Never understood why women pluck eyebrows

[Anonymous]

Yeah, stray hairs kill me. I always want to pluck the hairs between my husband's eyebrows. It's like having a zit somewhere prominent on your face.

I actually have super sparse eyebrows and waxing them makes them look thicker because the fanned out hairs are gone so all the focus is on what's left. I do NOT overdo it - just clean them up.

[Anonymous]

This is an honest question from someone who doesn't pluck, wax, etc. (I am not very hairy).

The women I see with drawn-on eyebrows (no hairs, just a pencil line).....

Did they over-pluck or over-wax and the hairs never grew back and now they HAVE to draw them on?

[Anonymous]

I have very heavy brows that are also very dark. Think Brooke Shields circa 1985, but worse. I have to do something to them to avoid unibrow. I could just remove the hair between the two brows (like my brother), but find that having them tweezed or waxed into a more defined shape defines my eyes better and makes me look more awake (despite the average 6 hrs of sleep a night).

I choose to keep them fairly strong, not wimpy little lines, and not overarched into a surprised look.

I get them done about once a quarter and maintain with a good pair of tweezers.

As for those with no brow hairs and drawn-on brows, I think that is a cultural thing for most of them. Some have that due to illness, but in some cultures / groups it is considered normal to remove everything and draw them back on. Since I prefer not to wear much makeup, that would not work for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an honest question from someone who doesn't pluck, wax, etc. (I am not very hairy).

The women I see with drawn-on eyebrows (no hairs, just a pencil line).....

Did they over-pluck or over-wax and the hairs never grew back and now they HAVE to draw them on?

When it's older ladies, I think that used to be the style...If it's a younger woman, I would say it was probably an accident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get why women shape their eyebrows. What I do not understand is why some women totally shave them off/pluck them out and they draw them on. It looks scary.

It is old fashioned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I pluck mine UNDER the actual brow so I don't have a bunch of scattered hairs immediately underneath the brow, like this:





It just looks neater and more well groomed to have nicely shaped brows, don't you think?

I am so sick of this eyebrow obsession. I am pretty sure this is what my eyebrows look like...and I really don't care. If you want to pluck, then pluck away. But leave me alone. I have enough to worry about with hair appointments, manicures, shaving, etc. I don't need another thing on my list. It's never enough for women is it? You are never good enough and must constantly alter yourself. Damn Koreans asking me about my eyebrows. Ask me one more time and I am going to stop coming to your nail salon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I pluck mine UNDER the actual brow so I don't have a bunch of scattered hairs immediately underneath the brow, like this:





It just looks neater and more well groomed to have nicely shaped brows, don't you think?

I am so sick of this eyebrow obsession. I am pretty sure this is what my eyebrows look like...and I really don't care. If you want to pluck, then pluck away. But leave me alone. I have enough to worry about with hair appointments, manicures, shaving, etc. I don't need another thing on my list. It's never enough for women is it? You are never good enough and must constantly alter yourself. Damn Koreans asking me about my eyebrows. Ask me one more time and I am going to stop coming to your nail salon.

What the fork?

I doubt anyone is obsessed with your precious eyebrow hairs, Dr. Strangelove. Do you see the irony in tsk tsking others for altering themselves in the same sentence where you discuss your manicures, pedicures, haircuts and shaving activities? Lols.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I pluck mine UNDER the actual brow so I don't have a bunch of scattered hairs immediately underneath the brow, like this:





It just looks neater and more well groomed to have nicely shaped brows, don't you think?

I am so sick of this eyebrow obsession. I am pretty sure this is what my eyebrows look like...and I really don't care. If you want to pluck, then pluck away. But leave me alone. I have enough to worry about with hair appointments, manicures, shaving, etc. I don't need another thing on my list. It's never enough for women is it? You are never good enough and must constantly alter yourself. Damn Koreans asking me about my eyebrows. Ask me one more time and I am going to stop coming to your nail salon.

What the fork?

I doubt anyone is obsessed with your precious eyebrow hairs, Dr. Strangelove. Do you see the irony in tsk tsking others for altering themselves in the same sentence where you discuss your manicures, pedicures, haircuts and shaving activities? Lols.

I am not tsking others for altering themselves. I am tsking the notion that in this society you can do all of that, and it's still not enough because there is always something else to add to the list.

[Anonymous]

I find that completely ironic because eyebrows are the EASIEST thing to maintain. I definitely can't keep up with mani/pedi/haircut/shaving, but I can take the 15 min to walk 3 blocks, get my brows done, and be back at my office. Plus it's $12. Can't beat that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an honest question from someone who doesn't pluck, wax, etc. (I am not very hairy).

The women I see with drawn-on eyebrows (no hairs, just a pencil line).....

Did they over-pluck or over-wax and the hairs never grew back and now they HAVE to draw them on?

I totally want to ask women the same thing. The younger women...what the hell happened?

[Anonymous]

My mom draws hers on because she was born with no eyebrows. None of her sisters have them either

[Anonymous]

I pluck to make two of them.

[Anonymous]

I have a client with pink eyebrows drawn on (thought she liked it that way). One day she told me her permanent tattoo had changed colour from brown to pink with sun exposure.

yikes. Her permanent liner on her eyes (which I thought was badly applied, too-dark liner) was scary too.

[Anonymous]

Because swarthy and hairy is not attractive - including to myself. Same reason I shave my legs, armpits and bikini line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an honest question from someone who doesn't pluck, wax, etc. (I am not very hairy).

The women I see with drawn-on eyebrows (no hairs, just a pencil line).....

Did they over-pluck or over-wax and the hairs never grew back and now they HAVE to draw them on?

My sisters have almost no eyebrows at all, both are hyper conscious about how they look. Trying to find a decent product that matches their eyes but doesn't smear is really tricky.

Lots of the old ladies who have poorly drawn on eyebrows seem also to have other makeup quirks, too, like overbright and patchy rouge, lipstick on teeth, really super black eyeliner and deeply dyed hair. It's what they've worn for forty years and it's what they're going to wear until they can no longer wield the eyebrow pencil. It's probably how they looked when their husband fell in love with them.