HONOLULU (KHON2) — By now, you may have seen it online. A young man sits in a barber’s chair. He looks into the camera, then closes his eyes. The razor buzzes. A swipe and his eyelashes are gone.
It’s not a prank. It’s a growing trend. A recent report from Body+Soul found that across TikTok and other social media, young men are removing their eyelashes to look more “masculine.”
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Some say long lashes look too feminine. Others say their partners told them they did.
But there’s a lot more going on here. Cutting off your eyelashes is not only risky. It’s built on a misunderstanding of what eyelashes actually do…