The biggest trending method right now is eyelash extensions, which can look and feel amazing when you get them done right. But when eyelash extensions go wrong, the results can be pretty horrific. Check out these extension stories and proceed with caution on your quest for beauty. All was good in the hood until her eyes began to have a painful, itchy feeling. Both her eyes and the skin around them turned a deep pink color. She ended up using olive oil and a cotton swab to remove her extensions. She also ended up at a walk-in clinic where the doctor told her she had conjunctivitis (read: pink eye!) in BOTH eyes. After three days of prescribed eye drops, the pink eye began to go away. Yikes, man. “I guess I rubbed my eye because I woke up to my lashes [being] ripped off at the front,” read a screenshot of a text she wrote to the eyelash tech who installed them. “And I have ripped out my real lashes. I need to remove them.” Freaking OUCH. “I barely have any left,” she said during a vlog. “And I did notice that my own eyelashes are super short and just awful.” She tried everything to unstick them and take them out altogether — and by everything I mean she used eyelash remover (it burned), corn oil, vaseline, steaming her face, and even tried to just rip them out (which only caused her pain.) But those babies wouldn’t budge. “Learn from my mistakes,” she said during her review. “Because my eyes are on fire right now and I’m probably not going to be able to wear makeup for the next few days.”
title: “5 Horrifying Ways Eyelash Extensions Can Go So Wrong” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-09” author: “John Shaw”
The biggest trending method right now is eyelash extensions, which can look and feel amazing when you get them done right. But when eyelash extensions go wrong, the results can be pretty horrific. Check out these extension stories and proceed with caution on your quest for beauty. All was good in the hood until her eyes began to have a painful, itchy feeling. Both her eyes and the skin around them turned a deep pink color. She ended up using olive oil and a cotton swab to remove her extensions. She also ended up at a walk-in clinic where the doctor told her she had conjunctivitis (read: pink eye!) in BOTH eyes. After three days of prescribed eye drops, the pink eye began to go away. Yikes, man. “I guess I rubbed my eye because I woke up to my lashes [being] ripped off at the front,” read a screenshot of a text she wrote to the eyelash tech who installed them. “And I have ripped out my real lashes. I need to remove them.” Freaking OUCH. “I barely have any left,” she said during a vlog. “And I did notice that my own eyelashes are super short and just awful.” She tried everything to unstick them and take them out altogether — and by everything I mean she used eyelash remover (it burned), corn oil, vaseline, steaming her face, and even tried to just rip them out (which only caused her pain.) But those babies wouldn’t budge. “Learn from my mistakes,” she said during her review. “Because my eyes are on fire right now and I’m probably not going to be able to wear makeup for the next few days.”
