A Heartfelt Plea: Don't Pluck Your Eyebrows

[Floogeldy]

Okay? Trim them short if you must, but don't pull them out, for the love of gawd. Because then, someday, you will be drawing them on with a pencil.

Don't make yourself look like an alien by pulling the hair out of your forehead. You've got to believe me. When I see actresses with painted on eyebrows that go above the space where the natural eyebrow used to be, it just doesn't look good. Have your hairdresser put the 1/4 inch attachment on her clippers and cut them down. But please, please, please, dont get ride of them because then you just look like a freak!!!!!

Love,

Floog

[yellowdogintexas]

1. waxing is best to get the fine little hairs that grow on the browbone

and below it, but absolutely leave the main eyebrow ALONE.

I used to have a unibrow and big heavy brows. Overplucking back when I was in college and tiny eyebrows were in style messed em up for a while, then I let them go to pot and they grew back in. For about 5 years I had them waxed just to get the junk off the space between them and the stuff that was between the brow itself and my actual eye. They looked great.
Then I got a series of infected hair follicles about a year after my last waxing, which caused me to lose several of the hairs in the main part of my brow. When they finally grew back(the ones that did), they were white! I am a brunette. So now I too have to fill in my brows. If it had not been for the zits that caused the hairs to fall out, I would still have my lush brows, which I miss.

Still have a good arch and still need to have the fuzz waxed off the browbone a couple of times a year, but they still look sparse in spots.

[Turn CO Blue]

2. Yep. The silver is coming in on my brows and

I (gasp) overplucked in the '80's. Now I have to fill them in a little.

Friends don't let friends (or daughters) overpluck!

[Floogeldy]

3. Don't pluck at all. Don't even open the door to over-plucking.

Just keep them 1/4" long. Its natural to have eyebrows. They play a part in facial expressions and beauty.

[Placebo]

4. My girl friends always want to pluck mine though!

They say that they're messy and force me to sit there while they tear them from my head "cleaning them up."

I don't notice the difference though. :shrug:

[Floogeldy]

5. Plucking is no substitution for cutting/trimming

Don't remove the hair. Just keep it high and tight.

[andino]

6. Stupid question from a guy

Once you pluck them, do they grorw back??

[cally]

8. They grow back for awhile

and then they don't. I plucked my eyebrows because I have/had a scar in the middle of my eyebrow. After a few years, you don't need to pluck anymore.

[American Tragedy]

9. Well, that may be true for some people. . .

[jdots]

7. burn them off lighting a roach

no not a cockroach,a small used up joint,no not a republican penise ,the tiny bit of that pot you had,no not the pot of spagetti,forget it pluck your eyebrows till you have to tattoo them them on.

[Floogeldy]

10. Look

That's better.

[flordehinojos]

11. I remember waaaaay back someone I went to school with

who used to shave her eyebrows and then draw them in with a Maybellien pencil. weird looking, especially if it was a hot day and the heat and perspiration would help erase the Maybelline drawn eyebrows!

[huellewig]

12. I pluck my unibrow..

It takes about two minutes every two weeks. No problems yet.

I have a penis.

[soothsayer]

14. really? I find tweezers work just fine

[necso]

16. LOL!

[Champ]

13. What about males who have hair growth.....

on the back part of the nose between the eyebrows? Sometimes called a "unibrow" :shrug:

[fleabert]

15. OVERplucking is the plucking problem!

I have little to no arch. if not for the wax once a month and maintenance tweezing inbetween, my face looks weird. They go straight across practically. So I'm gonna tweeze! but my mom did tweeze too much in the seventies and now has barely anything left. There's a pattern/method one can use to follow the natural line of the brow that looks very, well, natural.

[snoochie]

17. You mean don't OVERtweeze

The woman in that pic you posted probably tweezes or waxes her brows.

Guys shouldn't talk about cosmetic maintenance they don't understand.

I've been tweezing (NOT plucking - you pluck a chicken, you tweeze your brows) for 20 odd years and they still grow back nice and thick. I have to tweeze at least 2x / week or I start looking like I'm turning into Brooke Shields.