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Lash lift or extensions? A guide for Putte

The two treatments get mixed up often, but they do different things. Extensions glue new hair onto your own lash and need refilling every three weeks. A lift leaves your lash as it is and only changes its direction. That difference mostly decides what it costs you in time over a year.

Count on a refill every three weeks for extensions; a lift leaves you alone for six to eight. If you want volume that reads from across the room, extensions are the right call. If you want people to assume you simply slept well, a lift is closer to what you are after.

Only lifts are done here, and that is deliberate: one technique done properly rather than two done halfway. If extensions are what you want, I will say so and point you elsewhere.

If your lashes are naturally short, a lift does more than you expect: the curl brings the full length into view where it otherwise points straight ahead and reads as shorter than it is.

The Zazie Beauty studio, a short drive from Putte