You’ve heard it said many times before. It’s clichéd, all right, but it’s true, so here goes, “The eyes are the window to the soul.” Therefore, when you look at people and talk to them, you look them in the eyes, and you expect them to do the same. You’re hardwired to behave that way.
Now, if you want to apply some “window dressing” to one of your most important facial features, there are a variety of beauty salon services for the lashes you can try on your next salon visit.
Chapter Overview
LVL Lashes: Love Your Lashes
LVL is an acronym for length, volume, and lift, and LVL lashes is a lash lengthening, volumizing, and lifting treatment.
Two things happen at an LVL lashes treatment: lash straightening and lash tinting.
Yes, it’s lash straightening rather than lash curling. Contrary to traditional wisdom, lash straightening will give you better results than lash curling. Straightening makes lashes look longer and gives them a great lift. Consequently, LVL lashes look attractively curled and lusher than curled lashes, which can appear shorter and sparser.
Lash tinting or dyeing is also part of the process. The lash tint makes lashes appear longer and fuller, therefore enhancing the positive effects of the straightening and lifting serum.
What to Love
The following will make you fall in love with LVL lashes.
- No Extensions
The LVL lashes treatment works by improving how your natural lashes look, opening up your eyes, and making them look bigger and more attractive. There are no extensions involved.
- Quick and Easy
An LVL lashes treatment takes just one hour, and you’ll see the results immediately.
- Long-Term Results
Your lashes can look longer and lusher for up to six weeks after treatment.
- Cost-Effective
LVL lashes can be more affordable than lash extensions.
- Low Maintenance
Seriously, you don’t have to do much to maintain your LVL lashes. It simply requires following your salon’s aftercare instructions.
After an initial couple of days of special care, maintaining your LVL lashes should be a simple matter of taking extra care in removing eye makeup and mascara, so you don’t tug on your eyelashes.
What Not to Love
There’s nothing to complain about LVL lashes, really. The treatment will make your eyelashes look fuller and thicker. However, if you have very sparse lashes, the lifting, volumizing, and lengthening effect of LVL lashes may not be adequate to achieve your desired look.
If you want show-stopping, glamorous eyelashes, you may want to explore other options like lash extensions.
Lash Extensions: Natural, Full, or Glamorous
Imagine waking up every day with picture-perfect eyelashes that look gorgeously long, lush, and thick. You can save precious minutes on eye makeup and finally say goodbye to runny mascara woes, raccoon eyes, or out-of-place and droopy false lashes. Yes, it’s possible with lash extensions.
Lash extensions is an eyelash treatment that will give you semi-permanent thicker and longer eyelashes. Every extension is very fine and perfectly shaped, and it is hand-glued to individual lashes one lash at a time and at a precise and specific sequence. The sequence is repeated at multiple passes until you have achieved the exact look you want: natural, full, or glamorous.
What to Love
Lash extensions is a popular eyelash treatment for the following reasons.
- Fully Customizable
Talk to your lash artist about the look you want to achieve. Lash extensions can give you naturally, fully, or glamorously lush and thick eyelashes.
Your lash artist will choose the appropriate length and thickness of extensions. They will also adjust the shape and number of lash extensions and the number of extension passes to achieve your objective.
Consideration must also be given to how strong and thick your natural lashes are. After all, they’d have to bear the weight of the extensions.
- No Need for Mascara and False Lashes
With eyelash extensions on, who needs mascara? Even in extreme heat and humidity, you won’t ever have to contend with raccoon eyes from runny mascara.
No sweat if you’re not very good at applying eyeshadow. You won’t have to spend extra effort on making your eyes pop; your eyelashes will do a more than adequate job. You won’t need to wear false eyelashes either. You’ll just have exquisitely lush and thick eyelashes 24/7.
- Relatively Quick
Lash extensions can take from one to one-and-a-half hours to complete for basic coverage. That’s not such a long time, considering that every lash extension is glued to your lashes by hand.
However, it could take longer if you want thicker and denser lashes.
- Semi-Permanent
With proper maintenance, your lashes will always look stunningly beautiful.
What Not to Love
Lash extensions require regular maintenance. Lash extensions will naturally fall out over time. If you want to keep your eyelashes as lusciously thick as the day you got your extensions, you would need to visit the salon regularly for maintenance.
Maintenance sessions can be done every one, two, or three weeks. Naturally, the longer the intervals between infills, the more lash extensions would need to be filled in or replaced.
SVS Lash Extensions: Soft and Fluffy
SVS stands for speed, volume, and style, and it is a variation of the typical lash extension treatment.
In SVS lash extension, a lash artist combines three lashes with varying lengths into individual extension “fans.” They then bond each fan to an individual natural lash. The result is fluffier, more textured eyelashes.
What to Love
SVS lash extensions have all the benefits of typical lash extensions, with the addition of the following.
- Soft Volume Look
The extension fans give eyelashes volume. If you want softer, fluffier, more natural-looking lashes, SVS lash extension is preferable to the traditional lash extension treatment.
- Speedy Application
SVS lash extensions can be applied from one to one-and-a-half hours. SVS usually takes less time to achieve a fuller look than the typical lash extension treatment.
What Not to Love
Like ordinary lash extensions, SVS lash extensions require regular maintenance to keep your eyelashes looking permanently thick and full. You’d probably want infills every one, two, or three weeks for good measure.
The Perfect Frame
Your eyes are the window to your soul, and they deserve the perfect frame: thick, full, gorgeously lush eyelashes.
Thankfully, lash treatments like lash extensions, SVS lash extensions, and LVL lashes from your favorite salon will help you achieve just that.
AUTHOR BIO
Hillary Kozma is the Owner/Managing Director/Creative Director of Kozma & Kozma Salon. Having built the foundation of her skills with an apprenticeship under a direct protege of Vidal Sassoon, Hillary and her husband opened Glow American Salon in Qatar in 2007 before expanding to Dubai as Kozma & Kozma in 2016. Hillary is hailed by the media as a “pioneer in her field” for introducing new talents, concepts, philosophies, and techniques to the Middle East.