Balancing Beauty: Hormonal Influences on Your Lashes and Brows
In the pursuit of perfect lashes and brows, one often overlooked factor is how your body's hormones and medications can impact the outcome of popular beauty treatments like lash lifts and brow laminations.
Understanding potential issues that can arise from hormonal changes and medications can help you tailor your beauty regimen accordingly.
Hormonal Fluctuations and Challenges:
Hormones play a vital role in regulating various bodily functions, including hair growth. Fluctuations in hormone levels due to puberty, pregnancy, menopause, or medical conditions can pose challenges for lash lifts and brow laminations.
Effects of Hormonal Changes:
Puberty: Hormonal surges during puberty can lead to thicker and longer lashes and brows, which may affect the results of lash lifts and brow laminations - in most cases, it is a positive result.
Pregnancy: Pregnancy hormones can cause changes in hair growth patterns, potentially affecting the effectiveness and longevity of lash and brow treatments. Similarly breast feeding can lead to a lash lift not lifting as desired due to ongoing hormonal shifting.
Menopause: Hormonal shifts during menopause can result in thinning lashes and brows, at times posing a challenge for achieving desired results with lash lifts and brow laminations. But this is always an individual thing.
Impact of Medications:
Certain medications, like those for thyroid conditions, acne or hormonal birth control, can alter hormone levels, potentially posing challenges for lash and brow treatments.
Thyroid Medications: Thyroid medications, vital for hair growth, can influence the effectiveness and longevity of lash and brow treatments.
Hormonal Birth Control: Hormonal contraceptives can affect hormone levels, potentially influencing the growth and thickness of lashes and brows and, consequently, the results of lash lift and brow lamination treatments.
Dermatological Medications (e.g., Accutane): Acne or dermatological medications, such as Accutane, may affect lash and brow health and growth. These medications can impact the texture and quality of hair, potentially influencing the results of lash lift and brow lamination treatments. Generally speaking, it’s not ideal to have a lash lift while on these strong medications.
Navigating Treatment Challenges:
Understanding how medications can affect lash lift and brow lamination treatments is crucial for a successful outcome. It's vital to communicate any hormonal changes or medications you're taking prior to your treatment.
In most cases, despite having hormone related changes or being on medication, clients will wish to proceed with the treatment. For the majority of the time, the outcome is successful. However it may not always produce the desired result or in rare cases, the hair will not lift at all or will drop in a shorter period of time than usual.
Awareness of how hormones and medications can impact lash lift and brow lamination treatments helps you make informed decisions to address challenges that may arise. If you have any questions, please contact me in advance for a chat.
