Lashify Stardust Review and Compare to Starburst: Beginner Lashify Tips

Hey everyone, I'm Cheryl McColgan, founder of Heal, Nourish, Grow, and today I'm coming to you from a different setup where I hopefully show you about the Lashify lashes again. If you watch my previous video on this, you know that it's something that has kind of become my little COVID hobby. I've really been enjoying it and I just want to share it with you guys because, you know, this channel is all about helping you live a healthier and better life. And if you can find a product or a tool tool that makes you feel better and possibly look better, depending on what your opinion of better is, right? But if you find something that you like and it makes you feel better, then I just feel like that helps, uh, with all areas of your life. I was actually reading some comments in the Facebook group today and people were saying it's helped with their confidence, it's helped them with their depression, and, and all kinds of crazy things. And it's so silly what one little tweak to your routine, just lashes, that could do that. That's pretty amazing. Um, so I just want to show you where I'm starting out here, and this is my natural lashes, and I've already used the pre-cleanse on them. I'll just show you what that looks like, but basically you just swipe it over your lids and your lashes to get off any remaining residue from mascara or from your previous lashify application, anything like that. You want to have the lashes totally prepped. I also like really doing this right after I get out of the shower, which I just finished. So face is clean, oil-free, lashes are now clean and oil-free. And so let's get started. Uh, the whole reason I wanted to do this today is because of this little guy, and this is called Stardust. It's a brand new lash by Lashify. I think I've shared with you guys before, I'm obviously not a beauty blogger, so when I do these, it's like very, um, immature-ish, right? But that's okay, because I think part of the beauty of sharing this with you guys when I'm not like a perfect beauty blogger or makeup person or whatever is to show you that anybody can do that. You can make them look very natural, and it can just be part of something fun that you do. It doesn't have to be that you're this perfect makeup queen or anything like that. So the Stardust lashes are a very wispy-looking lash. I've also heard several people say, including Sahara, who is the CEO of the company— she goes on and does lives and gives you tips and tricks— but that they're extremely delicate, more delicate than other lashes. So I'm going to be very careful taking these out of here. And you can actually— one of the suggestions was that you can pop off the top. So if you're really worried about it, maybe do that. But I'm going to attempt to just do it normally. I've got some of my tools here that I've decided that are so helpful for me. This is like a, just a silicone sticky map. Of course it's got some of my hair stuck to it too, but it's also got my two little B8s for my inner quarters already stuck on there. So I'm going to go ahead and attempt to get one of these guys out of here. So you really want to grab the entire lash as close to the base as you can and then gently pull out. Looks like that one made it intact, so that's exciting. But there it is. Whoops. See how it's got like the longer fibers and the shorter fibers? It really turns out looking very wispy on people and very pretty. So I'll just get these set up here on my little silicone pad. I'm going to do the same thing again with this guy. Just be very careful, get them out. So I'm thinking 2 B12s or 2— sorry, 2 SD12s and 2 SD14s. The other thing with these lashes that I've heard everybody say is that the Starburst and the Stardust come out a lot shorter than the other Lashify lashes. So whatever you normally use for Lashify, you might want to size up. Personally, I'm finding with the lid space that I have and the size of my eyes and stuff, I can't really go any longer than a 14 without it looking totally ridiculous. And even the 14 sometimes gets too close to my eyebrow depending on how I fuse them. Um, but so I just decided to stick with 12s and 14s so that hopefully I'll end up with something that is pretty natural looking, or as natural as any kind of fake lashes can look, right? I mean, we all know that we're not walking around with these crazy lashes, but I've seen some lately that are just It's unbelievable the length that people are wearing lately. So this is really nice because this helps you from the lashes blowing away or anything. I really recommend this little gadget. It's just a silicone pad. I think that it's really for maybe like lash extension artists, but it works great for this. So I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to take my Black Whisper Light, and I've got my mirror here. This is another fantastic tool. It took me a couple tries to find one that I really like. Lashify also sells one, but I wanted something a little taller and a little different aesthetic. I really wanted the round, but this is nice because it's got the magnifying mirror on it, which is really helpful when you're doing these lashes. The second tip I have for you is that start with your non-dominant eye first, or if you've ever done them before and you struggle with one eye, do that eye first while you're fresh. So I'm going to start with my left eye because I'm right-handed, so that one's typically a little more difficult for me. And when you do your coat, you're looking for light layers for all your bonds. So this is the, again, the Black Whisper Light Bondage, and got that on. I've got my clean spoolie here, and I'm just gonna run this through and make sure I don't have any, um, excess on it. And you do need to do this somewhat quickly because it'll start drying, obviously. And you want your lashes to be nice and separated and not clumping as much as possible. Kind of depends on the thickness of your regular lashes, but hopefully you can see that a little bit there. I've just got the light layer on and then Here's another handy little tool that I purchased on Amazon. It's like a mini Q-tip, so you can use that for any little mistakes. It also helps if you're trying to get the bondage real close to the lashes underneath. So I have my blow tool and just do a little help here to help it along to get a little more tacky. And then the other trick that I learned is to take your fingernail and tap that to your lash. It should feel sticky, and if it comes off wet, then it's still too wet. So that's already ready to go, that's already dried— or not dried, but tacky. So that's what you're looking for. And then I'm just going in again, but here I'm going to wiggle at the base of my lashes and just focus the bond right at the base. And again, you're looking for light coverage because you— it's building the layers of the Bond is what really gives you that nice adhesion. And I just noticed I got like a little too much in one area, so I'm gonna grab that off of there. And you can see I got a little of the— or maybe you can't see, I don't know how close I can get to this thing, but I've got a little bit of glue of the Bond on my waterline, so I'm just popping in there and cleaning that up. Okay, so now while I'm letting that get dry, I'm going to take the white Whisper Light with the Obex tip. So it looks like this, it's just a little plastic tip, and I'm going to go ahead and put this on the spines of the lashes that I'm about to apply. So I'm not going to do the spines for my other eye yet. I'm just going to do the spines on the ones I'm getting ready to apply. And then this is— I think this is triple bonded, or I forget exactly which bond this is called that I'm doing, but it's the, you know, one of the layered bonds. So So now you're going to go in and you're going to tap again just a couple millimeters above the base of your lash, right where you're intending to place the lash. So with this lash system, you don't want them on your waterline because that will not give you good longevity because the moisture will make the lashes lift. So the proper placement is about 2 to 3 milliliters— milliliters— millimeters above the waterline. So I'm trying to get a little closer. I've got this table set up this time so that I could actually do this and see what I'm doing in a room where there's enough light, because even with the lighting in this makeup mirror, it's helpful if you have extra. So a little blow to help it along again. So the white is nice because you can kind of see it drying down. It dries clear, so you know once it starts to get clear, that's when you're ready to place your lashes. So this is all looking good. So let's get ready, let's go for it. So I've got the first little B10 lash that's just going to go in the inner corner. And it's also helpful when you can look down into the mirror, so I've got this set up like this. You might need to lift up a little bit, but again, you're looking for that 2mm away from the waterline placement. And this is why I like to show people like a quote-unquote real person doing it, less experienced. I could tell that that was just a little too wet still because it didn't stick on right away. You're looking for this kind of like Velcro grip. It should just like, when you place it, it should pretty much just stick on there very quickly and very easily. So if you're finding it sliding around, that probably means you've either a 2-inch bond or the bond is not tacky enough. So let's try again here. And getting that placement above the waterline is really key for longevity. So that one went on pretty well, and that's looking good. So I'm gonna go ahead and move along here. So I've got the first Stardust, very exciting. This is the 12-inch length, and I'm just going to slightly overlap it on the B8 that I just did. Oh wow, very exciting. Okay, I don't know, I tried the Starburst before. They're a lot heavier of a fiber, and it just was really too dramatic for me. I'm also going to do something that I just recently learned from Sahar, and that is to fuse each lash individually as you go. So you get it right down to the base, and I'm doing just the reverse fuse. That way your lashes don't slide around after you place them, which can happen occasionally, but if you've got the right amount of bond, it generally doesn't happen too much. So All right, I've got another Stardust 12 here. Okay, so slightly overlap. Find it takes a second for my, my eyes to focus with this tiny little mirror. And I don't have my contacts in because for the most part I don't need them and I prefer to wear my glasses when I'm working on the computer a lot. All right, so I've got the first 2 Stardust placed. Now moving on to the 14. Oh, it's looking so pretty. I gotta do a setup where I can more easily get close in because I don't think it won't let me zoom in on this mode either, which is really annoying. I think it's because it's a front-facing camera, but okay, another 14 here. I don't know, I'm really kind of— I'm really liking these. So I had two S14s out, but I need one more. And what you could do, what a lot of people do, is put, um, like a C or a different number at the end. And okay, I did just have this one split on me a little bit, but since it's going to be at the end, I think it's going to work out. Can you see that? Because I was pulling it out carefully, but apparently not carefully enough. But it's still kind of stuck on there, so I think I'm just gonna go with this. Actually, okay, I've got the one little piece here. I'll just hold that. Okay, I'm not super happy with that way I placed that one, but this is the beauty of this flexible bond. It's not a glue, it's a bond, so you can have time to work with them. If you— oh, this one's— better be careful because they are delicate. If I pull on it a little too much, it might break up some more. Okay, got that guy off of there. See, again, this is how you get— that used to be where you get the real deal, people that aren't perfect at this, right? So, okay, let's try that one more time. See, and see how it's just sticking on there so easily, that little Velcro stick? That's how you know you've got the bond done right. Um, I do have this one goofy real lash of mine that's curling in a bizarre way. So that's pretty good for that eye, and I didn't fuse all of them individually like I said I would, but they weren't really moving around. Now I'll just go in and do each one individually. So you'll notice sometimes if you are getting too much sticking with— and that's one problem with fusing them individually. If they're a little sticky, like, and you blow them, then you might blow the half of the lashes to make them too dry. But once you're already finished, if you blow them a little, it should help the bond dry down and make it less sticky. I'm not loving how I got the spines on there this time, but, but it still looks good when you look straight on. And let me just go ahead and move this so you can see a little better here. Okay, so I think I'm just going to— so I went and grabbed one of my other tools, this comb, because I think I need to fluff them up a little bit. But first we need to do a full fuse. So I'm going to come in above here, and you're looking to get it right down at the base of your lash, and then squeezing. I mean, you're firm, but you're not squeezing the life out of them. So that's a full fuse. Some people have trouble with that because of the shape of their eyes. I think, um, for the most part it works okay for me. Now I'm gonna go in with my pair of the Wandas. You might just have one tweezer, you just remove these, but I ended up getting an extra, so now I just leave these on here all the time. And what I'd like to do is fluff them a bit. So it's going back in for another fuse, and then you can see I can use this tool to run through some of the places where it's a little clumpy, like my natural lashes are with the bond or in there kind of sticking to some, and get these nice and fluffed up. Okay, and then you also want to make sure that you fuse all the way through. So I'm going to go ahead and put this on the base once more. You also notice I'm not fusing up a lot because that's one way that I get mine like touching my eyebrows. If I fuse too like straight up, they'll get like that just because the shape of my eye. So now I'm gonna move up to the middle, get another good fuse going there. Again, just pressing firmly, not squeezing it too, too much. And then one more towards the ends. Okay, so I think we should be pretty good there. A little more fluffing. You can see sometimes you get a little bit of stuckness with the natural lash, especially if you're not— my natural lashes are fairly long, they're just very light, so I do get some sticking. That's another thing you can do is not run the bond all the way to the tips of your lashes. I've kind of experimented that with that a couple of times, um, but you can see that they're on there because I can do this. I mean, I'm not tugging super tight, but super tight— that didn't even make any sense— not tugging super hard. Okay, I'm gonna call that one done. Move on to the next one here. So I'll probably just fast forward through this. I don't think I have any other major tips to offer you. So I mean, my placement on this one could have been better, but that's the beauty of it. Doesn't have to be perfect, and nobody else is probably going to notice except for you. Okay, I think I am going to call this done and just bring this in a little closer so that you can see. So definitely would say that they are more delicate than any of the other lashes that I've tried at this point. So I would always pop off the top. Even though I was being super careful and getting it close to the base, I still tore two of them, which at the price that they are, you don't want to be tearing the lashes, right? Um, second thing is, I think as far as the look, um, I'm thinking I like it. I mean, it's definitely— on blondes, the black lashes are definitely very dramatic, but I think for the weekend, these are great, and I like the thinner fiber of these than of the Stardust. The Stardust just seemed like too thick and heavy for me personally. A lot of people really love them, and they hold up very well to lash laundry, which is cleaning the lashes and reusing them. These Stardust, I don't know if I can see them lasting very well, so I'll maybe give an update on that below after I've worn them for a while and take them off and see if that is possible to salvage them or not. Anyway, hope this is helpful. I think Starbust— Stardust is a great look, great dramatic look. I'm really digging it. I will definitely get these again.