eye brows

SophieLawson · Post by **SophieLawson** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:55 pm

You know if you want to get your eye brows more femme but still looking manly enough in male mode well what do you do. Do you cut away at sides and top and bottom, or do you like shorten everything?

This morning I played around with my eye brows a bit, cos at this moment in time I don't care anymore if anyones asks me questions I will just tell em. So I cut quite a lot off the side, and quite a lot off the top and bottom and it does look better. I can tell I've cut them but I dont think anyone else would so I was surprised at how much I cut off without it making too much of a differnece.

Sophie xx

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:13 pm

Hi Sophie,

I don't really care who notices that my eyebrows are shaped feminine. Having said that, I did do them a little at a time so it would not be a shocking change. No on has even noticed, or at least never said anything.

Hope that helps.

Love always,
Elizabeth

SophieLawson · Post by **SophieLawson** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:53 pm

Thanks Elizabeth, lil bit at a time? like lil bit once a week?

Small steps again then

Sophie xx

Lorna · Post by **Lorna** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 4:11 pm

Ditto what Elizabeth said!

If you don't want to shock anybody, shaping them ever so slightly week by week is your best bet.

Side note - Would you believe that I was shaping & plucking my eyebrows before I even considered going public as Lorna?

At the time I was shaping them because I always hated how thick my brows were.

PS - Love your new avatar, hon! You look so cute!!

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 4:32 pm

Sophie,

I did it over a period of about 2 months. In fact they are now much thinner than my avatar.

Hope that helps.

Love always,
Elizabeth

Jaye · Post by **Jaye** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:57 am

I started tweezing my brows in high school, because I had this tendency to grow a monobrow. Currently, I just try to keep them neat. I'd like to have them professionally shaped, by someone who could make them suitably androgenous, but I'm not sure how much that might cost, and money's a bit tight right now.

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:02 am

Hi Jaye,

My wife has some do it yourself wax strips that are preshaped for top and bottom or your brow to give you that professional looking shape. that is what I used to finish mine off, and they look great. I don't know what she paid for them, but it couldn't have been much.

Hope that helps,

Love always,
Elizabeth

CJ · Post by CJ » Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:16 am

Hi all,

Here's a variation on a good technique for shaping your eyebrows into a feminine arch (this is something my mom showed me years ago, too--it works well).

I agree with my sisters, Sophie; do it gradually. If possible (and if you're prepared to suffer to be beautiful

), pluck, don't shave.

Good luck!

Love,
CJ

Kristen · Post by **Kristen** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:11 pm

Hi Girls, Plucking, OUCH !!! Beauty is pain. I 've been at my brows too, are we all alike or what???
CJ , Thanks for the diagrams, I know where I am going with this now. Your brows have always been so fem., now we know why. Mom did it........kristen

SophieLawson · Post by **SophieLawson** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 2:53 am

heehee... Cool pic CJ, I got rid of a bit more yesterday

lol This is kinda exciting you know

Sophie xx

CJ · Post by CJ » Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:19 am

Hi all,

I don't know if I'm the only one this happens to: whenever I pluck my brows, it gets me going on a sneezing fit, for some reason.

Love,
CJ

Kersten Lee · Post by **Kersten Lee** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:37 pm

Hi,
I have always had a terrible unibrow and I mean thick. I gave me a meaner look than was me. My therapist encouraged me to pluck and do a little at a time. I did it over three months this winter. I love my look so much better now. People at work who have been close to me for 15 to 29 years have never said anything. I don't know what it means. I have been too chicken to ask someone.

My wife was first agast. Now she loves the none cro-magnon look.
Good luck!

Kersten

SophieLawson · Post by **SophieLawson** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 12:29 pm

owwwwww

Well, I've been doing it slowly but today is the first day that I've looked in the mirror and really seen a major difference so it will be funny when I go round my sisters or anything.

I'm sure she'll notice but I dunno what I'll say, maybe I'll just say I've always hated my bushey eyebrows and just thought sod it

heehee

Sophie xx

Amelie-Laveau · Post by **Amelie-Laveau** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:12 pm

I have very light eyebrows that are hard to see. I have to darken them with a pencil just so they show. Also when I was first dressing, I was working on my car(piece of junk), and the carbeurator back-fired in my face. It burned my eyebrows completly off, so this was my chance to keep them shaped, I used the car as an exuse why my eyebrows were small. Although most people new that I dressed, it was easier to explain to strangers that the car did it. I use an electric (Wahl) razor to keep them trim. It seems to do the trick.

Amelie

PS-Sophie I just seen your pictures-Very Pretty