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A beauty trend of men cutting their eyelashes short to “look more masculine” is spreading overseas, with videos of barbershops and salons trimming lashes using clippers and scissors being posted on social media, Nikkan Gendai reports. Overseas media have reportedly been covering this phenomenon repeatedly since around last spring. On 5ch, the discussion ranged widely — from body-hair trivia like “unlike head hair, eyelashes grow back after cutting, so they’ll return,” to questions about the very concept of “masculinity,” to fun facts about how deep-set eyes and skull shape change how long eyelashes appear.
Are shorter eyelashes more “manly”? A bizarre beauty trend as cutting videos flood social media | Nikkan Gendai DIGITAL
Published: 2026/09/25 06:00 Updated: 2026/09/25 06:00
Long eyelashes have long been coveted by women, but a strange beauty trend is spreading among men: cutting their eyelashes short to “look more masculine.” Videos of barbershops and beauty salons trimming male customers’ eyelashes with electric clippers and scissors have been posted on social media, and overseas outlets have been covering the trend one after another since around last spring.
Source: nikkan-gendai.com / Original article here
What people said
Also, if you cut your lashes too short, sweat gets in your eyes and stings.
They do grow back — who said they wouldn't? Eyelashes shed and regrow just like other hair.
Depends on the person. But yeah, as you age your body's hair-growing function ages too, so it's fair to say they thin out as a result.
So your lashes grew back but your hair didn't, huh
People from Kagoshima seem to have long ones too. Actually, my parent's from Kagoshima and my eyelashes are super long — long enough to rustle when I blink.
These days all sorts of industries are experimenting with how to sexualize middle-aged men to monetize it — after all, the guys who don't care about this stuff are the ones with money.
Can't help it — the article was written by some old guy from the Ice Age or Bubble generation (Japan's tough-job-market and economic-boom generations).
Apparently Ryusei Yokohama (actor) went through a phase where he really hated how his eyelashes curled upward.
Oh, so that's how deep-set eyes work! I see! Since the eye itself sits back, the lashes sit back too… guess it's exactly what it sounds like.
It's eyes like this — this person's half-American, right? I'm mixed-race too. Since it's set back in the eyelid, even from the side you're not seeing the true length, just the tips poking out. Classic deep-set-eye thing.
So that kind of thing happens too when your bone structure is different. Makes sense.
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Ever since I got hospitalized, it shrank and I turned into a kid
Background and key points of the discussion
The thread repeated the urban legend that “cutting your eyelashes stops them from growing back,” but like other body hair, eyelashes naturally cycle and regrow, so they’re said to return to their original length within a few weeks to months even after being cut. The trend itself reportedly took off on Western social media around last spring, apparently sparked by barbershops and salons offering lash-clipping services, and overseas media have covered it repeatedly ever since — Japanese outlets are only now picking it up after the fact. Where opinions in the thread split was over the very definition of “masculinity”: some argued that not bothering with grooming is fine as is, while others countered that keeping a groomed, clean-cut look is exactly what makes a good impression. Posters also swapped personal accounts of how deep-set eyes or differences in skull structure change how long or visible eyelashes appear — a point about individual variation beyond simple “long vs. short” comparisons that the original article doesn’t really convey.
※ This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Breaking News+) thread “[Looks…] Are shorter eyelashes more “manly”? A bizarre beauty trend as cutting videos flood social media.”
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