I failed brown rehab.

This blog post has literally taken me MONTHS to write. Why?  Because going 8 weeks without TOUCHING my brows is nearly impossible. Yup, those were my only simple directions after the phenomenal Kristie Streicher and her brow loving hands got one look at me.

They’re too thin.  They need to be softer.  More, well…feathery!

She cleaned them up with a tweezer ( no wax!) and told me one thing, no-touchy.  Truth be told, I have done a decent job of not touching the giant gaps that need to be filled.  But I have touched a few baby hairs that I thought would make no big diff when I went in for my FIRST 8 week follow up.

Nope. I failed.  I wasn’t supposed to touch anything.  Why? Because hair grows in cycles (please read more below) and we need to train these pups to all be on the same rhythm.  That way they are filling out in unison, which in turn, makes it easier on us, because we don’t have to tweeze every day to stay on top of individual growth cycles.

Kristie lightened them a touchwith a vegetable based dye (my most favorite beauty trick ever, besides eyelash extensions) and begged me not to touch a thing.  Even the unibrow dudes?  Yup, even those guys.  She wanted them to grown in a bit and give my brow a softer, more youthful vibe. Once again: the feathered brow, people!

Ok, I don’t know what month of rehab I am in. I’m honestly scared to go back.  I’ve been, well, touching them.  Kristie is so strikingly gorgoeus and smart you just want to be perfect for her and do what she says.  Why am I such a rebel?

Ok, deep breath, it’s not drugs I’m kicking, it’s tweezing. Reframe.

Then again, to be honest, we all know how soothing tweezing can be. I can get into a drug-like trance, right? Do I need therapy? (more?)  Probably.

If you are victim of over-plucking, or if your brows need work and they probably do, you just don’t know it, see Kristie.  You might not need rehab like me, then again, you’re lucky if you do.  So far I will confess to growing some serious teenage brows and now when I look at my girlfriends they all look over-tweezed and well…it makes you look old.  (Sorry!)

Here is her interview with GOOP about Brows!

Q:What’s the ideal brow shape? Is it different for different people? How can we achieve it?

A:The Feathered Brow technique I created looks great on every face. It is simply your own natural eyebrow shape with just a few carefully selected hairs removed. Women can achieve this look at home by first letting their eyebrows grow out for 3-4 months in order to see their natural shape and arch. Then only tweeze the few hairs it takes to open up the outer arch of the brow.

The perfect feathered brow.

The biggest mistake women make is not finding their own natural arch. Often, the arch is placed too close to the inner part of brow, and arches up in the middle of the brow leaving one looking surprised. Eyebrows that are too long and come too far down can make eyes look droopy. If you try to arch your eyebrows too high above the bone, it will look unnatural. You should tweeze little or no hair from the ends of the brows, and you always want to make sure the brows are trailing off in an upward and outward direction, and never downward.

To find your natural arch – draw an invisible line from the corner of the nose straight up towards the forehead (a). This is where the eyebrows should start. The arch should fall just outside the pupil if you’re holding the pencil at a diagonal from the outer corner of the nostril(b). The eyebrow should extend and then end in a straight line from outer nostril to the end of the eye (c).

Q: What to do if you’ve over plucked?

A: Most people over-tweeze or are just tweezing too often. More than anything, people want thicker brows, but they are under the impression that they cannot grow them. Pulling out a few hairs everyday can profoundly affect how the rest of the brow grows. I have developed what I call Brow Rehab. Clients surrender their brows to my management to allow them to grow out.

The first 2-3 months of putting the tweezers down are the hardest, but by then brows become trained and the growth cycle synchronized. And any hair removal occurs all at once, rather than every few days or weeks. Your brows become only as high maintenance as you train them to be.

Q: When to tint and why…

A: Using vegetable dyes to lighten or richen/darken the eyebrows is the best way to soften or add fullness and definition to a light or sparse-looking eyebrow. Most clients color their hair, so why not color the eyebrows to match? The look is very natural and slowly fades out after 3-4 weeks without leaving a line of demarcation or roots.

Q: Pluck or Wax?

A: I prefer tweezing because it is the most precise and the least irritating form of epilation. I have always preferred and only ever tweezed. I believe it is the only way to achieve the softly diffused “feathered” look. Waxing the skin around the eye area over time can cause diminished elasticity in the skin, and may lead to premature sagging. Waxing can also cause skin irritation or breakouts. 

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