At what age would you allow your child to 'get their eyebrows done'?

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I'm talking about shaping them at a brow bar - no dye or anything like that.

I go every 2 weeks or so and get my eyebrows shaped and tinted.

12 yr old dd has asked if she can come and get hers done too (again, just shaped and tidied up, nothing more). My instinct is to say no but I'm not completely sure why. Would the salon even do a 12 yr old?

She is fair haired and they just look like normal 12 yr old eyebrows, but she obviously feels that she wants to clean them up :/

She’s nearly 15 now and has learned to tint her own and does mine and her little sister’s now too - saves a fortune 😂

Fine at 12
Especially if she has quite bushy eyebrows

It sounds like she doesn't need them done so a complete waste of money. Imo she is too young anyway.

I'd let her tbh, I have a 10 year old and I'd let her if she asked as well on the stipulation that she doesn't do it, the pro does. Only because I plucked mine so badly as a teenager and they never recovered and I would hate her to do the same.

My mum took me with her from about 11.

I had asked if I could pluck them and she didn't want me to over pluck and wreck the shape like she did as a teenager.

I don't know if it's because I live and grew up quite rurally and therefore there's a lack of nearby salons doing this kind of thing, but I'm really surprised by this thread. 12 year olds having regular beauty treatments seems totally mad to me.

Also unsure why there's a consensus that if she plucks them herself it will inevitably go awfully. Everyone I grew up with plucked their own eyebrows. It's hardly brain surgery!

Right but op does it. So what's the difference

I would let her. If she has already identified she feels uncomfortable about her eyebrows, you aren't going to change it by not letting her. She will just end up tweezing them into oblivion in secret like lots of us did. I had bushy eyebrows as a 12 year old, which I hated, and then I made them wonky and far too thin and felt self conscious about that instead. I wish there had been another option! I don't personally see getting eyebrows done as a slippery slope into unnecessary beauty stuff. It's more like getting a regular hair cut, just something that keeps you looking tidy and presentable.

My DD is 9 and a boy at school told her she has a monobrow. She didn’t even know the word!

I think that sounds fine. I would make it a bonding experience 🙂

DD was 11 when she had them threaded for the first time, she was always quite hairy and hated her big thick bushy brows.

They have been tidied up regularly ever since, she’s 27 now.

They were never obviously or overly threaded just tidied and she is very low maintenance. Nails for her engagement, hair cut three times a year. Eyebrows every six weeks, that’s it.

If they do it I'd agree to them shaping them. Like you say, no dye. Then it will be easier for her to maintain a good shape and not overpluck. You yourself go every 2 weeks so I think it would be hypocritical of you to refuse this. Presumably she's started shaving or will do soon if she wants so this is no different.

Urgh who is teaching these boys to bully women

14

Personally I'd go for threading over waxing on skin that young though

I was going to say 13 but if my 12yo was asking I’d let her.

Girls can be just as mean as boys. Bullying can also be rife in single sex schools too, particularly about appearance.

would your dd also have to wait until she was 18 to get her hair cut or to remove the hair on her legs and underarms too? Or is it just eyebrow hair that has to wait until age 18?

I think my daughter got hers waxed when she was 12 and now she comes with me semi regularly. She doesn't get a tint as she isn't interested.

My mum wouldn't let me until I was 16. I had a monobrow and would pluck the m iddle with tweezers. At 14 my dad took me as he was worried I might wax them off,mum still wasn't keen but they did affect my confidence. I am asian and have dark hair though. I'd start tidying up my dd1s when she asks me to. Currently she is not aware of anything to do with eyebrows and is aged 8. I'd be reluctant before she starts high school but would be open to talk about it and find out why she wants them done.

With your dd I'd think it was a little early to get them tinted (but then it's not something I have experience of, as mine are dark naturally). Do blonde eyebrows need much tidying up?

I bought her a pair of tweezers and she copied me (until she got better at it than i am). In my opinion 12 was too young to be pushing my dd towards the beauty industry and focusing on image.

She's now a very healthy young adult with a healthy attitude towards her body. I stand by my parenting of her.

Mine has hers waxed since 15 and top lip. Every 5 weeks or so. She has thick dark brows that just needed shaping. I prefer to pay a professional waxer than have her pluck into oblivion.

I think dd23 was 15 when she first got hers done. She has very dark thick eyebrows and wanted them tidied. I didn’t see the harm. I must have paid as she didn’t have a job at 15.
Dd16 has never been get hers done, she does them herself.

When they ask. A gentle shape and tidy is fine. They will end up attacking them and possibly ruining the shape themselves.

No-one wants their child to start worrying about their appearance when they are young but it is a fact of life.