To be a bit baffled by the trend for eyebrows that announce their presence 3minutes before the rest of the face?

[throwingpebbles]

I had assumed this eyebrow trend was reserved for sellers of strangely overpriced pyramid scheme products (e.g. Forever Living, Youuuunique and our mumsnet favourite Timeless Vie )

But I was at a soft play today and half the women there had eyebrows so fierce they had a life of their own. And I keep seeing posts on our local selling pages of women asking for recommendations where to go to get their eyebrows done like that.

Just baffled by it, but then maybe they are equally baffled by my vaguely-plucked-around-the-edges eyebrows

On a serious note my bosses wife has her eyebrows tattooed on,
She's early sixties with fair hair,
They look fab not fake at all,
Maybe because they're light & not big black Nike swooshes

I had severely over plucked eyebrows around the time I was pregnant.
I had them threaded every 4 weeks & a strict tweezer ban,
Took a couple of years but I have real actual eyebrows again so they may never grow back completely but they're loads better !

That's the one thing I'll be passing to my daughter -
STEP AWAY FROM THE TWEEZERS

I have never heard of these. What are they? How do they do it?

I have just googled hd brows and they just look like mine do naturally anyway i think - unless i'm looking at the wrong thing (probably).

Kitty if there are some fine hairs there a tint will pick them up. So it's worth a try. Have you had them shaped by someone? There may be enough to create a good shape.
Often people don't grow for long enough. Over plucked brow hairs can grow back but sometimes take months and months. So it's worth really leaving them for as long as you can.
If the tint doesn't help as it's just bare skin then a good brow powder will help and can look very natural if applied lightly and brushed through to fill in the gappy areas.

Let's see your brows Mrs koala!

throwingpebbles can I just say how much you made me laugh with the thread title. So totally spot on

Okay ill post a pic tomo. I'm in bed now and too snuggly to get out.

The pics shown in the thread are extreme. Normal hd brows.

I can see why people with very pale eyebrows might dye or tint them darker, and those who have lost their eyebrow hairs completely might need something more permanent. But for everyone else isn't the best thing to leave them alone?

It makes very little sense to me to pull out all your natural hairs and then draw (more of less permanently) new eyebrows. Surely that will always look at least a little bit odd?

Vixx your picture looks much better than most of those posted, but I still look at the pictures and think that the 'after' looks worse than the 'before'. Presumably it involved the half an hour or so of waxing and threading too.

Nooka
Just a brow shape with wax or thread takes about 10 mins. With tint 15-20.

Just came back from the salon!

Me too. Hideous. There is nothing wrong with having a current fashion for strong, well defined brows, but like everything else it gets out of hand and (usually very young) women who have no class or style take the idea right over the top and end up looking completely ridiculous, like drag queens. They need to learn when less is more.

I think if you eyebrows are naturally very thick and wayward then a good tidy up above, below and in between with threading or waxing is a good idea, and some eyebrow pencil or subtle tinting if your brows are quite fair or thin. But to remove them totally just to stencil or tattoo them back on is stupid.

I know a woman in her 50s who has semi permanent tattoos as well and they look great. But that's because they aren't too thick, too dark, or a ridiculously implausible shape. As I said before, the concept is fine, it's how it's executed that matters. Less is more.

I have had eyebrow tattoos and eyeliner tattooed - looks great and I love it.
The pictures attached are the ones taken by the beautician I just afterward so my eyes are a bit puffy.

I had it done because my eyebrows were very fair compared to my naturally dark hair, and they were quite sparse.
The tattoo just means that I don't need to get them tinted at all now, they are there all the time.

In fact, the eyebrow picture is the 'after one month' picture - the eyeliner is straight after.

This is the eyebrow before & straight after:

Vixx - the first picture is infinitely better imo. Much more natural without that 'drawn on with a sharpie' look.

That's why 'looks ridiculous ' is subjective and we would slate any poster who thought that they had a right to judge another, about a physical attribute, except the non MN approved topics, such as eyebrows, tan etc.

I think that the send picture looks better.

You can't tell by an eyebrow shot, though, you'd have to see the overall day-to-day and evening look, to gauge.

I always thought that the MN mantra was 'what a woman does/or doesn't do with her body hair, is her choice'

Second not send, obviously.

Bunny, That looks great, especially the eyeliner. Do they draw a line before tattooing it, so you can agree how you want it? I would like this done but I'm worried about being stuck with bad eyeliner.

That is true - it's her choice if she wants to tattoo eyebrows onto her face. That doesn't mean that people can't express an opinion about something that is a fashion (in the vast majority of cases). It's not a physical attribute in the same way that height, natural skin colour and so on - it's a body modification that some like and some don't.

And some of the eyebrows photographed on here are utterly ridiculous. Imo.

Here is my normal eyebrows itsbetter . To me they look like a lot of the 'hd' ones.

Actually i realised the other day while at the hairdressers (and forced to look at my own visage for what seemed like an eternity) that i look like i've 'had work done'. My features are really similar to how people who have gone a bit crazy with fillers and botox look.