I lost a lot of hair, eyebrows, and eye lashes as a result of extreme post-partum thyroiditis. It's all slowly coming back now that I'm on thyroid meds to even out the hormones. It was a tough time.

Anonymous wrote:17:50 - I like you. you are real.

10:58 - This happened to me, too. I also have friends with unasked for illnesses who lost their hair and brows. Not for me or anyone to judge, or ask, certainly.

Illness knows no class boundaries. Yet, those who judge tend to have no class. Funny.

Yep, I lost my brows during chemotherapy and they never came back....I had really nice natural brows, I miss them a lot. Now I draw some on and try to look as natural as possible, but if you can tell they're drawn on, please don't judge me.

I agree with the PP. I have freakishly thin blonde hair. Eyebrows are the same way. When I pull my hair back into a ponytail, I look sick because you can see my scalp in various spots. For eyebrows, it's either natural nothing or fake filled in. Neither look great on me but it's the hand I was dealt. Point being, don't be too quick to judge because it's not a choice for some.

I just want to note that how your eyebrows look when groomed depends to a large degree to what nature gave you. My natural eyebrows are wide but not thick (meaning the hair covers a fairly wide stripe but the coverage is sparse.) If I leave them unshaped, they are sort of all over the place. I pluck them into a reasonable shape, but I will never have a "strong, clean" shape without filling in with a brow pencil simply because I don't have that strong shape to begin with.

17:50 - I like you. you are real.

10:58 - This happened to me, too. I also have friends with unasked for illnesses who lost their hair and brows. Not for me or anyone to judge, or ask, certainly.

Illness knows no class boundaries. Yet, those who judge tend to have no class. Funny.

I have a newer friend with very thin, skinny eyebrows. She is very fashionable, tasteful and gorgeous otherwise.

The skinnier eyebrow look was a 90s thing. I think for some people that embraced that look--unfortunately the eyebrows never grew back in.

I had super thick Brooke Shields eyebrows in the 80s--brunette with blue eyes too. I thinned them out a lot in the 90s and they never came back as thick. Fortunately, I had so much to start with---now they are normal eyebrows. however, I love the thicker (but groomed eyebrow look) and wish they would have come back.

My mom told me the same thing happened to many women in the 60s...they used to really overpluck for awhile--and then they don't always grow back.

I loathe the pencil-thin eyebrow look....with that inked-in make-up thing it is even worse!

Anonymous wrote:I've never groomed my eyebrows. Is that strange?
Probably because I've always had kind of thin, light brows.
And I don't want to start something else I would need to maintain. I'm 42 and nobody did it in my "youth", but most of my friends started in the last 10 years or so.

We're close in age and most of my friends were into natural eyebrows. We also didn't wear lots of make-up. I only trim mine a little-no pluckage. I think natural eyebrows usually look best.

Anonymous wrote:Only when they are unkempt. Makes me think the person might have ben hygiene.

Yes because not wanting to pluck the hairs off of your skin on a regular basis surely must correlate to how frequently you wash your ass.

Only when they are unkempt. Makes me think the person might have ben hygiene.

I love a good strong, clean brow. Very striking.

The only time I ever get compliments on my appearance are due to my eyebrows. I have dramatic, dark eyebrows that I get professionally waxed. People will comment how perfect they look. I have to pluck constantly to maintain them b/c I have a unibrow.

Unless they're really bad (like 22:55 bad) or a unibrow, I really couldn't care less.

I do tend to judge the shaved off penciled in look. Just so ... creepy.

I've never groomed my eyebrows. Is that strange?
Probably because I've always had kind of thin, light brows.
And I don't want to start something else I would need to maintain. I'm 42 and nobody did it in my "youth", but most of my friends started in the last 10 years or so.

Not unless they're extreme in some way. But I'm not a very judgey person when it comes to how others look.