A Fill or a Full Set?

Choosing between the two comes down to understanding the lash growth cycle. A human lash lives for 100 to 150 days, and every lash is at a different age. It never happens that all your lashes fall out on the same day and a fresh batch starts growing at once. It’s more of a rotation: some are just coming in, some are shedding, and others are in their mature stage.

About 3 weeks after your lash appointment, you’ll usually see the same picture: roughly 30% of the lashes have shed, some have grown longer, and a few have even shifted away from their original direction.

During a fill, your lash artist removes the overgrown and crooked lashes, sets new extensions in their place, and also adds extensions to the natural lashes that have grown in since your last visit. Because of that, the length of the old and new extensions can differ.

Give it another couple of weeks and you’ll need another fill, because again some of the old lashes shed, some grow out, and the look loses its polish.

Which leads to a clear conclusion: a full set has some real advantages over a fill.

First, lashes simply look better after a fresh full set than after a fill.

Second, when the extensions are taken off completely, there’s a chance to thoroughly clean the lash line and the space between the lashes.

That said, a full set needs to be done less often than a fill, while the price for the two is often almost the same.