It’s natural to want to look our best on our birthdays, which is why one lady splurged on lash extensions to glow in her celebration photographs.
She was humiliated, though, when she awoke the next day looking like she’d gone “ten rounds with Mike Tyson.”
Jessica Shannon, of Wetherby, West Yorkshire, claims she had an allergic response, spoiling her birthday and left her worried that she had permanently harmed her eyes.
The 25-year-old chose Russian lashes and was pleased with the results after having them done last year.
After going out for her birthday two days later, her eyelids grew so swollen that they totally adhered together and were uncomfortable, itchy, and runny.
Jessica grew afraid because she ‘couldn’t see anything at all.’
“I’d gone out for a night out for my birthday, and my left eye had gone a bit bloodshot, but it wasn’t uncomfortable or itchy,” she stated.
“I came home and went to bed, and when I woke up the next morning, I looked like I’d done ten rounds with Mike Tyson.”
“They were really sore and itchy which made me get up out of bed to look in the mirror and my eyes were just extremely swollen. It was painful.
“From then they were streaming with water and just dead itchy.
“It ruined my birthday.
“Over the next few days because they were so sticky they’d stuck shut so I’d wake up in the morning and my eyes would be completely stuck together.”
The beauty-lover had to wash her eyes to open them, but she still couldn’t see.
Jessica initially went to the drugstore for her response, where she was given eye drops and antihistamines.
But it didn’t appear to be helping, according to Jessica, who added, “Over the following several days they grew really very terrible.”
“I came to the point where I couldn’t see anything at all.”
“They were both closed together, and my vision had become quite fuzzy.” I could only describe it as though there was a film over my eyes. It was terrifying.
“They were both awful, but my left eye was far worse.” I couldn’t open it because it was so bloated.
“The thing that was running through my mind the most was that I couldn’t see, and I was scared that I’d done some kind of harm to my actual eyesight.”
“Which was one of the primary reasons, along with the agony, that pushed me to go to A&E simply to make sure I didn’t wind up with lasting damage to my real eyes.”
A few days after her birthday party, the former caregiver went to A&E and was told she had corneal abrasions and was given antibiotic eye ointment.
Jessica claims that it took a week for her eyes to recover to normal, and she hopes to raise awareness about the’severe’ and ‘painful’ response that lash adhesive may produce.
Despite this, Jessica attempted to leave the lashes on since she liked how they looked and had spent $59 for them.
But the discomfort was too much for her, and she ended up having them removed for free, which Jess describes as a traumatic experience in and of itself.
