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Expert: Michelle Date: 3/2/2008 Subject: Help Please!
Question QUESTION: Im a girl and i have a unabrow!!!! and a mustache!!! but my hair is light so you cant notice it from far away but when you get up close my friends always pick on my for it !
What do i do????? Please please help
ANSWER: Hey Sofy!
You'll have to see a doctor for that. I advise you to get professional help, that will ensure better eyebrow, it would not be good if it came out worse than before. For the mustache, you will have to get hair remover, or get one of those cosmetic laser jobs to get rid of the unwanted hair.
This is a very good page for you to look at:
Pluck and Wax and Get Rid of Your Unibrow
A unibrow, or monobrow, is the presence of abundant hair between the eyebrows, so that the eyebrows seem to join up above the nose to form one long eyebrow. In Western culture, the unibrow is often derided as being a throwback to a "primitive" state or as exhibiting a lack of self-grooming. Hence, especially among women, the region between the brows is often plucked or treated with electrolysis or other forms of depilation. Unibrow separation is often the only form of eyebrow grooming (a stereotypically feminine behavior) among men. However, in some countries this facial hair does not have the same stigma.
How your eyebrows are groomed can make a considerable difference in your appearance. Eyebrows help shape your eyes and give you character. If you have bushy eyebrows, it's important to keep them trimmed and well groomed. Most people need some kind of eyebrow maintenance. Many of these tips work well for women as well as men.
Never shave your eyebrows for a quick fix. You will regret it later when they all start growing back in. It will look obvious, and require constant maintenance -- so save the razor for your beard.
Depilatories are not a good idea to use around the eye area and there's plenty of room for mistakes. This can irritate your skin and your hairs will also grow back much quicker than waxing or tweezing.
Waxing your eyebrows is best done professionally, however there are many kits on the market for this purpose. They come with step-by-step instructions to simplify the process. If you decide to do this at home, have a professional do it the first time so you can see how it's done. Be prepared for some temporary discomfort and pain.
Trimming Your Eyebrows
Depending on how thick your eyebrows are, sometimes all you need is a small pair of scissors to trim away the stray hairs. Grooming and trimming your brows is best done under bright lights for accuracy.
First decide what areas need attention and slowly trim your eyebrows in the direction of hair growth. Don't go overboard, if you trim your hairs too short, they will stick out and look silly. You may want to do this over a few days, after you have a chance to decide if you're on the right track.
Plucking away Stray Eyebrow Hairs
Aside from waxing, tweezing is still the most efficient method for removing eyebrow hairs. If you need to pluck your eyebrows, keep a clean pair of tweezers handy for this use only.
Men are tempted to use tweezers for other things, such as cleaning their fingernails. Don't! This will make them unsanitary and less affective. If you do this, you'll probably need to buy a new pair when the ends don't meet properly to grab the hairs.
Start off with moistened brows. Tweezing after a shower is ideal, but you can soak your brow area with a warm washcloth for several minutes and it will have the same effect. Comb your eyebrows in the direction of their growth and let them fall naturally in place.
After deciding which areas need thinning out, tweeze your eyebrows in the direction of hair growth. For an even look, start underneath, from the inside, out. Pull them out one by one to avoid mistakes. Be careful, some hairs may not grow back!
Tweeze the center of your eyebrows and look carefully to make sure you don't get them too far apart. You can always go back later and remove additional hairs if you need more space.
Don't pluck away too many hairs from the top of your brow. Target the obvious stray hairs and thin them out a little. Again, start from the center, then outwards.
Correcting Eyebrow Mistakes
Mistakes are bound to happen, even with a steady hand. If you should find yourself with some empty spaces or bald patches, don't fret. Fill in your eyebrows with an eye pencil or eye shadow that closely resembles the color of your hairs. By grooming your brows and blending in the color, they will look more natural.
These are the best eyebrow shaping and grooming tips:
Get a good magnifying mirror.
Get a GREAT pair of tweezers.
Pluck just out of the shower. It is easier and less painful to tweeze hairs when you first get out of the shower.
Map out your route.
Keep the eyebrows balanced.
Don't over-pluck. Pluck slowly and take away only those stray hairs that are particularly obvious.
Clean up. Wipe the area with an antiseptic wipe to clean and close pores when you are finished tweezing.
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QUESTION: I did plunk my eyebrows but i still need help for the mustache i dont want to go to the docter!
ANSWER: Hey!
Ok, so you dont want to go to the doc.
Go get the mustache remover (available at any drugstore, like target or walgreens).
You may not have really noticed them before, but you have always had small hairs under your nose, as well as everywhere else on your body. These tiny, translucent hairs are known as vellus hair and everyone has them. However, if you've noticed them as becoming thicker or darker in recent months/years, you may want to consult your doctor to see if you are experiencing a hormonal imbalance.
Loss of hair from the head and growth of facial and body hair can be triggered by levels of free testosterone in the blood. Only your doctor will be able to tell you whether the increase in hair is a sign of a hormonal imbalance or something particular to your genetic make-up. If other women in your family have experienced similar situations with hair growth in unwanted areas there is a good chance that this is just hereditary, but it is better to be safe than sorry if you are concerned over it. Besides, it is almost pointless to pursue treatment of the symptom if you aren't going to address the cause.
Once you've determined that the hair growth is not related to a medical problem (or if it is and is being treated) you can begin to address the symptom and seek out ways to get rid of the unwanted hair. If the hairs are small and fine, but dark in color, some women opt for bleaching the hairs so as to make them invisible. This is typically a simple, if annoying process, but many women prefer it to methods of removal.
The next options are shaving the hairs or waxing. Both of these are useful for removing the hair at the skin's surface, although the hair will grow back and you may experience some itching or possible ingrown hairs as a result. Particularly with shaving, some women claim that the hair grows back thicker, but this is a falsehood. What usually happens is that the new growth of the hair is now tipped with a blunt-cut end which feels stiffer because it hasn't been exposed to daily face washing and abrading and been worn down.
Electrolysis is another technique for hair removal that might be suitable if the hairs are sufficiently large. A very tiny probe is inserted into the follicle of the hair and an electric current is passed through it which destroys the portion of the follicle that grows new hair cells. Such hair removal is usually permanent, but the treatment may need to be repeated if other hairs begin to darken and convert from vellus to terminal hairs.
Finally, the newest method is laser hair removal, where the dark hairs are basically burned with pulses of laser light destroying the follicles' ability to produce new hair. Laser hair removal is fairly expensive, requires several treatments to be effective and is only suited for certain combinations of skin type and hair type.
I hope this helps, if you have more questions, followup again!
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QUESTION: How many times do i plunk my eyebrows?
Answer Hi! Once you start plucking eyebrows, I would suggest that you do it often so your eyebrow can have a definite arch instead of eyebrow hairs that grow out of order. I would really suggest the laser eyebrow plucking, because you will only have to do it about 2-3 times to make your eyebrows perfect! But if you dont want to do that, make sure you do it regulary.
