• v_krishna@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    In the early 2000s plucking and waxing your brows to really really thin was fashionable, esp in certain places. Then people realized it is dumb but if you are around 40 now it was too late. So microblading helps you not look like a MadTV sketch. Source: my wife turns 40 this year, grew up in a particularly hood area of the sf bay area, and from 30 onwards really regretted plucking her eyebrows to almost nothing.

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      10 months ago

      Brows naturally thin as you age as well. Happens to plenty of guys who never plucked.

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        That’s news to my brows. Mine are growing longer. A few more years of this and I’ll look like the mentats from Lynch’s Dune.

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          Heh that’s a great image.

          Mine are just… sort of moving further away from the bridge of my nose. I’m not sure what their end game is.

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      I’ve tried some of the eyebrow gel stuff (The Ordinary, o7) that promises to regrow lost brows, and it’s been surprisingly effective. You just have to use it regularly for a few weeks.

      I went from my SO commenting on my lack of eyebrows multiple times and my mom asking me if I had an eyebrow pencil…to my mom telling me to do something about my “out of control bushy eyebrows”.

      I was pleasantly surprised.

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        I think that’s the same ingredient as the glaucoma medicine. People with glaucoma always had super long eyelashes from the glaucoma eyedrops.

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        Oh interesting I’ll tell my wife. I still continually deal with the unibrow myself. But high quality microblading is way different than normal tattooing esp in the appearance of texture, it’s quite amazing. Also pretty freaking expensive.

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          Oh! Also RevitaLash. It’s more expensive, but I was desperate so I got a few different brands just in case and still alternate. It worked on my eyelashes, too (sadly that’s just bad genes - never had long ones). This morning I just did a little trim with some small scissors, and I’m happy with that. It really was odd to find something that worked as advertised. I wish your wife happy, crazy, out of control eyebrows! :)

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    10 months ago

    Vanity, ultimately.

    But I mean, there are a lot of talented people doing micro blading that looks pretty realistic. The bad shit is the thin, solid, sharpie shit old women used to get.

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    My great aunt has very light hair, and as she got older, you couldn’t see her eyebrows at all. She felt people couldn’t see her facial expressions as well, so she got them tattooed on. She seems happy with it.

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    some people don’t identify with their natural eyebrow situation. it bothers them about how they are perceived. maybe they are the wrong shape or thickness or angled or missing. the thought is it gives them their idealized form. one issue though is that tattooed/drawn brows don’t appear similar in many lighting situations to hair, even if leonardo da vinci made them with sfumato technique.

    i notice these kinds of people have too many mirrors in their lives and more pride than self confidence.