Medicine for your eyelashes

Lumigan is an ophthalmic solution commonly used by people with open-angle glaucoma, to regulate high eye pressure. Human body produces a fluid called prostamides which, in the eyes, have the function of regulating the pressure by opening drainage canals. Lumigan plays the role of prostamides in people who have eyesight problems.

However, this solution has been recently used with esthetic purposes. Lumigan turned to have side effects such as increasing the amount of brown pigment in the iris. Even though this is not a dangerous process as it is not related to cancer, the side effects are not normal whatsoever. In addition to that, the medicament darks not only the eyelid skin, but also the eyelashes.

As many of you might know, eyelashes have been the subject of esthetic industry for long time, to solve women´s attractiveness problem. Lumigan has been reported to make eyelashes grow longer, darker, and thicker. Putting these two facts together, we have as a result the use of Lumigan to make eyelashes grow. In other words, women are using medicine to solve beauty issues. Won’t it be hazardous?  Despite the fact that studies don´t related to cancer, they don’t show what it can cause in the long term. Would you use it in order to look prettier?

Look this photos with the "before and after Lumigan application"