6yo little girl with a unibrow-being teased

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, just thought I'd update. Unibrow is gone, my niece was really crying over it and my brother had enough and insisted. SIL still thinks its ridiculous and no big deal, thinks my niece will get over it but agreed. He took her to get it waxed this time but I told him about threading for future reference. Thanks for all the advice.

Sorry but waxing a 6yr old's face is child abuse in my eyes. You basically just told her that SHE needs to change herself to conform and stop teasing. Not dealing with the teasing. Did she not like herself before or only when the teasing started. My guess is the teasing which means it is the teasers who have the issue, not her. Honestly, this is so sad. Hope she doesn't get teased about weight in the future. I see a bulimic in the making.

Not allowing her access to an easy solution to a problem that is upsetting her is child abuse in my eyes.

It was only upsetting her because she was getting teased otherwise she would have started complaining about it at age 2-3yrs old. This is really sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, just thought I'd update. Unibrow is gone, my niece was really crying over it and my brother had enough and insisted. SIL still thinks its ridiculous and no big deal, thinks my niece will get over it but agreed. He took her to get it waxed this time but I told him about threading for future reference. Thanks for all the advice.

Sorry but waxing a 6yr old's face is child abuse in my eyes. You basically just told her that SHE needs to change herself to conform and stop teasing. Not dealing with the teasing. Did she not like herself before or only when the teasing started. My guess is the teasing which means it is the teasers who have the issue, not her. Honestly, this is so sad. Hope she doesn't get teased about weight in the future. I see a bulimic in the making.

Not allowing her access to an easy solution to a problem that is upsetting her is child abuse in my eyes.

It was only upsetting her because she was getting teased otherwise she would have started complaining about it at age 2-3yrs old. This is really sad.

My niece was so distressed that she kept trying to get rid of it herself and was starting to call herself ugly and was crying about it. Sure awesome, lets try to get young kids to stop being bullies but my brother wanted to help end his daughters distress now. Also my SIL just thought that her being teased was no big deal, that it would help her develop a thick skin and that my niece should "get over it" (her words) so it wasn't like she was taking a stand against bullies and social justice for unibrows.

Not child abuse, not even close. How offensive to say waxing a tiny bit of hair is akin to actual child abuse.

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I can't even believe a salon would do this. Cosmetologist would say that waxing a child is not allowed. Skin is too thin and tender. I am appalled. What if Sh got a burn?

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Anonymous wrote:Let her know that there is NOTHING wrong with her or her unibrow.
Empower her to love it and dismiss teasing. If she can explain why it is special and beautiful, it will diminish power of insults. The kids will think it's cool - ala Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
Show her pictures of girls and women with unique features. Frida Kahlo, Lauren Hutton, Cara Delvigne - beautiful women. My niece has a giant gap tooth and I am so hoping she chooses to keep it.

https://darcyarts.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/kahlo.jpg

So, do you not shave your armpits and legs? Do you let your hair grow so long that it covers your butt? Do you let that bush grow wild down below? If you have hair coming out your ears, do you ask them to shave it? Do you die your grays? Or are you just a wild nature person and tell everyone to just deal with it if they don't like the way you look, especially when they glare at you at the waterpark? There is nothing wrong with her removing a little bit of hair between her eyebrows if it gives her peace of mind -- sheesh!

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Madonna's daughter Lourdes has one and rockss it

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see why people make such a huge deal out of fixing a uni brown. I mean it is unsightly and adults do not go around with them so why make a child do it? You don't tell the kid there is something wrong with them you just tell them that for some people this is part of the grooming routine.

Maybe adults should own their unibrows.

Seriously! I hope all the women who are aghast at the parents removing the unibrow are rocking their own unibrow on their make up free faces which are framed by their grey hair.

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OP,

Great to hear of the positive end to your niece's issue. I am Indian and we have to deal with excess body hair and unibrow all the time.

Thankfully, in my family - sugaring, bleaching and threading was common. Now, my nieces are getting full body lasering as soon as they graduate HS.

[Anonymous]

I remove my sons uni brows with a little dab of nair. Started when they were both about 7 or 8. We are middle eastern and they have serious brows. After a while the hair seems to grow back less and less. Nair is less painful than tweeting and waxing.

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Nair is something that can be done easily and cheaply at home.