Latisse Eyelash Enhancer Impacts Beauty Editor
Latisse, the first FDA-cleared prescription treatment for eyelash enhancement, made a big impact on the Beauty Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper when she looked into it. Latisse makes eyelashes thicker, darker and longer.
Interviewing Memphis plastic surgery practices, MedSpas and clinics that offer Latisse, Beauty Editor Barbara Bradley found the product being snapped up by women who have sparse – and no – eye winkers but wanted larger eyelashes.
The eyelash enhancer was also snapped up without much regard to price!
In Memphis, the usual cost of Latisse is $120 a box which holds the product and 60 disposable applicators. But because so much is being sold – and apparently without any advertising – some are selling it for $99 a box or two for $200.
Talking with users around town, Ms. Bradley found one woman who had grown thick eyelashes in only five weeks. Her husband refers to the eye winkers as the woman’s “pet tarantulas.” She told the newspaper she had also tossed out her eyelash mascara.
Eyelash extensions and fake eyelashes? Gone the way of the buggy whip!
The manufacturers and researchers – the same people who bring you Botox – who developed Latisse say it can take up to four months to get long, thicker eyelashes. The same researchers think the active ingredient in Latisse – Bimatoprost, a prostaglandin used in the glaucoma drug Lumigan – keeps eyelashes in their growth phases longer.
To apply Latisse, the user just puts a drop on the end of a disposable applicator and applies it to the base of each upper eye lash every night. The substance moves down to darken lower lash lines on its own.
An easy way to get eyelash growth, huh?
During these budget-conscious times, some women are using one applicator on both eyelashes, stretching the product to last twice as long. But maybe that also makes it less effective?
DNK: the eyelash reports aren’t in yet!
A few Latisse fans also told Barbara Bradley they use Latisse “off-label” to darken eyebrows.
(”Off-label” in medicine means using a product for a purpose for which it is not intended.)
Downsides of Latisse include making eyelid skin darker if touched with the product and possible redness, dryness and irritation of the eyes.
To see why the eyelash growth product does not need advertising, check out the over-the-moon users who write Latisse reviews on RealSelf.com!
admin @ July 24, 2009
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