What are real mink lash extensions?

Real mink lash extensions, as the name suggests, they’re made of real mink hairs, and the hairs are from mink tails, so totally cruelty free. Compared with synthetic fibers, real mink hair is the closest material to human hair and suitable for lash extensions, for customers who pursuit more natural and light effect. Usually the price is more expensive than common faux mink or silk fibers, but when you try it you’ll know why so many lash artists and girls willing to pay for that.

Real mink lash extensions VS Faux mink lash extensions / Silk lash extensions

There’re thickness options of silk lash extensions like 0.03mm, 0.05mm, 0.07mm, 0.10mm.0.12mm, 0.15mm and 0.20mm, lash artists can choose different thickness when doing classic or volume sets.

However real mink lash extensions don’t have thickness options, so there’s no “make fans” problems and only applicable when doing classic sets. And the real mink eyelash extensions are looks not even on the hair tip in each lashes tray, faux mink lashes extensions hair are very even in each eyelash tray.

Meanwhile the cost for a tray of real mink lash hairs can be 4-5 times of synthetic eyelash extensions; accordingly a set of real mink classic finish will be triple as well.

But with synthetic fibers you can never achieve the super soft and natural look and the weight of mink hair makes it last longer, animal hairs also can maintain better curls than faux mink or silk lash extensions.

Types of Eyelash Extensions Styles

Real mink lash extensions VS Flat lash extensions

If any individual lash extensions can be compared with real mink lash extensions, which would be Ellipse Flat lash extensions. Flat lash extensions are also called cashmere lash extensions. As the name suggests, the base of flat lash extension is an oval shape, because each hair is combined by two piece of hairs, so other than a ellipse base, flat lash extension also have a split tip, so with flat lash extensions you can finish a classic set as well as achieve a volume effect. The thickness options are the same as classic lash extensions, 0.10mm, 0.12mm, 0.15mm, 0.18mm&0.20mm.

Flat lash extensions can compare with real mink in softness, but as it’s two pieces of hairs come together so it’s not as light in weight as real mink lash extensions. And the same situation as individual lash extension, synthetic fibers curvature is not as natural as real mink hairs.

What to do after getting lash extensions

Is mink eyelash extensions real mink hair?

Though eyelash extensions are called false lashes, but it’s definitely real mink hairs, the hairs are come from Serbian minks tail and then proceed by workers and sell to consumers.

How can you tell real mink from fake eyelashes?

There’re three simple ways to tell if the real mink lash trays are fake:

  1. As we all know real mink lash extensions are super soft, compared with faux mink or silk lash extensions you can feel the difference easily. Pay attention that all the mink lash trays with thickness options are definitely fraud because all mink hairs are natural thickness, considering if someone measure the thickness one by one and pick out different thicknesses will be a huge work, all real mink lash trays with thickness options will be fake ones.
  2. Look at the tips of the real mink lash extensions. Real mink lash extensions have uneven tips because it’s natural hairs and not be cut or processed.
  3. Burn it. If it’s real mink, when burning you can smell the “burnt hair” smell, and it leaves black powders after burnt. If you’re not very clear about what it should look like, you can burn a piece of your hairs; it’s very similar with human hair burning.