Tips to improve skills for eyelash extensions

Lash skills, something that makes you confident when performing an eyelash extension treatment. But how do you create them? And what can help you to improve your skills?

We are happy to give you some tips to improve your skills. We will explain them further.

TIP 1. Read, read and read

We understand that you didn’t want to be a geek and you don’t feel like just reading all day. But believe us, it will help you! If you take half an hour a day to read blogs about eyelashes, watch videos and store important information, your skills will improve quickly.

TIP 2. Purchase a practice head

You usually only use a practice head during the course day. Here you learn to apply on eyelashes before you apply eyelashes on a real model (person). After 7 years of lashes I still try to use the doll every now and then. You can do this in all directions. You stick a strip of thin eyelashes 0.10 or 0.12 C curl on the head, or on a silicone stick on the head. Then you can focus on what you want to improve; this can be splitting, amount of glue, placement of the “skin”, how straight the hair is placed, or volume. A doll is therefore super handy to occasionally grab and practice placement.

TIP 3. Try new products

The eyelash world keeps innovating. In 2020 there are hundreds of brands and thousands of products. If you don’t broaden your knowledge with new products, you will stick with what you always have. There are plenty of brands that offer sample kits. These are kits in which you receive a sample of all important or decisive products. You can also approach brands and ask them to send a few strips with lashes (if you only want to test the lashes). Or ask for more information by emailing or calling suppliers. Often other brands give new tips to use their products and here you can sometimes get a lot of new information.

TIP 4. Use the right Tweezer

This is a tip that we from Tutti Lashes always give immediately during a training or conversation. Can’t figure it out with placement? Maybe it’s just the tweezers you use! Tweezers greatly determine how your set is placed. With one it works, with the other it does not work.

TIP 5. Keep Tweezer clean

To get back to the tweezers, as we just explained to you, tweezers are therefore extremely crucial. But what if you first had the right tweezer and now it no longer works? Or you dropped it and the tip is bent. That is really an ouch feeling in our profession. Because with a curved or bent tweezer point you can hardly do anything anymore. So time for a new one! But there’s also a chance that your tweezer might just be dirty. If you accidentally hit some glue during installation, the glue will set and cure directly on your tweezer. How do you get this out? There are 3 ways:

During cleaning of tweezers in Barbicide, the “dirty” pieces can loosen.

Glue pieces on tweezers can be carefully removed by gently scraping the “belly” of an old tweezer along the new tweezer. You will see that the glue scrapes off with caution.

Using a cleaning jar for your tweezers. This is a small jar with a sponge. You gently press the tweezer point into the sponge with liquid, the liquid contains solvents such as acetone. And this is what causes the glue to dissolve.

TIP 6. Use the right application products

In addition to having your products be okay, including glue, eyelash extensions, and tweezers, other materials you prepare with will also be good. So you have different types of microbrushes. Do you notice that a customer keeps coming back because her eyelashes fall out quickly? Maybe it has to do with the type of microbrush and primer you use. GIF

Do you also have tapes and patches, do you perhaps place something under the patches on the skin so that the customer’s skin remains supple and does not hurt when collecting eyelash tape or patches? Take a look at a moisturizing cream that you can apply before applying patches! SHOP Gold elixir

TIP 7. Glue

Glue, Glue, Glue !! That’s all we can say. If your glue ratio on the base is not balanced, you use too much or too little glue … Both not ok. So practice! Look for examples like the one below so you have an idea of ​​how much glue you need for a hair now. And then we come to the point where your glue amount on the natural hair must also be okay. As an eyelash stylist, we do not place all over the natural hair glue! This would be very heavy on such a thin natural hair. About 10 to 15% of the natural hair is used to apply glue. This is enough for the eyelash extension to adhere to the natural hair.

TIP 8. Focus on the position of the eyelash placement

Are your eyelash extensions all right next to each other? No worries, with a few small tips your lash skills will be improved immediately.

Use a small piece of tape to place the inner corners as well 

Really place the outside to the outside 

Place baby hairs by sticking tape upwards on the already placed hairs 

Take enough space between each time, so in 3 steps; this prevents eyelashes from sticking together 

Place the eyelash extensions slightly more to the right with the right eye, and slightly more to the left with the left eye. 

Hold the eyelash extensions longer during placement. If you want to place the extension on the hair, hold the hair longer than 3 seconds. You can see that where the glue is the part was shiny at first, and as it dries in seconds it changes to a matte color. The matt the drier the base of the glue is!