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Technicians apply 70 lashes per eye individually to create a fuller, darker look
- Eyelash extensions are meticulously applied by professional aestheticians to achieve a dramatic look and emphasize the eyes.
Eyelash Extension Adhesive: Super Strong, Super Subtle
Technicians
use a special adhesive for individual eyelash extensions that’s
available only to trained experts. Read on to see what makes it so
special.
Natural-looking yet genetics-defying eyelashes: that’s
the goal of eyelash-extension salons. Each tiny extension is attached to
an existing lash with a special kind of medical-grade glue that
disappears into the lashes so clients can forget they weren’t born
looking that way. It’s a delicate process performed by highly trained
technicians, but it wouldn’t have been invented if not for a common
household item: Super Glue.
In 1942, Dr. Harry Coover invented
Super Glue by mistake. While trying to formulate a clear plastic to be
used for gun sights at Eastman-Kodak during World War II, he and his
team found that one substance was so sticky that it was almost
impossible to work with—it would bind to just about anything, with no
need for heat, pressure, or pleading. The company eventually put it on
the market in 1958. Chemically known as a cyanoacrylate, the adhesive
eventually found experimental use in the Vietnam War as a way to quickly
close wounds and stop excessive bleeding, giving wounded soldiers more
time to seek medical help in the field. Eventually the FDA approved
forms of it for use in medicine.
Today, different cyanoacrylate
formulations are used in dental surgery, to rejoin veins, and in the
eyelash salon. Despite its ancestor’s application of bonding skin,
eyelash-extension glue is meant to touch the lash only. To avoid contact
with the lid, the glue is applied to the extension rather than the
natural lash. Then it’s held against the lash with tiny tweezers for the
30–40 seconds it takes for the chemical bond to form—and repeated
dozens of times until the lids are as lushly curtained as the client
likes.