The Eyebrow Thread, all you need to know and ask about your arches

[Golden_butterfly]

Also, my look is a good deal like Audrey Hepburn; with that in mind, do you think eyebrows like this would suit me?

Well, then I'd say go for it. Better to have ended up with thicker eyebrows
so you have something to work with next time than too thin ones.

 

[sofialuv]

I've tried growing my eyebrows thicker but it didnt suit me...or maybe I just wasnt used to it but I dont know I guess it looks good on some poeple and bad on others. ​

This is an old pic of me but my eyebrows are back to this again. I have very light eyebrows so I fill it in with COrk eyeshadow from MAC. ​

But I really love rachel bilsons eyebrows. I did an arch like hers but not as sharp. Its hard to do and it just didnt look good on me either lol. I guess Im gonna stick to these eyebrows for now until maybe someone can give me another idea of what else might look better on me??​

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I am going to be totally honest! Your eyebrows are totally the wrong shape for your face and seem badly plucked shapewise.

The are too round and it seems to me that you plucked them too much.
Of course, i am only giving my opinion based on the picture.
They seem to be all the same thickness which make the brows look boring.

They look better if they are thicker in the beggining of the eye and not as thin as they currently are.

I did some phtoshop (hope you don´t mind) to prove my point.
ps- if you like Rachel Bilson eyebrows, look as the after pic is much more of what you want.


before




after

 

[emailme.]

they are overplucked. the base is gone and poof goes the natural look. the whole bottom is plucked there goes natural even more. im sure the ends are overplucked too and im guesing that isnt the natural top of your brow either. Asian women have great thick eyebrows but just like every woman they dont like the shape of their eyebrow and tries to shape it into some one elses eyebrows. Alot of woman here are saying oh i want this, that, hers, etc's eyebrows. It may be flattering to that persons face but will not necessarily flatter. More likely than not. In this case that is the issue. She seem to have wanted a big space in between her eyes and brows and at the same time, create a happy eyebrow. You CANNOT create your eyebrow you can only enhance an eyebrow.

 

[sofialuv]

they are overplucked. the base is gone and poof goes the natural look. the whole bottom is plucked there goes natural even more. im sure the ends are overplucked too and im guesing that isnt the natural top of your brow either. Asian women have great thick eyebrows but just like every woman they dont like the shape of their eyebrow and tries to shape it into some one elses eyebrows. Alot of woman here are saying oh i want this, that, hers, etc's eyebrows. It may be flattering to that persons face but will not necessarily flatter. More likely than not. In this case that is the issue. She seem to have wanted a big space in between her eyes and brows and at the same time, create a happy eyebrow. You CANNOT create your eyebrow you can only enhance an eyebrow.

This totally says it all!
The most anti eyebrow i´ve ever heard of are the stencils, i mean it´s like wanting something without even wasting 10 seconds to think about the logic of having it.

 

[*Princesse*]

how should we know that? what do you look like?

What I asked was if Rachel's Bilson's arched eyebrows would work on someone with more of an Audrey Hepburn look. Two completely different looks, I wanted opinions on if it might mesh.

But as that's all over and done with, anyways, it doesn't matter. I had them done so that they're thick without being overpowering, with a defined, though not sharp, arch. I think they work nicely, I'm happy.

However, I have a new query. The lady who did my eyebrows said I should come in every 6 weeks, but not touch my eyebrows in between. Wouldn't that mean that my eyebrows would completely grow back in again, and I'd have to live with unshaped brows before my next appointment? It sounded very strange to me.

 

[LeonieAlexandria]

listen to her dear! she probably wants u to fully outgrow ur brows so she can work with it freshly. Just do it,eventhough u might be a little annoying with them, but itll be worth it!

 

[iChelle]

pard me all...what do you guys like better, Benefit Brow Zings or Sonia Kashuk's Arch Alert brow kit. I think they are about the same and wish Sonia's came w/powder instead of other wax colors...your thoughts?

 

[pavement]

My brows are a subject of strife to me. When I use a pencil they look fab, but when bare they look thin and sporadic. They also grow in different directions, so I must be tactful when brushing them. The most dreaded thing is that when I was 12 I would pierce myself. So I also pierced my eyebrows several times. This left a small scar on one of them, where the hair wont grow back. I just feel really dependant on make-up to look neat. -On the other hand- their thinness isn't so bad since it lightens up my face when I don't have eye make-up to even things out.


I don't believe the crap about never plucking above your eyebrows. Some people have really thick dark hairs whose regrowth is obvious, so they may choose not to do it. But it's really up to the individual. Even my hairs are black, but they are thin also and I've yet to notice anything hideous growing in. My brows were never the shape I wanted them to be until I cleaned a little on top. They always had an awkward arch. I've been able to slightly alter their shape into something I'm more pleased with.


I also don't believe in all other right and wrongs. When I was 12-14 I had really thin eyebrows and my brother always told me how unnatractive he thought they were. I'm still angry at him for that, even if I agree with him. What's right for you is how you feel best. I wouldn't go back five years and scribble brows on myself if I could. It was how I wanted to look at that time. I don't care who I embarassed. Control freaks need to help themselves and leave little girls alone.

 

[*Princesse*]

listen to her dear! she probably wants u to fully outgrow ur brows so she can work with it freshly. Just do it,eventhough u might be a little annoying with them, but itll be worth it!

I believe she wants me to grow them back in fully everytime before an appointment! I can understand growing them in so she can start fresh the first time, but once she's already established the shape, do I really have to grow them in again every single time?

 

[Guessgirl96]

^ I'd heard the same thing and I dont really understand how anyones supposed to do that. Now that you have the shape, I think I would just maintain it yourself. It should be much easier than trying to create the shape from scratch.

 

[*Princesse*]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who wouldn't be able to handle that! I was thinking the same thing - if I have to spend half of the time in between visits with messy eyebrows, I don't know if that price is worth the little time they're completely perfect right after an appointment since I can keep them in decent shape myself.

 

[emailme.]

awww thanks sofialuv. i also think that most women do overpluck and pluck early on when they're young. Also they think that a proffesional job is not a good investment when they can do it by themselves. To try to do something so unkown to you and so easily influence when you are 12-ish is a path to the wrong eyebrow, wrong perspective and wrong notion of what is a good eyebrow. When little girls look at their teen magazines and even 18 year olds who look up to celebrity who were born when skinny eyebrows were in are continuing this thread...and its disappointing.

 

[emailme.]

i also think everybody have to experience screwing up their eyebrow and then learn. As they say learn from your mistakes. The sad part is that most women will have the motion they have the right one when its totally false. Some can't stand the growth stage and will just do with what they have left and create some shape that unnatural and unpleasant to their face. A few can actually can get into the growth stage but again, gets impatient and thinks that they have grown enough as they see some shape they can create. They think that it is no longer necessary to grow their natural arches back and will settle for the good now instead of the great later. Another sad truth is that very very few actually goes through a full brow "recovery" and even fewer seek professional help. most end up hacking it yet again and end up with the wrong brow yet again and wasted hardwork of growing for years. I think that women need more advice about this and a thread like this is greatly helpful and contribute to better eyebrows. But another sad truth about this is that another popular sayin 'try, try, and try again' does not apply to this. As we all know the older we get the longer the eyebrwo takes for eyebrows to grow and that our eyebrow hair is not the strongest hair in our body and will give up on growing back sooner than you think.

So my final advice - actually advices - are: research, learn, and read this thread...LOTS! another is if your doing it yourself dont try the whole eyebrow in one sitting. You know buildings are not built in one day and so are your brows. Finally do not do your eyebrows before special event thinking it will make you look more new or fresh of a person, cuz it doesnt. Instead, have extra sparse brow hairs under ur brows to keep a full brow effect. Good examples are sasha pivovarova and stam(well no longer anyway) who actually uses sparse brow hairs to have a great brow. You can fill them for a fuller look, or fill in the top part to have a mini-facelift effect. Shading is always the trick.

Another secret trick is...BROW GEL or clear mascara. These things do wonders but you will never experience the full abilities of this critters if you dont have the right eyebrows. So grow grow grow!

 

[lady.stardust]

Any fellow Montrealers know of a place that does threading? I tried it for the first time while on vacation in New York last week, and I'm loving the fact that I don't have to pluck every other day.

 

[Odette]

I see a lot of I want this brows...no I want her brows...actually I'd love to have some celebrity's brows.

That's imposible, eyebrows are unique to each face and you can't convert them into another something. You can pluck them and clean them to achieve the best of your OWN natural shape.

My brows are somewhat like Penelope Cruz+Bianca Balti+Liv Tyler something like that and I simply can't say now I want Natalia Vodianova's one cause their gorgeous or Keira's super pretty thick ones. That doesn't look natural, you don't have to imitate nobody's features and if you do it looks bad.

 

[emailme.]

yeah school just started here and i havent met my friend voer the summer and when i she turned aaround to me I saw her eyebrows butchered completely! and she likes to talk alot and i was just shocked and i was like 'what?' She had great unpolished eyebrow before. It was like triangular-ish with the sparse hair. She really lookd young before but now her face look old and the blotchines of her skin is obvious. It is so true when they say you can get away with wearing less make up with a pair of strong brows. im gunna try to talk to her about it and make her grow it again.

 

[emailme.]

i feel somehow disappointed and it seems so shallow to feel that over hair on your face and yet it still makes me uncomfortable and awkward around her.

 

[i_<3_chanel]

ha emailme! you sound like me!
fellow eyebrow obsessive.
i do all my friends eyebrows now!

 

[emailme.]

no i dont do my friends eyebrwos. i just have the look-at-eyebrow-first syndrome.

 

[i_<3_chanel]

haha. i understood that. ;]
i was talking abt myself . .