Cilia on the headlights: design development or homemade work?

In Western countries, the design of frontal optics (lash cilia on the headlights) is a separate art form. Someone from designers stylizes rectangular optical devices under an oval or segmented figure, someone represents modern wide headlights in a retro-image. Designers compete, hold exhibitions of their work, and car owners are happy to make their car more attractive and beautiful.

The idea of Western designers was so popular with the whole automotive world that today glued cilia on the headlights are perceived as an obligatory aesthetic element, and without them the headlight is an ordinary lantern. He is like a naked bulb in an apartment, without a shade or chandelier. The designer takes up work, and the turn indicator gains a nice eyelid from below and a sharply outlined "eye" arrow from above. The work is carried out with the expectation that the functional qualities of the lamps will not be affected.

But the strict and prestigious BMW gets wide sweeping eyebrows and amusing plastic cilia. On the headlights of some cars manufacturers themselves put on the lining, which have not only aesthetic function, but also perform aerodynamic properties. For example, in some models of Opel plastic lining in the field of lanterns not only serve as air flow dividers, but also create a visual effect that prolongs the hood.

Domestic designers enthusiastically picked up the baton of their Western colleagues. In a creative impulse they create cilia on the headlights for cars "Vaz" and "Oka", decorate foreign cars. The smooth lines of the car body are harmoniously covered with plastic details around the front and rear lights, leaving free sectors that are important for operation. In the capital and in large cities, specialized workshops are opened at car-care centers. The cost of services is quite affordable. At the same time, many craftsmen come up with their own versions of car decorations and try to paint them cilia on the headlights with their own hands. However, it turned out that it's not so easy to do it yourself.

The popularity of restyling automotive optics continues to grow, so the industrial manufacturer is included in the case. In stores, plastic pads are beginning to be sold that can be bought and glued. Only this approach does not always maintain a balance between the aesthetic and functional aspects. Someone glues small pieces of plastic, someone arranges wide blinkers, leaving narrow gaps for a ray of light. Ignorance of the basics of design and the rules for creating a composition leads to gross errors. People are disappointed, do not know how to make cilia on the headlights correctly and beautifully, looking for information in magazines and the Internet.

As a result, the Russian cilia became the most popular for the headlights. Today there are more than a dozen standard models in the assortment of shops . They are inexpensive and easily glued with double-sided adhesive tape or glue, and then repainted. But the exclusive cilia on the headlights still remain in the first place. They are ordered from designers respecting themselves motorists.