As we age, our eyelashes grow shorter – but there are solutions Women feel they look better with velvety, sweeping eyelashes. But our eyelashes become shorter and sparser with age as hair follicles shrink and thinner, weaker lashes are produced. In addition, the growth cycle shortens from 150 to 90 days. The shorter growth cycle cheats our lashes of the growing time they once enjoyed, as growth is stunted at around three months instead of growing on for the full five. A new growth cycle is scheduled and cannot be delayed. So the existing lashes must fall out at three quarters of the length they used to get to. Why does this shorter growth cycle come into effect? Probably because, once we have shut up shop, reproductively speaking, nature conspires to make us less attractive to the opposite sex. What’s the point if a baby won’t result? It’s the same...
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