I Have Had Excellent Results with LATISSE, but Now What?

Now that you have had amazing results with nightly use of Latisse, you can cut back to 2 to 3 times per week for maintenance.  If you discontinue it entirely, as your lashes fall out normally, they will only regrow to their former length.

Latisse solution is a prescription treatment used to grow eyelashes, enabling them to grow longer, thicker, and darker. Users can expect to experience longer, fuller, and darker eyelashes beginning at eight weeks, with full results present in 16 weeks. Continued use of Latisse is necessary to maintain long, thick, dark eyelashes, as discontinuation will gradually return eyelashes to their pretreatment appearance.

I wish we had better news, but once you stop using Latisse, your lashes will return back to the way they were. Latisse works on the growth cycle, like when you begin it takes about 6 weeks to change the cycle. 

This should have been explained to you before you started the treatment when you had a consultation with a doctor.

If you want to take a break but keep the look, you could consider eyelash extensions. You can even apply Latisse with semi-permenant extensions so when they fall-off naturally, you have your Latisse lashes ready-to-go. We had had great success with this protocol when people start Latisse but have an event going on in the near future or cannot 'wait' for the results. 

Latisse has been approved as a long-term treatment, keep on applying to maintain your look! 

 

You have had an incredible result to using latisse. When my patients achieve their desired length and thickness, we recommend a maintenance approach. For maintenance you can apply the product every other or every third day. This strategy will maintain the beautiful results you have achieved.

After 3 or 4 months, you can reduce the dosage to every other day or twice per week.  For most people this would maintain a satisfactory lash length.  The side effect that is most concerning to patients is the darkening of the lids margin but in some cases this can even seem to add to the effect of lash lengthening.

If applied correctly to the base of the lashes, the effect on the eye itself will be negligible and as the drop is used as a long-term treatment for glaucoma, it would not be damaging to the eye itself.