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Saturday, 4 July 2009
Human Hair Eyelashes: Just Eeewwww
I was shown a pair of human hair false eyelashes yesterday - the most beautiful, fluffy, sweeping false lashes I've ever seen. But, despite the assurances that the hair is ethically sourced (they are made from head hair - not other people's actual lashes - hmm, the harvesting issues of that don't bear thinking about!) I just can't help wondering under what circumstances you'd ever want or need to sell your own hair to make lashes for other people? What ever way you look at it, those circumstances can't be good. I've seen programmes and read features about how human hair is obtained and with the rarest exceptions, almost all come from countries where the poverty rate is high and selling hair is a desperate way to make money. There is something so tasteless and, well, just plain wrong, about wearing someone else's hair to make your eyelashes look pretty. Worse yet, I suspect the demand for these will be high and seen as somehow superior to synthetic lashes. With amazing mascaras, the new breed of lash growers and high quality synthetic lashes, when would you ever need to go down this seedy real hair route?
My response: Actually, a lot of false eyelashes currently on the market are made with real human hair.
And yes, I use them. And prefer them. I see nothing wrong with it personally.
Not quite sure why you think it matters why people sell their hair, either. They sell it because they want to. And they want to for whatever reason they personally have. Buying isn't hurting at all. And the even if the hair in the pair of eyelashes I wore today came from some impoverished woman in a third world country who was trying to make some money to feed her family, that doesn't make the hair and/or lashes low quality.
And I'd like to know why it's so wrong to wear "someone else's hair to make your eyelashes look pretty" yet it isn't wrong for people to wear wigs or hair pieces made from donated or sold hair? People with diseases and illness causing them to lose hair are in that group as well, don't forget, because they want their hair to look pretty, too.
Final note: In the end, the author of the other blog is just as entitled to their own opinion as I am to mine. And there's no harm in a little debate now and then :)
But what are your thoughts? Agree with me? Agree with the other blogger? Share!
I never buy human hair wig or eye lashes:(((
ReplyDeletewow this is lovely :) pls share with me how you avoid rubbing eyes while you having eyeshadow and false eyelashes.
ReplyDeleteYour comment has been approved and posted on my blog: you are right - no harm in debate athough I am sorry you think I'm an idiot for having an opposing view. BBBX
ReplyDeleteI'm with you M.L.! What the hell is the problem?? It's not like ppl are dying, their just cutting their hair. It'll grow back.
ReplyDeleteOh god, you should really grow up, calling the blog 'stupid people' for something thats completely valid, 'a little debate' if it was a debate there would not be any put downs. Just becos someone choses not to wear real hair for there lashes for perfectly valid reasons. Just because you don't care what goes on your poxy lashes.
ReplyDeleteShe said what was being said was idiotic, she called no one an idiot. I think it's more idiotic that someone is caring what other people are doing with their own damn hair. If that woman wants to give up her hair, let her do it. And so many oriental people sell these products and they are from the same countries that people do it. If it was truly harmful I highly doubt they'd be over here supporting it, especially since the women I see working in the shops are very in touch with their culture and people at home. I know this post is old, but i felt that need to be said. I wear both human hair extensions and human hair eyelashes.
ReplyDeleteok so...no one has addressed this issue...they need money, they are desperate" as was put, for one reason or another, and NEEDED that money for food or various other reasons....so we DONT buy it? i'm not getting how that is helping them!? so we stop buying, their hair stops being worth anything...then what?!?! what do they do then!? thats how they are getting the money they so desperately need..what is left for them then? to do something even more desperate?!
ReplyDeleteit just doesn't make any rational sense...how is that HELPING them at all to not buy?
AND...it grows back...so like...?
I agree with you. Besides when we buy human hair falsies, just think that we are helping the impoverished and poor people of whatever countries its coming from. The Blogger might have been grossed out on the thought of how it's being harvested, but not where its actually coming from. But with the latest technology in zapping bacterias, i wouldn't even worry about it. I feel great, just the thought of buying falsies that are made of human hair, knowing that it's putting food on someone else table and actually helping someone achieve a better life, go out there and make a change!
ReplyDeleteok so...no one has addressed this issue...they need money, they are desperate" as was put, for one reason or another, and NEEDED that money for food or various other reasons....so we DONT buy it? i'm not getting how that is helping them!? so we stop buying, their hair stops being worth anything...then what?!?! what do they do then!? thats how they are getting the money they so desperately need..what is left for them then? to do something even more desperate?!
ReplyDeleteit just doesn't make any rational sense...how is that HELPING them at all to not buy?
AND...it grows back...so like...?
I agree with you. Besides when we buy human hair falsies, just think that we are helping the impoverished and poor people of whatever countries its coming from. The Blogger might have been grossed out on the thought of how it's being harvested, but not where its actually coming from. But with the latest technology in zapping bacterias, i wouldn't even worry about it. I feel great, just the thought of buying falsies that are made of human hair, knowing that it's putting food on someone else table and actually helping someone achieve a better life, go out there and make a change!
ReplyDeleteShe said what was being said was idiotic, she called no one an idiot. I think it's more idiotic that someone is caring what other people are doing with their own damn hair. If that woman wants to give up her hair, let her do it. And so many oriental people sell these products and they are from the same countries that people do it. If it was truly harmful I highly doubt they'd be over here supporting it, especially since the women I see working in the shops are very in touch with their culture and people at home. I know this post is old, but i felt that need to be said. I wear both human hair extensions and human hair eyelashes.
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