Lash Lift Aftercare
Lash Lift Aftercare with Essential Beauty
A Lash Lift is quickly becoming one of our most popular services at Essential Beauty & Piercing and caring for your lifted lashes is important! We have been Australia’s beauty experts since 1990 and thoroughly understand the importance of caring for your body in the salon and out.
Lash lifts, curl, lift and create a lengthened look to your lashes. We love a lash lift when paired with a lash tint, for that extra pop and mascara-like effect! If you’re looking for all things lash lift preparation and lash lift aftercare, keep reading.
On the day of your appointment, it is important to ensure your lashes are ready for their lift:
- It is best to arrive to your Lash Lift appointment wearing no eye makeup
- Please do not curl your lashes with an eyelash curler on the day
- Do not wear contact lenses to your appointment
Our Beauty Therapists aim to deliver the best result possible at your first lash lift appointment. However, as we do not know how your lashes will respond to the lifting solutions, every first-time lash lift client has a maximum amount of time that the solution can be left on the lashes. This is to ensure your lashes stay strong and healthy.
At your next visit we can establish a more tailored curl and lift to get the best results possible. The feedback you give regarding the lift and curl e.g. more of a lift, more curl or less curl helps us tailor your treatment to better suit your style preference.
Understanding Rods vs. Shields
During your lash lift, your Beauty Therapist may use either a rod or a shield to create the lash lift, depending on your natural lashes and desired outcome:
Rods: These are cylindrical silicone tools that create a natural, soft curl, like a C. They’re ideal for clients seeking a subtle enhancement and are often used for longer lashes or those with downward growth.
Shields: These flatter silicone forms provide a more dramatic lift, resulting in a bold, eye-opening effect similar to an L curl. Shields are suitable for clients desiring a more pronounced lift, especially those with shorter or straighter lashes. The shield is preferable for people with hooded eyelids.
Your therapist will assess your lash length, eye shape, and personal preferences to choose the most suitable option, ensuring a customised and flattering result.


Monitoring Lash Growth & Maintenance
It’s important to monitor how your lashes respond over the coming weeks, as the longevity of a lash lift can vary depending on your natural lash growth cycle. Since we don’t know which phase of the growth cycle your lashes were in during your appointment, results can last anywhere from 4 to 8 weeks.
Hair Growth Cycle:
Anagen (growth phase): Follicle is actively growing a hair and will do so until the hair reaches the end of this phase.
Catagen (transition phase): The hair separates from the follicle but remains in place.
Telogen (rest phase): The hair stops growing and may or may not fall out, and a new hair is beginning to form in the follicle.
To keep your lashes looking their best, we recommend consistency with your appointments. Regular visits help maintain optimal lift and curl, ensuring your lashes always look fresh and defined.
For the best outcome, we also advise returning to the same salon and therapist. This allows your Beauty Therapist to build on the results of your first appointment, making adjustments such as extending the time the solution is left on—if needed—based on how your lashes responded initially.
By maintaining regular treatments and staying with the same professional, you’ll achieve long-lasting, beautiful results tailored specifically to you.
This depends on how quickly your lashes grow but results typically last six to eight weeks. Your lashes will look their most dramatic during the first 4 weeks, but it is important to wait until your full lash cycle is over before having another lift. To keep your eyelashes looking amazing, we recommend getting another lash tint halfway through the life of your lash lift.
Professional eyelash tinting colours your natural eyelashes for up to 4 weeks.
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Waxing is a safe and efficient way to remove all the hairs you can see, and the fine hairs you can’t see! Waxing is suitable for all hair colours, thicknesses and skin types, making it suitable for everyone. Our Beauty Therapists are highly trained and experienced and will always ensure your salon experience is an enjoyable and positive one. Waxing also offers smooth skin with long lasting results. Your hair will grow back finer, which means that there is no irritation, itchiness or prickliness like you experience after shaving.
Yes! At Essential Beauty, our piercing prices include high-polish implant grade surgical steel jewellery from our standard design range. Our surgical steel jewellery is hypoallergenic and great for initial piercings. Jewellery upgrades are available and include custom flat back labret designs, rings and more. Our jewellery upgrade options include titanium, nickel-free cobalt chrome, Bioplast, 18ct gold and 24ct gold PVD, rose gold PVD or black PVD
We strictly pierce with our autoclave sterilised jewellery.
Yes! Our trained Beauty Therapists specialise in waxing for both men and women. Male hair can be thicker and denser in some areas, making them more prone to ingrown hairs. We highly recommend the use of Ingrostopper after all male waxing, to soften the follicle and gently exfoliate, reducing the risk of ingrown hairs.
Book your next appointment online or give your local salon a call/visit to learn more.
Face waxing leaves your skin silky and smooth for 2-3 weeks! By removing thick, stubborn growth and all the fine vellus hairs (peach fuzz), it makes the perfect blank canvas for makeup. Waxing also removes all hairs from the root, causing the hair follicles to weaken over time, which eventually leads to less growth! Facial waxing also assists in the absorption of skincare, as no product is left on the surface surrounding the hairs.
Some popular face waxing styles include the eyebrows, upper lip (moustache wax), chin, sideburns, forehead and more!
We strictly pierce with autoclave sterilised jewellery; this is why we cannot pierce you with jewellery you already own and bring in. It is also impossible for us to determine the quality of the materials used in the jewellery, and therefore, it may not be safe for us to use your own jewellery for initial piercings.
We have a great range of jewellery upgrade options; we are confident you will find the perfect piece of jewellery for you! Learn more about our upgrade options here.