Trimming eyebrows

[tulip]

you have your eyebrows threaded? What does that mean????

A very low-tech way of taming eyebrows. I was introduced to it by a friend from India, but apparently it started in Persia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threading_%28epilation%29

[badger]

ahhh... according to my boyfriend I have caterpillars for eyebrows. They don't lie next to my skin but stick out. And they're kind of wispy, too. So I just use those trimmers (one line of shaver sort of thing with an attachment to adjust the length). I think men's nose/ear trimmer is the same thing but probably call it something different.

I also pluck the wayward ones that enhance the caterpillar look. My eyebrows are the least favourite feature of my face.

[TsPoet]

ahhh... according to my boyfriend I have caterpillars for eyebrows. They don't lie next to my skin but stick out. And they're kind of wispy, too. So I just use those trimmers (one line of shaver sort of thing with an attachment to adjust the length). I think men's nose/ear trimmer is the same thing but probably call it something different.

I also pluck the wayward ones that enhance the caterpillar look. My eyebrows are the least favourite feature of my face.

your eyebrows sound like mine, but I think my downward-facing mouth is my least favorite feature, LOL.
thanks all, I'll give something a try.

[KnottedYet]

I have Andy Rooney eyebrows.

Every month or so I trim them by running a comb "backward" over the brows, trimming every hair that sticks up beyond the comb.

I also pluck between my brows, choosing the victims by scowling and then yanking out every hair that sticks straight out from my skin when I scowl. It is asymmetrical, but it ends up looking just fine because my face is somewhat asymmetrical anyway. I also pluck wayward critters that are creeping south of the rest of their brethren.

My mom has had her brows threaded, and loved it. She says I should do it, but I'm quite happy with my own (free!) monthly maintenance program.

[tulip]

I cannot do my own brows--I get nauseated for some reason. I would if I could, but I have some weird anti-plucking thing going on.

[jessmarimba]

Wow, tulip - I'm fine with plucking (though it makes me sneeze) but I get weird about filing my nails. I just can't do it. It's giving me goosebumps just thinking about it.

[badger]

freaks!