You love makeup, but does your make up love you?  Have you worn the same brand of makeup for years?  Being creatures of habit, we often go to the same products over and over again.  But, have you noticed that those same products are starting to irritate your eyes?  It may be because the ingredient list or the amounts of the ingredients have changed over the years. 

 

 

Let's review three common ingredients to avoid so you can love wearing eye makeup again.  Eliminating these ingredients from your eye makeup and skin or beauty products will help you achieve whiter, brighter eyes.  The 3 we will highlight today are alcohol, formaldehyde, and parabens.  

 

Alcohol is commonly found in eye makeup removers and eye makeup remover wipes.  It may also be found...

As an eye doctor, I get up close and personal with women's eye makeup every day.  I routinely use a microscope to examine the eye.  This can make the eyelashes about 20 times bigger than the way you see them in a regular mirror.

 

The horrors I see on people's eyelids are incredible.  Makeup caked up into the lashes and in the corner of the eye is only the tip of the iceberg.  That built-up gunk leads to inflammation, irritation, and infection over time.

 

Here are the three biggest beauty blunders I see women committing with their mascara:

Not removing your eye makeup at the end of the day is one of the worst things you can do for your sensitive eyes.  After all, you wouldn't go to bed without brushing your teeth, right?  The same risk of cavities applies to the ...