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Humidity, Timing, and Control: The Lash Tech’s Guide to Adhesive
Lash Tech’s Guide to Adhesive
When it comes to lashing, your adhesive can either be your best friend or your worst nightmare. Perfect retention doesn’t just happen — it’s all about understanding how your glue behaves under different conditions and using it with precision. Let’s break it down:
1. Humidity: The Game-Changer
Your adhesive is basically science in a bottle. It’s made with cyanoacrylate, which cures when it meets moisture. That means humidity is everything.
• Low humidity (under 30%): Your adhesive takes forever to cure, leading to stickies, lashes slipping, or poor bonds.
• High humidity (over 65%): Your adhesive cures too fast, causing brittle bonds and poor retention.
• The sweet spot: Most adhesives love 40–60% humidity. Always check the specs of the glue you’re using and adjust with a humidifier or dehumidifier.
💡 Pro Tip: Keep a hygrometer at your lash station — never lash blind to your room’s conditions.
2. Timing: Every Second Counts
Adhesive isn’t patient. Once it leaves the bottle, the clock starts ticking.
• Dip speed: Don’t waste time after dipping — place the lash immediately.
• Dry time: Choose a glue that matches your skill level. Faster adhesives (0.5–1 second) are for advanced techs with quick placement. Slower adhesives (2–3 seconds) give beginners time to work without stress.
• Freshness matters: Replace your glue dot every 15–20 minutes. Once it starts to thicken, it’s done.
💡 Pro Tip: Shake your bottle side to side, not up and down, to prevent air bubbles that ruin consistency.
3. Control: Master Your Placement
Even with perfect humidity and timing, sloppy technique kills retention. Control is everything.
• Pick-up angle: Always dip straight in and out — don’t stir your lash in the glue.
• Adhesive amount: Less is more. You need just enough to coat the base, not drown the lash.
• Attachment: Place the lash cleanly on the natural lash without gaps, twisting, or lifting.
💡 Pro Tip: If you see a “bead” of glue sitting on the lash, wipe and redo. Heavy glue = heavy lashes = poor retention.
Lash retention isn’t just about the adhesive you buy — it’s about how you use it. Mastering humidity, timing, and control puts you in charge of your results, not your glue. Your clients will notice the difference, and so will your business.
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