I’ve had a trauma. My daughter arrived in the kitchen with elaborate penciled-in eyebrows. They looked awful, like Elvis era Priscilla Presley.
I sent her up to the bathroom to wash it off and she came down with a scarf tied round her head, hippy style. I wrestled it off her to find that where there had been two eyebrows of utter perfection – there were two terrible little commas.
She’d shaved them.
I cried.
If they grow back at all they’ll never be the same. I’ve get several friends who mullered their eyebrows in their youths and they didn’t grow back, so I’m just praying hers will.
I can’t imagine what was going through her head, as I’ve talked to her about eyebrow plucking and leg shaving since she was really young, hoping I would stop her making either of those mistakes.
If you ever feel self conscious about anything like that, I told her – tell me and I will help you get it sorted professionally. Her legs are fine at the moment, but if they ever do go hairy I’m going to get it lasered off for her.
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She claims the eye brow catastrophe was the result of peer pressure. ‘ALL’ the girls at school have plucked, threaded and in some cases, hideously drawn on, eyebrows apparently and they’ve been ‘bullying’ her about hers (which I’m sure just means a few jibes, really).
Oh the hell of peer pressure.
If she’d had a mono brow, or even Cara Delevingne’s I’d understand it, but she had really perfect eyebrows. Just strong and full enough to frame the face.
There was much gnashing of teeth.
If anyone has any tried and tested tips for growing eyebrows back, I would be very grateful.
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Eyebrow fails.
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shaving the brow bone doesn't do anything to the follicles. what happens is that the growing out period is so hideous and stressful that people want to pluck and work with what they've got instead of just letting them alone completely. they're never the same because people shape them based on what they have grown out at the time. completely leaving them alone and starting over means a few months of them looking wrecked. i too did this in Jr high. i had huge bushy brows and my mother told me the same thing-that they'd never be the same again. thankfully school let out for the summer and i never messed with mine and they perfectly regrew; my buddy screwed with hers compulsively. we weren't really peer pressured, just naively following the passing "trend" at school. lol does this happen every few years?