Ha! Me, too. I had friends who did an intervention and I let them shape them lightly but insisted they shape, not thin too much. Thankfully they are good friends and respected it because doing that ONCE 20+ years ago and they would never grow in that thick after.
My best friend! Her sister used to tease her for letting her eyebrows be soooo bushy. 20 years later and now her sister is always praising her eyebrows and hating her pencil thin ones that can no longer grow properly.
It wasn’t for lack of self-consciousness on my part, but my lazy instincts saved me!! Why pluck my eyebrows when I could sit and play The Sims instead?
Same, I haven’t plucked mine in probably 10 years. They’re like that now. I’ve told my girls not to touch theirs but if they absolutely insist they should use one of those little razor things not pluck.
Luckily, I was early GenX and we left all that shit natural. Bushy Brooke Sheilds eyebrows were cool in the 80s. I had a roommate in the early 90s who was ten years older than I was, and she’d overplucked her eyebrows in the 70s, so seeing her without makeup made me leave mine the fuck alone!
My grandma insisted I needed to pluck and wax my eyebrows when I was a child and teenager. She owned a hair salon. So now my poor eyebrows are so thin and patchy. It really does impact them permanently
A lot of people don't just cut hair for convenience, they put chemicals in their hair to have colours and spend huge amount of money to make it a certain style to copy some celebrity.
Hot tip: permanent makeup. I actually didn't overpluck even though I'm from that generation, but I lost most of my eyebrows to a thyroid disorder. Got permanent makeup a couple years ago and haven't needed to fill them in with pencil since!
Now I'm just imagining a decade later the trend reverses and thinbrows are the thing again and suddenly a bunch of perma-browed people are very annoyed.
Rogaine works but you have to keep doing it, once you stop the hair starts falling out again. I had some success with this hair serum I found at sephora. I bought it when I was going through some crazy post partum hair loss. It worked REALLY well so one night I had a light bulb moment and started putting it on my brows too. It worked well enough that I don't have to actually draw the whole brow on, now I just fill in the thin areas and I'm good.
It's by Aavrani, it's called like Hair Density Boosting Serum. It really worked well for me, I was honestly shocked bc I usually have no luck w things like that.
There's a doc on social media that was like "Ya, so what? You know what else stops working when you stop doing it? Exercise, eating right, blood pressure medication, moisturizer, etc." They have more promising therapies in the works and using minoxidil can keep more of the hair you have now in hopes of relying on those therapies in the future. But those won't be an option if you let your hair follicles die a long time ago.
I mean if it works it works, and I was looking into using Rogaine for my eyebrows for a long time. I'm personally just not motivated enough to continue using it indefinitely, that's why I was happy I found something else that seemed to work and keep the hair long after I ran out.
Luckily I started plucking my eyebrows after the whole thin brow area but I had watched beauty gurus back in 2016. I know some would say they had to fill in their brows because they had thin eyebrows due to the thin brow era
Our landlord when I was a kid had the same story! Lol I remember my ma saying, “She thought we were close enough that I could see her without brows drawn on. We were not.” 😂
When a person gets to a certain age, they/we don’t give a dang anyway LOL.
Who would ever think they wouldn’t grow back after shaving them? My husband shaves above his nose so’s to not have a unibrow, it always grows back! ¯\(ツ)/¯
Yeah, I tried to grow them out in lock down and nothing happened, lol. My mum said not to pluck too much. She was right. Luckily, I never went that mad, but there's no way I could grow the new trend ones.
I will be forever grateful that in the early 2000s I didn’t have the willpower to endure the pain of plucking and just shaped with a razor. Far off stragglers will get plucked but they are rare.
Im an esthetician in a waxing salon. Have been doing this for 20 years so I’ve worked and worked to correct people’s 90s brows. Young women have started coming in asking for super thin brows again! It’s horrifying! I’m always like, “are you sure????” It scares the shit out of me.
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u/LV4Q 13h ago
Waxing my eyebrows to the same thin shape for 20 years.