Epidemiologic analysis of change in eyelash characteristics with increasing age in a population of healthy women.

BACKGROUNDObservations that eyelashes become thinner, shorter, and lighter, as women age has not been previously quantified.OBJECTIVEThis study was conducted to investigate associations between eyelash characteristics and age.MATERIALS AND METHODSThe upper natural eyelashes of 179 subjects were phot