Will wearing fake eyelashes cause my eyelids to droop?

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I have started wearing fake lashes daily. It does make my eye feel a little heavy. Should I be concerned about it causing my eyelids to droop?

Camille Cash, MD · Answer

False eyelashes, unless extreme, should not significantly contribute to drooping lids.  Be cognizant to use medical grade skin care products and wear sunscreen daily.

Jonathan Kulbersh, MD · Answer

No, wearing fake eyelashes is unlikely to cause your eyelids to droop significantly. Under eye bags and wrinkles can be permanently corrected with surgery or temporarily camouflaged with fillers (Restylane, Belotero, Volbella).There are great non-surgical options to fill in under eye depressions and hollowness. Using dermal fillers, a liquid eye-lift can be performed. A dermal filler such as Restylane would be placed in the cheek and tear trough to hide the depression or bag underneath your eye.
Surgery would require a fat-repositioning lower lid blepharoplasty. In this surgical procedure, fat from the eye area is moved into the tear trough depression filling the actual depression. 
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