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Does Using Latisse Promote Growth of Missing Lashes?
I had a bad habit of playing with my lashes whenever nervous/worried, to the point where I'd pull them out. I now currently have noticeable gaps where lashes once were and I use liquid eyeliner daily to hide the gaps. Would using Latisse promote growth of the missing lashes in the 'bald' areas????
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oneblessedgem
in Alexandria, VA
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Does Using Latisse Promote Growth of Missing Lashes
Latisse works by stimulating the eyelash hair follicle to grow fuller, thicker and longer eyelahes. This all sounds great, however, you have to have a working hair follicle in order for the treatment to have an effect. If you have permanently damaged or destroyed the follicle by repeated injury to that area, then you will not see a direct effect on that dead follicle. You will, however, receive an effect on the collateral living follicles, thus, likely will notice a filling out of your...
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Pulling out eyelashes - Trichotillomania
Pulling out eyelashes or eyebrows or other hair follicles while nervous or excited, is called Trichotillomania. I would suggest two things: 1. if you haven't already been evaluated or treated for Trichotillomania, you do that first. Because if the Latisse does work, you might be more inclined to pull on your lashes and cause more harm. 2. Latisse only works on active hair follicles, so you might want to be evaluated and see if you do indeed still have active follicles in the missing gaps...
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Regrowing eyelashes with Latisse
Latisse works by increasing the amount of time each eyelash hair remains in the growing phase so you need to have a living hair follicle to see growth of the missing lashes. You won't know if it will work unless you give it a try and refrain from pulling any more lashes. On a more personal note, ten years ago my wife lost all of her eyelashes due to allergies, none of which regrew. After using Latisse for approximately one year, she has now regrown the majority of her eyelashes.
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If the hair follicle is dead, Idon't think Latisse wil bring back to life. However since you don't know that for sure, give it a try and at least the existing lashes will thicken
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Latisse and missing lashes
Latisse works by making your lashes grow longer, thicker and (sometimes) darker. In order for Latisse to work you need to have a living hair follicle (root). If you have pulled out your lashes it is hard to know for sure if you still have living hair folicles under the skin. If you do, then Latisse should help. I would ask your cosmetic doctor or ophthalmologist to see if Latisse may by worth a try.
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I have a gap in the lashes of my right eye. For background information, I do not wear eye makeup (including mascara) and I don't curl my lashes.
However, I had LASIK back in 1998 in that eye and ever since I've experienced dry eye, which meant lots of OTC eye drops. Which also meant lots of dried out crusty eye drops on my lashes, which I would sometimes try to pull off (instead of wetting it first). I'd also rub my eye a lot when it was itchy or dry.
As a result, I lost a lot of lashes that never grew back.
I've been using Latisse for 6 or 7 months now. They did grow longer, but the gap remains. (I now also have brown pigment on the skin along the lash line that looks like poorly applied eye liner.)
Once my lashes grew long, I tried cutting the Latisse back to every other day, but in the shower one day I found four stray eyelashes on my hand after washing my face, so I've gone back to using it every night.
I no longer have to use eye drops forty times a day (thanks to Restasis), but that gap remains.