I'm 52 and I've spent the last six years watching my lashes vanish. Nobody warned me menopause did this. My GP didn't mention it. My mother never said a word. I just woke up one morning at 46 and realised the woman in the mirror didn't have eyelashes anymore. I tried mascara layering. I tried false lashes at my niece's wedding and the glue welded itself to my eyelid. I tried castor oil for four months because someone on Mumsnet said it worked. It didn't. I tried a £60 serum from a counter in John Lewis and it gave me styes. I was about to book Latisse with a private clinic when my sister, who's a research nurse, talked me out of it. She told me about a patient she'd seen who had to have fat grafting surgery to repair the damage from prostaglandin serums. £6,000. Eye colour permanently changed. She explained that what causes lash thinning in menopausal women is a hormone called DHT, which starts binding to lash follicles and shrinking them after our hormones shift. She said the safer route is a peptide complex that blocks DHT without using prostaglandins. She'd been using LashVanna herself. Swiss formula, prostaglandin-free, clinically studied peptides. She showed me her lashes on the FaceTime camera. I ordered a bottle that evening. Three weeks in, I caught my reflection in the kettle of all things. I had lashes. Real, dark, visible lashes. For the first time since I was 45. The article below explains the DHT mechanism properly. If you've watched your lashes disappear through perimenopause or menopause and nobody's ever told you why, read it. https://www.zifanna.com/UK/lashes
