I over-tweezed my Bert-from-Sesame-Street unibrow & the hair wouldn’t grow back – now my ‘lazy’ approach filled them in
A SALON beauty treatment transformed a woman in her forties thinning brows.
She said her eyebrow hairs stopped growing after countless attempts to tackle her “pronounced unibrow” in her younger years.
She shared her must-try hack for creating the illusion of fuller brows on Reddit’s 45 Plus Skincare forum.
BEAUTIFUL BROWS
She recalled being “forbidden” from getting beauty treatments to manage her unibrow when she was younger.
“As soon as I was out of the house, I was in a salon paying & basically begging, for wax to thin my Bert from Sesame Street, unibrow,” she said, writing under the handle Budget-Discussion568.
“I did that for years until it was apparent that I had a very pink strip below my eyebrows which didn’t match the rest of my very tanned skin tone.
“I started to tweeze. And tweeze. And Twiggy Tweeze.
“They got too thin so I let them grow back then started getting them threaded.
“One day, I realized they just don’t grow now like they once did.”
The Redditor, who is also perimenopausal, said bloodwork revealed she had an underactive thyroid.
Despite taking a prescription, applying topical oils, and using serums, her eyebrow hair still refused to grow.
However, she was wowed by the “huge difference” microblading made to them.
“It accentuates the hair I have left and makes it very easy to dermaplane off the ‘overgrowth.’” she said.
“I no longer wax, thread, or tweeze. It’s more time and pain than I’m interested in dealing with.
“I take the ‘lazy’ way out but truly, I see longer-lasting results.
“Maybe due to slower now-than-before growth, but dermaplaning the area around my eyebrows is what was done before I got them microbladed.
“It worked, I tried it & I’ve never looked back.”
The Redditor said many women naturally lose the “tail” of their brows even if they don’t have underlying health issues.
She said hormones and stress can also impact hair growth.
“It got to be too overwhelming so I got microbladed,” she said.
Hair growth diet
Star Khechara is the creator of The Facelift Diet and founder of the Skin Nutrition Institute.
Speaking to The U.S. Sun, she recommended a “naturally anti-inflammatory diet” rich in antioxidants for regrowing brows.
- Orange and yellow foods for beta-carotene
- Pumpkin seeds for zinc and amino acids
- Bananas and mushrooms for biotin
- Cucumber or Horsetail and nettle herbs for silica
- Dark berries, raw cacao, and green tea for polyphenols
She paid around $450 for her initial microblading session and went back after six weeks for a touch-up.
The delighted woman said her brows haven’t “faded at all” within the year and a half since she had the treatment.
Many people were grateful for the advice and upvoted the post.
TATTOO TRUTH
According to Medical News Today, the semi-permanent cosmetic tattooing procedure can last up to three years.
It involves an esthetician using a tool with needles to create the illusion of real hairs using color pigments.
Microblading can take up to 2 hours to complete and over 4 weeks to fully heal.
Esethicians will advise how often a touch-up is necessary after the procedure, which results can last over 2 years.