REVITALASH? YOU SHOULD BUY THIS! READ THE REVIEWS!

I have been using Revitalash since July 07. It has done wonders for my eyelashes! But..... the newer version of Revitalash does diddly squat! I'm so glad I still have some of the older vesion to use. If I can recall, one major make up company is causing problems with Revitalash and Jan Marin. The lawyers are doing the damage. I feel it is out of pure greed that this company beginning with the letter A is doing this. It will most likely be offered by this company at a much higer price.

The active ingredient in the original Jan Marini and Revitalash products is Bimatoprost, a glaucoma medication sold by Allergan under the trade name of Lumigan. Glaucoma patients using it began to notice eyelash growth and the cosmetics industry got wind of it. Allergan wants to control the market of course, and are conducting FDA testing to get it approved as a cosmetic. In the meantime, they took legal actions which forced Jan Marini and I believe also Revitalash to remove the Bimatoprost from their formulae, although I've heard they substituted other chemicals with supposedly similar effects. In April 08 I visited a cosmetics store in LA that had a stash of the old, pre-ban products and I bought one tube each of Marini and Revitalash. I started with the Marini, and after 10 weeks of daily application my lashes were at least twice as long and full as when I started. I have light hazel eyes and did notice perhaps just a bit of darkening, but it's a tradeoff I can live with as I am severely eyelash-challenged. After the first three months or so I reduced my applications to once or twice weekly to conserve the expensive stuff, and have not noticed much if any loss of length or volume. I use it on both the upper and lower lashes although the directions say to use on uppers only. About three months ago I misplaced the Marini tube and switched to Revitalash and didn't notice any difference in maintenance. Recently I found the Marini again and will use that until it's gone. Lumigan is readily available to glaucoma patients and there are also some cosmetic doctors who will write prescriptions for cosmetic use. It comes in an eyedropper bottle but you just dip an eyeliner brush in the liquid and apply like liner. There are internet pharmacies selling it and their strictness about prescriptions probably varies. Just google "lumigan".

This is absolutely fascinating. I would love to know more about the active ingredients being used in this product. My husband suffers from severe glaucoma and his eye drops do cause his eye lashes to do all sorts of "funky" things: they lighten, grow out in different angles, etc... My lashes are short, sparse and practically invisible without mascara. I would love to try this product. Thanks for your reviews gals.

First of all, let me say that I thought that this worked, I also used Jan Marni which worked even more. I bought both from a skin clinic at a discount from that above mentioned acution site. I worked with someone who is on tv and had huge lashes from the jan marni and had been using religously for three months. It has to be used everyday. My problem with it, was when I started reading more about what was in it and why it worked as it has a chemical used to treat glaucoma. One of the side effects is it can turn light eyes darker. So I was using it for my wedding last year, and I promptly stopped and told all my friends with light eyes about this and they stopped as well. I would only reccommend it for dark eye people if you don't want to risk having your iris change colors.

i haven't tried any of these lash products but the more that they come out with the more tempted i get - does anyone have photos of the results? that would be interesting

I bought revitalash because of a wonderful review from a friend.  I think that I didn't really believe that it would work.   It surpassed my wildest imagining.  My lashes grew longer and thicker.   Several of my friends accused me of wearing fake lashes.  When you have always had short straight lashes, it is pretty exciting to suddenly (six weeks for full results) have beautiful long lashes.  Warning:  when they are first growing in, they are all different lengths and slightly awry.  Just wait.  They get great.

I have used Jan Marini lash, but won't do that again.  I didn't have anything happen.  Thank goodness.

sounds cool. seems like it worked out for a lot off people, but it just seems to be a risky chanceee.

i love this