After “not making the grade” with big Brooke Shields/Cindy Crawford brows of the 80’s…I over plucked during the (first) Pam Anderson trend. Don’t do it! My advice is to Embrace your own brows…keep them neat, pluck wayward hairs, but don’t follow these dumb trends. They come, they go…it will just make you crazy trying to keep up. And…you may be “stuck” with an old trend (sparse brows due to over plucking OR tattooing on thick brows)
So true. Luckily I resisted the urge to pluck to the pencil thin brow throughout my lifetime and I’m happy I did. One thing about plucking you do you want to pluck the crazy ones that grow under or between your eyebrows but leave the ones on top alone. Plucking the top just seems to cause more problems than it solves. Just use a eyebrow brush to tame them and get them back in line with the rest of your brow. Although I must say as I approach 60 this year I have noticed a natural lessening of my eyebrows. I’m just taking that as a natural part of aging and using a little makeup to fill in between the hairs and moving on.
I've always had bushy brows, and growing up in the late 90's/early 2000's, I HATED them. I wanted to get them waxed so bad but my mom would never take me because she over-tweezed her brows in her youth to the point where they never grew back. 20 years later I'm so grateful she made me leave my brows alone lol.
I over plucked my brows in the 90’s, they’ve never been the same. I even have a scar from waxing. Such a huge mistake and I hope the younger ladies here leave their brows alone! Great video Dr. Dray!👏👏👏
Same here!!! Young ladies, trust us, leave those brows ALONE! Thank you Dr. Dray. Wish I had your awesome advice back in the 90s. Would have saved me so much grief.
I barely had any eyebrow hair to begin with because of simple genetics, but yeah I fell into the same trend in the 90s. Finally was a coworker who pulled me aside saying she'd kill to have eyebrows like my natural ones and I needed to stop overplucking. Even if she was making it up, it meant a lot when I was young. Now I let them be and I'm happy with it.
I am 74 years old so have seen all the trends come and go. I always shaved the stray hairs under my natural brow but never the whole brow. No matter what the "style" was, I just kept my natural shape. I have very light hair naturally so I have always had to add color to the brows. I use mens beard dye to color my brows on a regular basis-being very careful not to get it in my eyes of course. I did finally get laser treatment for the stray hairs under my brow and they have never grown back. But as I have gotten older, my brow hairs have gotten sparce (and of course those hairs are now growing on my chin!)
Often the shape of our natural brows are most flattering so I've never messed around with mine except to do a little regular "cleaning up". Being well over 50 I've seen brow fads come and go and didn't feel either extreme suited me better than what my Mom and God gave me. 😁
Being the youngest female in my family I benefited from watching my oldest sister follow the trends and noticed that her brows were not coming back in. I took a moderate approach. I wish that I had not plucked so much between the brows though since those hairs never grow back and my brows don't frame my eyes enough now. More cautionary tales,gals. Heed the warnings, please.
Screw that. I personally like thicker eyebrows a lot. I feel this was something people had to learn, rather than it being a trend thing... I think Cara Delevingne in particular made people realise that thicker eyebrows are not something to avoid. So we might have a thin eyebrow tend, but people have still learnt from earlier that it's fine either way and not something to be concerned about.
As a tween/teen of the 90’s I can attest that too many of my friends regret the plucking they did to their brows. Some have virtually no brows and did not have successful micro blading experiences, one got full-on tattoo brows and I have serious concerns for her as her face has began to age and change shape. Now, my most memorable experience with brows is a former coworker who absolutely hates any length to her brows. She didn’t want them to lay down at all, so she uses little scissors, like the type that come in a nail kit, and cuts them down to basically stubble. I’ve never seen anything more distracting in my life. Once I noticed she did this I could never look at anything else when she spoke. I haven’t worked that job for many years but I’ve never forgotten her, or her brows.
I've seen some horrible brow tattoos on the internet; that's why I was afraid to try that. And you have a good point about how your face changes as you age. Permanent tattoos do not.
Yup. I grew up with bushy caterpillar brows during the pencil thin brow era and plucked them mercilessly for years. Fortuitously, the bulk of them returned (minus the surrounding strays and fuzzy unibrow lol). But my mom's and sister's, which were far less Frida-esque to begin with, sadly did not. 🐛🦋
I discovered how important eyebrows and eyelashes are when I lost *all* of my hair from chemotherapy 18 years ago. The hair on my head grew back in tiny little curls for about a year and then reverted back to its original texture. It did not grow back on my arms and legs 😀, and my brows and lashes have never been the same 😥. I looked into transplants ($$$) and tattooing--too many bad looking results there. The most helpful technique I discovered was from a professional makeup artist on TH-cam who uses "Just For Men Beard and Mustache" on her own brows once a week. Then I just finish shaping with a brow pencil every day. Kind of a pain, but works for me!
That sounds like a good idea! I use brow dye, in a small tube, but it never lasts more than a few days. Have you ever tried any of those? Happy to hear you are (hopefully) healthy!
@@M_K_M_K_M_K Never heard of brow dye in a tube... The youtuber that gave me the men's hairdye idea is Kerry-Lou. She's older, but so am I 😉 BTW still in remission! 👍
@@mozu517 Carol, I just read your comment right now after replying to Elf. Not me being disorganized... 🤦🏻♀️😅 Brow+lashes dye is formulated specifically for them and it normally doesn' t cause any problems but at the end of the day it is what is is: the little brother of the head one. After continued use for a long time some people can become hypersensitive or it can end weakening the follicle. Since you have a post-chemo hair type, please, be extreamly careful, pay attention to the most subtle change and try to use it with the lower frequency possible. And in this case, quality and price matters. I can advice you the best lip product under 5$ and it beats all the expensive ones but cheap dye is a nono. If you can buy it on a store for professional hairdressers and MUAs and ask for advice, well invested money. Sending tones of health 🧛🏻♀️🖤🖤🖤
Thank you for this important message. It is so important to be aware of what suits our individual faces and that in my opinion is what nature gave us, or something close, with some tidying up and subtle enhancement. I am over 50 now and remember ridiculously thin eyebrows going in and out of fashion every decade or so. The worst was in the 90's when many young women had nothing but a skinny pencil line drawn on where their eyebrows used to be. I did not follow that trend and I was disappointed that the natural look of the early 90's had such a short lifespan. However when I look back at pictures of me when thin eyebrows were in again in the early 2000's, I do think mine were overplucked. They just didn't seem over-plucked to me at the time because other women where over-plucking their eyebrows a lot more. Fortunately I have the genetics to grow those eyebrows back, and I didn't have to do anything with them when bushy eyebrows were in. The artificial ones can be way too extreme on faces that don't suit them.
I think I over plucked because of the characters Meg Ryan played. I’m 53 and still have thin brows, and not by choice. I had what was called (is it still?) a unibrow. I loved Brooke Shields, not only for her beauty but her intelligence. She had (still has?) moral character, she was ethical and a great role model when I was young. However, I had the added pressure of not being the girl my mom wanted. No tears or emotion - it was what it was I didn’t know any different - I’ve had plenty of therapy & done a LOT of shadow work to get through those issues. My mom pushed me to pluck. To her I looked like a bigfoot throwback (laugh out loud now 😊). Between that and the space between my teeth and my robust figure, I was never a typical cheerleader. I am the life of the party, however! Beware to human beings, pick your priorities wisely. Take care of your teeth, take care of your heart, physically and emotionally. Give more than you receive. Live and live well. I promise, no one will notice your brows!
Yes, and do not comment on a child's appearance. Tell them what a strong and wonderful person they are. I told my husband to affirm his daughters' great characteristics so they would not think that their beauty was what gave them value. I love to listen to him, now, complimenting his granddaughters on everything except their physical beauty.
*THE NEW TREND IS NOT TO FOLLOW THE TREND* 😉 *The only must is sunscreen* I know and love my fav colours, hairstyle, lip shape, brows and all that jazz. We only should accept advice based on health reasons 🧛🏻♀️🖤
I am 59 & I unfortunately over- tweezed in the early 80's. That part of my brows never fully grew back in. Now they have just naturally thinned & have lots of grey brow hairs. I use the Thrive Causemetics brow gel to fill in & cover the grey.😊
I’m in my late 50s and when I was a teenager getting Into makeup and such, my mother taught me to tweeze my brows to a thin line. Of course I overtweezed. I kept this practice up until a few years ago. I pretty much have no brows now. I now use a brow powder to add that feature back to my appearance. I was going to look into brow micro blading until I realized that it was like getting a tattoo. When I as at my allergist’s office, we got to talking about brows. She found a brow serum that she was using and said it worked. Of course, it was a bit pricy. After researchIng brow serums I purchased one (Nourish Brow). It is working. The fronts of the brows are coming in thick and coarse. But the ends are not getting any better. I will continue using the serum but I still need to fill them in with brow powder. If I could go back in time, I would definitely NOT overpluck. Love your channel, Andrea! Thank you for putting out all these videos.
As long as my brows weren't going all over the place, I've tended to leave them alone. I remember seeing my mom shaping hers with a razor blade and the folks who had all these instructions they gave you for shaping... I didn't have the time, patience or nerves for any of it, lol.
That's one thing I have to thank my mom for. She always complimented my thick brows (that I got from her side) and encouraged me to leave them be, even tho it was the 2000s and not following the trend was killing me.
I over tweezed my eyebrows when I was a teenager and they won’t grow back. Now I’m in my mid thirties I really struggle with this. I now have very sparse dark eyebrows 😔😔
Eyebrow trends are absolutely ridiculous. I look terrible with big fluffy/bushy thick brows, I've tried painting them on etc and they just look insane. I have what I would say are medium thickness natural brows and I never try changing them based on trends. If something looks good on your face, I think you just do that!! :)
I'm going to be 50 this year. I definitely participated in this trend LOL, in the early 90s. Thankfully they grew back, just by letting them be, not "keeping up" with plucking whatever was out of place, no that does not work, you have to let them go wild and then after 2 years they settle back to their old selves. Yes. 2 years!
This makes me happy since I overplucked the last time thin brows were in ( in the 90's) and I've been struggling to regrow them. They dont seem to regrow
Oh for Pete’s SAKE!! My brows were so overplucked in the 70s that they never grew back properly. Brooke Shields brought back thick brows in the 80s. The 2000s saw the advent of the “Morley Safer” brows (groomed, colored, and waxed to perfection), now we’re going back to pencil thin brows?? Oh well. At 67, my brows are turning gray and thinning even more, so maybe I’ll be en Vogue🙄.
75 year old, here. Born with big ol’ thick brows (thanks Dad!). Had my brows threaded in early 2000’s. Not sure what I was thinking, but grateful it didn’t doom me to thin brows. Since then, I’ve learned that simply trimming my brows has kept them looking “groomed”. It’s helped that, as I’ve aged, most of the hair on my body has vacated the premises. #becareful
I'm not over 50 but until well in my 20s maybe even 30 (I think) thin brows were the thing and everyone was plucking them, if you didn't do it, it was considered "dirty", unhygienic, as if you were walking around with all your body hair intact (e.g. armpits and legs). I also plucked my brows but only minimally, so people always told me "since you don't pluck your brows..." or told me I should pluck them (... WTF!!) as they were "too thick" and not in style ("too thick" then, not later/now!!). At that time, it was in fashion to have very very thin brows, like a line. Thankfully I didn't overpluck them as brows never grow back!! I also learned from my mom not to do it too much, as she was struggling with very sparse brows from overplucking all her life. I have neither Lily Collins' brows or very thin brows, but I'm definitely not going to pluck my brows any more and wouldn't advise anyone to do it!
I am 59 and I specifically remember thinner brows being in fashion in the 60’s, the natural brow of the 70’s, the Brooke Shields brows of the 80’s, the Gwen Stefani pencil thin brows of the 90’s, and finally the thicker, fluffier brows of the 00’s until the present day.
I love natural brows. I am not a fan of the bushy brows that have been trending in recent years, but I still prefer them over the thin brows. Thankfully after a phase of thin brows at around 20, I went back to my regular, yet manicured brows. After 10-15 years of regular waxing, I no longer need to wax. I just pluck the occasional stray
I find even trimming can lead to disaster cuz of the slow growth of brow hair - but at least you can fill in with pencil till mistakes finally grow back. Love your brows, Dr Dray! 😀
As a 39 year old woman, I thank my lucky stars that I was a conservative plucker in the late 90s. So many of my girlfriends overdid it and are stuck with pencil thin brows that they now have to fill in with cosmetics. Even when thin was in, I thought that Brooke Shield brows were so youthful and beautiful so I took it easy with the tweezers. Lol
This video just unofficially confirms my suspicion that all the hairs you want to be strong and grow back readily are the ones that are the weakest and most susceptible to permanent damage while all the hairs you wish would disappear forever are the strongest and most persistent. >:( I'm not thrilled to hear that thin brows are coming back but I think the number of people that go with the thin trend will be a lot lower than before, while a lot of people will stick with thicker brows permanently. I think the re-acceptance of thicker brows that occurred a decade ago is here to stay.
So I guess that's why my eyebrows keep growing back after I've plucked them for the 1 millionth time. >:( Maybe electrolysis will stop them from coming back if continuing to pluck them daily doesn't do it for me eventually.
Oh no no no. I remember attacking my brows with the tweez back in the first half of the 90's (also attacking my face with St. Ives apricot scrub.) when I was in high school. It ain't happening again. I spent a good couple of years recovering from that phase and my brows are doing fine.
Hi at 50 my brows are still fairly decent, but that's because my mum overplucked hers in the sixties and was a cautionary tale re that - so many years she has spent drawing them on, as she had so few hairs left growing naturally. In the nineties, when thin brows were once again a huge trend I was in my late teens and twenties. I just didn't do the trendy thing, as I knew that these "looks" come and go. I have had them tidied up to suit my natural brow shape consistently throughout my adult life. Waxing, plucking and threading those stray hairs for years, but haven't had them stop growing as such. Menopause and aging thinned them out a little, but not enough to be a big issue. The white hairs though lol I do use brow gel to disguise and occasionally tint them too. Having a neat and tidy brow that flatters your own eye shape and face shape, is the best look on anyone in my opinion - that way it just always looks good on you and will withstand the trends that come and go. Best wishes.
At 64, I’m “back in fashion!” 😆 Not having the benefit of today’s wealth of information when I was a teenager, I made the mistake of following fashion and tweezing my eyebrows thin and they never grew back full again.
I’m high school I tweezed my eyebrows into a “sperm” shape (accidentally, but looking back now 10000% accurate way to describe the shape) I now draw tiny hairs every day to replace what I have ruined. I don’t tweeze anymore, I use a face razor, no permanent damage if I “over-shape” my brows
Happy Wednesday!! I'm 51 and have never plucked my eyebrows thin, they've always been on the thicker side and will stay that way until they fall out lol
This makes me feel so sad. My brow hairs never grew back since the damage I did in my teens in the late 90s. My late aunt and grandmother said dont pluck. They were right. I have to keep drawing my brows for the rest of my life.
I have never followed trends about brows or much of anything really TBH. I will tweeze random or out if place brow hairs but at 46 I have had them shaped many moons ago by a MUA for a shoot and I looked surprised until they grew back in! Never again.
Brows😂😂 oh my. Medium to thin brows have been “in style” for the majority of my life. years. I know massive brows have been popular in more recent years, but I’m glad that look is on the way out. I would consider yours as medium, and I like them!
At 82 I have great thick gray hair and spend a lot of time creating natural looking eyebrows. Looking back at photos from my 20s and 30s, I had lovely dark eyebrows with a nice arch. Early 70s the glamour mags were touting the "Joan Crawford eyebrow look". That translates tweezing brows very thin. I did that and my brows were never the same. I noticed the faces you had in your opening were celebrities. I think we all know by now not to follow the fashion--their fashion for sure! Embrace who you are! Another great video. Thank you!
I started plucking my eyebrows in my late teens (I'm 39 now) and sure enough I ended up with overplucked eyebrows. However, I stopped plucking them many years ago but the hair loss continued to get worse. I don't have any underlying diseases, as far as I know, so I think my eyebrow area is just very sensitive to trauma. To make matters worse, I have a scar that runs along my left eyebrow. I fill them in every morning with an eyebrow gel and I quite like the end result, but it is definitely a bit troublesome to do that every single day. I've considered microblading, but since I use tretinoin I would probably end up with orange eyebrows. Personally, nowadays I prefer thicker eyebrows. They frame the face quite nicely and help create a more youthful look. I think I'll leave the thin brows trend to Gen Z, same as I did with other horrible 90's trends.
I love the call for comments from people 50+! My grandma had a good talk with me in the 90’s and kept me from going to far with plucking. The perspective was helpful, getting to consider how trends would likely change.
Eyebrows are always changing. Subtle scarring can occur. Thin brows trends in 1970s (look up Jaclyn Smith), 1990s. I think women may have over-plucked in /50s by widening the area between. Might look up Judy (she had fab brows in her early 20s) and check out Liz Taylor's.
Lol! I have always felt (turning 50 here) that groomed brows and white teeth make someone look young. I have not had and am not interested in fillers or surgery. Gonna stay with my feathery brows and my maintenance dental appointments!
I’m 55 and have always embraced my” bushy” eyebrows. As I age they have naturally thinned. In high school 1985 I did once go crazy plucking of my eyebrows. Currently my eyebrows are some where in the middle.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s when thin eyebrows where the thing. I was one who over plucked to the point my eyebrows didn't grow back. I literally just had my eyebrows microbladed less than a week ago and I'm very happy with them. I'm SHOCKED that thin eyebrows are making a come back! All I can say is don't fall into this temporary fad. You'll regret it as I did.
I dont care what is "IN". I want to look nice. I have naturally thick brows. When I was a little kid I was made fun of mercilessly. Everyone's thin with age naturally. Mine have thinned a bit over the years, but are still very thick. I only remove a few strays that fall outside the natural shape. That's it. Thank you @Dr. Dray for helping us by sharing all the info! ❤❤❤
Yeay!!! I over plucked in the 70's/80's! Now they are also thinning! I haven't used a tweezer in I probably 25 years. I also remember reading in a 'fashion' magazine that one should NEVER pluck the hairs on top of the brows. I think they said it would cause infection. I never understood that. I did it and never got an infection. I use a pencil every day whether I am leaving the house or not! I don't mind the shape they are now, but wish they were more filled in.... As you mentioned, the chin hairs are happy and healthy. Those suckers are growing just fine!!
I just got microblading after contemplating for almost 2 years and I have zero regrets...I don't follow fads, they come and go before I even hear about them...but my brows don't grow evenly and I wanted a slightly fuller look and achieved that...thanks for another informative video
I've been shaping my brows with a small eyebrow razor for 3-4 years, and they grow back just as thick. I've even shaved off the tail a few times and it grows back just fine. I love it because its not permanent at all.
Oh wow 🤩 going back to 80s, I love my thicker,fuller brows. I just clean up the messy areas and bit shape it. I am planning on keeping my brows fuller.Love for your information.🙏💐❤️Thank you so much dear Doctor Dray as always.🙏💐❤️
Hi. I have blonde brows that I’ve never tweezed. Hate pain. Am quite old now, and need to do something about my brows. I’ll figure something out. While I have your attention, please tell us about stri-vectin products. Do they work? I don’t think they do. Spent a ton of money on them. Was hoping the neck cream might do something, but no. So I’ve given up. Thank you. Ann Cox.
I was fortunate in the fact my sister is almost 10 years older. I learned from her over tweezed brows and I embraced my natural brows through the years and only just "clean them up". Also, having a thyroid issue where the outer third is a bit thinner helps a great deal. You mentioned tweezing and even shaving. What is your take on waxing the brows? Thank you for topic today.
I am just curious. Say you pluck your brows and cause trauma. Will this traumatise only the follicles you have plucked out of, or does this also damage nearby follicles? As in, will this spread somehow? I've never OVER plucked, but I have always plucked (since I was about 13 and I am 33 now). They grow back always, and they grow back FAST. I hold the skin as a I pluck to minimise the pain. This may minimise the trauma too, but i do not know.
Hello Dr. Dray, would you please consider making a video about the new Not So Pretty docuseries on HBO Max? There are currently 4 episodes on there each talking about a different aspect of the beauty industry (makeup, nails, skin, and hair) exposing the dangers of some of the ingredients in these products. I would like to hear your thoughts about the series as it mentions lots of things that I’ve heard from other experts including yourself to not be a true concern, eg parabens. It also heavily advertises the EWG database and other similar databases for the consumer to find “safer” products. Thank you in advance!
I just turned 50. Thankfully, I was not into fashion, so I still have great brows! I don't go with the trends, I do what looks best with my eye & face shape, and facial features.
Please everyone, don’t mess with your brows. I over tweezed when I was 14 and and ended up with half a brow on each side; they never grew back. For years, I have longed for beautifully shaped, thick brows.
I was born in 1964. I'll be 58 in May. Over the past 100 years thick eyebrows have only been stylish for brief periods of time, three brief periods, I think. I don't think bushy brows were ever in style in the modern world until the late 60s and early 70s, during the Hippie era. By the time Disco dominated the sound waves, and the dancefloor, thin was in. in 1980, Brook Shields made a daring move by sporting thick brows in her famous Calvin Klein commercial, "Reading is to the mind like Calvins are to the body." Remember that, Boomers? lol. And, even though we loved Brook Shields and blue lagoons, we hated thick brows. Until Madonna, that is....but even Madonna ages, so by the time the 90s hit, thin was back in, and it stayed in for the next 20 years. The most recent rise in thick-brow popularity is probably related to the full-browed twenty-somethings who brought social media out of obscurity and into the mainstream. But youth is ephemeral.....and just like that, thin is in again.
Thank you for your wonderful sense of humor when educating us. I have never had thick brows and only tweezed underneath. The first time I saw tattoos brows on a good friend, all I could see when talking to her was the tattooed brows. So distracting. I am in my sixties coming up to the next decade in a couple years. In my early years after seeing a friends mom’s brows freshly completely shaved off, her skin was bright red and slathered with ointment. It impacted me so badly, I have never followed the brow trends. Natural no matter full brows or thin brows, they are ones best look.I’m accepting on every hair I have and don’t.
I have trichotillomania. Eyebrows and eyelashes were my targets. I have mostly overcome it. My lashes recovered but my brows never did. Thankfully there are good products that can disguise them now.
Hi. Glad to read that your lashes recovered🥰. Have you ever considered a brow transplant? I' m a MUA and my two trichotillomaniac customers who finally did itwhere able to end dealing with tricho because, as superficial as it may sound, they both told me: "Every time I surprise my fingers touching my brow, the Pavlov' s Dog effect remembers me how much money I spent and this has been the only thing wich has stopped me". Hope their testimony may help you. If you need any brow advice, here I am 🧛🏻♀️🖤
I always hated thick brows in general and especially on me. Finally! Now maybe big thick lips will follow that trend. I'm tired of these trends in facial features.
I over plucked my in high school and have regretted since, my brows never grow back the same and now thinner. I have used serums in the past but stopped using them. I don’t really do much to them now but have learned to love them, would never do that trend again.
Born in the 80s and really messed my brows up. I got Rapid Brow from Target and surprisingly, it works really well. I used that until I ran out and bought the 5% generic minoxidil because it’s much cheaper. Both work but they do take time. I also use Just for Men to dye my brows brown because my brows are more blonde. I spent tons on micro-blading, only for it to fade within 2 years. There is no visible evidence that painful experience ever happened.
My Dad’s favorite slogan was “all things in moderation.” I must say, I took that as gospel, and it has served me well all my life. I have always had the issue of light, sparse brows, to go along with my fine, blonde hair. I have never plucked; I have always used brow pencils. I am a blank slate. I did get conservative tattooing, which serves as a template for the brow penciling. I think micro blading probably causes scarring, which could lead to some adverse outcomes down the road, especially when it is repeated.
I have always had thin brows, and never cared one way or the other. Have never paid attention to what is "in" or "out " I don't sweat much, so have never missed having thick brows. Like everything else you were given, just go with what you've got and to heck with what is in style.
After “not making the grade” with big Brooke Shields/Cindy Crawford brows of the 80’s…I over plucked during the (first) Pam Anderson trend. Don’t do it! My advice is to Embrace your own brows…keep them neat, pluck wayward hairs, but don’t follow these dumb trends. They come, they go…it will just make you crazy trying to keep up. And…you may be “stuck” with an old trend (sparse brows due to over plucking OR tattooing on thick brows)
Same. They never grew back right after that. 🤦🏻♀️ Once overplucked, your brows may be damaged forever. Careful!
Thanks for sharing this
AGREED.
So true. Luckily I resisted the urge to pluck to the pencil thin brow throughout my lifetime and I’m happy I did. One thing about plucking you do you want to pluck the crazy ones that grow under or between your eyebrows but leave the ones on top alone. Plucking the top just seems to cause more problems than it solves. Just use a eyebrow brush to tame them and get them back in line with the rest of your brow. Although I must say as I approach 60 this year I have noticed a natural lessening of my eyebrows. I’m just taking that as a natural part of aging and using a little makeup to fill in between the hairs and moving on.
Totally agree. I’ve NEVER liked thin eyebrows.
I've always had bushy brows, and growing up in the late 90's/early 2000's, I HATED them. I wanted to get them waxed so bad but my mom would never take me because she over-tweezed her brows in her youth to the point where they never grew back. 20 years later I'm so grateful she made me leave my brows alone lol.
Yes sister, same. I am blonde and was bullied for looking like Cara Delevigne in highschool. Now random people praise them. Crazy world.
Same! Was a suffering early 00's teen with very thick brows and my mom stopped me 🙌
Same. I love my thick eyebrows at age 56. Not changing them. Makes ppl look older
I over plucked my brows in the 90’s, they’ve never been the same. I even have a scar from waxing. Such a huge mistake and I hope the younger ladies here leave their brows alone! Great video Dr. Dray!👏👏👏
Same here!!! Young ladies, trust us, leave those brows ALONE! Thank you Dr. Dray. Wish I had your awesome advice back in the 90s. Would have saved me so much grief.
I barely had any eyebrow hair to begin with because of simple genetics, but yeah I fell into the same trend in the 90s. Finally was a coworker who pulled me aside saying she'd kill to have eyebrows like my natural ones and I needed to stop overplucking. Even if she was making it up, it meant a lot when I was young. Now I let them be and I'm happy with it.
Same here
I am 74 years old so have seen all the trends come and go. I always shaved the stray hairs under my natural brow but never the whole brow. No matter what the "style" was, I just kept my natural shape. I have very light hair naturally so I have always had to add color to the brows. I use mens beard dye to color my brows on a regular basis-being very careful not to get it in my eyes of course. I did finally get laser treatment for the stray hairs under my brow and they have never grown back. But as I have gotten older, my brow hairs have gotten sparce (and of course those hairs are now growing on my chin!)
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I also use men's beard dye on my brows to cover the gray. Years ago I had the skunk stripe in my bangs so I used the same thing.
Unrelated, but I loved being reminded that women of all ages watch the same videos as I do and how similar we actually are ☺️
Often the shape of our natural brows are most flattering so I've never messed around with mine except to do a little regular "cleaning up". Being well over 50 I've seen brow fads come and go and didn't feel either extreme suited me better than what my Mom and God gave me. 😁
Being the youngest female in my family I benefited from watching my oldest sister follow the trends and noticed that her brows were not coming back in. I took a moderate approach.
I wish that I had not plucked so much between the brows though since those hairs never grow back and my brows don't frame my eyes enough now.
More cautionary tales,gals. Heed the warnings, please.
Me too! Still have good brows at 63. Just clean up. Never over pluck. Never appreciated that look to be honest.
Well said! Going to far away from natural brows and there are consequences.
Never cared what was "in". My brows have always done their own thing.
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Screw that. I personally like thicker eyebrows a lot. I feel this was something people had to learn, rather than it being a trend thing...
I think Cara Delevingne in particular made people realise that thicker eyebrows are not something to avoid.
So we might have a thin eyebrow tend, but people have still learnt from earlier that it's fine either way and not something to be concerned about.
And Brooke Shields was the original thick browed chick!!! Never mind Cara Delvigne... Shes strange.
@@DMV8662 yeah Brooke Shields and shortly after Jennifer Connelly ❤️
As a tween/teen of the 90’s I can attest that too many of my friends regret the plucking they did to their brows. Some have virtually no brows and did not have successful micro blading experiences, one got full-on tattoo brows and I have serious concerns for her as her face has began to age and change shape. Now, my most memorable experience with brows is a former coworker who absolutely hates any length to her brows. She didn’t want them to lay down at all, so she uses little scissors, like the type that come in a nail kit, and cuts them down to basically stubble. I’ve never seen anything more distracting in my life. Once I noticed she did this I could never look at anything else when she spoke. I haven’t worked that job for many years but I’ve never forgotten her, or her brows.
I've seen some horrible brow tattoos on the internet; that's why I was afraid to try that. And you have a good point about how your face changes as you age. Permanent tattoos do not.
2010 was pretty trend thick was indemand especially Cara Delevingne about her thick brows.
Yup. I grew up with bushy caterpillar brows during the pencil thin brow era and plucked them mercilessly for years. Fortuitously, the bulk of them returned (minus the surrounding strays and fuzzy unibrow lol). But my mom's and sister's, which were far less Frida-esque to begin with, sadly did not. 🐛🦋
I discovered how important eyebrows and eyelashes are when I lost *all* of my hair from chemotherapy 18 years ago. The hair on my head grew back in tiny little curls for about a year and then reverted back to its original texture. It did not grow back on my arms and legs 😀, and my brows and lashes have never been the same 😥. I looked into transplants ($$$) and tattooing--too many bad looking results there. The most helpful technique I discovered was from a professional makeup artist on TH-cam who uses "Just For Men Beard and Mustache" on her own brows once a week. Then I just finish shaping with a brow pencil every day. Kind of a pain, but works for me!
That sounds like a good idea! I use brow dye, in a small tube, but it never lasts more than a few days. Have you ever tried any of those? Happy to hear you are (hopefully) healthy!
@@M_K_M_K_M_K Never heard of brow dye in a tube... The youtuber that gave me the men's hairdye idea is Kerry-Lou. She's older, but so am I 😉 BTW still in remission! 👍
Glad you are here with us, Carol
@@mozu517 Carol, I just read your comment right now after replying to Elf. Not me being disorganized... 🤦🏻♀️😅 Brow+lashes dye is formulated specifically for them and it normally doesn' t cause any problems but at the end of the day it is what is is: the little brother of the head one. After continued use for a long time some people can become hypersensitive or it can end weakening the follicle. Since you have a post-chemo hair type, please, be extreamly careful, pay attention to the most subtle change and try to use it with the lower frequency possible. And in this case, quality and price matters. I can advice you the best lip product under 5$ and it beats all the expensive ones but cheap dye is a nono. If you can buy it on a store for professional hairdressers and MUAs and ask for advice, well invested money. Sending tones of health 🧛🏻♀️🖤🖤🖤
Can you please attach the youtuber link ? Thanks
Thank you for this important message. It is so important to be aware of what suits our individual faces and that in my opinion is what nature gave us, or something close, with some tidying up and subtle enhancement. I am over 50 now and remember ridiculously thin eyebrows going in and out of fashion every decade or so. The worst was in the 90's when many young women had nothing but a skinny pencil line drawn on where their eyebrows used to be. I did not follow that trend and I was disappointed that the natural look of the early 90's had such a short lifespan. However when I look back at pictures of me when thin eyebrows were in again in the early 2000's, I do think mine were overplucked. They just didn't seem over-plucked to me at the time because other women where over-plucking their eyebrows a lot more. Fortunately I have the genetics to grow those eyebrows back, and I didn't have to do anything with them when bushy eyebrows were in. The artificial ones can be way too extreme on faces that don't suit them.
I think I over plucked because of the characters Meg Ryan played. I’m 53 and still have thin brows, and not by choice. I had what was called (is it still?) a unibrow. I loved Brooke Shields, not only for her beauty but her intelligence. She had (still has?) moral character, she was ethical and a great role model when I was young. However, I had the added pressure of not being the girl my mom wanted. No tears or emotion - it was what it was I didn’t know any different - I’ve had plenty of therapy & done a LOT of shadow work to get through those issues. My mom pushed me to pluck. To her I looked like a bigfoot throwback (laugh out loud now 😊). Between that and the space between my teeth and my robust figure, I was never a typical cheerleader. I am the life of the party, however!
Beware to human beings, pick your priorities wisely. Take care of your teeth, take care of your heart, physically and emotionally. Give more than you receive. Live and live well. I promise, no one will notice your brows!
Yes, and do not comment on a child's appearance. Tell them what a strong and wonderful person they are. I told my husband to affirm his daughters' great characteristics so they would not think that their beauty was what gave them value. I love to listen to him, now, complimenting his granddaughters on everything except their physical beauty.
You rose above the disappointment! Your last comments are priceless and a joy to read. And you are right! "Live...no one will notice your brows"
*THE NEW TREND IS NOT TO FOLLOW THE TREND* 😉 *The only must is sunscreen* I know and love my fav colours, hairstyle, lip shape, brows and all that jazz. We only should accept advice based on health reasons 🧛🏻♀️🖤
I am 59 & I unfortunately over- tweezed in the early 80's. That part of my brows never fully grew back in. Now they have just naturally thinned & have lots of grey brow hairs. I use the Thrive Causemetics brow gel to fill in & cover the grey.😊
I just LOVE all the physiology and anatomy in your vids Dr.! Thanks so much for the very accessible explanations.
I’ve had Gwen S 90s thin eyebrows 😂Never plucking again, whatever the “trend” might be!
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I’m in my late 50s and when I was a teenager getting Into makeup and such, my mother taught me to tweeze my brows to a thin line. Of course I overtweezed. I kept this practice up until a few years ago. I pretty much have no brows now. I now use a brow powder to add that feature back to my appearance. I was going to look into brow micro blading until I realized that it was like getting a tattoo. When I as at my allergist’s office, we got to talking about brows. She found a brow serum that she was using and said it worked. Of course, it was a bit pricy. After researchIng brow serums I purchased one (Nourish Brow). It is working. The fronts of the brows are coming in thick and coarse. But the ends are not getting any better. I will continue using the serum but I still need to fill them in with brow powder. If I could go back in time, I would definitely NOT overpluck. Love your channel, Andrea! Thank you for putting out all these videos.
Still keep my natural brows which are a little thick, don't go with fashion, think that's the best thing to do. 😀
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As long as my brows weren't going all over the place, I've tended to leave them alone. I remember seeing my mom shaping hers with a razor blade and the folks who had all these instructions they gave you for shaping... I didn't have the time, patience or nerves for any of it, lol.
Greetings d b hope u r well n Happy Wednesday😀👍💜….
It is a lot to keep up with
🤣🤣🤣 you said it… been trying to grow my eyebrows for years! I tweezed so much when in university that they won’t grow back. Have a great day! 💕
The pendulum swings
Meanwhile the mole hair I’ve been plucking since I was 15 still tenaciously grows back …
That's one thing I have to thank my mom for. She always complimented my thick brows (that I got from her side) and encouraged me to leave them be, even tho it was the 2000s and not following the trend was killing me.
I over tweezed my eyebrows when I was a teenager and they won’t grow back. Now I’m in my mid thirties I really struggle with this. I now have very sparse dark eyebrows 😔😔
Thanks for sharing this
Eyebrow trends are absolutely ridiculous. I look terrible with big fluffy/bushy thick brows, I've tried painting them on etc and they just look insane. I have what I would say are medium thickness natural brows and I never try changing them based on trends. If something looks good on your face, I think you just do that!! :)
I'm going to be 50 this year. I definitely participated in this trend LOL, in the early 90s. Thankfully they grew back, just by letting them be, not "keeping up" with plucking whatever was out of place, no that does not work, you have to let them go wild and then after 2 years they settle back to their old selves. Yes. 2 years!
This makes me happy since I overplucked the last time thin brows were in ( in the 90's) and I've been struggling to regrow them. They dont seem to regrow
Oh for Pete’s SAKE!! My brows were so overplucked in the 70s that they never grew back properly. Brooke Shields brought back thick brows in the 80s. The 2000s saw the advent of the “Morley Safer” brows (groomed, colored, and waxed to perfection), now we’re going back to pencil thin brows?? Oh well. At 67, my brows are turning gray and thinning even more, so maybe I’ll be en Vogue🙄.
I just got my brows thicker and that’s how they are staying 😃!
75 year old, here. Born with big ol’ thick brows (thanks Dad!). Had my brows threaded in early 2000’s. Not sure what I was thinking, but grateful it didn’t doom me to thin brows. Since then, I’ve learned that simply trimming my brows has kept them looking “groomed”. It’s helped that, as I’ve aged, most of the hair on my body has vacated the premises. #becareful
I'm not over 50 but until well in my 20s maybe even 30 (I think) thin brows were the thing and everyone was plucking them, if you didn't do it, it was considered "dirty", unhygienic, as if you were walking around with all your body hair intact (e.g. armpits and legs). I also plucked my brows but only minimally, so people always told me "since you don't pluck your brows..." or told me I should pluck them (... WTF!!) as they were "too thick" and not in style ("too thick" then, not later/now!!). At that time, it was in fashion to have very very thin brows, like a line. Thankfully I didn't overpluck them as brows never grow back!! I also learned from my mom not to do it too much, as she was struggling with very sparse brows from overplucking all her life. I have neither Lily Collins' brows or very thin brows, but I'm definitely not going to pluck my brows any more and wouldn't advise anyone to do it!
I am 59 and I specifically remember thinner brows being in fashion in the 60’s, the natural brow of the 70’s, the Brooke Shields brows of the 80’s, the Gwen Stefani pencil thin brows of the 90’s, and finally the thicker, fluffier brows of the 00’s until the present day.
I love natural brows. I am not a fan of the bushy brows that have been trending in recent years, but I still prefer them over the thin brows.
Thankfully after a phase of thin brows at around 20, I went back to my regular, yet manicured brows. After 10-15 years of regular waxing, I no longer need to wax. I just pluck the occasional stray
speaking of hair, your hair is SO freaking healthy
I find even trimming can lead to disaster cuz of the slow growth of brow hair - but at least you can fill in with pencil till mistakes finally grow back. Love your brows, Dr Dray! 😀
I went through the thin eyebrow phase in the early 90's. Loved Drew Barrymore and the pixie cut too👍
As a 39 year old woman, I thank my lucky stars that I was a conservative plucker in the late 90s. So many of my girlfriends overdid it and are stuck with pencil thin brows that they now have to fill in with cosmetics. Even when thin was in, I thought that Brooke Shield brows were so youthful and beautiful so I took it easy with the tweezers. Lol
This video just unofficially confirms my suspicion that all the hairs you want to be strong and grow back readily are the ones that are the weakest and most susceptible to permanent damage while all the hairs you wish would disappear forever are the strongest and most persistent. >:(
I'm not thrilled to hear that thin brows are coming back but I think the number of people that go with the thin trend will be a lot lower than before, while a lot of people will stick with thicker brows permanently. I think the re-acceptance of thicker brows that occurred a decade ago is here to stay.
So I guess that's why my eyebrows keep growing back after I've plucked them for the 1 millionth time. >:( Maybe electrolysis will stop them from coming back if continuing to pluck them daily doesn't do it for me eventually.
Oh no no no. I remember attacking my brows with the tweez back in the first half of the 90's (also attacking my face with St. Ives apricot scrub.) when I was in high school. It ain't happening again. I spent a good couple of years recovering from that phase and my brows are doing fine.
Dr dray...lol...🤣🤗 everything has gone in and out of style in my 70 yrs. Clothes, shoes, perms, makeup, shoulder pads and eyebrows 😏😆❤
The rule I learned for full healthy brows was to never tweeze more than 3 hairs at one time from each side. Works for me!
I like that! Wish I had heard it when I was younger 😃
Hi at 50 my brows are still fairly decent, but that's because my mum overplucked hers in the sixties and was a cautionary tale re that - so many years she has spent drawing them on, as she had so few hairs left growing naturally. In the nineties, when thin brows were once again a huge trend I was in my late teens and twenties. I just didn't do the trendy thing, as I knew that these "looks" come and go. I have had them tidied up to suit my natural brow shape consistently throughout my adult life. Waxing, plucking and threading those stray hairs for years, but haven't had them stop growing as such. Menopause and aging thinned them out a little, but not enough to be a big issue. The white hairs though lol I do use brow gel to disguise and occasionally tint them too. Having a neat and tidy brow that flatters your own eye shape and face shape, is the best look on anyone in my opinion - that way it just always looks good on you and will withstand the trends that come and go. Best wishes.
At 64, I’m “back in fashion!” 😆 Not having the benefit of today’s wealth of information when I was a teenager, I made the mistake of following fashion and tweezing my eyebrows thin and they never grew back full again.
Same here. What's left is now gray & virtually invisible if I don't dye them. I use Just for Men beard & mustache hair dye every few weeks.
I’m high school I tweezed my eyebrows into a “sperm” shape (accidentally, but looking back now 10000% accurate way to describe the shape)
I now draw tiny hairs every day to replace what I have ruined.
I don’t tweeze anymore, I use a face razor, no permanent damage if I “over-shape” my brows
Happy Wednesday!! I'm 51 and have never plucked my eyebrows thin, they've always been on the thicker side and will stay that way until they fall out lol
Hark! Indeed, I am 62 and fell into the pluck trip! I have the unruly Scotish coarse brows. Love all your content Dr. Drey! ❤🙄❤
This makes me feel so sad. My brow hairs never grew back since the damage I did in my teens in the late 90s. My late aunt and grandmother said dont pluck. They were right. I have to keep drawing my brows for the rest of my life.
I have never followed trends about brows or much of anything really TBH. I will tweeze random or out if place brow hairs but at 46 I have had them shaped many moons ago by a MUA for a shoot and I looked surprised until they grew back in! Never again.
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Thank you so much for the common sense, balanced perspective, Dr. Dray!
Brows😂😂 oh my. Medium to thin brows have been “in style” for the majority of my life. years. I know massive brows have been popular in more recent years, but I’m glad that look is on the way out. I would consider yours as medium, and I like them!
Menopause has naturally thinned my brows, no tweezing required 😐🫣
I'll keep my thick full brows thank you very much. 🙃 I never got into the thinner brow trend. I like my brows just the way they are 😊
At 82 I have great thick gray hair and spend a lot of time creating natural looking eyebrows. Looking back at photos from my 20s and 30s, I had lovely dark eyebrows with a nice arch. Early 70s the glamour mags were touting the "Joan Crawford eyebrow look". That translates tweezing brows very thin. I did that and my brows were never the same. I noticed the faces you had in your opening were celebrities. I think we all know by now not to follow the fashion--their fashion for sure!
Embrace who you are! Another great video. Thank you!
Hello & Good Morning, Dr. Dray Happy Wednesday 🌸🤍😊☀️
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Nope! Not touching mine! Good day to you Dr.Dray💐
Happy Wednesday
I started plucking my eyebrows in my late teens (I'm 39 now) and sure enough I ended up with overplucked eyebrows. However, I stopped plucking them many years ago but the hair loss continued to get worse. I don't have any underlying diseases, as far as I know, so I think my eyebrow area is just very sensitive to trauma. To make matters worse, I have a scar that runs along my left eyebrow.
I fill them in every morning with an eyebrow gel and I quite like the end result, but it is definitely a bit troublesome to do that every single day. I've considered microblading, but since I use tretinoin I would probably end up with orange eyebrows.
Personally, nowadays I prefer thicker eyebrows. They frame the face quite nicely and help create a more youthful look. I think I'll leave the thin brows trend to Gen Z, same as I did with other horrible 90's trends.
YES my brows are finally back in style!!!
Have an awesome Wednesday guys
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I love the call for comments from people 50+! My grandma had a good talk with me in the 90’s and kept me from going to far with plucking. The perspective was helpful, getting to consider how trends would likely change.
One time is too many!
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Eyebrows are always changing. Subtle scarring can occur. Thin brows trends in 1970s (look up Jaclyn Smith), 1990s. I think women may have over-plucked in /50s by widening the area between. Might look up Judy (she had fab brows in her early 20s) and check out Liz Taylor's.
I'm 61 and remember several brow trends. Don't over tweezers girls! Make the best of the brows God gave you!
Lol! I have always felt (turning 50 here) that groomed brows and white teeth make someone look young. I have not had and am not interested in fillers or surgery. Gonna stay with my feathery brows and my maintenance dental appointments!
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I remember 12rs old and havin my unibrow waxed with sally hanson strips! Oucccch pink and stung for hrs LOL
I’m 55 and have always embraced my” bushy” eyebrows. As I age they have naturally thinned. In high school 1985 I did once go crazy plucking of my eyebrows. Currently my eyebrows are some where in the middle.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s when thin eyebrows where the thing. I was one who over plucked to the point my eyebrows didn't grow back. I literally just had my eyebrows microbladed less than a week ago and I'm very happy with them. I'm SHOCKED that thin eyebrows are making a come back! All I can say is don't fall into this temporary fad. You'll regret it as I did.
Eyebrow razors are a godsend!
I dont care what is "IN". I want to look nice. I have naturally thick brows. When I was a little kid I was made fun of mercilessly. Everyone's thin with age naturally. Mine have thinned a bit over the years, but are still very thick. I only remove a few strays that fall outside the natural shape. That's it.
Thank you @Dr. Dray for helping us by sharing all the info! ❤❤❤
Yeay!!! I over plucked in the 70's/80's! Now they are also thinning! I haven't used a tweezer in I probably 25 years. I also remember reading in a 'fashion' magazine that one should NEVER pluck the hairs on top of the brows. I think they said it would cause infection. I never understood that. I did it and never got an infection. I use a pencil every day whether I am leaving the house or not! I don't mind the shape they are now, but wish they were more filled in.... As you mentioned, the chin hairs are happy and healthy. Those suckers are growing just fine!!
I just got microblading after contemplating for almost 2 years and I have zero regrets...I don't follow fads, they come and go before I even hear about them...but my brows don't grow evenly and I wanted a slightly fuller look and achieved that...thanks for another informative video
I've been shaping my brows with a small eyebrow razor for 3-4 years, and they grow back just as thick. I've even shaved off the tail a few times and it grows back just fine. I love it because its not permanent at all.
Oh wow 🤩 going back to 80s, I love my thicker,fuller brows. I just clean up the messy areas and bit shape it. I am planning on keeping my brows fuller.Love for your information.🙏💐❤️Thank you so much dear Doctor Dray as always.🙏💐❤️
I'm all about the thinner eyebrow look. I've never gotten on board with the huge eyebrow thing. (I'm 41.)
Hi. I have blonde brows that I’ve never tweezed. Hate pain. Am quite old now, and need to do something about my brows. I’ll figure something out. While I have your attention, please tell us about stri-vectin products. Do they work? I don’t think they do. Spent a ton of money on them. Was hoping the neck cream might do something, but no. So I’ve given up. Thank you. Ann Cox.
Thankfully, I’ve never messed with my brows. I’ve always appreciated a natural, more luscious arch.
67 yo here. Never liked "caterpillars," Always just plucked the stragglers below the main brow. Just lately, need to fill-in a bit.
I was fortunate in the fact my sister is almost 10 years older. I learned from her over tweezed brows and I embraced my natural brows through the years and only just "clean them up". Also, having a thyroid issue where the outer third is a bit thinner helps a great deal. You mentioned tweezing and even shaving. What is your take on waxing the brows? Thank you for topic today.
I am just curious. Say you pluck your brows and cause trauma. Will this traumatise only the follicles you have plucked out of, or does this also damage nearby follicles? As in, will this spread somehow?
I've never OVER plucked, but I have always plucked (since I was about 13 and I am 33 now). They grow back always, and they grow back FAST.
I hold the skin as a I pluck to minimise the pain. This may minimise the trauma too, but i do not know.
Just take care of yourself and love your natural beauty! Screw society and its unrealistic expectations. 💅
I don't care what is in style... I love thick eyebrows! Happy Wednesday dr dray and peeps ❤️ 🎉💐🎊🌞🌹
No no no it can’t be true!! Drop the tweezers, man!! @ 5 yrs this rolls around… 🙋🏼♀️ 56
I live in the uk and twice on my life time skinny brows were the fashion xx
Thank you for acknowledging trichotillomania!
I have always loved Beyoncé’s asymmetrical brows. They give her gaze such a striking look
Ugh. My thin eyebrows and myself are going to lunch. Haha. Thanks Doc. See ya tomorrow. P.S. Brow Lamination is another trend, at least in Europe
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@@mozu517 haha. Check James Welsch. He is the laminating master
Hello Dr. Dray, would you please consider making a video about the new Not So Pretty docuseries on HBO Max? There are currently 4 episodes on there each talking about a different aspect of the beauty industry (makeup, nails, skin, and hair) exposing the dangers of some of the ingredients in these products. I would like to hear your thoughts about the series as it mentions lots of things that I’ve heard from other experts including yourself to not be a true concern, eg parabens. It also heavily advertises the EWG database and other similar databases for the consumer to find “safer” products. Thank you in advance!
Sixty-four year old here. DON'T DO IT!!!
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I just turned 50. Thankfully, I was not into fashion, so I still have great brows! I don't go with the trends, I do what looks best with my eye & face shape, and facial features.
Please everyone, don’t mess with your brows. I over tweezed when I was 14 and and ended up with half a brow on each side; they never grew back. For years, I have longed for beautifully shaped, thick brows.
I was born in 1964. I'll be 58 in May. Over the past 100 years thick eyebrows have only been stylish for brief periods of time, three brief periods, I think. I don't think bushy brows were ever in style in the modern world until the late 60s and early 70s, during the Hippie era. By the time Disco dominated the sound waves, and the dancefloor, thin was in. in 1980, Brook Shields made a daring move by sporting thick brows in her famous Calvin Klein commercial, "Reading is to the mind like Calvins are to the body." Remember that, Boomers? lol. And, even though we loved Brook Shields and blue lagoons, we hated thick brows. Until Madonna, that is....but even Madonna ages, so by the time the 90s hit, thin was back in, and it stayed in for the next 20 years. The most recent rise in thick-brow popularity is probably related to the full-browed twenty-somethings who brought social media out of obscurity and into the mainstream. But youth is ephemeral.....and just like that, thin is in again.
Thank you for your wonderful sense of humor when educating us. I have never had thick brows and only tweezed underneath. The first time I saw tattoos brows on a good friend, all I could see when talking to her was the tattooed brows. So distracting. I am in my sixties coming up to the next decade in a couple years. In my early years after seeing a friends mom’s brows freshly completely shaved off, her skin was bright red and slathered with ointment. It impacted me so badly, I have never followed the brow trends. Natural no matter full brows or thin brows, they are ones best look.I’m accepting on every hair I have and don’t.
I have trichotillomania. Eyebrows and eyelashes were my targets. I have mostly overcome it. My lashes recovered but my brows never did. Thankfully there are good products that can disguise them now.
Hi. Glad to read that your lashes recovered🥰. Have you ever considered a brow transplant? I' m a MUA and my two trichotillomaniac customers who finally did itwhere able to end dealing with tricho because, as superficial as it may sound, they both told me: "Every time I surprise my fingers touching my brow, the Pavlov' s Dog effect remembers me how much money I spent and this has been the only thing wich has stopped me". Hope their testimony may help you. If you need any brow advice, here I am 🧛🏻♀️🖤
The best/most flattering brows are the ones nature gave you. Great vid.
I always hated thick brows in general and especially on me. Finally! Now maybe big thick lips will follow that trend. I'm tired of these trends in facial features.
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I over plucked my in high school and have regretted since, my brows never grow back the same and now thinner. I have used serums in the past but stopped using them. I don’t really do much to them now but have learned to love them, would never do that trend again.
Born in the 80s and really messed my brows up. I got Rapid Brow from Target and surprisingly, it works really well. I used that until I ran out and bought the 5% generic minoxidil because it’s much cheaper. Both work but they do take time. I also use Just for Men to dye my brows brown because my brows are more blonde. I spent tons on micro-blading, only for it to fade within 2 years. There is no visible evidence that painful experience ever happened.
My Dad’s favorite slogan was “all things in moderation.” I must say, I took that as gospel, and it has served me well all my life. I have always had the issue of light, sparse brows, to go along with my fine, blonde hair. I have never plucked; I have always used brow pencils. I am a blank slate. I did get conservative tattooing, which serves as a template for the brow penciling. I think micro blading probably causes scarring, which could lead to some adverse outcomes down the road, especially when it is repeated.
Same lesson from my Dad and one I embraced. Everything in Moderation.
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I have always had thin brows, and never cared one way or the other. Have never paid attention to what is "in" or "out " I don't sweat much, so have never missed having thick brows. Like everything else you were given, just go with what you've got and to heck with what is in style.
Thin eyebrows are glamorous.
Funny that this video comes up just as I am coloring in my brows. 😅
Happy Wednesday!
You too!!