Tiktok video: "Worst lash extension experience ever."

Warning: Some photos are disturbing!🤯😳 

If you haven’t seen the viral lash video circulating, as a caution I will say it’s VERY disturbing and sad. Though I can't post the video, I do have screenshots from the videos. 

tiktok part 2

I was browsing around on a couple different lash forums when I had stumbled across some really disturbing pictures and video. The pictures and videos are posted to tiktok and are of a girl missing her eyelid. The girl posting these videos says things like, “tell me your worst lash extension experience? I’ll go first.” She than says “watch part 2” so she can explain what happened. Part 2 is a video of her eyelid in various stages of the trauma, surgery, and post op. She than goes on to say that “so this was from my lash extensions. Um, worst experience of my life. And i’ll do a part 2.” Technically a part two, though tiktok took down her first video. Her third video she described receiving hate comments. (Which is probably right considering she has mislead a lot of people that her injury was caused by lash extension services and or her lash tech.)  She starts to than described what happened saying, “so the situation was NOT from the lashes itself, it happened at the lash techs house. She had a chihuahua. And right when I got my lashes done he jumped up and bit me in the face.” She describes it happened so fast. The tech called 911 where the poor girl was treated at the hospital. In another video she posts she says, “she didn’t know how it really happened.” 

My personal and professional opinion?

tik tok part 1

First,

This is just awful across the board. 

Yet, this girl misled A LOT of people with the remarks and comments she made.😡 And led people on a few days before clearing up what actually happened. (And even then, the lines are blurred.) To say that her eyelid fell off because of her lash extensions or insinuating that this was caused by the service or her technician is just WRONG. At the end of the day, I feel sorry for both her and the tech. 

Secondly,

I’m not sure which state this happened in, but not every state has eyelash extensions services regulated. To the states that do you have eyelash extensions regulated, most states require technicians to have either a cosmetology or aesthetician license. However (in most states) the service is not part of a state board test nor is it taught in most beauty school curriculums. The only state that has eyelash extensions services truly regulated is Texas. 

Some may not agree with what the statement i’m about to make. BUT, I’m not sure if this technician is licensed or not, but it’s definitely a red flag that she’s working from home.

 

Depending on each state, some states do allow in-home beauty salons, lash rooms, etc. however, there are many rules. Such as in some states the regulation requires the room or beauty space must have a separate entrance and their own set of restrooms. 

Before eyelash extension services is regulated regulated when I first started lashing, people back then worked from home before lash rooms, salons, etc. existed. As soon as the service became regulated in many states, some technicians did not have the proper licensing to continue to do lashes legally and could not work in salons, etc. So some have continued to work discreetly from home. this can be incredibly sketchy, especially for the fact that no insurance company will protect you unlicensed (depending on the state regulation of course.) 

Today, when I hear that lash techs work from home, I think of 6 things,

Either,

1. They are unlicensed. And can’t work in a place. 
2. Going to beauty school/still unlicensed. (Practicing or making some extra cash.)
3. Saving money/cutting corners because renting a room/space elsewhere is too expensive or they don’t want to work for anyone else.
4. They are “mobile.”
5. In the very rare occurrence, a tech has decided to work from home. Has all proper licensing and has followed all state board regulations.
6. Trying to bounce back from the pandemic. 

There’s truly no right or wrong answer to any of these.

Personally, I find it lacking professionally, not to mention in any of these cases it breaks many state board regulations except for #5. 

Next,

everyone that is licensed knows that state board really and truly only cares about two things. That everyone has the proper licensing, and that licensees are following all health safety and sanitation protocols.

Having a (pet) dog in the room is a HUGE Health, safety and sanitation is against the rules and is a huge liability. Unless the pet/dog is a licensed service animal.

Most people going to a place of business will not bring their dog or pet. It’s an automatic common courtesy. 

However, when you’re going to someone’s house or if a technician is mobile and coming to your home for lashes, there’s a lot of variables. Either the client or the technician could have an unfriendly or too friendly pet or dog. Making the service difficult and problematic. Not to mention, it breaks every health, safety, and sanitation code. Not to mention disregard disregard for someone’s possible allergies.

Nobody wants their pet jumping up on them during the service, same with the technician. Our Tweezers are sharp, we’re doing a service near the eyes, it’s a recipe for disaster. The liability is too great.

Even for the fully licensed and regulated working from home technicians, it’s always best to put your pet in the other room while working. 

It’s moments like these videos that are a major warning of why it’s so important.

As a pet owner to a 10 lbs. chihuahua myself, I absolutely love and adore animals. I realize the salon reality, i’ve had some clients bring their pets. As a common courtesy most of them have given me a heads up before their appointments. And luckily all of them have very mellow and sweet animals that did nothing but sleep the entire time. As a last resort, I’ve been forced to bring my own chi to work, BUT, knowing my dog, she is very mellow and just sleeps the entire time. 

My chi with one of my clients/friends.

Now, as a pet owner, I wouldn’t bring my pet. But, for whatever circumstance wether it was a last resort type of situation or working from home, etc. I would never, ever, bring my pet or allow my pet in the room that was antisocial, anxious, territorial, “nippy”, hyper, and/or vicious. Unfortunately the Chihuahua breed has the reputation for being all of those things. Not all pets are like this, no. But as a pet owner, we should be aware of our pets behavior. After all, it’s our responsibility.

The girl in the video said the Chihuahua jumped up on her and bit her eyelid off. I believe her. But to what extent I’m not sure. I believe the Chihuahua attacked her, but a small Chihuahua jumping up on her while standing up? I don’t know if that’s possible. My Chihuahua can barely make it up the couch 😂. We literally have pet stairs everywhere in the house for her to get up on furniture. Now, I imagine she was possibly laying down. Their could’ve been some piece of furniture that the dog could’ve jumped up on and then jumped up on the table or the chair that she was laying on. OR she may not admit it, but she very well could’ve been in the dogs face, or tried to pick the dog up and the dog bit her

If she instigated the dog by trying to get too friendly, I wish she would take some responsibility. 

Yet, at the end of the day, the technician is at fault. She’s also the pet owner, and the pet should’ve been away from where her client while the service was taking place.

Period.

At the end of the day,

This whole saga is just sad.

Though I am beyond annoyed with the victim misleading people with her original videos, I do feel sorry for her. She’s traumatized and those feelings should be validated. 

Meanwhile, I feel sorry for the technician too. Though she is at fault, everyone just finally got over a terrible year with pandemic and things are slowly getting back to normal. I hope she has insurance to protect herself. I hope she’s licensed as well. I hope she’s learned a valuable lesson in this awful situation. What seems like a freak occurrence, has resulted I imagine in legal action, the victim posting horrible reviews and slandering her business, and I imagine she’ll have to put her pet down. 

No one wins. 

I just hope we can all learn from this.

I hope all states in the united states uses THIS as an example as why it is SO VITAL AND IMPORTANT to have our industry and lash extension services FULLY regulated.

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