Grow your eyelashes with LATISSE

Posted: August 3, 2009

There has been a lot of buzz about LATISSE - Allergan's new and only FDA-approved medication to grow eyelashes thicker, darker and longer.

A Blog in OC register on July 23^rd 2009 caught my eye discussing if your eyelashes are really worth $1400 a year for use of Latisse and why not just use mascara.

1. Ask any client in my practice and they will say their eyelashes are definitely worth it.

2. The yearly cost is about $800 or less, not $1400 per year. Because once you get your lashes to the length that you like, you then maintain the results by using Latisse less frequently. Instead of every night, you may only need it 2-3 times per week.

3. As far as why spend hundreds for Latisse instead of a few dollars for just mascara, it's never been about Latisse versus mascara, but rather about Latisse PLUS mascara. My clients tell me all the time how they love their new longer Latisse lashes even more when they apply their mascara!

~ Monica Bonakdar, MD