In my last year's post about my eyelash extensions experience I showed you how I got an allergic reaction to 3D eyelashes. I'd been using extensions for about a 6 months, where nothing happened to my eyes, but after another 6 months break from wearing 3D lashes I got 2 times this huge allergic reaction, with red swollen and itchy eyes, which would fade away after a couple of days and eye drops.
I was like, okay it happened 2 times, eyes are very important part of a human body, stop using and wearing them.
After a year of not having lash extensions, I started to have this feeling that it's time to try them again. You know, I was a first girl which didn't have red eyes at all after the application and in a year I got an allergic reaction.. well, there was a chance for being THAT girl again (meaning - without any reaction to artificial eyelashes) so I took it.
I was playing with that idea for about a week and I've decided to try it again, after a year. Well, the worst what could happen is to have red eyes, so what. I'll live through the first 3 days and it will be okay, I guessed..
Well, as you could guess - it was NOT OKAY. I made an appointment with the best lash studio in my city (Bratislava, Slovakia) and was really looking forward to have them again and look like a doll. I was laying down for about 2,5 hours and when I opened my eyes and got the really slightly red, so it was a relief for my eyelash expert and for me as well. She took a picture of my eyelashes for her portfolio and I was really happy with the results! I got a tip for applying the lashes a little bit further from the roots so we did it that way.
I was really excited to not have to wake up an hour earlier and to look pretty 24/7..
I had to go to school to present my project which was about in an hour and when I got there my classmate asked me "Vanda, what happened to your eyes?" I just replied "Fake eyelashes" and didn't pay attention to the itchiness. I hoped it would go away in a few hours or a day. But I was wrong again.
In a few hours it all got even worse, my eyes were really red, started being swollen and the eyelash part kind of hurt me when I touched it. I really hoped it would be okay when it's been a year.
My boyfriend, friends and I went to the movies for this new Avengers movie and I was wearing sunglasses in a shopping mall because I looked like a junkie. No kidding. Everyone looked at me like I was high on something and it was not very pleasant.
I bought really expensive eye drops to stop it from the worst and applied them 3 times.
The next day it got better - a little bit - so I was really looking forward to being pretty again and being happy from looking awesome. But that night it turned to a nightmare.
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| Sorry for the blurry photo, I couldn't have my eyes opened for more than 30 seconds |
As you can probably see, my eyes are completely swollen and red and teary. Yes - I woke up at about 3 AM with a really bad feeling. My eyes were tearing for about 5 hours straight and I couldn't stop it. From all of the tears I got a running nose and it was a hell of a night, let me tell you.
My boyfriend checked my eyes and the right eye got worse than the left one. He told me I got really badly CORNEA area swollen. It was a feeling like you have something in your eye - a small eyelash or something tiny - but I got nothing, I just had the whole eye irritated from a fake eyelash. Clearly, my body tried to fight this "allien" in any way.
Did you experience the same, anyone?
I am really sad. It really helped me to look pretty. I was really looking forward to all of the prettiness and awesomeness, haha. But it turned out the way it supposed to. Unfortunately.
I've read many articles about women who ended up at the hospital with not able to see. I was not able to see for 2 days, I could open my eyes just for 30 seconds. The lashes had to go down after 2 days and it was an immediate relief when I got them down.
The whole process of removing them was not very pleasant either, but again, it was necessary. Now I look like a boy again (since I have short lashes without a curl) and had to buy a new mascara ( I'll to the review too, since I'm not very happy with the mascara, haha).
I was not able to apply mascara or anything for a week because it was very touchy and swollen from time to time. But I apply eye drops every day and it's getting better.
I don't think I'll be having 3D lashes again, in the future. But everyone needs his own experience. :)
Let me know in the comments if anything similar happened to you, ladies.
