If you are a regular makeup user or are someone starting to get into the art, there is one incredibly important thing that you will always be reminded off – wash off your makeup thoroughly before sleeping.
This is especially so when your priority is skincare since makeup left on your face overnight can cause clogged pores and other severe skin issues.
Should you treat the activity like an art, it bears reminding that no amount of makeup and make up for a poor canvas!
Trying to put this into practice, however, can be a little harder.
With just how many layers of product gets applied when doing a full face of makeup, and the increasing demand for our makeup to last the whole day and make it through just about any kind of condition, thorough makeup removal can be a huge hassle.
Combined with just how exhausted we can be once we reach home, removing makeup means another lengthy step that is between you and blissful sleep.
As a result, you are likely guilty of having at least fallen asleep with makeup still on but have vowed to never let this happen more than once or twice.
Some people, like 50-year-old mother Theresa Lynch, may consider that extra bedtime step unnecessary in the grand scheme of things and completely ignore it.
A regular makeup user for the last 25 years, Lynch had opted to ignore conventional wisdom and go straight to bed every night with her mascara still on.
This was a terrible idea, but it didn’t strike home how bad it was until she started noticing just how intense the sensation of something stuck to the underside of her eyelids had become.
It had gotten to the point she decided to have her eyes examined by an ophthalmologist.
As a result of ignoring the problem for so long, by the time Lynch saw a doctor, her eyelids had become swollen and heavy.
There, the doctors made a shocking discovery. As it turns out, the mascara she had failed to remove properly had over the years calcified in the form of lumps on the underside of her eyelid.
According to Dr. Rebecca Taylor, the calcified mascara had gotten deeply embedded that it appeared like a tattoo on Lynch’s upper eyelid, and were essentially rough things that were scratching her eyeball each time she closed her eyelids.
In addition to this situation, Lynch was suffering from follicular conjunctivitis.
This meant that a bacterial infection had gotten into the follicles in the membrane covering the inside of Lynch’s eyelids and the surface of her eyeball, causing inflammation.
These two factors had resulted in her eyeball and eyelids to be permanently scarred.
Lynch was forced to undergo a 90-minute operation to remove the lumps embedded in her upper eyelid.
Lynch’s case was so unique that it was the first of its kind that has ever been reported.
Her experience has been recorded and published in the Journal of American Academy of Ophthalmology for posterity since.
Hopefully, nothing like this will ever happen again.
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