Clear vs. Black Adhesives for Eyelash Extensions

Have you ever experienced an allergy to eyelash extension adhesive?
If so, is your body allergic to formaldehyde? If you answered no,
Do you have an allergy to cyanoacrylates? If no again,
Are you allergic to (in other competitor adhesive formulations, rubber, acrylics, etc.) ?
if you answered no again,
Are you allergic to Carbon Black?

What is Carbon Black?

Carbon Black is on of the few ingredients in a majority of eyelash extension adhesives on the market today. This ingredient is essentially a dye, which makes the adhesive "Black."It's needed in the adhesive to help blend the bonds of natural lashes and lash extensions. The bond (adhesive) that combines the two is black, helping to camouflage natural lashes and extensions. It acts as a black coating, to help blend the two together at the same time. Because of this, no eyelash tinting needs to be done, especially for blondes or lighter hair colored clients.

As amazing as the carbon black provides, unfortunately for the lucky few clients, they may have an allergy to this ingredient.
Some clients may have an allergy to eye shadows, eye liners, pigments, or other cosmetics. Mainly because there is Carbon Black present, or particular dyes similar to carbon black. Even though cosmetics are touching the skin and lash extensions are not, clients who are ultra sensitive might still experience some problems.
Even though lash extensions are applied at least 1mm away from the skin, some clients that even by blink or have there eyes closed (while sleeping) will obviously be touching the skin, which can be enough to have sensitivities or allergies both big or small.

What some lash extension technicians, and some clients, is that Carbon Black may be the culprit of lash extension problems, allergies, or sensitivities. Allergic reactions are rare occurrences and are usually the result of incorrect eyelash extension application, ingredients in products/ poor products used (including synthetic, mink, latex, fragrance, formaldehyde, etc.), seasonal allergen or improper at-home care. Clients are advised to remove contact lenses prior to an eyelash extension application.

But FEAR NOT! We have a back up that will be crystal clear.
No, litterally crystal clear. 

Client with Pigmentation disorder: white lashes applied with clear adhesive.

 Clear Eyelash Extension Adhesives do not contain the Carbon Black ingredients!
Which has it's pro's and con's. The bond will be clear, not black.
With Blonde or lighter hair colored clients, this may be a tiny bit more noticeable, however usually the extension is black  both semi mink and mink, which helps camouflage the natural lash color.
A fix to this could be lash tinting or lash tinting with henna (or natural dyes - make sure it contains no carbon black or other chemicals.) This can help conceal natural lash colors with lash extension color since the bond (adhesive) will be clear.
However, no black bonds is a small price to pay, when you can still have extensions.
Just because lash extension adhesive is clear, it still has the same lash life as adhesives with carbon black.

This is also great for colored lashes, to give that extra pop of color, that is full through the entire lash. (Usually applied with black adhesive can make the colored lashes appear as "two-tone." That way you only get 1/2 the lash of color, since the other 1/2 is black. With clear adhesive, you get all the color! As the picture above, even clients with pigmentation loss and medical issues will have benefits with clear adhesive. My client, who had pigmentation loss on parts of her skin, the corner of her eyebrow, and a majority of her right eye, wanted to not camouflage but accentuate her natural beauty. She is a gorgeous woman, even with one eye with white lashes and one with black!

This opened tons of new questions and has opened new doors for sensitive, allergy, and color clients!
 This may be the answer for clients to avoid a particular irritant or allergy.

Say Goodbye to Carbon Black: Irritation and Allergies!
Ask us about our Crystal Clear Adhesive at (949) 305-5593