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Lengths Women Go For Longer Eyelashes
North Texas Cosmetologist, Doctors Offer Treatments Patients Can Bat Their Eyes At
NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
Betty Boop batted them. Dolly Parton belted out about them. Today actors and artists are blanketing them in mascara, red fox mink and even diamonds rocks.
If the eye is the window to the soul then window treatments are the hottest spring fashion.
Anne Pham is a licensed cosmetologist who opened
Lash Couture in Frisco. Her salon specializes solely in applying extreme lashes -- individual synthetic nylon lashes -- to natural lashes.
Client Melissa Bradley has a high pressure job. She says coming here for "fills" every few weeks is relaxing and actually saves her time.
"I would have never left the house without mascara before, but now my lashes are pretty all the time. So, that's one chore I don't have to do to look decent," the customer of two years says.
Pham adds her growing clientele not only includes career women, but also teens, moms, and even some men.
"I have several clients their husbands still don't know. They say if he doesn't know, then they are not going to tell," she quips.
One North Texas bride-to-be took an even more drastic approach. She had an eyelash transplant.
"Seven or eight years ago it was mostly trauma patients," explains Dallas
surgeon Katherine Duplantis, who performs about 10 procedures a month. "I call it a mini hair transplant."
The process includes taking healthy hair from the back of the head, separating it into individual follicles, threading through a needle and then transplanting into the eyelid.
It becomes permanent growing hair that actually has to be trimmed, Duplantis says.
Patient Kay Magee wanted similar results.
"I was like 'Boom! Look at my eyelashes.' "
Her new look, however, came from medicated eye drops.
For years
Plano optometrist Steven Kurtin has used the drug lumigan to treat glaucoma. Now, it has a new name:
Latisse.
He says it's the only medication approved by the
Food and Drug Administration to lengthen short lashes.
"Now, there is a choice -- medicinally speaking -- to grow lashes, longer, thicker and darker," Kurtin says.
Results from the drops usually appear within four to six weeks, which is about the same time
Southlake dermatologist Angela Bowers says it took
Revitalash to work.
The eyelash conditioner lengthens and thickens the lashes. One of her patients tested it on the right eye only and noticed the dramatic growth.
Over-the-counter treatments like protein serums and even oscillating mascara wands are just some of the other lengths women are going to for longer lashes.
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