How infills work

An infill appointment is about so much more than just applying new lashes!

The longer you leave between fills, the more complicated the process becomes – and as strange as it sounds, coming in for more frequent fills might actually be a more cost effective way of maintaining amazing looking lashes.

Here’s how a fill works:

Everyone experiences lash drop between appointments – once your lashes reach a certain point in their life cycle, they fall out, making way for new growth. The rate at which this happens also varies. Have you ever woken up one morning and found that your lashes look much thinner than they did the night before, or that you have a huge gap in your natural lashes? It’s perfectly normal, and something that we all experience. It does, however, look a lot more dramatic when you have big, fluffy mega volume lash extensions on!

The other thing that happens is that your lashes get a lot longer as they age – we only ever apply lash extensions to ‘teenage’ lashes that are about halfway through their growth cycle. These lashes are strong enough to take an extension (unlike a baby lash) but still have a lot of growing to do before they’re ready to fall out. Unfortunately, these lashes don’t always grow straight so you may find that some fans get a bit wonky as the lash they’re attached to gets longer.

At each infill, your lash artist needs to identify which existing extensions need to be removed because the natural lash has grown crooked or because the extension is sitting more than 2mm from your lash line. They then need to remove those extensions without causing damage to the natural lash, which is a delicate process as you can imagine!

After that, they need to reassess your lash line so that they can recreate the beauty and balance of your extensions and work to fill in the gaps, while blending the old extensions with the new. Sometimes this isn’t as easy as it sounds if there are no lashes in a gap that are able to handle taking an extension.

So, it’s easy to see why coming in more often for fills makes it easier and faster for your artist to recreate beautifully balanced, luscious lashes for you!