The LASHGASM blog publishes guides written from real studio work in Montréal, grouped into three clusters: lash services, training and craft, and professional products.
Nothing here is written to fill a schedule. Each guide answers a question clients or students actually ask at the studio, and links back to the service or course page that resolves it.
Every guide belongs to one of three clusters, because LASHGASM serves three different readers: clients booking a service, artists learning the craft, and professionals buying supplies.
These guides cover the sets, lifts and maintenance offered at the Montréal studio, from choosing a style to how long a result lasts.
5 published guides
These guides are for people learning the craft with Anna, from the beginner course through the professional practice that follows it.
3 published guides
These guides cover professional equipment: trays, tweezers, adhesives and accessories, the ones Anna works with and teaches.
3 published guides
The guides exist to answer the decision a reader is actually facing, not to repeat the service pages.
A client deciding between a lash lift and extensions needs a comparison, not a menu. A graduate pricing their first sets needs the business context the course covers, not a sales page. Where a guide overlaps a service page, the service page stays the definitive source of prices and durations and the guide links to it.
If you are booking rather than reading, the service and course pages carry the current facts.
Start from the lash services menu for prices and durations, the lash training pillar for the two courses, or the lash glossary if a term in a guide is unfamiliar. Guides are written by Anna Dao.
A working lash artist’s kit is built from six categories beyond the tray: tweezers, adhesive, tape, spoolies, glue rings, and the retail aftercare products a client takes home, and each one earns its place for a specific reason rather than as a generic supply list. This guide works through what each category does and why […]
Professional lash artists choose trays by four connected attributes: curl, diameter, length and finish, and getting any one of them wrong for a specific client’s natural lashes shows up immediately in how the set looks and holds. This guide works through each attribute on its own, then shows how they combine to serve the styles […]
The working lash artist’s craft keeps developing after certification, and LASHGASM’s Advanced & Refresher Lash Training exists for exactly that stage: a one-day, fully customized course in Montréal for certified lash artists, taught one-on-one by Anna Dao for CAD $750. This guide is for artists who already have a certification and a client book, and […]
Becoming a lash artist in Montréal starts with LASHGASM’s Complete Beginner’s Lash Training, a two-day, in-person course that takes you from no experience to your first full sets, taught personally by Anna Dao for CAD $1,050. This guide walks through what those two days actually feel like, what you leave with, and what the path […]
LASHGASM’s lash services work as one connected system rather than a menu of one-off treatments: you choose a full set, keep it going with touch-ups and refills, decide later whether a lash lift fits a season better, and end a set with a professional removal instead of letting it wear out unevenly. This guide walks […]
The trays and tweezers used on a paying client are the same categories taught in class and sold in the Shop, so choosing supplies is really one decision, not three. Here’s how Anna thinks about trays, tweezers and the rest of a working kit, whether you’re finishing a course or restocking after months of client […]
Graduating from a lash course is the start of the work, not the end of it, and LASHGASM’s structure is built around what happens after the two training days. From mentorship to kit to pricing your first sets, here’s what actually carries into your first weeks of working on real clients, once the training model […]
Eyelash extensions and a lash lift solve different problems, and picking between them comes down to how much fullness you want versus how low-maintenance you want the result to be. Both are hands-on services at LASHGASM, taught as well as performed by Anna Dao, who holds certificates in classic and volume extension technique from Innovalook […]
A first lash appointment follows a predictable sequence, and knowing it in advance removes most of the uncertainty about what to bring, what happens, and what you’ll walk out with. Here’s what to expect from the moment you arrive at the Chabanel studio to the moment you leave with a finished set, so the whole […]
Eyelash extensions don’t fall out on one fixed date the way a countdown timer would suggest. They shed gradually, following the same growth cycle your natural lashes have always had, which is exactly why LASHGASM books two different maintenance appointments instead of a single “redo” date: a one-week touch-up for early upkeep, and a refill […]