Hi lovelies!
I haven't blogged in a while, but I've had a good excuse! If you read my last post you will have read how busy I thought I was going to be when I started back to uni, and I underestimated this a lot!! I'll break it down for you:
♥ I've just started third year, we're not only expected to write our dissertation and assignments, but they give us even more work to do in the mean time, basically homework aged 20!
♥ I'm really poor at the moment so I've been trying to work 20 hours a week at work while most of my friends have quit their jobs because they can't manage their work load!
♥ I'm still finding time to go to the gym.
♥ I also have to juggle in visiting my boyfriend who lives two hours away.
Basically whenever I'm not doing work in my free time I feel bad, so right now I feel extremely guilty! Blogging will have to take a back seat for a while, but I refuse to post inadequate, short posts and I am taking lots of pics of anything blog worthy and I'm going to save these and post them when I can! :) As soon as uni has finished, blogging will become a priority again I promise! :)
Anyway, onto the Flirties Eyelash Extensions Review! This is a post I have been wanting to write for a while, however there was one thing it all depended on, and that was waiting for all the extensions to fall out!
I had these Flirties Extensions done at a local beauty salon just before I went to Ibiza. They are semi-permanent eyelashes which are meant to last three weeks. I wanted these because I couldn't be bothered applying false eyelashes every night, having the yucky glue residue hanging around the next day while sunbathing and just wanted lush lashes all the time really! They were quite pricey at £40 for the set, however prices do vary. Although I would be careful of the cheaper procedures as I have heard they can look really bad!
The actual treatment itself was a little strange to be honest! Firstly you had to lay there for over an hour with your eyes closed which I hated, I wanted to see what she was doing! And the smell of the glue stung my eyes and made them water. Apart from that though it was pretty painless just a bit uncomfortable! And when you first try to open them they sort of stick together and the therapist has to separate them which is weird!
The salon recommended for the best, long lasting results to not get them wet for 24 hours (I had to wash my face without getting my eyes wet which was odd!) and then only use oil free makeup remover on them to prevent the glue breaking down. I followed this religiously for the first month or so, but when I actually wanted them to come out I stopped this. I used an Estee Lauder oil free eye makeup remover which you can find here. This one is on the American site as I couldn't find it on the UK site! Mine was my mums which she kindly gave me! However Simple also do an oil free one. You are also advised not to rub the lashes as this can "mess them up" and you are given a little brush to keep them tame! They also advise you don't sleep on your side, but I can't help that and mine were okay!
Anyway, here were the results!
Sorry about the odd lighting, the pictures were obviously taken on different days! Rocking the bare face look also haha.
I think there is definitely a real difference between the before and after! However the only issue I had was that my left eye seemed to have less false eyelashes on than the right, they definitely looked thicker on the right! I noticed this much more as the weeks went by too as I seemed to have more left on the right side and the left side definitely started to look a bit odd before the right. You can see one stray one out of place in the bottom photo that would not stay in place!! The lashes actually lasted a lot longer than three weeks, although obviously a lot came out and they did not exactly look false anymore but after six weeks some were still attatched to my lashes and they looked a lot longer and thicker and it wasn't until six weeks that I felt the need to wear mascara again.
The lashes are meant to fall out as your natural lash does because that is what it is bonded too. However the odd one does fall out by itself. What I found that was really annoying was that I could never take off my eye makeup properly. I was afraid to scrub it incase I pulled out any lashes and it hurt if you snagged any! After six weeks though I had had enough. It was difficult to get the mascara off and I just wanted to be able to scrub my whole face again! They were really itching my eyes one night so I just pulled the remaining few out! I wouldn't recommend this though haha! My lashes were quite long and thick anyway, and they looked a little more sparse and shorter when they came out, but I think they are back to normal now! Overall I think if you get decent ones done and care for them correctly they are very good. You can get them infilled regularly too if you want to keep them up, a bit of a luxury for me though!
Have any of you had eyelash extensions? If so what did you think?
