YOU'VE had the acrylic nails, hair extensions, Brazilian wax and spray-on tan. But they're all passe. The latest craze for beauty nuts is eyelash extensions.
Shops devoted solely to enhancing the little hairs that filter dirt from our eyes are springing up all over town.
In the past three years a shop called Just Lashes, which charges up to $300 a session, has moved from a West Melbourne office to a Docklands waterfront shop, and is aiming to open 20 franchises around Australia before Christmas.
Another chain, Love Those Lashes, has gone from one employee at a shop in Walpole Street, Kew, in 2007, to 16 staff across two more Melbourne stores (in South Yarra and Greensborough) and one in posh Woollahra, Sydney.
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