Why you need to a take a break from your lash extensions

One of my clients popped into the salon a couple of days before her booked eyelash extensions removal, concerned that she wasn’t doing the right thing by having them removed and wanting a second opinion.   It’s such a big decision to have those lashes removed to revert back to your natural lashes, as it is without doubt…

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Are you a liner lover?

With eyeliner continuing its popularity, make-up advice from the mainstream magazines this year is to ensure that you add and keep a black or granite grey eyeliner pencil in your make-up kit. This is great trend advice for that up-to-date look but it can play havoc with your eyelash extensions if you wear them, especially…

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Hypersensitivity to products

Occasionally I will be told by a client that there’s no need for an initial consultation or an allergy patch test as they have had treatments for lashes and brows before elsewhere and have had no problems.  The person is disappointed and sometimes gets a little irritated that I will not do a treatment without…

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Eyelash Growth Serums – Good and Bad!

With long eyelashes being on our cosmetic wish list the brand marketers are all geared up to tell us that their products will give us the best result ever. As a lashologist and eyelash stylist I need to know what’s on sale out there and what gives the best results. There are a large amount of lash serum…

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Disappointment of low quality lasts longer than happiness of a low price!

When I get a day off there’s nothing I like than bimbling around the shops in my home town of Norwich, and I find the likes of Poundland, 99p Saver, Poundworld a big money saving attraction, as many of us do. There are many well-known brands at knock down prices to choose from so it…

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Allergy testing – best practice guide

Here’s food for thought: “There has been a rise in the number of personal injury  claims, largely I expect because there is more advertising of the procedures available, more take up, and in a largely unregulated industry people aren’t applying best practices.”   This information is according to non-practising legal advisor at 1st Claims, a firm…

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