A female businesswoman who was addicted to eyelash extensions said her life has been ‘transformed’ by a £4,000 operation to restore her lashes to their former glory.

Finance director Caroline Medcalf, 42, said she ended up looking like a ‘frog’ when she wrecked her natural eyelashes by relying on extensions favoured by celebrities for over a decade, in pursuit of a fuller set.

The medical procedure pioneered in America has been brought to the UK by surgeon Asim Shahmalak, hair loss expert on Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies.

Ms Medcalf, from Worsley, Greater Manchester, said her life has been transformed by the eyelash transplant operation at the Crown Clinic in Manchester

Increasing numbers of women are damaging their eyelashes permanently due having overindulged in synthetic lashes and Ms Medcalf was left with just 3 eyelashes on her upper right lid and 19 on her upper left lid after years of damage through gluing on false extensions.

The damage was made worse when she got an eye infection a year ago, which caused itching and she rubbed off many of her already weakened natural lashes.

With almost completely bald upper lids, Ms Medcalf was too embarrassed to leave her house or even let her family, boyfriend or friends see her without her false eyelashes.

Finance director Caroline Medcalf, 42, said she ended up looking like a ‘frog’ when she wrecked her natural eyelashes by relying on extensions favoured by celebrities for over a decade in pursuit of a fuller set. She is pictured here before the operation It feels like a miracle to have hair on my eyelids

Pictured her with her transplanted lashes, Ms Medcalf said: ‘It feels like a miracle to have hair on my eyelids when for so long there was nothing. I will now have lovely long, natural eyelashes for the rest of my life – and need never wear false eyelashes again’

Ms Medcalf, from Worsley, Greater Manchester, said her life has been transformed by the operation at the Crown Clinic in Manchester.

She said: ‘It feels like a miracle to have hair on my eyelids when for so long there was nothing. I am so pleased that I have had it done.’

‘I will now have lovely long, natural eyelashes for the rest of my life – and need never wear false eyelashes again.
Increasing numbers of women are damaging their eyelashes

Increasing numbers of women are damaging their eyelashes permanently due having overindulged in synthetic lashes like Ms Medcalf (pictured) ‘The only new beauty routine I will have to adopt is curling and trimming my new lashes every couple of weeks. ‘Because they are made from head hair they grow in just the same way and need more grooming than natural eyelashes.’ Dr Shahmalak transplanted 70 new eyelashes in each of Caroline’s eyelids in a three hour operation.

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