Are Eyelash Extensions Officially Out?

glamour.com:

decided to divorce one of the longest relationships in her life: the one with her . What started as a beauty ritual that made her feel confident and glamorous had morphed into a vibe that didn’t feel—or look—especially modern to her anymore.“I’d come home from an appointment and my daughter would ask me, ‘Why do your lashes look like that?’” Higginson says, “I didn’t have an answer for her.” Then the 41-year-old would spend time after her appointment picking some of the freshly glued on out to make them look more natural.So she decided enough was enough.

To make it official she uploaded a short video to TikTok documenting the state of her lashes before the removal and after. The comments on the video, with 12.8 million views and counting, cheered her on.One read, “Literally everyone looks better without lash extensions.

I’m so happy we all jumped on this movement.” Others remarked on how much younger she looked post transformation. It was official: She won the breakup.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Higginson is just one of a handful of women abandoning their eyelash extensions who we spoke to among hundreds gaining traction on TikTok.

Judging by social media and the beauty industry’s recent shift toward a more natural aesthetic, the once wildly popular service has been deemed too try-hard (or, in internet parlance, cheugy).But there are tangible reasons behind the service’s downfall in addition to not being considered cool by people on the internet.