answer would be mascara. Why? Because it enhances our eyes by defining them, making them larger, and giving us those long full lashes to bat around.Mascara meet your match…Introducing Latisse™. This is the miracle that woman around the world have been waiting for! This new product was developed from the makers of Botox® and Juvederm™ (Allergan), and is the first and only science-based treatment proven to grow longer, thicker, darker eyelashes. It treats a medical condition called hypotrichosis – inadequate or not enough lashes. I think it’s safe to say that 99.9% of my girlfriends have hypotrichosis, or if they didn’t before, they do now!
I’ve been using this product for about a month now, and let me be the first to tell you…it works! My eyelashes actually touch the tops of my eyelids. I was wearing my sunglasses yesterday and noticed that I had to move them down my nose because my eyelashes kept hitting the lens! It’s incredible what this product can do!I spoke with the Allergan rep who calls on my office. This drug (yes it’s a drug that has to be prescribed to you or you can get it at a doctors office), was originally a drug formulated for glaucoma (an eye disease where the pressure behind the eye is very high). Glaucoma is a disease typically seen in older patients, and apparently these patients continuously went to physician offices complaining that their lashes were too long and needed to be trimmed!
So now the cosmetic and beauty industry has one more product for people to obsess over...it is worth it, trust me! The recommend treatment time is every night for 16 weeks and twice a week thereafter for maintenance. I’m only 5 weeks in so we’ll have to wait and see how my lashes look at 16 weeks.
Here’s to long, thick, beautiful lashes!
Don’t forget that this is a prescription, and not all people qualify to receive this drug. If you are pregnant or nursing or have a history of glaucoma, you should not use this medication.
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I was born.. without any makeup on :-)
Hi Michael,
Thank you for your comment. Though I do agree with you that drugs that were formulated for Glaucoma, should be used specifically for that disease. Latisse (a lower potency of bimatoprost the active ingredient in both drugs) was FDA approved specifically for hypotrichosis (inadequate lashes).
In the clinical trials, out of 278 healthy patients with no active eye disease there were only a few adverse effects noted. Common adverse events observed included eye redness (3.6%), itchy eyes (3.6%) and skin hyperpigmentation (2.9%). Because the drug is not placed in the eye, rather on the upper eyelid only, systemic effects are minimal to none.
I am a firm believer of utilizing nutrients for preventative reasons as well, and think that a more natural way of treating disease is greatly beneficial to the human body. Latisee, unlike Lumigan, was not meant to treat glaucoma or decrease intraocular pressure. Part of medicine and the advancements of the field are due in part to side effects of drugs...case in point: Viagra, which was in clinical trials to be a blood pressure lowering drug when a particular side effect became the desire for male participants.
So it appears that both sexes are now able to enjoy the side effects of a few drugs on the market to "enhance" particular parts of their body.
Ms.Derma, I have tried Latisse and don't consider it to be the "miracle" product women have been waiting for!! I got extremely red and itchy eyelids from this product and feel I just wasted $120.00. It's a shame, but reality! On the other hand, I've also used something called Revitalash to facilitate lash growth. I got great results from it and the tube lasted about 5 months. I'm kicking myself for straying... I'm going back to what's safe AND works!!!
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