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| - I'd had lash extensions for nearly three years before I was ardently encouraged by a friend of mine to switch away from my unlicensed-doing-it-in-her-home lash lady and come see Kendra, who IS licensed. "What difference could that make?" I wondered. Switching seemed ...mean... and seemed like a hassle, and I fought it for a few months. But after looking into the differences between having a licensed aesthetician performing my lash extensions vs. someone who was trained by someone who was trained by someone who may or may not have ever been licensed... was like me going up to a stranger on the street and asking them for a root canal.
I switched. And I've never been so glad I did. The first thing Kendra did when I arrived, was take a good long look at what extensions I had, existing. She was quiet for a minute and then let me know that she was really sorry but she'd have to soak them off and start over. I was apprehensive about that, but her explanation was so factual and science-based that I trusted what she was saying- which was that I had clumps and clusters of glue and lashes stuck to skin and other lashes, and that clusters are actually illegal - and I know for a fact that some of my friends go and get "clusters" on purpose (eek!) because they're hard on your natural lashes. Kendra explained that my lashes were damaged, thinned, and very, very short.
After she soaked them off, I asked if I could see a mirror, because I hadn't been without lash extensions in years, and wanted to SEE what I had left. I had nothing. There were bald patches that had been hidden by blobs of glue and big fat clusters... and what I had left was excruciatingly short. Think of how thick two credit cards are, stacked. That's all I had left. I wish I had not looked. If you've been seeing someone unlicensed or unskilled- just take my word for it. DON'T LOOK.
After she put lashes back on me -lighter in weight and thickness- carefully, lash by lash, no clumps of glue, no clusters of big, thick, lashes- it looked completely different from what I'd had before. But it was CORRECT, and right, and healthy. And the shocking thing to me (not that it's the most important thing when we are talking about your EYES) was that I was now paying Kendra LESS than I'd been paying an unlicensed woman who'd been working out of her home without a license, y'all.
Kendra has a legitimate salon space in San Tan mall, a license, and now that I've been seeing her for nearly a year, I've come to learn that she invests a ton in her products and continuing education. She's great at what she does, is totally invested in her skill-sets (she does more than just lashes), and I love her dry and sarchastic wit. I wish I'd had my you-know-what as perfectly "together", back when I was her age
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