Friday 21 August 2015

How to: Clean your falsies.

Have you ever took your false lashes off at the end of the day and thought 're-usable? You have got to be joking?'. Wearing falsies isn't a cheap habit to have, even the least expensive ones can mount up in price if you wear them often. Putting junk and gunk back on to your eye will send a shiver down your back but with this easy, pretty quick method you can get your falises back to brand new!

For this you will need:
Your dirty lashes,
Q-tips,
Disposable mascara wands (if necessary)
Tweezers,
Kitchen roll,
Rubbing alcohol.

First, take your tweezers and carefully pull off any glue left on the lash band. If you use a lot of glue it will come off in strips, if you're like me and don't like to use much then you will have to keep picking. Be careful on this part, you don't want to dismember your lash and pluck out lashes. Below you can see the glue being removed from the lash:


The next step is to saturate a Q-tip in rubbing alcohol and rub it along the lash band. This disinfects the lash band and also cleans off any excess dirt/make-up. Shown below is the aftermath of this step. I apologise for the fact that the photos not that clear but you can see the lovely clean lash and dirt on the Q-tip.
If you've only just found this and you've warn your lashes more than once or twice you might have a build up of mascara over the lashes themselves, to get rid of this spray rubbing alcohol on your disposable mascara wand and run it through the lashes with the lash on the kitchen roll.



Shown above is the transformation. The photo's arn't the best (sorry guys!) but you can see a thick layer of glue and dirt along the lash-band in the first photo and a nice, clean lash-band on the bottom photo.

Let me know if you try this and how it works for you!
Charleigh xo.

2 comments:

  1. I can never wear falsies, I've tried a few times but my eyes can't take it. I had to take it off after a couple of hours for my wedding photography (applied by makeup artist) because my eyes went all red. It's a shame though because my real lashes are so pathetic that falsies are the only thing that could save me. :-(

    Shireen | Reflection of Sanity

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    1. Could it be the glue being used? A lot of eyelash glues (all unless otherwise stated) contain Latex. A lot of people have problems with glues irritating their eyes when a glue including latex is applied. I suggest trying a latex-free glue, Revlon does one relitavley cheap hun X

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