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? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jun/25/india.theobserver
Human Hair Eyelashes: Just Eeewwww
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8 responses to “Human Hair Eyelashes: Just Eeewwww”
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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.
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I know it will be sanitised, but I just couldn’t imagine putting someone else’s hair that near to my eye. I will stick with the false falsies, I think.
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I really don’t like the idea of someone else’s hair that near my eyes, before I even begin to think of the ethical issues, that’s honestly my first thought! Secondly I guess some of what Mama Laura has pointed out is worth a thought too – specifically the stuff about cancer victims etc. But still, something about the thought of human hair just sounds icky – I won’t be buying these!
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where can I buy these?? haha! Yes I’d buy them in a heartbeat, women sell their hair often for religious reasons, otherwise to make a bob or two.. at the end of the day it grows back, they weren’t physically forced and it didn’t physically hurt. And it can make us look prettier, so it’s all in a good cause!!! I don’t understand why you’re so offended by it?
I’m more troubled by animal by-products in my lipstick, and that type of thing…
xGail
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Waitttttt a moment. So we can have real human hair stitched on to out scalps (now that is quite yukky – hair thats been growing for years on someone else) but we can’t have a teeny weeny bit of hair on our lashes!??!
Don’t see the problem with it I think they should harvest it from good looking furry animals too. 🙂
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I don’t see how anyone could think that a cancer patient wearing a wig made out of human hair is in any way comparable. Having fake lashes made out of real hair is completely unnecessary, and there is nothing strange about someone thinking that its odd to do so,especially knowing where a lot of the hair comes from. Those women aren’t jumping for joy to cut off their hair, even if it does help put food on the table. And contrary to what was said, when there are hair rules associated with religion, it’s to prevent cutting of the woman’s hair.
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I don’t understand why people are so grossed out or scared to wear eyelashes made from fully sanitised (and totally safe) human head hair – they would prefer to wear synthetic ones made of 100% completely unnatural materials?
Regarding the point of hair rules associated with religion – in fact many women shave their heads for cultural or social reasons.
Surely it’s the ethical thing in this day and age to recycle? And why shouldn’t that include our hair?!
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I personally have really sensitive eyes and have tried both alternatives – the natural lashes were much better for me!
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