maintaining eyebrows

For those who trim and pluck your eyebrows, how often do you do so? I suppose you can't pluck everyday (don't want to overdo it), but you can't just let it grow bushier again...

Any suggestions?

I wax every 3-4 weeks. Once you get on a routine with wax it's not so often.

Elissa.
I pluck my eyebrows too. Not every day but often. I'm blonde and have blondish brows that are not real thick. I don't really need to shape my brows daily.

Weird! I used to have big Frieda Kahlo brows until I was about 17 and plucked them into thin little arches. They fleshed out some and I'm happy with their current state, but oddly enough the strays take weeks, some even months to grow in again! Some stopped growing altogether. I guess I am a little strange. Not that I didn't already know that!

I just recently shaped my eyebrows. My naturally growing ones are triangle shaped, and I plucked to get an arch. I don't really find the need to pluck everyday... altho since I'm new to this, I'm either worried that I've plucked too much or it'll all grow back.

I am one of those who plucked and waxed mine away. Now that I am older they are almost invisible and that is not a good thing at all. I hate brow make up but it is the only thing that brings them back.

I never heard of that before, I need to mention it to my wife.
By "Indian" do you mean Indian from India , or Native American Indian. If Native American what tribe practices this method?

i do mine every week. my eyebrows are very dark. i've even got my husband to do his it just looks cleaner i think.

kitsylou wrote: I go to Indian ladies to get my eyebrows plucked. The use string and powder. First, they put the powder on the brow then they take one end of the string in their mouth(this part never touches the face) then the other end in their hands and they some how pluck the hair out. It is less painful than tweezing or waxing, it is inexpensive($6) and lasts 2 wks.

Hi You Guy's...It's called threading.


Here's some Info;
All I can say is, I know I don't have the patience, at this time, to learn this technique.


Threading is an ancient form of hair removal. It involves 100 percent cotton thread,
which is twisted and pulled along a row (as opposed to a single strand) of unwanted hair.

Called "khite" in Arabic and "fatlah" in Egyptian, threading hair is so basic to women in the
Middle East and India that it can be compared to girls learning to braid each other's hair as children.

Traditionally, threading is used on the entire face, including upper lip, chin, eyebrows, sideburns and
cheeks. The emphasis in eyebrow shaping came as a response to the needs of American customers.

Like tweezing, threading lifts out hair directly from the follicle and it requires two or
three swipes per brow. As far as pain goes, the sensation is similar to tweezing, but skin is not as
irritated afterward. Results last two to eight weeks (about the same as waxing).

Though it's fast, precise and relatively painless, salons that offer threading are hard to find
in North America because so few aestheticians are qualified to do it.

Advantages over waxing:

- less irritating, it's the best for the sensitive skin
- helps the local blood circulation
- removes the dead cells
- is not damaging the skin (hot waxing favorites wrinkle appearance)
- keeps the skin smooth
- less painful
- more precise

I have been on the same routine now for at least the past couple of years.
Every 4 weeks or so I go to my beauty salon appointment. I get my short afro trimmed in the close to the scalp style I wear. I have my nails done. I get a facial and I also have my eyebrows waxed.
I always look forward to going to the salon. So relaxing!