Reasonable age to start shaping eyebrows?

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I won't give my DD age as I want to gage opinions.

DD has inherited both mine and DH strong, dark and bushy eyebrows. She has a lot of stray hairs etc but no monobrow.

She has started to make noises about sorting them out, she is however still very young.

I don't want her to start plucking them and would much rather they were professionally threaded/waxed first.

Although I know (by experience) it is a right of passage to fuck them up in your teenage years, at what age do you believe is reasonable to begin? Is there an age limit at salons?

My dd also 10 (year 5) has asked if she can get them thinned (she has very thick brows) but when I explained it was a little painful it's seemed to put her off.

I also showed her some pics of cara delevigne and said it was actually the done thing to have bigger eyebrows which cheered her up.
In all honesty though I think it will be within the next year that I take her to get them threaded.

"it is a rite of passage to fuck them up in your teenage years,"

Yes, I think it is. And you can't do anything at all,about the age for DIY.

But if your DD has very conspicuous brows (and especially a monobrow) and you want to have it done professionally the first time (so she can learn to tweeze and shape) then do it when she requests it.

My dd is just ten too. I pluck the stray ones as they bother her. . If they are bothering your dd also then why make her wait? They are her brows and her feelings about them. If you won't 'allow' her to sort them then surely that's 'control' and isn't appropriate?

Dd started at age 10 after being called uni brow.

Nasty teasing doesn't just start at high school these days. From a much earlier age, there are children who won't let others have perceived visible imperfections and tease harshly, which can descend in to much worse over time. If your DD is asking about this now, consider helping her with it, even if it is just to do a little subtle tidying with some tweezers for her. Just because she hasn't been brave enough to tell you about comments or teasing, doesn't mean it hasn't started.

Facial and body hair does start changing from around this age so it will become more noticeable to her and her peers far earlier than you, as a parent, may be able to cope with the fact they are growing up and will want to start carrying out grown up 'body maintenance' 🙂

I didn't sort mine until I was about 20! Long time ago tho and they weren't particularly bad.
Think high school age is fine if a reasonable chance of being teases about them.

11.5 is fine in my book, I started shaving my legs (peer pressure for girls, not boys) at 11.

If it's something she's asking about, I'd probably support it.

I had a blonde monobrow and was mortified to be told by a girl at swimming club that only 'evil people' had eyebrows which met in the middle. This affected me profoundly and contributed to my zero levels of confidence and crippling social anxiety which remain a problem today. As soon as my daughter asks me to sort hers for her I will (I did a course in threading). Likewise for earpiercing. It's her body and no amount of pep talks will stop bullying/acute self consciousness. Xxx

Thanks for the advice from all. I'm not opposed to sorting them at all, so not controlling! Just don't want to show up at the threading bar and be told not deemed appropriate! And yes I do want to avoid any teasing, I was mildly bullied for my (quite normal) appearance throughout senior school- resulting in me hating my time there.

I will take hair when she asks again but I won't push it as it's her choice.

If it bothers her. Nasty kids bully for anything, so that needs to be sorted rather than changing appearance.

Eyebrow plucking hurts so much that I've never done it except to tidy the bits in the middle. Can't imagine how painful a serious session would be.

Sod that. Never endure pain for appearance, there is no need.

The lady that used to do mine said it is very common for young girls and even boys to do this nowadays.

DSD was about 11 when she started having her eyebrows shaped. she's now 13 and if she tells me my eyebrows look good I feel I've made it in life!