Nouveau Lash Extensions

For my 21st birthday last year I decided to have eyelash extensions. The nouveau eyelash website claims that they are semi-permanent lashes that last upto 6 weeks. The lashes are waterproof so taking showers/swimming etc do not affect the lasting time of the eyelashes.

The beautician who applied my eyelashes told me about different tips that make the eyelashes last longer, such as not using mascara on them, as there is a chemical in mascaras that can affect the glue causing the eyelashes to fall out.

After the eyelashes were applied, they felt quite heavy and my eyes felt as though they were wet, like I had been crying. The following day these feelings had gone and I couldn't feel the eyelashes.

Around 3/4 days later the eyelashes looked a lot better as they had fanned out and appeared a lot more natural.

After a hot shower, every now and then some of the eyelashes came out. I also found it difficult to apply mascara to the bottom of my eyelashes with out them touching the top lashes.

Around a week and a half later several eyelashes had come out, but were not too noticeable, although I did have to make a trip back to the beautician because some had fallen out and I noticed a gap that looked odd.

For one of the events that I wanted the eyelashes for, I ended up wearing a strip of false lashes, as I didnt quite get the thick full long glam look that I wanted. I felt that the lashes were better for a glam day look, but nothing that a subtle pair of strip lashes couldn't achieve.

3 weeks later and I went back to the beautician for a set of infills. The set of eyelashes looked a lot better the second time round, being fuller, and more even along the eyelid.

Washing eye make up off my eyes and bottom eyelashes became a problem. When wearing a strong long lasting liquid eyeliner thats tough to remove anyway, was worsened with the eyelash extensions.
It was almost impossible to remove eyeliner or mascara without taking out a few eyelashes along the way. The glue would get caught on the cotton wool which was really uncomfortable, and when you eventually managed to unhook the glue from the cotton wool and take out the eyelash, I noticed about 4 of my own eyelashes attached to the individual nouveau lash!

After a trip to new york and several birthday celebrations, I had the lashes professionally removed by the beautician. It felt really nice to have them taken off, like when you have a hair cut and all your horrible split ends are removed! However, I noticed that my own lashes appeared very short and I ended up wearing strip lashes for around a week later.

Pictures 1,2&3 are immediately after, and picture 4 was after the 2nd maintenance around 6 weeks later. 

Would I recommend them? Yes, but for special occasions such as a holiday/wedding or if you like the day time glam look. The maintenance is not that expensive, I think it is an affordable luxury if you have the patience and time to make repeat visits to the beautician or have a mobile beautician.