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How Can I Prevent My Eyelashes from Falling Out?

How Can I Prevent My Eyelashes from Falling Out? (0:36)

To prevent your eyelashes from falling out, you should eat a healthy, high-protein diet, keep your lashes moisturized and use an eyelash enhancer. Watch dermatologist Debra Jaliman, MD, explain how to keep the eyelashes you already have for longer.

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Well things that you want to do to prevent your eyelashes from falling out of course or to have a good diet make sure that you're healthy and you eat enough protein and that's important for hair in general. Of course you want to make certain [xx] you moisturizer eyelashes so for example if you use a lot of mascara and the mascara is drying, people find that their eyelashes can break off.

So you can use products that have moisturizers and are called humectants to moisturize the eyelashes so they don't get brittle. But eyelash enhancers if you want a really have the fullest thickest are the way to go.