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1. They protect your eyes.

Similar our eyebrows, the tiny hairs on our lids keep clay, sweat, water, and other unwanted droppings out of the mode. Besides bad they sometimes autumn into your middle themselves Unfortunately, they sometimes fall onto your eye causing a stray hair fall into your eyeball.

ii. They autumn out daily.

Really, anywhere from one to five will drop out each day. And at iii months, an eyelash'due south growth wheel is much shorter than the pilus on your head — which is one reason why they don't grow very long.

3. Lashes grow in three periods.

In that location's the anagen phase (active growth flow), the catagen phase (transitional period), and the telogen phase (resting period). And at any given time, 90% of your lashes are in the active growth phase where they grow about .16 millimeters a day. And so, if you cut your lashes they will grow back... it will just have about five months.

4. There's a big difference between your upper and lower lashes.

The hairs on your top chapeau are much fuller than your lower lashline. In fact, they're almost twice as total with about 200 to 300 lashes. (Your lower hat has virtually 100.)

5. They vary in length, as well.

The middle lashes are generally much longer than the sides.

six. The longest eyelash on tape was two.75 inches long.

Really, information technology was six.99 centimeters to exist exact. And believe it or not, a guy holds this record. In comparison, the boilerplate lash length is nearly ten millimeters.

vii. Tiny mites live in your eyelashes.

But don't worry — you need them. Chosen Demodex, they remove dirt and droppings, and help clean your lash follicles. (A clogged lash follicle tin can lead to a painful sty, and so be thankful for those tiny bugs!)

8. We've been styling them since 4000 BC.

Early eyelash tools have been establish in Aboriginal Egypt, only the modern mascara as we know it was created in 1913 in France past Rimmel. However, mascara didn't go pop in America until Maybelline debuted their first formula, which was a mixture of coal and Vaseline.

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