About lashmatrix.org
What this is
LashMatrix is an open library of lash mapping. 135 structured maps across 9 eye shapes, 5 effects and 3 techniques, free to read, free to use, free to be included in.
Why “matrix”
Two meanings, both intended. The matrix is where a lash grows from — the same word used for nail matrix and hair matrix. It is also the structure that organises them.
Why this exists
Lash mapping is taught teacher to student, in private course decks, and every school words it differently. There is no shared reference layer, so a technician who trains in one place and works in another starts over, and two artists describing the same set do not use the same words for it.
A school cannot fix this — its maps are part of what it charges for. A retail brand publishing one would be selling something. The gap has stayed open because everyone positioned to close it had a reason not to.
What it was started for
This was started to give the trade its first shared coordinate system, and to put something back into an industry after twenty years of working in it.
That means three commitments, in this order. Technicians are never charged — not to read, not to use, not to be included. The maps never carry a product link. And an artist's work always stays hers: shown from her own account, under her name, gone the moment she wants it gone.
If those three ever stop being true, the library has failed at the thing it was made for, whatever else it is achieving.
How to be included
Send us the set. If a map here is useful, use it; if you have a better version of one, send that instead — you will be credited by name and linked.
Artist work appears by official embed only. The image stays on your account, carries your name, links to your profile, and disappears if you remove the post. We never re-host it and never strip the attribution.
There is no application, no membership, no waiting list and no fee. One message to [email protected] is the whole process — and the same address takes a removal request, answered within 24 hours, no questions.
What we ask for
Nothing. The library sells no products, carries no product links, and takes no payment for inclusion. Corrections are the one thing worth sending: a map that is wrong is more use to us as a fix than as a page.
Every addition makes it more beautiful
A shared reference only grows by being added to. Each map someone sends, each correction, each set shown under its artist's own name — the next technician reads a slightly better library than the last one did, and one more client walks out of the chair looking the way she hoped.
That is the case for keeping it open. Talk to each other, show your work, argue with a map that looks wrong. Every addition makes it a little more beautiful — that is the whole of it.