Extreme eyelashes: are eyelash extensions the answer?

Xtreme Lashes

Caramba Today' Bianna Golodryga and Tracey Marx report:

Lengthy, luscious lashes abound you appear nowadays, in the pages of glossy magazines towards the red-colored carpet to reality TV.

For decades, "it" women such as the supermodel Twiggy and also the reality TV star Kim Kardashian go to extreme measures to boost their lashes.

Individuals "it" stars have inspired countless other women to complete exactly the same.

"Lashes are just like a universal manifestation of beauty," Dr. Eric Schweiger, a brand new You are able to City skin doctor, told "Hello America."

If Nature didn't bless along with you with naturally lengthy lashes, now you can get help.

"Increasing numbers of people are attempting to look for methods to boost their lashes," Schweiger stated.

Today, you will find over-the-counter items to condition and strengthen lashes, mascaras that advertise to volumize and thicken lashes, and disposable lashes that may be glued on for any the much more bold look. You will find a medicine.

"Latisse is really a medicine are applying towards the eye lash skin, also it really boosts the growth phase from the lashes," Schweiger stated, mentioning towards the prescription treatment that's the foremost and only Food and drug administration-approved eye lash growth product. "You receive longer, larger lashes."

However for ladies who want lengthy-term lashes with no discomfort of daily care, there is a new alternative: eye lash extensions.

They are the most recent trend hitting Hollywood and spas alike.

"This is among the most addicting services a lady can perform,Inch Laura Reina, a lash-extension specialist in the Avanti Day Resort in Manalapan, N.J., told "GMA."

"The main one factor that's great about these is you can shower, go swimming, sauna, that you can do anything using these lashes and appear as if you are fully composed,Inch she stated.

Audra Whisten, 36, is really a full-time sales consultant and mother of three from Freehold, N.J., who accustomed to spend 30 minutes using her mascara before she started to make use of eye lash extensions.

"When you are getting up each morning, they are there," she stated. "You appear as if you have mascara on. " Now, she stated, her morning are simpler.

"I put blush on, I put lipsticks on and I am done," she stated.

Terri Balsamo is yet another working mother who can't imagine existence without eye lash extensions.

"It is easy each morning,Inch the 45-year-old from Holmdel, N.J., told "GMA." "I am busy with my children and my company, and that i look good. I cope with people every single day, and so i feel confident about myself."

The eye lash extensions are applied individually to every eye lash within an initial application, and have to be rejuvenated every 2 to 3 days for maintenance. An eye lash extension stylist helps guide users to choose the best look, length and thickness for his or her individual face.

The first cost for any full group of extensions is about $200. Maintenance visits cost around $75 each. Which makes the all inclusive costs for devoted eye lash extension users like Whisten and Balsamo around $1,500 each year.

"It can make you seem like it's not necessary to put on eye liner any longer due to the thickness and also the darkness," stated Christine Delello, an Xtreme Lashes Stylist at Jeunesse Medical Health spa in Holmdel, N.J.

"Forget about mascara using these,Inch she stated. It's not necessary to curl them. You actually just seem like you'll need some lipsticks and that is it."