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You may not want to know this — so shut your eyes now! — but if your hair is going grey, there’s worse to come. Your eyelashes may be starting to turn grey, too. It’s perfectly natural: the hair follicles from which they grow just give up on producing melanin, the pigment that gives them their colour, though it doesn’t usually happen before your hair is grey. And going grey isn’t the only thing we have to worry about. Thanks to changing hormone levels, lashes naturally thin as we get older, too. This leaves us with less definition around the eyes and can make us look more tired. You could resort to just piling on extra mascara — but if you want something more permanent, there’s plenty you can do to counteract it. In fact, there’s a bewildering array of options to improve the way your lashes look. Here’s our pick of the treatments that can really make a difference . . . FAKE IT WITH EXTENSIONS WHAT IT INVOLVES: Individual false lashes made of synthetic mink hair are carefully glued, one...

Whatever your lovely lash-extension lady tells you to the contrary, hear this: lash extensions will ruin your natural lashes. Even Sue Marsh, formerly the high priestess of extensions, has turned her back on them and will only fit them as a one-off (say, for brides). Instead, she has got her faithful followers using Mylash, which contains bimatoprost , the drug that is known to enhance lash length and colour, then she perms and tints those longer natural lashes for a more natural-looking type of lash perfection. Sunday Times January 4th 2014. Written by Alice Hart-Davis