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Eyebrow stubble

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steps2change · 05/10/2014 17:24

Been a neverending battle with my eyebrows since being a teen. I have pale skin with dark brown eyebrows, and despite plucking the obvious hairs every night, by the morning I still have eyebrow stubble. I think it's mostly new hairs that are just showing up beneath the skin but too short to pluck. I am very careful to get the roots when I pluck so know it isn't those that I can see. I get it way below where my eyebrow has ever naturally been, and over the bridge of my nose.

I am have quite hairy legs too so obviously it's just how I am...but I'm guessing I can't get IPL or laser done so close to my eyes?

Anyone else with this problem? Sick of going on nights or weekends away and having to think about my bloody eyebrows - hate looking in the mirror sans make up and having my eye region looking like DP's chin!

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AkkerDemik · 05/10/2014 18:20

No solutions, only sympathy.

Pale skin, dark haired. I have a monobrow - starts at one side of my face and goes all the way across without stopping. A reasonable-ish (but slightly wild) top line, but goes down to below the crease line on my eyelids. My hair everywhere grows extremely fast, eyebrows no exception.

Hate going away - the mirrors are never what I need, so I get home and discover a forest.

Have also explored laser - there's a type of laser known as ruby which could in theory be used, but nobody has those any more, they're old technology.

Threading's no good, they grow back - like you, there are so many of the hairs, there's always some new ones growing through. I've had electrolysis, it was a waste of time and money. And that theory that if you pluck them often enough they stop growing back - forget it. I'm very good at plucking, get the whole hair out - sometimes with a 'bulb' on the end - but they still grow.

And I too never feel properly groomed, knowing that my eyebrows are never perfect or even close.

The best I can do is use good tweezers (Tweezerman slant tipped) and if I'm going somewhere special, the day before I put the tweezers in my pocket and check my brows in every mirror in the house, every time I pass. Different lights and different angles show up different hairs so I can get most of them out. But others are still growing back by the next day.

Have flowers!
Flowers

steps2change · 05/10/2014 18:31

Nice to hear from someone in a similar position, but equally sorry that you struggle with it too - flowers for you Thanks

Sympathise with going away and the mirror issue - to get the correct mirror in the correct place by the correct lamp that isn't above a sink which you have to bend double over...

And yes - remember my mother telling me not to overpluck as one day it will stop growing back... I bloody wish!

Maybe technology will find a solution for us soon. I am not ready to embrace the monobrow look just yet.

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Skinheadmermaid · 05/10/2014 18:40

I have exactly the same problem. I get terrible stubbly chin hair now too which is worse :(
You can get laser on the monobrow bit but they won't do underneath the eyebrow unless thats recently changed. As Akker said tweezerman tweezers are great.

steps2change · 05/10/2014 19:18

I have had the same pair of Boots tweezers that I have had since being a teen - perhaps time for a change, but they seem to do the job. Always have a right panic going on holiday, because of course they can't go in the hand luggage - was NOT a happy bunny when hold luggage got delayed and had to do 3 days of safari in Africa with no tweezers and of course no chance of popping to Boots.

Have you had laser yourself Skinheadmermaid?

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Skinheadmermaid · 05/10/2014 21:15

No, I've done lots of research about it though. I need my whole face doing really but can't afford it. :/

steps2change · 06/10/2014 08:55

Have been thinking for a long time about getting my legs done (thighs particularly) but the cost is so prohibitive - I read positive reviews and think it will definitely be worth the money but there seem to be just as many people who it didn't really work for - and paying all that to STILL be hairy. Wonder how much it would be to just do the above the nose bit...

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tomanyanimals · 06/10/2014 10:04

Was seems to be the only thing that gives me a few days where I don't look like I have a monk row I started off being waxed weekly ( I paid a reduced amount because she didn't need to do a whole wax just get the ones that had come through) she understood where I was coming from and now I can go about two weeks before I need them doing but it is definatley worth it if you haven't tried it?

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