While women around the world use mascara and artificial eyelashes to make their eyelashes look longer and thicker, there is now a unique and strange trend where men are cutting their naturally long eyelashes shorter with scissors.

Men who adopt this strange trend believe that long and curled eyelashes reduce the masculine features of the face. According to them, making the eyelids shorter and straighter makes the eye look tougher and ‘masculine’.

A number of men on TikTok and Instagram have been sharing videos of their eyelashes trimming and advising others to do the same, which has not only surprised netizens but sparked a new debate about it.

Ophthalmologists have expressed serious concern over this dangerous fashion.

Experts say that eyelashes are not only for beauty but are a natural defense system to protect the eyes from dust, dirt and infection, cutting them can cause serious damage to the eyes and there is also a risk of eye injuries from scissors.