Salon Today
MenuMENU
SearchSEARCH

What NovaLash is Doing About Lyme Disease Awareness

For more than 30 years, Sophy Merszei, CEO and founder of NovaLash, has been fighting the unpleasant and often debilitating symptoms of Lyme Disease. Merszei and Team NovaLash are set to bring awareness to this disease.

May 22, 2018
What NovaLash is Doing About Lyme Disease Awareness

 

Sponsored by
3 min to read


Sophy Merszei is the award-winning Molecular Biologist, Cosmetic Chemist, CEO and founder of NovaLash. For more than 30 years, Merszei has been fighting the unpleasant and often debilitating, symptoms of Lyme Disease. Merszei and Team NovaLash are set to bring awareness to this disease, because early detection is crucial to the treatment and can prevent the disease from progressing. Education is the first step to prevention.

Lyme Disease

Ad Loading...

Lyme Disease is caused by bacterium Borrelia Burgdorferi and is transmitted through a bite of an infected tick. Lyme Disease symptoms mimic other diseases, which makes it extremely difficult to diagnose.  It can affect any system of the body, including the brain, nervous system, muscles, and heart. 

  • Symptoms: Skin Rash, fatigue, headache, muscle and joint pain, fever, etc.

  • How to be diagnosed: Signs and symptoms of illness, blood tests, or history of possible exposure to ticks.

  • How to help prevent Lyme Disease: Wear repellent, thoroughly check your skin for ticks, shower soon after being outdoors, and visit your doctor.


Facts

  • Lyme is the fastest growing infectious bacterial disease in the USA.

  • Each year, approximately 30,000 cases of Lyme Disease are reported.

  • New cases of Lyme increased by 340% between 1993-2013.

  • Children around the ages of 5 through 15 are thought to be most at risk of contracting Lyme Disease.

  • Lyme Disease causes well over 100 different symptoms.

  • 42% of people who contract Lyme Disease can become disabled and unable to work or continue normal daily activities at some point in their lives.


Celebrities with Lyme Disease

Ad Loading...
  • Super model, Christy Turlington

  • Late Night host, David Letterman

  • Soprano's actress, Jamie Lynn Sigler

  • Former President, George W. Bush

  • "Joy Luck Club" author, Amy Tan

  • Real Housewife & former model, Yolanda Foster

  • Hall & Oates musician, Daryl Hall

  • "The Color Purple" author, Alice Walker

  • Actor, Alec Baldwin

  • Domestic diva, Martha Stewart

  • Actor, Richard Gere

  • Singer, Avril Lavigne


NovaLash Lyme T-Shirt - $5 Donation per T-Shirt Sold

Join Team NovaLash to help create an impact and increase Lyme Disease awareness by purchasing a limited edition NovaLash Lyme T-shirt. For each super soft NovaLash Lyme T-shirt purchased, NovaLash will donate $5 to the American Lyme Disease Foundation.  If you want to take your generosity to the next level, donate directly to American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF) by clicking the link on our website or go to http://www.aldf.com/.

Our Gift to You for Your Donation

In honor of Sophy’s courageous battle, NovaLash is launching a charitable giving push throughout the month of May in 2018.  For every donation you make in May 2018 to the American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF), NovaLash will give you FREE product. Simply email NovaLash your receipt from the ALDF showing the donation you made in the month of May 2018 to info@novalash.com along with your contact information, and you will receive the item(s) below.

Ad Loading...

DONATE NOW!

Tier 1 FREE Gift 
$5-$14.99 donation – (and/or post one of our facts above) FREE Dragon Tree eyeshadow

Tier 2 FREE GIFT 
$15.00-$24.99 donation - Cardinal Sin JETLiner AND Dragon Tree eyeshadow

Tier 3 FREE GIFT 
$25.00-$99.99 donation - Oak JETLiner, Cardinal Sin JETLiner, Dragon Tree eyeshadow, Aftercare Kit, and a FREE Lyme T-Shirt

Tier 4 FREE GIFT 
$100-$249.99 donation - Everything listed in the $25 tier plus a 24-hour Sugar Candy Mountain Eyeshadow Triptych

Ad Loading...

Tier 5 FREE GIFT – Heroine Gift Pack
$250 and up donation - One of every 24hr Cream Shadow Triptych, mascara by NovaLash, and a FREE NovaLash Lyme T-Shirt

Available to the continental US. While supplies last.

Originally posted on Modern Salon

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

More In The Know

Ad Loading...
Headshot of Barrie Zucal
In The Know|Articles|Sep 1, 2026

Global Feminist, Therapist and Powerlifter Barrie Zucal Delivers Bold Rallying Cry Against 'Debilitating Goodness'

At 80, global feminist, former marriage and family therapist, executive coach, and powerlifter Barrie Zucal shows women how to stop letting “debilitating goodness” derail their dreams. Her empowering new book, BOLD: How Women Play BIG by Leading Instead of Pleasing, calls out the quiet conditioning that holds women back from achieving their ambitions — and shows them how to free themselves.

Ad Loading...
Models on stage for the Alternative Hair Show
In The Know|News|Aug 20, 2026

The Alternative Hair Show Arrives in Spain for the First Time with LOOK Madrid

The most iconic show in international hairdressing will celebrate its 43rd edition on November 14th at LOOK Madrid, IFEMA MADRID, in a historic night that will bring together some of its legendary teams and will also host the final of the International Visionary Award across its three categories: Cut & Colour, Men’s and Avant-Garde. LOOK Madrid celebrates its next edition from November 13-15th at IFREMA MADRID.

Headshot of Thom Dennis
In The Know|News|Aug 11, 2026

Expert Shares Fundamentally Different Approach to Leadership

AI, relentless change, employee burnout, economic insecurity. Individually, each presents a challenge, but together, they create what global leadership strategies Thom Dennis calls "the perfect storm." His new book, Rewilding the Corporate Mind, offers business leaders a radically different approach to leading people through today's uncertainty and division.

Ad Loading...