Prom is a milestone for teens, allowing them to dress up, express themselves, and celebrate. If you’re a lash technician with a teen attending prom, invite their squad to your studio, salon, or spa for a special pre-prom experience. Once the word spreads about your party, you may find your calendar booking up sooner rather than later!
Tell the Group What to Expect
Whether you’re booking a group session for your teen and their friends or scheduling a booking with a client’s prom group, make sure everyone knows what to expect. They should arrive at the appointment with clean eyes and uncurled lashes free of makeup, creams, and oils. With multiple potential prom queens getting lash extensions, it’s a good idea to have another lash technician available to assist you.
For each partygoer, the process can take around two hours to have their lash extensions applied and cured using special glue for eyelashes. Additionally, you may recommend a UV lash extensions application for a quicker drying process, like a “flash” cure, so the glue sets instantly, allowing them to go about their day as usual.
Use UV Curing to Shorten the Process
Gentle, low-intensity UV curing uses a UV LED light and UV-blocking eye patches worn by clients under their eyes and over their upper eyelids. These patches protect clients’ eyes while curing the lash glue, bonding extensions to natural eyelashes. The specialized glue contains a photoinitiator that initiates curing when exposed to the appropriate light, reducing drying time from minutes to seconds. This quick curing time for UV lash extensions applications can enhance lash retention by up to three times.
If anyone has sensitive skin (ask beforehand), and if a low fume and low odor UV lash extension adhesive causes a reaction, then consider using a hypoallergenic lash glue. While not UV-curing, a hypoallergenic lash glue will significantly reduce the chances of irritation
Provide Tips for Aftercare
A client’s extensions should fall out when a natural lash sheds. With proper care, extensions can last two to four weeks, or six weeks with UV curing systems. Caring for extensions involves using lash extension compatible products that don’t break down the glue. Depending on the adhesive type used, proper lash extension aftercare may involve avoiding certain activities in the first three hours after application.
Clients should avoid excessive steam and heat, conventional cosmetics, and inserting contact lenses within three hours of their application, particularly if they need hypoallergenic lash glue without UV curing. Offering a kit with lash care products like an advanced lash fortifying serum and safe eye makeup remover can help.
Hosting teen squads can be a major endeavor, but when done well by a lash tech or two, it can be fun and create lasting memories for all. It’s also a great way to get some prep in for wedding season!
