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11 Things you didn’t know about your eyelashes #3 will blow your mind and #10 you won’t believe!

For many of us, beautiful and well-groomed eyelashes are one of our beauty essentials, but what do we know about our eyelashes?

  1. Their life cycle is 4 to 8 weeks: each eyelash follows a different cycle. Factors such as its composition, age and diet influence it. For this reason, the duration of eyelash tinting and perming depends on the life cycle of the eyelash. Although eyelashes are constantly born, grow and die, it is very important to treat them with quality products and protect them when necessary. For example, if you are one of those who enjoy using UV rays, always cover them, because you may run the risk of them falling out sooner than expected.
  2. They are composed of protein and water: eyelashes are almost entirely protein, specifically keratin. They are only 3% water. It is very important to react in time if we see that they are weak or we have less hairs. There are eyelash regenerating products that not only strengthen and regenerate the eyelashes, but also prolong the effects of eyelash dyes and perms if we use them regularly.
  3. The only animals that have eyelashes are mammals: hadn’t you noticed? That’s right, for mammals, eyelashes serve the function of detecting changes in the environment, something like whiskers for felines. The camel is the animal with the longest eyelashes, measuring up to 16 cm in length. They are undoubtedly a great tool when it comes to protecting its eye from the strong desert blizzards.
  4. They are home to hundreds of mites: Don’t panic! These microscopic creatures have a very important function: to clean the dead cells and keep the follicles clean. We all have them, as it is not a question of hygiene, age or sex, they are simply there and protect us from infections, a more than reasonable price just for letting them live in us.
  5. They fall daily: as we said before, eyelashes have their cycle but they do not all go in unison. Every day we lose between one and five eyelashes, but we do not notice it because we have many of them in a more advanced growth phase.
  6. They are different from each other: in the upper part we have between 150-200 lashes, while in the lower part we only have between 70-80. In addition, the length and shape of the upper lashes is much more pronounced and striking than the lower ones.
  7. Why is it that when we apply makeup to our eyelashes, we can’t help but open our mouths? Don’t deny it, it happens to ALL of us. The explanation is very simple: being such a small and delicate area when it comes to manipulating it, we pay all our attention to them, causing the facial muscles to relax and the jaw, also relaxed, inevitably opens by itself.
  8. Long eyelashes are not better: according to current beauty standards, we think that the longer the eyelashes, the more attractive and feminine they are. However, let’s not forget the main function of eyelashes, which is to protect the eye. Scientific studies have shown that for this task to be carried out most effectively, eyelashes should be no longer than one third of the width of the eye.
  9. Eyelashes grow faster than the scalp. While the cycle of an eyelash renews itself in a maximum of 90 days, the scalp can take up to 6 years.
  10. The person with the longest eyelashes in the world is a man: sorry girls, but it is indeed a gentleman who holds the title of the longest natural eyelash, with 6.9 centimeters. To give you an idea, the average length of an eyelash is usually 1 centimeter.
  11. We have been taking care of them and their appearance since 4000 B.C. We certainly know that the Egyptian people devoted a lot of effort to enhance beauty and delay the effects of aging. What not everyone knows is that they were the first to use tools to style and care for them, although the first modern product was created in France in 1913 by the Rimmel brand.