7 types of lash fan: their advantages and dis-advantages.
A lash fan is essential for any volume or hybrid lash set. There seem to be more and more types available on the market nowadays. In this article, we’ll provide you with a structured summary so that you can quickly get a general idea of them at a glance. They’re fresh handmade fans, handmade fans, premade fans, promade fans, octopus promade fans, YY lash fan, laser cut fan. And we would also share about their advantage and disadvantage to support your selection.
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0. WHAT IS THE NATURE OF A LASH FAN?
The primary function of a lash fan is enhancing the length and the thickness of a lash set. Therefore, They normally have the structure with of 1 root (socalled stem) and many tips as their nature. Normally, a volume fan is created by bundlling many single fibers at their root. And we usually call that process “fanning”.
Nowadays, we have developed many different methods to create the lash fan, making different types. Lets review them in this articles.
1. FRESH HANDMADE FANS BY LASH ARTISTS WORLDWIDE
Every day, millions of lash artists worldwide are creating countless lash sets—many of which are volume or hybrid sets made using volume lash fans. The majority of lash artists prefer to create their own fresh fans by hand during the application process. This preference stems from reasons such as artistic expression, flexibility, and the sense of full control over the quality of each extension session. And since it’s fresh, there would be no pre-bonded glue layer at its stem, allowing it wrap the natural lashes. This way bringing higher retention. But their disadvantage is time-consuming and require skills.
The techniques that those lash artists use to create the lash fan could be: Flower Bouquet, Pinching/Finger Method, Sticky Dot / Volume Dot / Bubble, Wiggle / Shimmy, Lonely Fan / Fan on Strip / Rolling. And the fans can vary from 2D-30D or even 40D.
2. HANDMADE FANS BY TECHNICIAN IN VIETNAM
Many lash artists don’t have enough time or techniques to create perfect handmade fans that they want. Responding to this, Many technicians in Vietnam helping to create the fans and send to their customer in USA, EU, Australia. The main techniques they use is rolling, same as the lash artists does. Its advantage is obviously less time consuming. However, the fans are always pre-glued one time, loosing its ability to wrap. The consequence is lower retention.
3. PREMADE FAN BY LASH FACTORIES IN CHINA
Since the method that the lash artists use to create the lash fan is not high efficient enough for an industry, lash manufacturers in China and Vietnam have developed the manufacturing methods for many many times. Nowadays, Chinese factories have come to semi-auto manufacturing. The premade fans made in China are normally featured with flat bases, heat-bonded stem. This istem can’t wrap, making a lower retention in the comparision with the fresh handmade fans.
4. PROMADE FAN BY LASH FACTORIES IN VIETNAM
With premade fans, users typically look for longer stems and pointy bases to create a thinner bond between the false lashes and the natural ones. The shape of promade fans more closely resembles the handmade fans created by lash artists. Since the production of promade fans is ‘handmade with tools,’ it allows for customization and the creation of unique fan styles such as narrow fans, wispy fans, camellia 2-layer, and camellia 3-layer fans. Their stems are usually glue-bonded, which removes their ability to wrap around the natural lash. Promade fans were developed to meet that need. They take more time to produce than premade fans, which results in a higher price.
5. OCTOPUS PROMADE FAN
Octopus promade fan is the premade lash fan that wrap. it was developed by Sen Lash Factory Vietnam. it’s has the shape totally the same as all the fan that lash artists create but with firmly fix at the uper part of the stem. The lower part of the stem are loose allowing it to wrap.
Refer to: OCTOPUS PROMADE LASH FANS
6. YY, W LASH FAN
YY or W lash fans are a smart invention. It reverses the normal manufacturing process of a premade fan. Normally the tips of the fans is created before the stem. By creating an individual line of lashes first (fix the stem first) then move their tips aside to create the gap between 2 tips, it create the fan. It’s biggest advantage is cost-effective since 1 very small box can hold many premade-fans. The texture of the lash set that it create is also a plus. However, They can’t create mega-volum sets. The thickness can’t be too thin too.
7. LASER LASH FAN
Unlike other types of lash fans that are made by bundling separate fibers together, laser lash fans are created by cutting a flat plastic sheet into the desired shape.This manufacturing method removes many constraints and unleashes creativity in design. Its main drawback, however, is the thickness of the lashes. To produce thinner lashes, higher-resolution laser machines and higher-quality material sheets are required.
