Why You Should Stop Plucking Your Eyebrows

How about you leave your eyebrows alone this winter? No plucking, no tweezing, no waxing, no threading? A surprising technique that would seem impossible before lockdowns and Covid-19 restrictions. But let’s be honest here, we’re home all day, so why not invest in some techniques that could be really effective?

Staying home for so long during the first lockdown gave us a lesson on loving ourselves more and accepting ourselves in all the natural features we were given. And polls showed recently that women have been wearing less makeup lately. Also, French hairdresser Christophe-Nicolas Biot noticed that women are loving their original hair color, and even if it’s turning grey, they’re okay with it. 

English expert Leigh Blackwell, founder of The London Brow Company, recommends leaving your eyebrows alone this winter. "Now that we've given our eyebrows a recent break to become longer during quarantine, it's going to be much easier to leave them alone without plucking them during the winter” said Blackwell. For her, winter is indeed the best time to let the eyebrows regenerate. And thus prepare them to be eye-catching and in perfect shape when spring arrives.

"Put your brows to rest, hide your tweezers and let them grow.” she recommends. “It’s OK not to wax or pluck them out, It’s okay for the line not to be perfect and it’s nice to appreciate and leave them as they are. Brown Hibernation is Brow Liberation” Says Blackwell. 

Sabrina Eleonore, founder of Un Jour, Un Regard says on this "Of course, we advise our clients to wait between three and four weeks of regrowth before plucking their eyebrows again because we have been advocating naturalness for over ten years”. But for the celebrity specialist with Lily Allen among her clients, it’s all about how you remove the extra hair instead of how much time you should wait. 

“It doesn't matter if we wait two or three months, the problem is when we remove hair frequently. In London, the threading technique is very popular because it is faster, and softer. The concern is that it is less precise because it removes more hair at once, with risk of over-refining the line. This is how we lose the authentic shape of our eyebrows”. And remember that it can take up to a year to recover the damage to a poorly plucked eyebrow. “The fact of using your tweezers once a month stimulates the brows, strengthens hairs, and also keep them in line”. 

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