Doll Beauty, Allure, Prima Lash, Lilly Lashes, Ardell- there are so many brands out there that are offering hundreds of different styles of false eyelashes for their customers.
Considering that the market for false eyelashes is predicted to reach $1.5 billion dollars in the next five years, according to abcNews, the need for lashes and more permanent options such as extensions is more apparent than ever. Lashes can add the drama and glam we need for a night-out (or, allotted socially distanced drinking slots now), a little bit of wispiness we might want for an everyday look, or even a romantic fluttery lash for a date.
I’ve used false eyelashes for years now, and have tried more permanent solutions such as LVL, but I want to make a move to vegan lashes. After recently finding out what went into the making of mink eyelashes, and even though some brands who sell them do still say that they are cruelty free, I want to permanently now use vegan lashes.
Are vegan lashes able to match up with any mink or faux mink styles that are on the market? Let’s find out.
I chose Prima Lash to try out some vegan lashes, as they have been one of my favourite lash brands for years and their lash range is super vast and affordable (including their vegan range!) and I picked up their pack of 5 in the style ‘Nanci’. They only cost £10, which is incredible as I got five pairs in the pack, and I was really excited to try them out. The website on Prima Lash says their vegan range is made from ‘synthetic hair’, instead of material such as mink.
When they arrived in the post, I tried them on immediately. Upon touch they were really light-weight, soft and fluffy, which is everything I look for in a lash, and once on my eye they looked nice and wispy. To place them on the eye, I first placed them on my lash line, to gage how much I needed to trim, and then trimmed some length off of the outer corner. Then, I applied a thin layer of lash glue, waited about 30 seconds for it to dry slightly, and then placed it carefully on my lash line. They looked and felt great.
A couple of days later I tried on the lashes again. I tried the same pair, as I like to reuse mine as much as possible, and they were absolutely fine again. I was going out for some table drinks with my flatmates and wanted to add the lashes for an extra oomph of glam and, just like all the other pairs I had bought, they didn’t come off and did the job.
I wanted to compare them to a pair of Lilly Lashes I own and have worn twice, like this vegan pair, to see if there was much of a difference. The Lilly Lashes pair is the style ‘Hollywood’, a 3D Mink Multi-Dimensional Cruelty Free strip lash. The price difference is pretty huge, with the Lilly Lashes pair being £30 compared to the ‘Nanci’ pack being £10, and the style of lashes is very different too as the ‘Hollywood’ is way more dramatic. However, to touch they felt extremely similar and the difference in quality to me was nothing.
So considering the fact that they are vegan, cheaper and are still an amazing quality, I’m going to stick with vegan lashes and try branching out into other brands that sell them!
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