where, oh where have my eyebrows gone!

aha ok well i, like im sure many of you, have been plucking my eyebrows for awhile.. i decided tonight that they'd look great grown out a bit, but there are big empty spots where they're not growing back, probably because those are the spots I've been plucking the most for the longest time.. they're gonna grow back, right i'm not gonna be 70 with thin eyebrows, right ?

 

No, you may have damaged the hair folicle and therefore, they may not grow back.
My Nanna used to work in cosmetics in the 40s and 50s, back then it was fashionable to draw on your eyebrows, so her and her colleages were instructed to pluck their eyebrows off, completely....

they never grew back, and she has regretted it ever since.

 

I have never ever ever plucked or tweezed my eyebrows. Why do women do it? I've never understood that.

 

i don't either. i've given birth without drugs twice, but i can't stand the pain of plucking!

kathy

 

well alright, i take that back



most women do it either because they feel it looks better and they feel better about the way they look, or they see all of their friends doing it (when they're in 7th/8th grade, high school) and think they should be doing it too


i was a combination of the both, mainly i just always wanted an arch in my eyebrows, i dont know why

 

i had really thick eyebrows and my classmates made fun of me....i was only 12 and very self conscious, so i started plucking and havent stopped since!!!! i'm almost 22 now and personally i dont regret having to pluck cos they look alright, but back then i made a mess of my brows cos i thought i had to pluck all hairs!!!! but they grew back and i was able to make them look ok.

 

When i was younger i plucked mine WAY too far apart and when i realized it, they grew back with no problem, it takes a while sometimes... but.. i have heard that a lot of times they dont grow back, it probably depends on how much you plucked them, i have been plucking mine for 6 yrs and still dont have trouble growing them back in if i mess up, but my gramma also has a horror story like the one above, so i know its possible.



Im a hairy italian and my eyebrows ruined my face, they looked like someone got a black thick marker and drew a line from one ear to the other, a horrible unibrow, just hair everywhere. so plucking DEFINTATLY makes me feel a lot better, i just do away with the stray hairs and now i have 2 eyebrows! its the part of me i get complimented most on. so your lucky if you dont hafto do anything to them, but some of us just arent so lucky sometimes.

 

I had the unibrow thing going on too as a teenager, and plucked my eyebrows like crazy...in the middle, and to get the "arch" that was so popular back then. Much of what I used to pluck never grew back...some did, but not all of it.

 

Never plucked. I used to shave a little to shape them, but I got lazy and stopped. Which brings us to today. I'm still too lazy.

 

I have the thickest hair on a white girl ever which kind of carries on throughout my body. I pluck to keep my eyebrows unders control because while I've never had a unibrow, if I don't pluck it looks like caterpillers took hold of my face.

 

okay, i admit to giving myself a little shave to fight the unibrow, lol! i just can't stand the pain of plucking. most women seem to be able to take that pain, but i just can't. Ouchie!
but thicker eyebrows can be pretty too. think of brooke sheilds in blue lagoon or look at bjork. the natural look is my favorite.
but it's fine if you do pluck, too, i'm all for whatever makes you feel happy with yourself
hope your eyebrows recover. maybe they just need more time.

kathy

 

I've been plucking since I was 12 I do it everyday! I'm obsessed I don't know what it is I'm even weird about other peoples eyebrows, like if they have nice lookiing ones I'll compliment them.
the first time I was ever complimented on my eyebrows I laughed my ass off. it's a weird thing to be complimented on.

 

once you do it for a while it really doesn't hurt anymore you get used to it.
it doesn't even hurt to me anymore, except for the light thin ones that sometimes creep up above your eye. ouch those hurt.

 

Plucking will trigger a migraine for me... But I do it anyways. But, mine are weird. I have a few hairs, but the ones I have are long and thick. So, I have to be very careful and not over-pluck, or I won't have any left! But, unfortunately, since I can't pluck many of them, they are still large brows. But I can live with them.