How To Prepare For Your First Eyelash Extension Appointment
The eyes of a woman are one of her most attractive features. Whenever someone looks deeply into your eyes, they can learn a lot about you.
The old saying goes, “your eyes are your gateway to your soul.” They show when you’re happy, sad, excited, or hurting deeply inside.
It is also one of the features that many women like to enhance for beauty. For example, you use eyeshadow to add color to your eyes or cream to help reduce wrinkles. Another popular option is to get eyelash extensions to add volume to your natural eyelashes and create a desirable look.
However, you may have never seen a technician for this enhancement and don’t know what to expect for your first appointment. If you’re struggling to prepare for your eyelash appointment, here are a few things your lash stylist wants you to know for your first visit so you can get the best results and extend the life of your lashes.
How To Prepare For Eyelash Extensions
1. Come at least ten minutes early for your eyelash appointment
It’s always wise to go to any appointment ten minutes early, especially an eyelash appointment. This will give you enough time to fill out any paperwork, provide insurance, and ask questions.
Also, if you arrive at your appointment early, your eyelash tech may be able to fit you in quicker. As a new client, you want your first time to be a pleasant experience.
So remember, time is precious, and if you want the best experience possible, arriving at your appointment a few minutes early is essential.
2. Wear comfortable clothes for your appointment
One of the biggest mistakes you can make is attending your eyelash appointment wearing something uncomfortable. There’s a chance you’ll be sitting in the chair for over an hour, and wearing tight clothing may make the experience unpleasant.
Instead, opt for comfortable clothing (like this set) that’s loose and baggy during your appointment. It’ll help you relax during the lashing process and enjoy being pampered.
3. Have a clean face and clean lashes
Make sure you come in with a clean and fresh face to get the most out of your lash appointment. This means taking the time to properly clean your face when you get up in the morning.
Take the time to wash your face with a good cleanser and warm water. Also, be sure to clean around the eye area extra good to help remove dirt and crust that cumulated during the night.
Taking time to clean your face and eyes will help reduce your technician’s time to clean your natural lashes. As a result, they can spend more time applying the extensions helping to create a fuller and more flattering look for your new lashes.
4. Don’t put on any eye makeup
As eye makeup can easily get onto your lashes, it’s vital for you not to add any before your appointment. Again, this reduces the time spent having to clean your lashes. However, you can wear facial and brow makeup; just make it doesn’t get near your lashes.
5. Yes, you can wear your contact lenses
You may wonder if it is safe for you to wear contacts while getting a full set of lash extensions. You’ll be happy to know that your contacts will not affect the application process. However, if you prefer not to have to deal with taking them out after lash tech is done, consider not wearing them. So, be sure to bring your contact lens case for your big day of getting beautiful lashes.
6. Don’t use oil-based products before your appointment – including makeup remover
After washing your face, adding moisturizers is essential to reduce dryness. However, you want to avoid any oil based face creams which are common for people with dry skin.
It is possible for oil to cause the adhesive to break down, causing the lashes to come off. As a result, you will need more frequent fills because your retention will drop dramatically.
7. Don’t wear waterproof mascara or sunblock
It is imperative that your natural lashes are as clean as possible before applying the extensions. If you wear mascara your technician will have to clean your lash resulting in a longer application time.
In addition, most sunblock products have oil inside them to help moisturize your skin. As oil-based products can prevent the extensions from staying on correctly, avoid using any sunblock products before your appointment.
8. Create a playlist and bring headphones
Most eyelash appointments do take an hour to add the lashes on correctly. While you’re waiting for the technician to finish, you may get a bit bored. Unfortunately, you can’t pick up your phone and scroll through social media to escape your boredom, so what’s the next best thing for you to do?
Before your appointment, consider making a playlist of your favorite songs or podcasts for you to sit and listen to. Additionally, since the salon can get quite loud with everyone talking, you can escape the noise and have a relaxing experience with headphones.
9. Avoid drinking caffeine products
Everyone love to drink coffee when they first get up in the morning. It gives you the energy to help you get through your day and take on whatever life decides to through at you. However, drinking any caffeine products, including coffee and energy drinks, is a big mistake. Why is that?
Caffeine products often give you jitters and may make your eye twitch. It may not happen often, but it could happen on the day you decide to get eyelash extensions. To help you relax more while receiving your tech is doing their job, try skipping the coffee until after your appointment.
How to care for your eyelash extensions after your appointment
Now that you know how to prepare for eyelash extensions, let’s go over the proper care for keeping them at their best. This will ensure you get the most out of the services and will help to ensure your lashes last as long as possible.
Here are a few ways you can extend the life of your new lashes:
- The first thing you want to do is keep your lashes dry for 24-48 hours and avoid anything that causes you to sweat. This means avoiding anything that causes you to sweat, such as yoga, hot showers, saunas, and tanning beds.
Doing this will ensure the lash adhesive stays on longer. In addition, keep these other care tips in mind after getting your eyelash extensions:
- Rinse your lashes after crying, sweating, or being exposed to saltwater. This will reduce salt from being built up in your lashes.
- Use a styling wand to brush your lashes. However, don’t do it in the first 24 hours of getting them done or go overboard.
- Avoid any products with oil in them, including makeup, eye cream, lotion, and face wash.
- Avoid using any makeup that sits on the lash lines, such as eyeliner or mascara
- Don’t use cotton around your lashes
- Don’t curl your eyelash extensions
- Lastly, and arguably the most important thing, is to not rub or tug at your extensions.
Remember to wash your lashes every day after getting them done. You want to keep them clean to avoid any build-up. The best way to do this is by using an eyelash extension cleanser.
Doing this will help remove any dirt and makeup residue within your eyelash extensions. Lastly, you can keep your lashes healthy and on longer by using a cleanser every day.
Conclusion
Lash extension application is really quite simple and there’s no reason to be nervous about your first eyelash extension appointment. Follow these simple steps on the day of your appointment to ensure your lash application goes smoothly and you get the perfect lashes you hoped for!
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