Eyebrows

My niece had her eyebrows tattooed on - I just wondered what happens when fashions change.
Duck lips look ridiculous and painful I can’t wait for this to go out of fashion but has been with us for quite a long time.

I am sure everyone here has gone with the fashion at some point in their life. Not for anyone to make derogatory remarks about though. Just accept....

Blossoming

One of the side effects of thyroid disease is thinner eyebrows. Mine are a great shape now as a result.

Well, I wish mine would follow suit, but my overactive thyroid which is stablising had absolutely no effect on my eyebrows, except to make it quite impossible for me to see to neaten them up, due to seeing double with my left eye, due to hardening of the muscles surrounding the orbit!

I feel quite in the fashion with my thick, bushy eyebrows, but wish they weren't going not only grey, but white and sprouting wire-like hairs to boot!

Can't understand why anyone messes with their eyebrows at all

Soroptimum

My eyebrows are going greyer and greyer! Wondering whether to have them dyed - anyone done this?

For some years I've been using Eyelure Eyebrow tint kit. You can get it from some chemists or on ebay for about £8. Really easy to use. You just mix a bit up and put it on with a little brush that comes with it. Leave for 5 mins and wash it off. Lasts about 4 weeks. One kit does mine about 5 times. Use it when you aren't going out for a few hours though or before bed because it can stain the skin and looks a bit obvious for a while but if you wash the area a few times it wears off after a few hours and looks very natural.

Eyebrows fascinate me, apart from my own ? having hypothyroidism doesn’t help they are getting more sparse as the months go by especially at the ends , it’s the first thing I notice on a ladies face, so many different ones, unfortunately I have to fill mine in, What I’d give for thicker brows.

Soroptimum Thu 16-Sep-21 17:19:11
"My eyebrows are going greyer and greyer! Wondering whether to have them dyed - anyone done this?"

Soroptimum, I had mine tattooed some time ago. They were great (once the initial "heaviness" had settled down) and I loved them. Unfortunately I was supposed to have freshen-up after a year, but the tattooist had gone and I couldn't get it done so they have faded again now. I'd have it done again in a heartbeat if I could.

Mine have stayed the same for years, I didn’t over pluck them in the 70’s, but they are gapped. Whenever I touched my roots up I used to do my eyebrows at the same time. I must add that a beautician gasped when I told her.
I am not keen on the very thick and dark eyebrows either especially with the blunt square ends, my eyebrows have never grown like that. My friend tried to get me to have mine done, I had to remind her that I am 65 and the darkest I can go is blonde as I am a red head.
I do remember eyebrows going thicker in the 80’s when Brook Shields and Madonna came on the scene, but they looked more natural somehow.

Another one who tried eyebrow dye at the hairdresser last time I went. The beautician used a mix of grey and black, she said. Well pleased with the result. Still get my hair coloured dark brown, very grey underneath, though I gather that is coming into fashion!

I get an Eyelure brow dye kit as mine are going grey. Very easy to use just wipe off any errors. I do mine of an evening and use a bit of facial scrub the next morning if any is on the skin

I think the slug/scouse brow is waning I see so many young girls with what I would say are normal colour and thickness more and more. My eyebrows were plucked to death in my youth. I now have them micobladed every couple to three years and I wake up with a face! They are a tad dark for a month or so but after that 2+ years of just trimming and tidying them which I do with one of those little pen eyebrow shaver devices. Most days I never even bother with makeup. But I do put castor oil on them and my lashes every night.

Many thanks for all your suggestions regarding dying my eyebrows! I shall be taking the plunge.

I wouldn’t know one eyebrow fashion from another... never think about them. I see attractive and less attractive people but that attraction tends to come from within...

I have my lashes and brows tinted at a salon. The price has risen from £16 to £19.50 recently, they blame the extra sanitising of the treatment rooms because of covid.

With Just for Men you also mix the 2 tubes, just a really tiny dab of each.

Hetty. I get medium brown, it says 5 mins. Suggest just do 3 mins first as you won't want them too dark.

Soroptimum

My eyebrows are going greyer and greyer! Wondering whether to have them dyed - anyone done this?

I dye my eyebrows using regular hair dye (Nice and Easy).

There is a bottle and a tube in the pack. I mix the same amount of each in a very small container. It is actually a small lid from a bottle. Then I apply it using an old mascara brush and leave it on for about 40 minutes.

It does a great job and the bottles/tubes last for ages as you are only using a small amount each time.

I dye my hair dark blonde which comes out light/mid brown (Nice and Easy No. 7) and dye my eyebrows a bit darker (No. 6).

I would steer away from any red based colours though.

I also get long hairs in my eyebrows but I cut them rather than pluck them as I have gaps anyway

Thanks seacliff - I'll get some. If I pluck out the white ones, there will be gaps!

Just for men works fine. One pack has lasted me years, looks natural.

It wouldn't be so annoying if my eyebrows were going uniformly grey, but every so often a coarse white one shows up among the natural brown and if I pluck it out, there's a gap. I had been going regularly to have them dyed but when I took a tumble and ended up with 5 stitches at the end on my left eyebrow, I had to stop and then came lock-down. So it's been back to d-i-y.

Soroptimum, you can have your brows dyed at the hairdressers. Just ask next time you are in if they do it. I believe you can buy eyebrow tint at the drugstore as well if you would rather do it at home. I have a little grey patch on one brow, and it tends to make my brows look a bit off balance, My hairdresser will touch them up occasionally.

I love that Urmstongran - your brow lady has a GSOH...

Soroptimum

My eyebrows are going greyer and greyer! Wondering whether to have them dyed - anyone done this?

I have my eyebrows waxed into a nice shape and dyed every five weeks, cost me £16 and well worth it. I had never ever plucked my own eyebrows but decided about 10 years ago to go and get them done professionally, good decision..

Made me laugh when at the salon I go to the lady doing my brows said ‘they don’t have to look like twins but they ought to at least look like siblings’.

Mine are medium and I've never had to pluck them, apart from the odd stray hair. Eyebrows frame a face nicely.

I've never worried about trends. My sister plucked hers into very thin lines - and now they're gone.