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What Purpose Do Eyelashes Serve?

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Summary: Eyelashes keep dirt out of the eye and help initiate an automatic response to close when objects get to close due to their sensitivity. Learn how eyelashes accentuate and protect the eye with information from an experienced cosmetologist in this free video on beauty.

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By Connie Griesheimer
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Connie Griesheimer has more than 20 years of experience in beauty and makeup. She studied at John Robert Powers Agency before working for Jean Lewis, who is the head makeup artist of...read more

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"Do eyelashes serve a purpose? This is CG with Lips and More. What are the purposes of your eyelashes? Well first of all, we need eyelashes to help protect our eyes. They serve sort of like the whiskers on your cat. They're for sensitivity. You get too close to the eye, say the eye closes because I've touched her eyelashes and that's automatic response that we all have. They keep dirt out of the eye area, help protect the eye that way. Now also as you know, as women, we like to look beautiful. So eyelashes can serve a second purpose in the fact that we can decorate our eyes so to speak. The eyelashes, we can color them, we can perm them, we can put color on them and we can highlight them. So there you go. To recap it, the purpose of eyelashes, number one, protect the eye area. Keep the sensitivity of the eye so nothing comes to harm to your eyes, that's why an eyelash will close when you feel, the eye will close when you touch the eyelash and also as I said for women then, its a beauty thing. We can decorate and decorate the eyelashes in numerous ways. So there you go. That's a recap for protection of what the purpose of the eyelashes are for. This is CG with Lips and More and the greatest gift is the gift of beauty."

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