Eyebrow grooming

[myrrh]

Time for a frivolous thread (no pun intended) as things have been a little too serious here lately.

So tell me about your eyebrows! Do you groom them? Pluck them? Wax them? Do you do it yourself or have someone do it for you? If someone does it for you, how often do you go and how much does it cost?

I would like to get mine done but it seems like such a YM sin. Plus I don't know how to find someone good - I am pretty clueless in this matter.

[justme]

Pluck! I've often debated waxing but never followed through. Same with threading.

[gs11rmb]

Every year or so I will have them waxed into shape and that's all I do - I'm lucky not to have big, bushy, hairy eyebrows.  I think I'll do it when I get my legs waxed next week (I do those every month)!

[Deleted]

I had them permanently shaped with electrolysis, which got rid of most of the excess hair once and for all. Occasionally I do a bit of trimming by brushing my eyebrows upward and then trimming off whatever extends above the brow line.

[mmhmm]

I've been fortunate. My eyebrows don't need much grooming. There are a couple of hairs I'll pluck out, but that's it.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

What eyebrows?

Mine are blonde, you can barely see them against my skin.  I do tweeze the errant hair that shows up, but it's pretty rare.

I have a bigger problem with these stupid little hairs showing up on my chin.  I can *just* feel it with my finger, but can't grab it with my tweezers.  When I was in college, my grandmother lived with us and she would ask me to tweeze this occasional hair out of her chin because it drove her nuts.  She could feel it, but not see it.  I know what she means now.

[mmhmm]

Apr 10, 2015 12:03:57 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

What eyebrows?

Mine are blonde, you can barely see them against my skin.  I do tweeze the errant hair that shows up, but it's pretty rare.

I have a bigger problem with these stupid little hairs showing up on my chin.  I can *just* feel it with my finger, but can't grab it with my tweezers.  When I was in college, my grandmother lived with us and she would ask me to tweeze this occasional hair out of her chin because it drove her nuts.  She could feel it, but not see it.  I know what she means now.

My mother had a lot of hair growing from her chin at the end of her life. Just drove her nuts! I spent a lot of time chasing those little hairs.  They were white and hard to see but she could feel them.

[CarolinaKat]

I am lucky. My eyebrows grow in a way that compliments my face. I don't have any stray hairs. Any facial hair I have that is not in my eyebrows is so blonde you cannot see them. I am also lucky in the fact that my eyebrows are slightly darker than the rest of my body hair, they actually show up!! I don't have to color them in!

Now for DH, he has a unibrow. I pluck it for him every 3 weeks or so... it looks awful  otherwise. He also has stray hairs all over the place.

Also The Walk of the Penguin Mich I am totally there with you on the clear chin hairs. Bugs the shit out of me. ETA: I've had the little shits since I was about 12

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Now for DH, he has a unibrow. I pluck it for him every 3 weeks or so... it looks awful otherwise. He also has stray hairs all over the place.

My brother has a unibrow.  It's all I can do to not hold him down and pluck it for him!  He now has a g/f so hopefully she'll take care of it.  

TD gets hair in strange places too, like in the folds of his ears.  It drives him as batty as the few hairs that show up on my chin.

[CarolinaKat]

Apr 10, 2015 12:12:52 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

Now for DH, he has a unibrow. I pluck it for him every 3 weeks or so... it looks awful otherwise. He also has stray hairs all over the place.

My brother has a unibrow.  It's all I can do to not hold him down and pluck it for him!  He now has a g/f so hopefully she'll take care of it.  

TD gets hair in strange places too, like in the folds of his ears.  It drives him as batty as the few hairs that show up on my chin.

DH has 4 sisters. They have him trained to come to you with a pair of tweezers and put his head in your lap as soon as the hairs become noticeable. I can't take all the credit!!!

[Spellbound454]

I have a little electric eyebrow shaver....and just routinely have a tidy-up every time I put on face cream.

Got them threaded a few times but my skin isn't as elastic as it used to be and I don't like pain.

[yogiii]

I'm of an ethnicity known for unibrows but no one in my family has them, we're lucky.  I plucked my eyebrows in high school to thin them out a little and as time has gone on I pluck less and less.  Maybe down to 1 hair a week now if that.  I've had a few people tell me I have nice eyebrows which I think is the weirdest compliment but ok, I'll take it. 

[resolution]

My hair stylist waxes in between them and a little at the top to shape them, every six weeks when I go in for my cut and color. She doesn't charge any extra to do my eye brows because she talked me into it in the first place. However I usually tip her well so the extra in the tip should cover the waxing.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Apr 10, 2015 12:15:28 GMT -5 CarolinaKat said:

Apr 10, 2015 12:12:52 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

Now for DH, he has a unibrow. I pluck it for him every 3 weeks or so... it looks awful otherwise. He also has stray hairs all over the place.

My brother has a unibrow.  It's all I can do to not hold him down and pluck it for him!  He now has a g/f so hopefully she'll take care of it.  

TD gets hair in strange places too, like in the folds of his ears.  It drives him as batty as the few hairs that show up on my chin.

DH has 4 sisters. They have him trained to come to you with a pair of tweezers and put his head in your lap as soon as the hairs become noticeable. I can't take all the credit!!!

I guess we were deficient.  In our defense, by the time my brother acquired a unibrow, we had already moved out of the house (he was the youngest).

[cktc]

I've always groomed my own. When I was in high school I was obsessive, I'd pluck 2x a day, use a pencil to find the arch, trim, fill. 

Now I probably pluck the strays once a week or so, trim or fill if I'm trying to be all fancy.

People have asked me if I do my own eyebrows. Why? Do they look terrible? Should I have them professionally done? 

Seeing a professional to make sure they are ok and shaped properly has been on my list for a while now, but frankly it terrifies me. How on earth do you pick a good one? 

[Plain Old Petunia]

I get mine threaded about every 2 - 3 months.    That's how long it takes them to become unruly.

I cannot do waxing, I get blisters every time.

The woman who does my threading works out of her home. She charges only $7 per area, which is ridiculously low.   I pay her $10 including tip.   I have a girlfriend who uses the same woman, so we generally make a girl date out of it. We go get threaded then stop at Starbucks and have a catch-up visit.                      

[milee]

Like Mich, mine are white blonde, so you can't really see them unless the sun hit them at just the right angle.  Unfortunately, so are my eyelashes. I don't wear much makeup, but wearing mascara does help me look less like someone who is going through chemo.

Now DH, on the other hand - he has his family's crazy eyebrows.  No unibrows, but the hair is really thick and on its own will grow long and curly.    Crazy stuff.  He keeps his trimmed but some of the other guys don't, especially the older ones.  It's so distinctive that his family has been known to see a random stranger with those eyebrows, go talk to the stranger and find that he's a distant relative. 

I'm hoping the boys get a hybrid of our eyebrows - DH's color and my shape and length. 

[ohmomto2boys]

I get mine waxed.  Started going about 10 years ago.  I will stretch out the visits about 5 - 6 weeks because of time and money.

[CarolinaKat]

Apr 10, 2015 12:34:47 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

Apr 10, 2015 12:15:28 GMT -5 CarolinaKat said:

DH has 4 sisters. They have him trained to come to you with a pair of tweezers and put his head in your lap as soon as the hairs become noticeable. I can't take all the credit!!!

I guess we were deficient.  In our defense, by the time my brother acquired a unibrow, we had already moved out of the house (he was the youngest).

That explains it then. DH is in the middle. By the time the both older sisters moved out, the 3rd oldest sister was old enough to do skin care/eyebrows. ETA: DH falls between the 2nd and 3rd oldest sisters.

[NancysSummerSip]

All of the above, I'm afraid. Thick, ugly, shapeless brows if I left them to their own devices. The gal who waxes the rest of me does the honor of cleaning them up and I do a bit of touch up.

Tinting them is a thought, though...I have to ask my stylist about this. They are going gray.

[quince]

I look at them. Think...I should shape them. Mayyybe pluck one or two (not nearly enough) hairs. Get interested in something else. Maybe 6 months later I will notice them again.

My husband has long eyebrow hairs. They curl at the ends. I think they are awesome.

[cael]

I have mine waxed, luckily they aren't naturally completely brutal so I usually go every 2-3 months to get them done. Waxing doesn't bother me at all..

 (I did get that bikini wax several weeks ago and it was not bad at all!)

Edit to add: eyebrow wax costs me $15 after tipping the girl. I go to a cheap place, some girls do it better than others but a few do it really well so I try to go back to them. I'm not that fussy about much, but if they wax my eyebrows too short or too thin, I get super aggro 

[andi9899]

Apr 10, 2015 11:58:12 GMT -5 myrrh said:

Time for a frivolous thread (no pun intended) as things have been a little too serious here lately.

So tell me about your eyebrows! Do you groom them? Pluck them? Wax them? Do you do it yourself or have someone do it for you? If someone does it for you, how often do you go and how much does it cost?

I would like to get mine done but it seems like such a YM sin. Plus I don't know how to find someone good - I am pretty clueless in this matter.

Wax. Once a month for $10.

[Ryan]

I never trimmed my eyebrows before until a lady that cut my hair gave em a little trim recently.  Now I request it every time I go.

[Lizard Queen]

I don't enough brows to justify waxing. They're on the thinner side, but too spread out, so i pluck the hairs that don't fall into line. I wish I could relocate them. Eyebrows seem to make a big difference.

[Anne_in_VA]

When I was younger I would pluck them to even them out occasionally, but I had light colored hair so didn't have to do it often. As I've gotten older I don't do that anymore - partly because I can't see the hairs enough to try to grab them with the tweezers.

I hate the hairs on my chin though and have started shaving it. Those suckers are just too fine for the tweezers to grab.

[Angel!]

I get mine threaded. When I've tried waxing there was always stray hairs left everywhere. Maybe I never went to a good wax place. But, threading gets everything.

I like to go every 3-4 weeks but it usually ends up being 2-3 months just due to my schedule. I just tweeze best I can in between.

[kittensaver]

I did a lot of plucking and shaping in my late teens and 20's, so now the shape is pretty much permanent and I have virtually no stray hairs any more. I just groom them with a brow brush every morning.

[bean29]

Apr 10, 2015 12:03:57 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

What eyebrows?

Mine are blonde, you can barely see them against my skin.  I do tweeze the errant hair that shows up, but it's pretty rare.

I have a bigger problem with these stupid little hairs showing up on my chin.  I can *just* feel it with my finger, but can't grab it with my tweezers.  When I was in college, my grandmother lived with us and she would ask me to tweeze this occasional hair out of her chin because it drove her nuts.  She could feel it, but not see it.  I know what she means now.

When I was in my Mid 20's I had electrolysis done on my upper lip.  I did not have to have anything done until I got close to 50 and my hormones went nuts.  A few years ago I had laser therapy on my upper lip & chin but it did not work...apparently it does not work on gray or white hair, and I still had dark hairs popping up on my chin...I found the same thing, I could feel them but I could not grab them with a tweezers.

I have continued with Electrolysis, and the lady that does it feels I am pretty much done...my OBGY said you will always have hormonal growth so, I guess there will always be occasional hairs to tweeze.

I get my eyebrows Threaded - I go about every 3 weeks.  It is $12+tip.  I really like the shape they give it, and they trim them too (the length).  They do offer to color your eyebrows too, if you want.  I asked my Hairstylist to color my eyebrows when she colors my hair, she is willing but last time I had my hair colored she used the steam dryer and the dye was dripping all over my face.

[The Captain]

I get them waxed 2-3 X's a year and pluck in between with tweezers to keep a nice shape.

DD (who is 12) has thick bushy eyebrows.  She will need to start getting hers professionally groomed much earlier than I ever did.

I started somewhere in my early 20's for a professional appearance.

I've let DD know I'm happy to take her to get them waxed whenever she wants (even if it's tomorrow ).