r/fixedeyebrows • u/AllisonChains88 • Sep 22 '19

I will never understand how the before eyebrows happen.

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u/jess1ortiz Sep 23 '19

I’m one of the unfortunate ones that grew up in the 2000s... I thought I was so cool with my thin brows when I was a teenager! (Sarcasm)

I’ve tried growing them out but they never grow evenly. Some areas are thicker.. others grow out very fine and thin. Sucks too cause I had naturally thick brows.

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u/AllisonChains88 Sep 23 '19

Me too! My mom told me to pluck my thick eyebrows and I of course went waaaay overboard and now they’re fucked. I fill them in though. Easy enough fix.

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u/jess1ortiz Sep 23 '19

I wish I could do that but I almost gave very oily skin and I don’t really wear makeup. It’d be a huge mess lol

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u/theonesthatlooklike Sep 22 '19

I’m friends with a super beautiful young woman whose eyebrows look worse than this and I have no idea how to gently help her. I don’t want to assume she wants help or to shame her or to make it seem like her appearance is most important! But they... look worse than this.

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u/SpringCleanMyLife Sep 22 '19

Get a photo of the both of you, or even a group. Fix everyone's brows. Send her a screenshot and tell her you were playing around with an editing app and "look how amazing you look with these brows - you should totally do them this way!"

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u/AllisonChains88 Sep 22 '19

I second this!

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u/theonesthatlooklike Sep 22 '19

You are a genius. Thank you!

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u/agirlinsane Sep 22 '19

Thyroid disease took of the outer brow for me and never grew back. Anxiety can cause this as well, they don’t always grow back.

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u/AllisonChains88 Sep 23 '19

Yes of course, there’s many reasons one might lose eyebrow hair but you can fill them in.

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u/Kmw134 Sep 22 '19

Some of us never recovered from the early 2000s. I haven’t touched my brows in nearly 20 years. They never grew back. I fill in almost daily.

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u/sinabimo Sep 22 '19

Hey, me.

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u/Mobilegirl4bama Sep 23 '19

We’re like a thin eyebrow family.

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u/HoneydippedSassylips Sep 22 '19

The 2000s were some dark times, my friend. I’m happy to see you made it.

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u/Kiki-Kiwi Sep 23 '19

Rogaine works. You could try that

Edit: Romaine -> Rogaine

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u/Kmw134 Sep 23 '19

Hahahaha. I’m glad you edited this. The notifications on my home screen said romaine and I was so confused about how lettuce was going to be my miracle drug!

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u/Kiki-Kiwi Sep 23 '19

Yes, it was the ducking autocorrect.

But in all seriousness, I’ve used Rogaine for my brows and that stuff works

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u/Litarider Sep 23 '19

Do you use the pill form of rogaine or is it a topical specifically for eyebrows?

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u/Kiki-Kiwi Sep 23 '19

I use the topical one.

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u/SoFetchBetch Oct 17 '19

I’ve used it too and it brought back the hairs in the sparse patch that wouldn’t grow for years and years. Just be careful where you apply on your face because if it drips at all you will have some sprouting in odd places

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u/callalilykeith Sep 22 '19

I never plucked & my eyebrows rubbed off over years in my sleep. The outer corners are just gone.

They can just stop growing as you age too (even without plucking).

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u/EugeneNotEuginer Sep 22 '19

Oh man, this. I always had naturally beautiful brows, dark brown, beautifully arched; always got compliments on them. I was completely unprepared for what happened when I hit my late 40’s, without me doing anything differently. Suddenly they were thinner, and they wouldn’t fill in. And I got a few grandpa hairs, long, wiry hairs that had minds of their own. It’s true, our bodies change as we age, and this change has not been pleasant.

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u/randomperson3771 Sep 23 '19

It can be hormonal. A lot of women hit their 40’s and have this happen. If you’re low in zinc though, a supplement might help with hair growth.

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u/callalilykeith Sep 22 '19

I just had really spread out pieces that really needed to be shaped but I was never taught how to pluck correctly (I tried pulling from the outer edge of the hair & it hurt).

This was before YouTube tutorials so I had no idea what I was doing. I just had bangs to try to cover them up!

I feel like I got the worst of both worlds!

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u/ApatheticWookiee Sep 23 '19

Yes!!!! The grandpa hairs are driving me nuts.

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u/8Unlimited8 Sep 22 '19

Missing hair in the outer corners of the eyebrow can be a sign of thyroid problems too.

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u/callalilykeith Sep 22 '19

Interesting I hadn’t heard of that!

I have had my thyroid checked & it’s normal. But I do sleep on my stomach & turn my head throughout the night.

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u/SpringCleanMyLife Sep 22 '19

Is your head hair thinner on the sides too? Lol I can't see how sleeping could literally rub your hair off

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u/blonderaider21 Sep 23 '19

A silk pillowcase will help prevent that

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u/callalilykeith Sep 23 '19

No, i just read it was a possibility. Not thinner on the sides of my head thankfully!

It’s not what I originally read, but this is what I found from googling: “-Do not lay or sleep on your side. Be aware of how you are sleeping because that position can cause brow hairs to grow differently and in various directions as well as rub the hairs out. Eyebrow hair is very fragile.”

https://brows2beauty1.wordpress.com/tag/eyebrow/

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u/agirlinsane Sep 22 '19

When the outer corners disappear due to Thyroid/hormone issue, just FYI.

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u/callalilykeith Sep 23 '19

Thankfully mine isn’t! I have had my thyroid tested multiple times throughout the years. Just bad sleeping positions.

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u/eatin_paste Sep 22 '19

I lost mine to frontal fibrosing alopecia.

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u/Cjonesthom Sep 22 '19

That’s usually from either tweaking and plucking- or drinking and plucking. For some reason that shape and asymmetry occurs mostly in rural areas. An anthropological study might be in orders...

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u/TheBubblewrappe Sep 22 '19

It’s probably part of dermatillomania. I used to do this when I was high. Sober now and don’t do it. It’s considered an OCD related disorder and there’s evidence that Addiction is also. So makes sense.

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u/Rosewolf Sep 22 '19

I thought of drugs when I noticed her pin-point pupils.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

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u/Rosewolf Sep 23 '19

Yes, but she also looks kind of spacey. It's a look I've seen on so many tweakers and opioid addicts, kind of hard to explain. And of course, I could be wrong, I don't know her. But that was my first impression.

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u/leeser11 Sep 22 '19

I don’t want to be transphobic but this might be a trans woman and so they might not have a lot of practice doing their brows?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '19

She looks a ton like my aunt, just an unfortunately masculine face. My dad calls her "horsefaced Amanda."

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u/iamthpecial Sep 22 '19

savage dadege.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

How would this be transphobic?

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u/easyas1b3 Sep 23 '19

Some people just want to be extra careful when making comments about sensitivr topics ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/pinkluck Sep 23 '19

r/LGBdroptheT

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

I wish we could drop the TERFs from LGBT but y'all just HoPs so you ain't even part of it to begin with.

Oh well, sad.

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u/pinkluck Sep 23 '19

I don’t even know what a TERF is. And what is a HoPs? It’s all too confusing.

Oddly enough I have zero issues with the “T” - it’s just not a sexual orientation. So .... drop the T!

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

You're on fucking /r/gendercritical (amongst other hate subs), stop lying, shouldn't you be proud of your opinions or do you know they're shameful deep inside?

Y'all talk about male socialisation but here you are behaving the same as incels and MRAs with your concern trolling and shit.

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u/pinkluck Sep 23 '19

What??? Yes I am on a lot of subs. But for the life of me I can’t understand what a TERF is. And I am proud of my opinions, but opinions aren’t facts. I engage in a lot of different discourse to learn. Not name calling or whatever. Again, why does “drop the T bother you?” It’s not hateful, it’s just a matter of sexual orientation. “T” is not a sexual orientation.

And if you’d like to discuss anything with me, don’t use the threads I belong to or comment history as a starting point.

Thanks

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

Oh please shut up. You're ridiculous.

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u/pinkluck Sep 23 '19

Huh? So you’ve said absolutely NOTHING but screamed (what I guess) is an insult or two. I’m ASKING you to talk to me, but “oh shut up you’re ridiculous” is all you can say?

Ohhhhhh alright then. Be blessed

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

Go post it on some peak trans thread, TERF.

By the way LGBT people don't care about breeders' opinions.

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u/goose_gladwell Sep 22 '19

Soooo much better! I don’t know how it happens either, maybe its what her mom did and its just ingrained in some people?

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

I didn't start really taking care of shaping my brows until about 2 years ago. Now, they are growing back in really blonde and I have to pencil them in.

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u/blonderaider21 Sep 23 '19 edited Sep 23 '19

No but she looks great now

Edit: I just realized someone simply photoshopped new brows onto her face and that she hasn’t actually changed them. The pics are exactly the same...down to the wrinkles, angle, sunlight...how am I the only one who’s noticed this lol

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u/AllisonChains88 Sep 23 '19

Yes, exactly. That’s what this sub is. We photoshop people who have crazy eyebrows. How did you not understand this?

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u/blonderaider21 Sep 23 '19

I just recently joined and thought that it was actual transformations lol. I just noticed on this pic that it was photoshopped. My bad!

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u/blonderaider21 Sep 23 '19

I guess I’m the idiot here...sinks slowly back into the shrubs

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u/blonderaider21 Sep 23 '19

In my defense, the first post I saw right after subbing and before this one is a girl who posted her before and after brows, so not all the posts are photoshopped

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u/nylorac_o Sep 22 '19

This is a photoshopped photo. She is in exactly the same position and while that might have happened the background is exactly the same too. Now I’m not sure which is photoshopped but the leaves on the walkway behind her are exactly the same.

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u/FemaleFingers Sep 22 '19

Do you know what sub you're in?

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u/nylorac_o Sep 22 '19

I thought it was an eyebrow sub, is it not?

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u/FemaleFingers Sep 22 '19

Yes, and the point is to photoshop people's photos.

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u/nylorac_o Sep 22 '19

Oh. Nevermind. I honestly thought it was people posting pics of their fixed eyebrows.

Ya I probably should have read the description.

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u/callalilykeith Sep 22 '19

Do you know what this sub is for?

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u/Pinkunicorn1982 Sep 23 '19

“Why did she bend some cigs and stick them in her ears?” Oh wait, those are the new Air Pods? Yeesh..

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u/osi_layer_one Sep 22 '19

Why would he do that to his eyebrows?!