioglycolate solution is rinsed from the hair with warm water and the rods are blotted with a towel. Each rod is then rinsed with a hydrogen peroxide solution or neutralizer, which sets the new shape of the hair by reinserting the disulphide bonds. Depending on the size of the perm rod, it sets to that size. When I worked as a hairstylist before becoming an esthetician, many girls with naturally curly hair would come and get a perm using the largest rod. They didn't want to straighten their hair, but loosen the waves. It worked too. Now, it has been a while since I worked as a stylist and I do know there are many other products on the market that work better and are less damaging to the hair than this so I would choose one of those but back in the 90s and early 2000s we used that because that is what we had.

If you have this process done the ammonium thioglycolate most certainly would loosen your curl and your lashes would take on the new shape. I would at least get a consult if this is something that bothers you enough to change. It couldn't hurt.

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@Irshgrl31201 You are a treasure trove of information. Thank you very much for this.  I don't know if I Will ever go through with it, but having the information and the direction for further research on it is much appreciated.

[Irshgrl31201]

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@Caaareful Shopper wrote:

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@Irshgrl31201 wrote:

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@Caaareful Shopper wrote:

I never knew eyelash perm was even a thing.

I have the opposite problem -- my eyelashes curl TOO much.  All my life my lashes curl back up to my eyelid, so it looks like I only have on eyeliner.  My eyelashes are nearly invisible. 

I have to put mascara on backwards, that is, on the back of my lashes only, just to make them a little heavier to lay out a little.  Of course this means getting gobs of mascara on my lids as I comb or brush my eyelashes down with the mascara.  Then take a moist Q-tip to erase all the excess mascara from my lids.  Very time consuming, but sadly I have found no apparatus that helps uncurl lashes. 

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I have a girlfriend who has the same problem. She is honestly the only person who I have heard complain about too much curl in her lashes. She is Italian and has very curly long hair (gorgeous) and her eyelashes are just as you described. I do think that having a lash lift would suit you too @Caaareful Shopper. I know that may sound crazy but lots of people use perm solution to straighten their hair but just comb it out straight. A perm works by the solution restructures the hair shaft by raising the cuticle layer and breaking down disulphide bonds.  Next the ammonium thioglycolate solution is rinsed from the hair with warm water and the rods are blotted with a towel. Each rod is then rinsed with a hydrogen peroxide solution or neutralizer, which sets the new shape of the hair by reinserting the disulphide bonds. Depending on the size of the perm rod, it sets to that size. When I worked as a hairstylist before becoming an esthetician, many girls with naturally curly hair would come and get a perm using the largest rod. They didn't want to straighten their hair, but loosen the waves. It worked too. Now, it has been a while since I worked as a stylist and I do know there are many other products on the market that work better and are less damaging to the hair than this so I would choose one of those but back in the 90s and early 2000s we used that because that is what we had.

If you have this process done the ammonium thioglycolate most certainly would loosen your curl and your lashes would take on the new shape. I would at least get a consult if this is something that bothers you enough to change. It couldn't hurt.

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@Irshgrl31201 You are a treasure trove of information. Thank you very much for this.  I don't know if I Will ever go through with it, but having the information and the direction for further research on it is much appreciated.

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Oh no problem at all, I am glad to help @Caaareful Shopper!