EYELASHES RENEWED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 196, 19 August 1899, Page 3 (Supplement)

EYELASHES RENEWED.

UNATTRACTIVE EYES MAY BE MADE IRRESISTIBLE.

Transplanted eyelashes and eyebrows are the latest things in the

way of personal adornment. Only the brave and rich can patronise the new method at present, for besides being painful and costly it takes a long time to accomplish it.

In Paris and London, where the idea originated, there are specialists | who make a handsome living out of the process of transplanting- hair from the head to the eyebrows or eyelashes. The specialist works by putting in, not on, the new eyelashes and brows wherever they are absent or grow thin, and so cunning is he in his work that not even the closest scriir tiny can detect any difference. By means of the new process, it is said, eyes which are at ordinary times only passable become languishing in their expression, while eyes which Mere previously considered tine have their beauty much enhanced. This is the way the new eyelashes are put in:—An ordinary tine needlu is threaded with a long hair, generally taken from the head of the person to be operated upon. The lower border of the eyelid is then thoroughly cleaned, and in order that the process may be as painless as possible, rubbed with a solution of cocaine,. The operator then by a few skilful touches runs his needle through the extreme edges of the eyelid between the epidermis and the lower border of the cartilage of the tragus. The needle passes in and out along the edge of the lid, leaving its hair thread in loops of carefully graduated length. When this has been done another and another length of hair is sewed through the lid until finally there are a dozen or more loops projecting. Ry this time the effect of the cocaine has been lost and the operator is obliged to desist and put off the further "sowing of hair" for another sitting. The next step in the pi.-ocess is cutting off and trimming the ends of the loops, and the result is a fine, thick, long set of-eyelashes. It is the finishing touch, that is to- come, that makes them look like nature's own. When they are first cut they stick put in the most singular fashion, giving the person operated upon the most uncanny look. The operator's next step is to take curling- tongs, made of silver, and no larger than knitting needles, and to give them the curve which is essential to perfect beauty. Then the eyes are carefully bandaged and kept so until the following day. Most of the hairs that have been transplanted take root and grow, but a few of them fall out and have to be attended to. For the first month it is necessary to curl the new eyelashes every day. but after that they become ; properly assimilated, and it is not j necessary to give them any further attention. Eyebrow? are rioetorec! in thp war. but th°rp is not so much r»:iin nssnoiitpd with fhe process as in ; transplanting eyelashes.