Yumi keratin lash lift in Cebu
Noticing the number of eyelash centers and salons everywhere offering lash extensions, it seems everyone wants to have longer, lusher lashes. And why wouldn’t you, since they open up the eyes and make them look more lifted and brighter. Almost everyone I know who tried eyelash extensions ended up regretting it because of the mess that falling extensions would make. For many, their real lashes sadly went with the fallen extensions, too.Apologies for giving false lashes a bad rep, but after hearing such feedback, I wanted to wait for a better technology. Now, the same eyelash treatment that stars like the Kardashians and Nadine Lustre get is easily available in Cebu! Mikee Li Bi Go of Winked PH now offers the Yumi Lashes treatment at Le Beau Monde Salon in Rivergate Complex, General Maxilom Ave. She went to Hong Kong to receive her training and certification from a Yumi trainer. Yumi is not the same as eyelash perming or extensions, but uses a special technique and products by Yumi to tint and lift the lashes. It involves using pigments, proteins, and vitamins to make lashes thicker, longer, and more curled. The treatment is very nourishing, similar to getting a treatment for your hair.
Yumi tools and products are imported from France and are organic, hypoallergenic, paraben-free, and safe even for pregnant women. Products are FDA and EU approved, and only technicians trained and certified by Yumi can do this procedure.
Here is exactly what a technician will do during a Yumi lash treatment:
Step 1: Add glue on the lids to attach silicon and anti-aging hydragel eye mask.
Step 2: With the glue, bring lashes upward on silicon and arrange lashes.
Step 3: Add Lift solution and let it set for a few minutes. This part of the whole procedure usually takes the most time. This will depend on length and thickness of lashes.
Step 4: Remove Lift. Arrange lashes again. Add Fix solution. This is to neutralise and recover the lashes from the Lift. Let it set for a few minutes
Step 5: Remove Fix. Add black infusion, a mixture of oxidant liquid and blue-black tint, to darken and thicken lashes. Set for 5 minutes.
Step 6: Add Nourish solution all over lashes while gently removing tint.
Step 7: Clean up lashes and add keratin.
Each step is totally painless and Mikee has a very light hand, so I enjoyed the session catching up on chit-chat. See my Before (top photo) and After:
Photo courtesy of Winked PH
I absolutely love the natural but noticeable effect. I'm glad that this is a treatment that not only looks good, but is actually nourishing for your lashes. It's all I need for my lashes when I go out with an almost bare face of just brows, concealer, and a dusting of powder on the T-zone.
Depending on what products you use on your eye area, the Yumi Lashes effect will last for about two to three months. On me, because I use mascara and eye makeup remover almost daily (as I am an eyeshadow fiend, and eyeshadow looks don't seem complete without mascara), the Yumi Lash effect lasted two months.
See more amazing "Before and Afters" and contact Mikee through Instagram @winkedph.
A version of this post was published in Sun.Star Cebu on January 19, 2018.
