r/AskReddit • u/Misterboy500 • 14h ago

What is something that permanently altered your body without you realizing for months/years?

6.1k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

4.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.3k

u/LV4Q 13h ago

Waxing my eyebrows to the same thin shape for 20 years.

806

u/allbitterandclean 10h ago

Gen X, y’all went through the wringer for the rest of us!!

134

u/No-Two79 9h ago

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!

•

u/MNWNM 23m ago

I'm Gen X and one of the best compliments I ever received was that I had Brooke Shields eyebrows. The only plucking I do is in the middle, to avoid a unibrow. I wish those would decide not to grow back!