Eyebrow plucking

[marthamoo]

Sorry, thought Mumsnet was getting a bit light-hearted and it's time we had a serious debate.

So eyebrow plucking..
Does it ever stop hurting so much? And is it true that eventually the plucked ones stop growing back? If so, when? And why does plucking my eyebrows make me sneeze?

Going out tonight (whoo-hoo!) so have just done them. Ouch. But have only been doing them for about six months (have been bushy browed and au naturel for almost 34 years, don't really know why I've started doing them...)

Oh, I've just remembered a primary school teacher I had back in the seventies who had no eyebrows at all - she drew them on with brown pencil. I'd never leave the house if I had to do that - I'd keep getting it wrong and looking startled/supercilious/menacing...

[SuzySue]

I definitely recommend getting them waxed, a lot quicker and a lot less painful... will never go back to plucking!

[badjelly]

I don't know how they did it but when i was on honeymoon in kenya I had it done for the second time ever and it didn't hurt a bit - no such luck since!

[SuzySue]

Wax, wax, wax - it's the way forward...

thinking about it, my mum doesn't have any eyebrows - she draws hers on with brown pencil too.

[prufrock]

Definately definately wax. You can wax them yourself but would really recommend getting them done professionally the first time at least

[Janstar]

If you get them waxed, how long before you have to get it done again?

[Northerner]

Waxing eyebrows always intrigues me - how do they do it without whipping off the whole brow?

[SoupDragon]

They only apply the wax where you want the hair removed

[Northerner]

Am I being thick - isn't that really hard to do? How can you avoid waxing the wrong hairs?

[prufrock]

I get prof. wax every 3 months, and pluck stray hairs every few days in the meantime as and when they appear. It tends to take a couple of weeks for the first ones to come through.

[prufrock]

That's why you should get them done profesionally Northener. They apply the v. hot wax with a very small pointy spatula

[Meid]

They do a mixture of waxing and plucking - they will wax the big bits like the bit in the middle where the eyebrows meet but delicate areas they'll pluck.

If you are hell bent on plucking, in my experience it stops hurting after about 5 years but you never stop sneezing.

I've also been told that if you put teething gel on first numbs the area.

Someone I know does the no-eyebrow, draw them on with pencil thing. Bizarre.

[Northerner]

I worked with a woman who drew her eyebrows on. And when we looked even closer she had no eyelashes either - she just always wore eyeliner. It turns out she also wore a wig as she had a severe case of alopecia.

Surely noone has drawn in eyebrows by choice?

[codswallop]

I get mine waxed. i am a wuss. Always makes me sneeze.

[ANGELMOTHER]

I can vouch for the fact that they actually stop growing eventually.
Started plucking.....ooh about 19 and now 31 rarely need to except for the odd few strays.
Mine used to literally meet in the middle

Have heard threading is great too !!

[hana]

go every 6 weeks, no stray bits! would cry in pain if I had to do it myself!! (despite having given birth, it's an AWFUL pain being plucked, hate the bit at the end when they pluck out any 'strays' eeeee!!
hana

[Girly]

Must get mine waxed, thanks for reminding me!

[codswallop]

Need to get mine done - look like Denis Healy.

Blinking holidays - no time

[lou33]

I pluck .They do get less as time goes on, and I don't notice any pain.

[jac34]

Don't need to pluck mine, they are so white you can't see them.
I once had them tinted, it was so odd seeing myself with eye brows !!!
I never had them done again, and I don't pencil them in, it just doesn't look like me !!!

[bossykate]

yes. yes. after 6m - 12m ime. don't know!

had mine waxed for about 6m, then only needed to tidy up every couple of days or so.

[sis]

Threading is the business - I'm just too lazy to keep them 'tidied'.

[Lisa78]

grow your fringe long!

[Linnet]

I get my friend who is a beauty therapist to wax mine. so much quicker and a lot less painful in my experience anyway.

[mammya]

What's threading?
Am amazed at the number of people who have them waxed! I pluck, have started again recently after years "au naturel".

[mammya]

But then don't have much to pluck, mine are not very thick.