To hate it when women shave/wax their eyebrows off then draw them on?

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My friend does this!! She has lovely, natural eyebrows too but she shaves them off the uses black eyeliner to draw them on. It looks awful! Each to their own, of course, but sometimes they aren't even.

I think brows that have been shaped with a bit of brow pencil to give them a little oomph look great but not drawing them on like a pre schooler.

She told me that she doesn't like her natural brow colour as its 'too dark' yet draws them on with BLACK pencil.

I am probably being unfair but just a thought. What do others think?

I have alopecia. No eyebrows, not shaved, just deserted, I paint them in. I've been doing if for 41 years. I hate it when people judge me. I felt shit getting it at 14 and I still feel shit that I look ill and strange without them. Obviously I try for a natural look, but shit, there's fuckers out there looking at them.

YANBU. My friend used to do this when we were at college.

She hated it if i licked my thumb and smudged them with it

There's a mother at the school who does this. I'm not talking filling in with a pencil, powder, feathering for a natural look or anything I'm talking thick black marker pen in two almost perfectly straight lines...I try so hard not to stare, I really do...

I think I might do mine, make one higher than the other in a quizzical response...

Yes, I was talking to a mum at nursery who does this and I was trying so hard not to stare at them. She has brown eyebrows and black hair. I don't think it looks nice at all.

My eyebrows need a good shape though so perhaps she was staring back.

Isn't this, er, style known as a Scouse Brow?

What about cancer survivors / people with alopecia like dawn?

You don't know the full story when looking at someone.

My mum has a skin condition and gets lots of judgey shit which has made me aware of not judging a book by its cover.

I am not a fan of the scousebrow look. I think a lot of it is a con to convince women to spend money on crap like "HD brows". But as someone else said as long as they aren't removing my eyebrows with a Bic and getting the sharpie out all power to them! Live and let live. I spend about 5 mins on my personal appearance everyday (laziness) so in awe of people dedicated to do more

Mumtobe

Daphne and Corus I luffs you! :)

My friend's daughter does this - she has dyed her dark hair blonde and so decided her eyebrows were too dark, so shaved them off and draws them on again with a brown pencil and has managed to achieve a look to which no natural eye brow could ever even aspire.

It looks terrible - so unnatural, not helped by the fact she has an inexpressive face so these eyebrows just sit there looking like someone applied them using oil paints and a scalpel. She's such a pretty girl, but the eyebrows just take all the focus off the rest of her face and it all looks a bit freakish.

10yo DD said "what is wrong with her face?!" - she though there had been an accident.

The funny thing is, when I was born I was called el Mono, Spanish for the Monkey because I was so hairy!
(My dad left when I was 14 so an educated guess would say that was the trigger)

Dark eyebrows can be bleached lighter, I've done it and they looked just fine (well imo they did!)

is it killing you that people do this, are you her DP? You hate it, so what, then don't follow this trend then. Maybe your friend might hate the way you dress.

definitely not talking about people with fair or sparse eyebrows who use pencil. As others have said - it's the "magic marker" look. And it looks false and pretty terrible, often ruining what is otherwise pretty makeup. I honestly struggle to see why so many people do this, including those who have naturally dark brows to start off with. However, that's my issue and obviously I don't say anything.

How I wish "over plucking" resulted in the hair not growing back. Sadly, that's a myth. I started plucking my eyebrows in the 70s when thin brows were the rage and the hairs grow back merrily regardless of nearly 40 years of plucking.

like these

One of my friends has alopecia so I really feel for anyone like dawn but this look is usually accompanied by other horrendous make-up e.g. orange face as mentioned upthread so hopefully that is enough to distinguish between people who choose to look like this and those who have to do it for medical reasons.

dawn I'm absolutely sure that you d

Someone I know has removed her natural eyebrows and has different ones TATTOOED on. Looks good, but I couldn't help wondering what will happen in a few years when the tattoo goes that funny green colour they go when they get a bit old.

dawn I'm absolutely sure that you wouldn't go for the scouse brow look and that you aspire to make your brows as natural as possible.

I am not ignorant to the fact that some women suffer from alopecia and hair loss is a side affect of many cancer treatments and that must be horrendous. I talking about people who have perfectly nice eyebrows yet shave them off and draw them back on without any attempt to make them look natural

I'm on the fence about drawn on brows. They can be done well, and sometimes if someone has issues like alopecia or cancer treatment then it can be a God-send for them. I'm also a big fan of alternative make-up, I know girls who shave their brows off so they can do something different with them every day (different shapes, colours etc). I remove the tails of mine because they're not neat and it I then pencil them in, but as an aspiring/hobby Make-up Artist I like to think I do a decent job of it.

They can look totally awful and they can look fine, same as most things. I have to admit to inwardly cringing if I see terribly applied make-up, but that's more from a professional stand-point. I'm very passionate about make-up and have invested a lot of time, money and practise into it. I'm well aware it isn't as high up on everyone's list of priorities

It has never occurred to me that people would do this. When seeing drawn-on eyebrows I have always assumed that they (like me) have lost their eyebrows.

I still wonder, though, why they draw them in so unnaturally.

I don't. I just go brow-less. I hate it...well I dislike it, but it's taken me 10y to come to terms with it. But I would hate even more, and feel even more self-conscious, to look like a badly-painted doll.

I have sparse, blond brows but brown hair. They're just like faint smudges across my forehead. I got sick of plucking them into something resembling an arch and then filling them in and trying to make them even every bloody morning. I just got them tattooed on in the end. Best thing I've ever done beauty-wise (pictures available upon request).

So after all that to see someone shave off perfectly good eyebrows...I'd want to shake her! Up to her obviously, but how she can get judgey about your make-up choices when she does that? YANBU.

I over plucked mine in the 90s when it was fashionable... Now I have to colour them in . I'm really hoping thin brows come back in!