Think you’ve seen it all when it comes to cosmetic surgery? Look more closely. Eyelash transplant surgery wants to become the new must-have procedure for women — and the occasional man — convinced that beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as in front of the eye itself.

Using procedures pioneered by the hair loss industry for balding men, surgeons are using “plug and sew” techniques to give women long, sweeping lashes once achieved only by glued on extensions and thick lashings of mascara.

And just like human hair — for that is the origin — these lashes just keep on growing.

Under the procedure, a small incision is made at the back of the scalp to remove 30 or 40 hair follicles which are carefully sewn one by one onto the patient’s eyelids. Only light sedation and local anesthetics are used and the cost is around $3,000 an eye.

The technique was first confined to patients who had suffered burns or congenital malformations of the eye. But word spread and about 80 percent are now done for cosmetic reasons.

The surgery is not for everyone. The transplanted eyelashes grow just like head hair and need to be trimmed regularly and sometimes curled. Very curly head hair makes for eyelashes with too much kink.

Uh — I’m willing to be a donor for some ear hair.



  1. woktiny says:

    No comments yet.

  2. Cognito says:

    Anyone out there able to photoshop the likely result?

  3. Awake says:

    Long thick hairs… I don’t even want to think about where they transplant them from.

  4. Angel H. Wong says:

    #3
    If they “new” eyelashes are curly then they come from the crotch.

  5. OhForTheLoveOf says:

    No comments?

    Because in the myriad of unimportant things we discuss, this is the most unimportant of them all?

  6. Ballenger says:

    Is there any plastic surgery that wasn’t originally “confined to patients who (have) suffered burns or congenital malformations” and then almost immediately gone elective cosmetic? Plastic Surgeons would be more creditable if they just published data on how many cubic feet of boob jobs they had to do, to buy that Maserati.


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