to pluck or not to pluck

[Bobbie Jo]

The other day while dressed,i was on the net shopping for a new dress and was looking at the models,wishing i could be one of them.I was always going into the bathroom fixing my makeup like i always do,but this time was different.Thinking about those models and how pretty their eyes looked and then looking at my (kinda bushey)eyebrows and seeing a different me if i plucked a few small hairs out.Well i decided to mabey pluck a few out and see how i looked.Well a few hairs got to be a few more and then a few more until i had some real pretty eyebrows.Really, not realizing how many i plucked,because i had so much makeup on and really not careing because my eyes looked so much better plucked.After a while with my eyebrow pencil in hand and really having to change back into a my drab male self.I was hopeing that i didn't over do it.
When i finally cleaned up and took a good look at myself.I knew that i probably, really over did it.I'm now trying to pull a hat down over my forehead a bit more so everyone can't really see how much i did over do it.So i think mabey the next time that i decide to "PLUCK" i better not be wearing makeup because you just don't realize it until the time comes. ho ho ho
Just mabey a few hairs the next time....LOL...
Bobbie Jo (the new girl in town)

[Darlene Rochelle]

Forget plucking,waxing is the only way for me. I can't see well enough without my glasses to pluck my eyebrows.

[occdresser]

I use duct tape

[Phyliss]

First off, the "purists" out there will say "plucking" is for chickens, the proper term is TWEEZING.

Something I was told by my hairdresser, (that is being pretentious, I only have ONE hair to dress, well, ....maybe more than one but not too many), she told me that if I tweeze four or five today and about thre or four days later tweeze some more then the first few I did will grow back at a different rate than the second few I did. Meaning that if I don't do everything all at once then I'll be tweezing almost everyday.
She recommended that I simply get waxed every week or so and just don't worry about it. Look at some of the GGs that you encounter on a daily basis, some have very pretty eyes and seem to never have to tweeze or wax, everything is perfect always. Others seem to have a few little "stubs" that are in need of attention. Still others seem to have a pair of caterpillars above their eyes.
For gawds sake never, never shave them. The skin around your eyes is very tender and it's really easy to NICK yourself there. Who needs that?
Occasionally I'll get the odd hair that seems to grow overnight and suddenly it's about an inch long and just hanging out there for all the world to see. That one gets "the treatment"
Tempting as it is to go wild with the tweezers I've learned to let my hairdresser do the proper job.
Even keeping them short and thin with a bit of an arch hasn't caused any comments from anybody.

[Kristen Marie]

Hi Bobbie Jo,

I can definitely see that happening. I was dressed with make-up and saw the same thing on me. My eyebrows are not that bushy, but they are definitely much wider than I would like. I started removing the errant ones to shape my brows. Fortunately I stopped before it got tooo feminine. I was sooo close as the more I pulled the better it looked. I'm going to wait until next month until the next "tweeze"....

[Thora]

Tempting as it is to go wild with the tweezers I've learned to let my hairdresser do the proper job.
Even keeping them short and thin with a bit of an arch hasn't caused any comments from anybody.

Ditto. I just had my brows shaped for the new year celebrations. I keep them thin and arched. My male side hasn't been affected. My friends haven't even noticed my thin arched brows. My hairdresser and I have a good time yaking on a regular basis. She has done my brows when I was in both male and female mode. She is a good person.

Again, let a pro do it. They do a better job. It's worh the twenty bucks.

[Chiana]

I originally had the bushy uni-brow thing going. And my brow hairs almost reached to my eye lids. Funny thing is, when I was 6 or 7 years old I had a male substitute teacher that had the same thing and it looked so gross to my eye. So, I started to pluck my brows slightly. After I graduated from school, I started making my brows thinner, higher and further apart. It was a gradual process. Now, mine are not super thin but obviously not guy normal either. But no one has ever commented on them, so I guess they are not too obvious. After many years of plucking the hairs don't seem to grow in very often. Occasionally, I am surprised by one that will grow back very low and close to my eye lids and I am amazed that they were ever that wide and thick. My GG freind who knows about me has suggested that we get together and wax my brows, but somehow, it never seems to happen.

[MsJanessa]

Forget plucking,waxing is the only way for me. I can't see well enough without my glasses to pluck my eyebrows.

waxing is far better---particularly if you have your hairdresser do it.

[JoAnnDallas]

I get my brows waxed everytime I go to my salon. She will also tweese the odd hairs and shape my brows. Over a few sessions, she has thin out my brows and now I have very nice shaped bows. She also waxes the area between my brows too.

[Carrie R]

My eyebrows used to be huge. I've been tweezing them slowly the last year or so, and no one has noticed. Good thing nobody has an old photo to compare.

[marie354]

I over did it once and I know what you mean. I went in to the local watering hole, sat down, ordered a bud, and the bertender looked me with a puzzled look and she asked... ''Did you pluk your eyebrows''. Well I knew she had me had me by the short hairs, so I smiled and said... ''Yea, that uni-brow just had to go''. The subject was dropped and no one else ever asked. Some poeple seem to notice more than others. Especially women. They generally always look at your face first and note the detail. Oh-well. I don't know to this day if she believed me or not. I don't live there any more and I just don't care. I have, however, kept them looking nice ever since.
:hugs:

[Katrina]

I tweeze every other day. I end up tweezing about 10 hairs per session. I made the change from big bushy eyebrows to relatively thin ones over a period of about 6 months. Not a thing was said about them except for one female friend who asked me if I plucked them. I had gone a bit overboard and it was a while since she saw me.

[S. Lisa Smith]

I get waxed every 2 weeks.

[Melinda G]

Some years ago, my girlfriend at the time said, "did you pluck your eyebrows"? I just said "Yeah. Andy Rooney eyebrows make a guy look old". I guess she bought it.

[Karren H]

Pluck pluck pluck..... Sounds like something a chicken does but plucking isn't for chickens!! Hehe. And Its the only way to go!! I started a few hairs at a time and gradually whittled them down to a femish thinness over a month or less. But leave the individual hairs a little longer so I can muss them up for guy mode. Then when I'm ready to go out enfemme I either trimm them short or hold them in place with some clear mascara.. Works great in either mode.

Karren

[Calliope]

Tweeze every night after the makeup comes off. Just a bit here and there keeps up appearances. I've come to rather enjoy the ritual, weirdly enough.

[Rachel Morley]

My eyebrows have never been particularly bushy but about 6 months ago I stated plucking them thiner...and thinner...and thinner, and over the course of time they've gotten to be really thin and shaped for a guy. Yet no one has said anything to me ever. I guess I'm lucky because they aren't that dark and so it's easy to hide their outline. All I do it add a little eyebrow powder and ta da!...they then really show up as being thin and shaped. :happy:

[Scotty]

Daytripper - me too :)

I started out slow, and I do get some weird looks nowdays but that's partially because my hair is now very femme as well so maybe the two together is making people think. Don't care, I'm "Tweezing"...:)

As for tweezing too far - wear glasses, it distracts the viewer from seeing tweezed eyebrows and also hides them if the frame is the right height.

[joanlynn28]

I started with tweezing just a few hairs but my brows looked funny that way. Finally I just took the plunge and went all the way with my eyebrows, fact is now I get complements about my eyebrows from my female coworkers. And if I don't want my brows to be so feminine I just apply a bit brow pencil to restore them back to male looking brow. Just have to be careful at times I draw my brows a little too long in the arch giving them the totally femme eyebrow look. Being a girl is not for sissies.:eek:

[Jammie Lyann]

I have been plucking / tweezing for many years now I dont have them as femmen as I would like but that not why I do it :eek:
My eye brows hair can get up wards of 4" long an when they get that long they drop down in front of my eyes an I see them the most when Im driving really drives me nuts an then I reach up an yank ouch.
well I started tweezing them an keeping the rest trimmed back . so slowly im getting them there.

[Glenda58]

Use to have a unibrow now tweeze/pluck and trim with battery brow trimer also works for nose and ear hair it happens when you get older.

[marie354]

Yea, Glenda, I know. As you get older you start loosing hair where you always had it and growing it where you had none. Go figure!
AS far as plucking goes... I try to keep up on it. Hate those 3'' or longer ones that seem to pop up over night.
:hugs:

[ponytail_gurl]

I got into the whole tweezing thing this past year. My eyebrows were never thick like most mens brows are, so that is a good thing! When I first started tweezing, I went overboard and made them thinner than I should have. This summer during a work break, I had one female coworker give me a quick stare and then asked if I shaved my eyebrows. I said no!

Then there was a day I was skiing and a buddy of mine looked at me while I had the helmet on and asked if I had done something to my eyebrows, they looked strange! I just brushed it off by saying I trimmed them so they were not as bushy and he laughed it off. I felt so ridiculous that day!:o To this day he has not said a word about it. Could be the fact that I have not gone to the extreme as I did last winter and they are now more pronounced?

At first I felt it was girlie to make them thin and nicely arched. After doing one extreme tweezing I started to let it fill in and now shape it so that it is wider at the bridge and thinner at the outter portion of my eyes. When I compare my current brow pics to ones from 3 years ago before tweezing I see a difference, but not something that is noticible to others, as far as I am aware?

[Tina Dixon]

I'm lucky, don't have big bushy eye brows, hell can hardly see them, but ever now and then I find a long grey one, pluck it's gone.

[Calliope]

Just wanted to add, plucking is an OK term. Certainly I knew many GGs using this term. Also see The Lazy Crossdresser, etc.

[ponytail_gurl]

Just wanted to add, plucking is an OK term. Certainly I knew many GGs using this term. Also see The Lazy Crossdresser, etc.

I call it plucking myself, but following this thread I took the politically correct term and called it tweezing. Plucking or tweezing means the same thing, getting rid of what mother nature made the mistake of giving us.:eek: