A bride-to-be was left horrified after a clump of her eyelashes was ripped out during a freak accident just six months before her wedding.
Rebekkah Fahy, from Canberra in Australia, was doing laundry when the incident happened.
The 26-year-old, who’s preparing to marry fiancé Jamie Aptton, was gathering clothes from her laundry basket when the lid caught the corner of her eye, Sun UK reports.
“It felt like it had scratched just under my eye and down my cheekbone. I was in quite a bit of pain and ran out to my partner. I asked him, "Is my eye okay?" she recalls.
“When I took my hand away from my eye I looked down and there were clumps of my eyelashes.”
Rebekkah then washed off her makeup so she could assess what remained of her long black eyelashes only to discover that things were worse than she originally thought, the Daily Mail reports.
“My partner, Jamie, quickly grabbed his phone and started ringing beauty salons for advice,” she said.
Rebekkah also took a photo of her eye and uploaded the picture to a makeup-related Facebook group, hoping for some reassurance.
“I swear by castor oil. I work in a nightclub and was wearing fake eyelashes so much the glue was sticking to my real lashes and made them fall out,” one user said.
“I've been applying castor oil religiously and avoiding mascara unless I have to and they’ve grown so thick and long in just three weeks! I'm amazed.”
Others were eager to reassure Rebekkah that she can expect full regrowth within three months.
At the moment, Rebekkah has opted to use castor oil until her natural lashes grow in and she'll supplement them with false lashes on her big day.
Sources: Sun UK, Daily Mail