Julianna Peña has some vital recommendation for feminine fighters: Hold it all-natural within the cage.
At UFC Denver, the principle occasion bout between flyweights Rose Namajunas and Tracy Cortez went viral when a punch from Namajunas despatched a faux eyelash flying off of Cortez’s face. Namajunas went on to win a five-round unanimous choice, however social media was nonetheless buzzing concerning the unusual second within the aftermath of the competition.
Peña, a former bantamweight champion who hopes to combat for UFC gold once more quickly, shared her personal expertise with facial cosmetics and why she would by no means put on them on combat night time.
“As you understand, hair and make-up, that’s my jam,” Peña stated on The MMA Hour. “Adore it, find it irresistible, find it irresistible, find it irresistible. I obtained my eyelashes executed in coaching. Pretend eyelash extensions, so that they needed to stick on every particular person lash. When considered one of them broke off, it stabbed me within the eyeball and it was essentially the most excruciating ache I’ve ever had in my life. Subsequently, I’m a strip woman — I solely put on strip lashes. I solely put the glue on and I take them on and off each time. I by no means put on them in coaching and I’ve by no means worn faux extensions whereas I’m combating for that cause.
“Now, a few of these ladies, I don’t know the way or why they’re doing it, or possibly it simply hasn’t occurred to them but to the purpose that they assume that they’ll simply get away with persevering with to combat with faux eyelash extensions. However as we noticed, it simply went flying.”
The circumstances that led to Cortez’s eyelash malfunction are complicated to Peña, who wonders why Cortez was so effusive together with her reward on social media for the technician that supplied the extensions.
Peña did her finest to infer the place the flyweight contender went unsuitable.
“I noticed the entire thing go flying,” Peña stated. “How does that even occur? What I believe is that one thing will need to have occurred. They will need to have taken the eyelash extensions out on simply that eye and coated it up actually fast with the precise strip lash, as a result of I noticed the entire lash go flying, and if it wasn’t a strip lash, then her lash tech is definitely not that good as a result of I noticed the entire thing go. It’s not like a pair that flake off and stab you within the eye, it was the entire thing.
“So in any case, girls, in the event you’re listening, please do me a favor, don’t combat with the eyelash extensions on. It’s only a no-no.”
When requested if commissions ought to be those to stop these accidents taking place sooner or later, Peña disagreed that these beauty choices require official oversight. She hopes different girls simply use widespread sense when determining how made up they have to be for his or her fights.
“I don’t anticipate eyelash extensions being a factor [they inspect],” Peña stated. “Are you able to think about they’re going to return in there and be like, ‘Are these actual? Are these yours?’
“No mascara, no eyelash extensions. You’re a warrior, you’re a barbarian. That is like gladiator occasions.”
