British Teen Gets Eyelash Transplant
Posted by: Leonora Epstein
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5:00PM, Monday August 10th 2009
You’ve heard of cosmetic surgery procedures where fat from your butt goes into your boobs, but would you take hair from your head and put it into your eyes? Louise Thomas, a 19-year-old UK resident, was the first person in the country to undergo the process in which doctors removed hairs from the back of her neck and implanted them into cuts in her eyelid. After a few months, the hair follicles will flourish and produce thick, authentic lashes.
While Thomas opted to have the $5,000-plus surgery for medical reasons—she suffers from the hair-pulling disease trichotillomania—the procedure’s quick recovery time and lack of pain could make it an appealing option for beauty addicts looking to hop on the next craze. On the other hand, if the no-eyebrow look is all the rage, maybe an eyelash-free thing could take off. Let’s hope not. [AFP, MarieClaire.co.uk]
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Goldfinch86
wrote on August 10 2009 @ 04:54 pm: [report]
I have little tiny no lashes that without a ton of mascara make my eyes look squinty and small. I would consider this If I had money to blow on a surgery.
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on August 10 2009 @ 04:59 pm: [report]
It took me 10 years to find sunglasses that don’t get hit by my eyelashes when I blink. Long and luscious I say. (I think luscious should be on the list of uncomfortable words)
Lynn
wrote on August 10 2009 @ 06:27 pm: [report]
EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW.
_jsw_
wrote on August 10 2009 @ 06:29 pm: [report]
@Lynn: Yup. That’s exactly the sound she made as she pulled the old ones out.
I wonder what’ll stop her from pulling these out as well. I also wonder if there’s a chance they took hairs from too high up, and her lashes will need to be cut every few weeks lest she look like Snuffleupagus.
haleighw
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 04:03 am: [report]
the really disgusting thing that you didn’t mention is that real eyelashes fall out once they reach a certain length. The hair follicles that they have sewn on there don’t. That means people who get that will have to cut their eyelashes with scissors if they don’t want curtains hanging from their eyelids. Then they look all blunt on the end instead of like a tapered hair that eyelashes are. It does not look so good…
KrazyLew
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 11:03 pm: [report]
“...implanted them into cuts in her eyelid…”
What an awkward way to describe it. Not-so-pleasant imagery. Blech.