Louise McSharry: How to grow, curl and volumise your lashes

If your lashes are in bad shape, there’s lots you can do to help them, says our beauty guru

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Louise McSharry

My lashes are in a bad way. We’ve been on a journey of sorts ever since I lost them through chemotherapy. Although if I’m honest, it probably started long before that. As a fair-haired person, the discovery of mascara at around age 12 was life changing. I went from invisible lashed ‘bald eagle’ status (a term I loved to use to describe myself back then), to a five-coats-of-mascara-ALWAYS girly and I loved it.

Darkening my lashes transformed my face, and I never looked back. Until they fell out, of course. Then the obsession intensified, as I watched them slowly grow back, only to fall out again repeatedly over the next several years.