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Cutting your eyelashes off because they “don’t look natural” is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard… they ARE natural.

I had no eyelashes, eyebrows, or any form of hair in general for about a year when I was 20 and going through chemotherapy. It SUCKED! Not only did I feel like I looked like Matt Lucas, but the amount of shit that gets in your eyes when you have nothing to protect them is ridiculous. You're supposed to have that hair.

The person complaining about their "spider lashes" just needed to not add mascara to their bottom lash

My theory? Some of this is another symptom of the over filtered view of the world. The overly smoothed view of the world has caused all these people to think anything beyond smoothed view is ugly.

At this point I’ve lost all sympathy towards people who jump on dumb tiktok trends. If they cut their lashes cause of some stranger on the internet...let them be, play stupid games win stupid prizes 🤷🏻‍♀️

Went to middle school with a girl who had trichotillomania, which meant she couldn't stop pulling out her eyelashes and eyebrows. She was devastated by it, tried to cover it with makeup, she was so sweet. I hope she's OK, and I hope she doesn't have tiktok...

“I am disturbed, this has disturbed me” sums everything up entirely.

This looks like the modern version of the 90s over-plucked eyebrows and I feel like A LOT of these people are going to regret doing this like we did our brows in the 90s.

As someone who underwent chemo and lost every single hair from my entire body, including nose hair and eyelashes, I can confirm, it is the worst!!! I had constant conjunctivitis due to not having any protection for my eyeballs. I always had something in my eye, which hurts. And when my lashes decided to grow back, they would poke my eyeballs because the lash hairs were so short it was like stubble painfully stabbing my eyes! Please don't cut them!

I trimmed my upper lashes when I was 14/15 bc I thought they were "too long" They touched my eyebrows, and this was before false lashes were used by almost everyone almost every day. My brother complimented my long lashes once when I hadn't trimmed them in a bit and I never did it again 😂 Thanks, bro

“people remove their leg hair 🙄” I don’t because it’s uncomfortable! My skin gets irritated without that barrier! ALL hair really does serve a purpose 😭😭😭

Its crazy how far removed we've become from our natural bodies...hair has a purpose!

As someone with trichotillomania, who hasn't had an episode in 2 weeks, I REALLY appreciate the disclaimer in the beginning.

Am I the only one who can imagine people cutting their eyelashes off completely and putting fake ones there saying "they look better"? Please universe send help

A family member of mine scratched their cornea just cutting their own normal head hair fringe when the scissors slipped. They spent time in hospital and has had long term issues with that eye. Why would people go even closer with scissors on their eyelashes and risk that?!

The insanity of cutting off your natural lashes whilst having false lash extensions is why I don’t use TikTok.

Having product under my eye and lower mascara is all that’s hiding my fine lines in my late 30s 😂

OMG, that girl cutting her beautifully long and curled natural top lashes made me both sad and mad!

I recently went blind in one eye for 2 days and if I had waited any longer for my treatment, I could’ve lost it forever. All this was from a light irritation that resulted in corneal ulcers. And I have lashes!! Don’t play around with your eyes.

putting mascara on my bottom lashes is literally my favourite part of my make-up routine. I want to look like twiggy lol

Well, at least we have a name for this idiocy, "Lego People Lashes". Thanks, Robert 😆

I am immunocompromised and I have had life threatening infections because of this. When I see people bringing a sharp, probably dirty, metal object toward their eyes, my heart rate increases.

Robert needs a new line of t-shirt merch. They have to be beige with a simple "NO". Great success! 😂

To the people that do this because they don’t like the presence of the lashes; cutting them off will actually make them visually more noticeable. It’s like having eyebrows, you don’t notice when they’re there but you will notice when they aren’t. We are used to seeing bottom lashes on people. So instead of detracting focus from your bottom lashes, cutting them off will make people notice that something’s going on in that area; thus putting more focus onto your bottom lashline.

Why would anyone ever do this? Your eyelashes aren't just for 'beauty', they have a purpose! They're there to protect your eyes and once they're gone, they might never grow back. This is awful and dangerous, not to mention having nail scissors so close to your eye. Just don't put mascara on them and they'll be pretty much invisible, don't cut them off! TikTokers need to stop, this is stupid and dangerous. Thank you Robert for always educating and promoting common sense❤

You hit the nail on the head when you said, "If Lego people had eyelashes this is what they'd look like." Because of filters etc. So many people have a warped since of beauty reality (ooh good product name). They've accepted solid brows with no hairs, faces with no blemishes and obvious beauty lies with the belief of a small child. All I can say is keep doing what you're doing and hopefully your message gets through

Like you said, eyelashes and eyebrows are there for a reason. They serve an actual purpose, they keep sweat and things out of your eyes 😭 WHY would people do that? Not to mention, what if your hand slips and you cut your eye with the scissors? What if you cut your eyelid on accident? The eyes are so fragile and it’s an incredibly vascular area. As a child I once had a cut along my eyebrow from a bite and still have a scar there even 20 years later that no makeup will cover up or sit over. Please don’t mess with your eye area!

I’m so happy (but not surprised) you talked about the purpose of the eyelashes. I have long lashes and struggle to wear mascara when I have my glasses on because it gets all over my glasses. I have never considered this. Also this feels like daring your body to give you an ingrown hair. As someone who had one on her top lid once, it’s not fun.

As someone who loses eyelashes every time i have an allergic reaction (especially to makeup) this trend is so non-sensical. My eyelashes have never recovered and the idea of deliberately removing them and damaging them ON PURPOSE is making me rage 😅

NO! Please don’t do this!!! TikTok stop letting these crazy trends be a thing. It’s crazy over on TikTok and it worries me that kids are going to do this and poke their eyes out 🤦🏻‍♀️ Thanks Robert for doing these videos & hopefully save the children and our youth 💜🖤

I lost my eyelashes (& brows) in a car accident, fuel got on my face.. Anyway, both grew back extra thick! But I did look like I had cancer for a few months. I had to wear special glasses that stopped dirt getting into my eyes.

As someone with distichiosis (multiple rows of lashes) I've had to resist from wanting to cut or trim my lashes. I love them but they catch every bit of dust fibers flying around. I'm always trying to get something out of them. I had a guy come up to me at the club asking me where I got my lashes done at. After telling him they were natural he was like "okayy I know good work when I see it" in disbelief 😅

A few years ago I accidentally walked into a part of a fence that was sticking out, my glasses smashed into my face and severed my bottom lashes on the corner of my left eye 👁 🙃 I'm still growing them back after 2 years! I can't imagine cutting them off on purpose! 😱

I shaved off my eyebrows as a teenager (still do it sometimes, I look great without eyebrows) and God the PAIN all summer from sweat and sunscreen getting in my eyes. I can't imagine if you had no protective eyelashes

Part of body dysmorphia. So many young people especially, have this condition. Unfortunately, with so many of them addicted to social media, the influence from these platforms tends to outweigh common sense. I don’t know if anyone or anything can stop this trend. As someone who spends money for serums to make my lashes continue to grow, I just don’t understand this trend. I only hope these young people wake up before it’s too late.

This "trend" is so horrifying... truly what nightmares are made of!

So I noticed when you demonstrated that it basically looks uncanny because you removed all the shadowing that makes an eyeball look like an eyeball. People hate undereye bags, but a little bit of darker shape under there is what makes our eyes look like eyes. As an artist, not of the makeup variety, it really drilled in how important it is for a drawing of a human face to have some lines marking the eyesocket underneath. Any eye shape at all can be made to look more realistic and more polished artistically with a little extra lining or shadowing.

The videos of people cutting off their eye lashes make me sick! Eye lashes help protect your eyes from germs! I’m losing hope for the future 😂😢😂

Thank you Robert. I've know a few people with trich, and one close friend in particular pulled out all her lashes due to complex PTSD. It's actually not an uncommon response to abuse. Let's not trivialize this legitimate health issue by making it 'fashion.'

Never cut off my lashes, but every single one fell out when I was going through chemo, and the way my eyes were watering constantly. Just always needing a tissue bc that was my eyes' only defense against anything trying to get in here in the absence of eyelashes. I was so happy when they grew back. Boggles my mind that anyone would think it was a good idea to just cut them off.

The reason hairstylists recommend getting regular trims to help your hair look healthier and grow longer is because the ends of your hair start to fray and split, and if you don't trim those parts they spread and cause breakage. Your eyelashes don't generally last long enough for that to happen, so all you're doing when you cut them is making them look blunt and weird!

I did cut off the lashes on one of my eyes ages ago, I did it because they were naturally long. One of the WORST things I've done to myself beauty wise. The stubs that were left gave me discomfort when sleeping for like a month... they also grew back a lot more downturned; before they were pretty straight. Yeah, I'll never do that again.

I love my long lower eyelashes 😯 i didn't know that they are supposed to be 'ugly' these days. How ridiculous! Thank you Robert for bringing sanity to yet another ridiculous trend ❤🙏🏽

I’ve finally decided that people aren’t happy, no matter what they have. I’m over here, spending a fortune on fake lashes and lash serums, to get the kind of lashes these chicks are cutting off. 🙄

I’m imagining how horrible my seasonal allergies would be with no eyelashes 🤧

This reminds me of cuticle cutting. Numerous dermatologists have said that is a terrible idea and shown pictures of nasty infections caused by that, yet nail people still insist on doing it. Maybe they don't understand or maybe they're just doing it to make their acrylic nails last longer without showing at the bottom. I have never done anything to my cuticles and I have lovely, healthy nails. Would be good to see you do a video on that, and hopefully dissuade some younger people from doing it.

My oldest sister and her friends did this back in the 80's. Years later, I asked her why she did that - she said there was so much misinformation about lashes growing back thicker and longer, if you cut them. The reality is, they never fully grew back, decades later

I'm still trying to grow back the accidental bangs I gave myself lighting cigarettes in the 90s. This is some Darwin Award level foolishness.

I’m *adoring* your hair lately!🥹🥰 Edit: 8:36 *”If Lego people had eyelashes, that’s what they would look like.”* I CANNOTTT- 😂😭😂

This brought up memories of Halloween 2000. I was 8 and decided to go as a clown. I bought a makeup kit that had these super pretty rainbow foil lashes. I read the instructions on how to put them on, but I totally misunderstood it. It said something like "Trim lashes starting at the outer corner if they are too long and they'll fit better" My dumb ass was like "Well, I don't think my eyelashes are too long to wear these, but they don't fit well at all, so I'll just trim my lashes. I took some scissors and cut off the left corner of my own lashes, then to the other eye. Then I tried putting on the lashes again. Didn't work and I immediately realized what I did wrong. I told no one and no one ever noticed that I didn't have half of my eyelashes for a while.

This is one of many reasons why I don’t have TikTok. BTW Robert, your makeup looks amazing!❤

I have a low nose bridge and long lashes. When I first started wearing prescription glasses, my eyelashes kept hitting the glass every time I blinked. Not only is the sensation especially irritating, but my eyelashes would also paint the inside of my glasses with oil/ mascara, which meant I'd have to clean my glasses constantly. I was SO annoyed by all this that in a fit of desperation, I did trim my eyelashes. It looked weird. Now I just curl them to death with a eyelashe curler heated up with a blow dryer and some waterproof mascara. It seems to work about 85% of the time.

Imagine going into A&E with a damaged eye because accident while trimming eyelashes. I can't even, Robert.

As someone who lost all of their eyelashes and eyebrows due to chemo, and had to deal with the mental trauma that went with that, seeing people cutting them off on purpose makes me ill…

As a former hairdresser each person only has so many hair follicles so cutting, shaving, etc. DOES NOT make your hair grow back any differently than it was before! It's GENETICS also! Thank you Robert for this video PSA!!❤❤❤

As someone who has never liked how my eyes look with lower lid mascara and shadow (I like it on others, but I feel it pulls my eyes down), I would never consider doing this. I'd be so concerned for the health and safety of my eyes.

I have struggled with hair pulling and skin picking my whole life. I also once slightly trimmed (but not removed) my top lashes for cosmetic reasons because I was cosplaying a boy and wanted to look less feminine. I can't imagine why someone would regularly do this for cosmetic reasons. Just don't put put any mascara on them if you don't want them to stand out.

I once had some ingrowing eyelashes and had to have them removed with electrolysis. I had to wait until the right moment in the growing cycle for the dr to get rid of them. It was so weird to deal with a little patch of missing lashes! I love your reaction here and your matter of fact tone to this ridiculous idea!

It is disturbing that people would do that. I agree with you, Robert.

It’s called point cutting! One of my favorite techniques. I normally use the thinning shears while doing it to make a nice blend

I have struggled with trichotillomania my whole life, I deeply appreciate that disclaimer at the beginning. ❤

When you cut in it’s called point cutting or perpendicular PS. Love your eye makeup. Very festive looking ❤☮️🖤

I have definitely been there, when I was a kid, my sister threw a handful of lake sludge (weeds, dirt, algae, etc. from the surface of the water) and got me square in the eye... long story short, after having my eye dyed at the hospital, all I can say is it was an irritating, painful eye-drop filled journey (at summer camp no less) for about a week! Stay safe out there girlies, and get used to your bottom lashes!!🖤🖤 another great video and explanation Robert!!

I remember when I was in high school, I knew a girl who’s eyelash curler somehow cut all of her lashes off on one eye, and I was absolutely horrified by the sound of it. I can not imagine anyone WILLINGLY doing this to themself!

I literally don’t even do makeup ever but your stuff is so fun and engaging. Thanks so much for making great content!

Social media really just unlocks new and horrifying ways for us to feel self conscious huh

I dont mind no eyeshadow or eyeliner on the bottom especially for work because i work in a hot kitchen and it ends up where it shouldnt most of the time. But cutting off my cute bottom lashes?! No way!!!

as someone who pulls out their lashes, I appreciated and did not expect the comment on how you're NOT talking about those with trichotillomania

It looks weird, and as you say, it's actually dangerous. I was cooking recently and added veggies to a hot pan with oil. The oil spattered straight at my eyes, and thankfully, between my reflexes that snapped my eyes closed and my lashes, the hot oil only burned my lid, not my eyeballs. Scary. My lashes have earned their place!

An old school friend had her mum cut her lashes when she was a baby, thinking they would grow back longer, but they just ended up never growing back properly and she was stuck with stubby lashes. Don't. Cut. Your. Lashes.

"Where people live there may be glass in the air" this made me laugh so bad, lol, but then I thought a minute, and my husband works with insulation and there actually is fiberglass in the air in that work. I LOVE Robert!!!❤

I had my eyebrows threaded in the mid 2000s and my eyebrows NEVER grew back. I have this weird hook on one eyebrow where the hair's missing and patchiness on the other. So now I'm filling in my eyebrows everyday and fairly often someone will say, 'oh maybe you should take a break from threading/waxing, so your eyebrows will grow back in.' I don't think waiting another 20 or so years will make a difference!

I once had a hairstylist accidentally cut my eyelashes and I was so mad! I can’t imagine cutting them intentionally.

When I was younger I will always remember my mum telling me we weren't allowed to touch our lashes or brows and that she'd take us to a professional only. Turned out it was because when she was a teenager, she got made fun of for having "horse eyelashes" (really long dark lashes that we all inherited as her daughters) and cut her eyelashes in half and they never really grew back. She still says its her biggest regret to this day.

I’m obsessed with the eye look you’ve got in this video!

This is such an odd trend... I used to get inverted lashes, they grew towards my eyeball instead of away, and I had to CAREFULLY pluck them individually. Thankfully it stopped happening, because it was so unnerving!

It's 4am and I need to sleep but not before saying I love the way you style your hair now! (I haven't seen your videos in a while but I'm making it up by binge watching 😂)

It’s always a good day when Robert uploads 🩷🩷🩷 Love your videos!!!

when I was in middle school in like 1994, some bullies told me to let them use an eyelash curler on me, because I had really nice lashes. I don't wear makeup, never have, but I thought okay a curl won't hurt. They had removed the pads on the curler and it cut off several of my lashes, or bent them so badly they fell out shortly after. They have never been the same since :(

I used to not like the look of my lower lashes with mascara.... So i just didnt put mascara on them and like you said, you could barely see them. Cutting of eyelashes feels so wrong

It’s called point cutting 😂❤

That eyelash thing is just horrifying

Oh goodness. I have a scar on my (retina?, the lens part) from a grain of sand embedding itself in there from a day on the beach over 30 years ago. It irritated me for months before it healed. Optometrist actually pointed out how it could have been a whole lot worse if humans didn't have lashes.

Omg Robert please don't come after me for this one... I think it was in like 2016 I was separating my eyelashes with a THUMB TACK... Scratched right down my eye in the middle and had to be on 3 seperate antibiotics for weeks. I do not advise 😂😂😂

Hi Robert so I noticed you made the point that having more shadow and depth underneath your eye would widen and brighten it, and while I do agree, the new trend now is slender, snatched eyes 😅

It's amazing the hability some people have to make dumb things that can hurt them a lot. Lol i love your reaction vídeos. 💜

I had a flame breeze past my eye one day and it singed my lashes, it felt like I had my eye pulled open for several weeks until they grew out. It would get VERY dry and sensitive.

Woah. I didnt know this was a thing. I never use mascara on my lower lashes because my eyes are pretty round and I have visible eye whites under my iris, which I hate, but I never thought of the crazy idea of cutting them off! Btw, your beard is quite majestic.

Hellooooo! Why do people dooooo this?? 🤮🤮 I love having long lower lashes so I really couldn't imagine someone doing this!!

surely the idea of "if i cut them they'll grow stronger" comes from the fact that hair on our faces and body looks like it grows back stronger because cutting leaves the hair ends at full width and when they grow out it looks thick because there is none of the usual thinning-out at the end of each hair that happens after some time when the hair is exposed to air, water, clothes etc. a good way to see that happen is when you look at the face of a person without strong beard-growth, you see that they have peach-fuzz on their cheeks. it basically gets worn off by just existing and so it becomes soft and thin in the end. when you look at someone who shaves and who's hair grows back, you can see the cut-across ends that appear thick because they haven't had the time to get worn off and thin out the same way. however i just don't think that's how lashes grow because they just fall out after reaching their length, making space for another lash that grows from the beginning, instead of growing on and on once you've cut them. so you can't get the effect of the lashes appearing thicker once they grow out, because...they don't grow out.

I have friends with Alopecia & 0 body hair of *any* kind. They would k!ll to have eyelashes! They have to wear glasses all the time to protect their eyes, carry eye drops with them to rinse their eye balls out, etc. Eyelashes protect the eyes in so many ways. What are people doing?!? If my friends saw this trend they'd be disgusted.

I cut mine when I was 7. They were long and annoying.... They never fully came back lol lol. Don't do it.

As a qualified hairdresser, I'd call that 'chipping into' the hair! *EDIT Obviously I've been using a very informal term 😂 I admit I do brush my brows up and trim the longer ones up in between threading treatments, but lashes?! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooope

There was a girl in my junior high who cut all her lashes off and would wear black liner all over her lid and bottom lash line. She was the most popular girl in school. 😑

Oh my god. Robert’s original reaction to the first video was legendary. He is so upset he is clutching imaginary pearls. I want to offer him a fainting chair and tell him everything is going to be alright 💜

I love that you are now the youtube beauty & health fairy godfather, giving us sound advice. I appreciate you providing good info for people.

omfg noo 😭 i accidentally cut my eyelashes while doing my brows once n they took forever to grow back. YOUR LASHES ARE THERE FOR A REASONN!! LASH MITES EXIST

My sisters story! When she was 5 she cut of upper lashes on one of her eyes. She is 42 now and lashes did grow back (ofcourse) but they are still shorter on that eye that she "trimmed" all those years ago. 😂😂😂

Absolutely NOT!! I can’t believe the naïveté of some people! One of my sisters has that condition (I don’t know the name) where when she’s stressed or emotionally upset she pulls out her eyebrows and eyelashes. And instantly regrets it when she’s out of whatever state she had been in. Do NOT do this people! 😮