maintaining eyebrows

For those who trim and pluck your eyebrows, how often do you do so? I suppose you can't pluck everyday (don't want to overdo it), but you can't just let it grow bushier again...

Any suggestions?

I pluck Every. Damned. Day. All of the little hairs grow back at different rates of speed at different times. The good news is, I'm very good at plucking even the tiniest dots of stubble, and the whole thing takes less than two minutes a day. I really don't mind at all.

I wax every 3-4 weeks. Once you get on a routine with wax it's not so often.

I shave mine into shape every 2/3 days

Elissa.
I pluck my eyebrows too. Not every day but often. I'm blonde and have blondish brows that are not real thick. I don't really need to shape my brows daily.

I usually pluck every day that I am going out, and leave the brows alone on days when nobody is going to see me. The extra day or two tends to give me a lil more to grab with the tweezers ^_^;;

Weird! I used to have big Frieda Kahlo brows until I was about 17 and plucked them into thin little arches. They fleshed out some and I'm happy with their current state, but oddly enough the strays take weeks, some even months to grow in again! Some stopped growing altogether. I guess I am a little strange. Not that I didn't already know that!

LOL, Lyris. No your right, I alway's recommend that clients go easy on the shaving, waxing or even plucking when your younger...because it can retard the growth.

And in most cases the older we get, the sparcer our brows can get. And sometimes, it's not good.

I just recently shaped my eyebrows. My naturally growing ones are triangle shaped, and I plucked to get an arch. I don't really find the need to pluck everyday... altho since I'm new to this, I'm either worried that I've plucked too much or it'll all grow back.

Once every 4 to 6 weeks. My eyebrows are blonde, so when I have a stray one, it's actually difficult to see. I generally wear my eyebrows naturally, but I like to trim them just a tiny bit.

I am one of those who plucked and waxed mine away. Now that I am older they are almost invisible and that is not a good thing at all. I hate brow make up but it is the only thing that brings them back.

I go to Indian ladies to get my eyebrows plucked. The use string and powder. First, they put the powder on the brow then they take one end of the string in their mouth(this part never touches the face) then the other end in their hands and they some how pluck the hair out. It is less painful than tweezing or waxing, it is inexpensive($6) and lasts 2 wks.

I mean people from India. The ladies I go to started in the back of an Indian store, they just set up a couple of chairs and started doing eyebrows and henna tatooing. By word of mouth they became very popular and pretty soon they had people lined up just for the eyebrow service and had to get their own shop.

i do mine every week. my eyebrows are very dark. i've even got my husband to do his it just looks cleaner i think.

sorry i did it twice

[QUOTE=kitsylou] I go to Indian ladies to get my eyebrows plucked. The use string and powder. First, they put the powder on the brow then they take one end of the string in their mouth(this part never touches the face) then the other end in their hands and they some how pluck the hair out. It is less painful than tweezing or waxing, it is inexpensive($6) and lasts 2 wks.
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Hi You Guy's...It's called threading.


Here's some Info;
All I can say is, I know I don't have the patience, at this time, to learn this technique.


Threading is an ancient form of hair removal. It involves 100 percent cotton thread,
which is twisted and pulled along a row (as opposed to a single strand) of unwanted hair.

Called "khite" in Arabic and "fatlah" in Egyptian, threading hair is so basic to women in the
Middle East and India that it can be compared to girls learning to braid each other's hair as children.

Traditionally, threading is used on the entire face, including upper lip, chin, eyebrows, sideburns and
cheeks. The emphasis in eyebrow shaping came as a response to the needs of American customers.

Like tweezing, threading lifts out hair directly from the follicle and it requires two or
three swipes per brow. As far as pain goes, the sensation is similar to tweezing, but skin is not as
irritated afterward. Results last two to eight weeks (about the same as waxing).

Though it's fast, precise and relatively painless, salons that offer threading are hard to find
in North America because so few aestheticians are qualified to do it.

Advantages over waxing:

- less irritating, it's the best for the sensitive skin
- helps the local blood circulation
- removes the dead cells
- is not damaging the skin (hot waxing favorites wrinkle appearance)
- keeps the skin smooth
- less painful
- more precise

I pluck pretty often. At least once a week. I have bushy eyebrows and i wanted to shape them so I plucked above my eyebrows too eve though I heard you never should! I think it all depends on how often you need it...I am way too scared to wax. Besides, I don't trust myself around wax...what about those other depilatory creams like NAIR? do they work? and if so how long do they last?

I have been on the same routine now for at least the past couple of years.
Every 4 weeks or so I go to my beauty salon appointment. I get my short afro trimmed in the close to the scalp style I wear. I have my nails done. I get a facial and I also have my eyebrows waxed.
I always look forward to going to the salon. So relaxing!

Jasmine.....I'm with you! I love to go to the salon (and do the same as you...nails, brows, hair). I used to tweeze the hell out of my brows and had to FORCE myself to stop so I could get them done right (professionally shaped). I'm lucky that most of the hair grew back in as I've been tweezing for 20 years! Eyebrow hair on an average woman takes approximately 62 days to regenerate. It's the slowest growing hair on the human body (unless you've damaged the follicle permanently...in which case it won't return!) mine are skimpy now.....and they used to be very full...

I get my eyebrows professionally waxed about once in two months or so. I was nervous when I first started, but realized a professional can do wonders!

I then clean up with tweezers and scissors in-between.

Sometimes I find that I like letting the eyebrows grow back a little in case I overplucked, and it helps me find my natural arch and shape so I can clean it up.