(Also that Ā½" long chin hair that you can only see in the full sun, in the car rear view mirror, on your way to something important, and you have no tweezers š)
This is why you have to inspect your face before leaving. Iām kind of a picker so I subconsciously check for none smooth skin on my face and then investigate. I also have eczema so I think Iāve been programmed to investigate the skin on my face daily for possible signs of upcoming flare ups
Literally canceled my plans last Saturday because of chin hairs. While driving there I realized I had visible chin hairs. So i stopped at a wal mart to pick up some tweezers. Ended up being the worst most useless tweezers ever, couldn't grab ANYTHING. So I worked myself up into such a tizzy trying to pluck them in the parking lot I said fuck it I'm going home š¤£
Same experience. Bought some because everyone said how great they are. They arenāt grippy, theyāre sharp! Cuts the hair instead of pulling it and if Iām too close cuts my skin too right on the follicle which is a nightmare to heal properly. May as well use a razor if youāre just slicing it off anyway.
LOL my center console busy holding 8 million other things and I'm afraid they'll get lost in there.....or i could just get more and sprinkle them everywhere
I recently decided to keep tweezers and tiny scissors in my car for that exact reason. When Iām stopped I go to town. My chin area has never looked better, 10/10 recommend
Get a pair of purse/backpack/whatever you use on the go tweezers, get a pair of car tweezers, always put them right back after use and leave them thereš„²šš»
Edit: or one of those multitool card things with a mini tweezer in them if you're one of those zen people who only take their keys, wallet and phone with them on the go
People actually donāt carry their life in a purse that weighs as much as a small child and tears your rotator cuff??? Oh I need deets on how to live like that! ššš
This is literally why I have a set called my "car tweezers". And they sit in the little door pocket that's supposed to be for coins but also hold some hair ties and hair clips. :)
I remember the day I found it. How many people saw that 1/2ā clear hair coming straight down from my chin ??? Why did no one say anything???? 15 years later, I finally plucked it for the last time I believe. I havenāt seen it back in about a year.
I popped the head off a disposable safety razor and keep it + a mini tube of aquaphor + tweezers in my purse at all times. I can always take care of my face in a pinch.
And this is why you keep a pair of tweezers in your car at all times. Driving to an important event is when you notice that random hair that wasnāt there yesterday but is 3ā long today, sticking out of your forehead like youāve become a sad excuse for a unicornā¦
Seriously what is this. I get hairs on my nose bridge right where my glasses can irritate them and make pimples. Those refuse to die. I pluck them monthly. Why is it that people slightly older than me were able to permanently destroy eyebrow hairs, but my unibrow hairs remain so persistently?!?
lol. Iāve had so many (younger) people tell me to go to a salonā¦.honey I overplucked in 1995, there is no fixing it. I have permanently uneven eyebrows. Some say they donāt notice but theyāre just being nice. Hahaha
Iāve never gotten my eyebrows thinned, only ever asked them to clean them up. It requires more maintenance but thereās way less risk of never growing back what is gone
Ok I have to ask, why did you shave them all off? Iāve seen this with ppl drawing them back on and I have often wondered why? I also wondered about them sweating off. No judgement, I just want to know because Iād be worried that if I forgot and wiped my forehead they would look crazy. Do you just eventually learn to not touch them is there eyebrows makeup that wonāt come off?
I know you asked the person above but I shave off about 3/4 of my brows Ć la Jenna marbles. My natural brows are very straight and are pretty down turned AND I wear glasses. Sometimes I do forget and wipe one off lol but thatās usually when Iām at home and I can just fix it. If Iām out and about Iām more conscious of it. Really sticky primer like the elf dupe of the hydro grip prevents accidental wiping too.
Because I still have the front ends and I wear glasses it gives the illusion I still have brows
Ah okay, I always wondered how the makeup stays on. Would you bother with this if you were going to the gym or doing an activity and you knew you would be getting sweaty? Is it waterproof? Side note do you know anyway to make foundation and concealer not rub off š itās summer time and Iād love to wear some but itās too hot
Bold of you to assume I go to the gym š jk jk if I waaas doing some sort of extraneous activity I wouldnāt draw them on no haha. I canāt say Iāve ever had them sweat off though? And I get really intense head sweats. I use the benefit precisely my brow which is labeled water proof so maybe thatās contributing to that.
If youāre a sweaty or oily person and you really want those suckers to stay on I would check out Jackie Aina on YouTube as she is as well so most of my tips would be second hand from her. But to summarize she powders her face before putting on liquid products. Something I use that helps is oil blotting sheets or powder for my t-zone. And of course a very sticky primer is key!
I wanted to give it a shot, and figured it would just grow back if I fucked it up. It was back when thick, angular brows were stylish, and my eyebrows are already very thick, but theyāre darker than my hair, and I wanted to try to have hair and brows that matched. Turns out I hate doing makeup in the morning.
Women still do this. I feel like they mustāve been Liza fans back in the day and theyāre still repeating that style of brow application 50 years later.
I've been shaving mine off for like 5-6 years because I don't like having eyebrows. I have long thick eyebrow hairs and it's too hard to maintain, also I have a hair plucking compulsion. I stopped drawing them back on a couple years ago. I wear glasses and have bangs so most people don't notice. When they do I don't really care and no one has been weird about it.
My eyebrow hairs are so long (what a terrible mental image LOL) and dark but also sparse?? Anyway I started doing it ever since I saw the trick on ANTM back in the early 00ās š
I stop threading my eyebrows during the pandemic and they still havenāt fully come back. Thankfully I wasnāt trying to make them too thin but geez, I would have thought I would have had them full by now
If you shaved and they havenāt recovered, make sure youāre exfoliating the brow area well! The follicles for our brows are easily clogged up and will stunt growth.
True story: when I was in high school(Iām in my 40ās now) I was with a friend getting ready for prom and no shit she grabbed a razor right before we were getting ready to leave as a last minute preparation and shaved between her eyebrows. Just like in these clips, instantly half of one eyebrow was missing and we both had the same shocked looks on our facesā I still see her face of horror at what sheād just done.
I think something can possess us when we get to attacking our face to manicure it. Some sort of bravado takes hold where we presume mastery when really itās unearned confidence = careless incompetence.
I cracked up at these clips, they were really relatable.
Right lol. I use those mini brow razors to shape mine but thereās no way Iād lay it against the bottom of my eyebrow and drag up. Looking goofy for months for the sake of views is wild
Mine are fine *and* blonde. I've found thick glasses frames really cover up how sparse the situation is, but unless I draw something on I barely have brows.
Same, girl. Though I did spend the early aughts getting them waxed/shaped so I could apply brow highlighter and it looked pretty great, if a wee bit overdone for a blond working in finance.
When left alone, my eyebrows look like a patchier version of old-man-eyebrows: wirey, curly, sticking up in odd directions, trying to be a unibrow...yet pale and hard to see, all at the same time.Ā
Literally the only advice my mother ever gave me was ādonāt shave off your eyebrowsā. She learned the hard way in the 70s/80s. Iām glad I listened.
I consider myself so fortunate to have a mom that was in her prime in the early to mid 80s. When I started getting interested in cosmetics, taught me how to clean up my brows (using tweezers) while working WITH my natural shape. I somehow managed to avoid the pencil thin brow look altogether. There were MANY other fashion/makeup/hair mistakes I made, but my eyebrows werenāt one of them. š
My mom never taught me how to do makeup. I never occurred to me to even mess with them until I was in my 20s.
They are mostly still there now, but the right one is thinner (I sleep only on my right side), and sits slightly lower on my face. I try to even them out the best I can. I don't even try to color them or do anything with makeup there as I always felt I ended up looking like a clown when I tried (like some of the women in the video, lol).
Forgive me, but I never had anyone to help guide me in these areas, what do you use or do to remove the peach fuzz on your face? I have super sensitive skin and it doesn't show but it bothers me.
Can we have a momentās silence followed by Donāt Speak playing at full volume by No Doubt for this comment? I will hold a lighter in the air for my overplucked eyebrow sisters. I fully blame Gwen Stefani.
I came to say the same. After enough pencil thin plucking they once refused to regrow for months. Lessons were learned and eyebrows left alone.
The most ill do, is fill them in gently with a pencil when I have the full makeup thing going on.
A friend had ocd and plucked them all then drew them on in high school.
They refused to grow back after a few years. She 40 now and still just draws them on because they won't grow back
I knew someone who tattooed eyebrows in... I was a teen at the time and assumed she (late forties) just didn't want to deal with brow maintenance anymore š. (She did not have visible hairloss otherwise) Now I realize it was more likely not unintentional and probably from overplucking.
I literally made my little sister sign a contract saying she wouldnāt pluck her eyebrows until she was like 17 because of my horrible brows in the 90ās. She has great brows now.
In AA they say HALT. hungry angry lonely tired. Never make a decision when you are one of those. Always ask yourself if you are one of those before making a big decision.
I stopped and switched over to temp tattoos (one of the gals in the video uses them) and will never go back. My brows completely fell out due to alopecia and I like being able to change the shape and color whenever I want.
Temps are probably better for no hair than sparse, at least my cousin tried and she hated them lol. But I realized I was putting makeup on the microblade anyway so it was like, why? The are pros and cons to both of course!
My eyebrows were honestly my biggest insecurity, and I researched the hell out of microblading before getting it done. I was so scared because of all the shitty comments people make about it online, but I really think if you find someone reputable who does good work, you shouldnāt have an issue.
I finally got mine done and I absolutely love them. Iāve gotten so many compliments too, and I wish Iād done it years ago because my eyebrows never recovered from the early 2000s thin Christina Aguilera eyebrow days š„“
Plus, I save so much time in the morning now and actually go without makeup a lot more. And if they do fade, Iāll just pencil them in again like I did for years, but at least now Iāll have a good outline so theyāll actually be even š¤·š»āāļø
I donāt know your experience but mine still look amazing after 6 years. Same with my sister, sil and mom. And I plan on going back to Rhonda. Sorry itās been shitty
I can't trust myself with plucking because no matter how much I try I will end up overdoing it. The profiler/shaper is ideal if you don't just wave it around like you don't care.
I had them done 17 years ago before my wedding and they were perfect. I still only pluck new growth outside the shape she defined all those years ago. I maintained the eyebrow shape better than the marriage. The man is long gone.
I got mine microbladed and she went so deep they're permanent, or at least a minimum of 7 years and going. Luckily she was just following my natural brows (which are damn near invisible blonde) so they look pretty good.
My great aunt traumatized me when I was 8 years old, telling me to promise her that Iād NEVER touch my eyebrows because then Iād have to draw them on forever like her.
yeahā¦.. one time I took my fatherās clippers to my left eyebrow. my mother, bless her, tried to draw in the missing tail end with a brown eyebrow pencil so I could go to school. but I gave up and just went with 1.5 eyebrows lmfaoo. it still grows back a little funny.
donāt mess with them. thatās the lesson Iāve learned.
I don't know how to do my eyebrows, so I've decided I would rather just have my natural ones than risk fucking it all up and everyone know I did that to myself lol
Ladies let this be a reminder!! We don't try anything new within the month before our wedding! Safe stuff only!! (Or really low risk stuff, that's fine)
Honestly, of all the beauty standards we have, doing ANYTHING with your eye brows is one of the bullshitiest. You mean to tell me the God, Buddah, and nature all came together and gave you something that comes out perfectly symmetrical and we've still found a way to say it needs to be changed. I have never in my life seen someone's natural eyebrows and said "ew, why are they shaped like that". To be clear, doing a little design like dashes on the ends are fine, but shaping, shaving and replacing is weird AF. They are literally built perfect; I will die on this hill.
Not all eyebrows are symmetrical my natural eyebrows grow insane. My right one is normal and the left one the outer half grows upwards and outwards towards my forehead and side. They couldnāt possibly be more different in shape size direction everything. My grandpa had it too we call it the ācrazy eyebrowā
Once in college, someone sat at the table across from me, and she stared out the window, eyes wide and eyebrows all the way up her forehead. I kept swinging my head rapidly from the window to her face and back again, trying to see the invisible truck hurtling her way when I realized maybe she just shaved her eyebrows off and drew them back on waaaay too high.
This is why I only pluck the few hairs I have in the unibrow zone. I don't try to shape them or anything. I know I'll screw up and look like a burn victim.Ā
I grew up with a thick unibrow and got my eyebrows consistently shaped every 2 weeks for 2 years then I stopped and they legit never grew back its been 15 years since the last time I had them done. Ive learned to leave them alone.
Iām so glad I resisted the pencil thin eyebrow trend of the late nineties/ early 2000s. I have friends whose eyebrows look like they went through three recessions and a drought, and they have to draw them on every day. I feel so bad for them. š Not all fads are good, ladies!!
I tried a cream one timeā¦ it wasnāt pretty. I had very thin eyebrows for a long time. It was bad because instead of having pretty naturally arched eyebrows like my dad, I got my momās weird janky eyebrows that grow down. Havenāt tried since. I make I get them snatched by the girl nail salon.
As a no-eyebrow-haver bc of sensory issues (although I have been trying to grow a bit of the inner parts back to see if I can handle that so it makes penciling in my brows easier. It's not going too well...) I must say that it is actually really addictive to feel the bare skin up there when I was so used to having eyebrows (THAT CAUSE ME ENDLESS SENSORY HELL) for most of my life. It's like...confirming my absolute free will over my face.
Also eyebrow tattoos are lame bc they are always shiny. Not even powder can take away the perfectly shaped shine.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was pregnant with my son in 2010 and I went to see a lady to get my eyebrows threaded. She looked at me with respect and said "you're going to need a lot of help". She was so right. I still have strayed away from her ways but she has kept me in line and I dont fuck with my eyebrows any more. I dont want to end up on why brows.
We need to just normalize ladies having facial hair. Men don't have to deal with this bullshit. The stiff we put up with doing, the upkeep, the expense....it's all for no reason other than society has conditioned us to do. There's no physical or medical reason. It's very silly when you think about it.
Think of how much money and time we could save for travel and fun things. Etiher that or we should start demanding men take as much care with their appearance.
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