Look how happy I am early in the morning. Anyways, my electrologist wants to shape my eyebrows and my mom wants me to wax them to get them shaped (not happening on the latter one btw). My electrologist though I think feels I’m transitioning (I’m not though and I told her this months ago) but she wants to shape my eyebrows to something more feminizing. She told me “you can’t transition with those eyebrows!” Which is fine and I’m sure she’s right about that, but since I’m not transitioning, I’m curious as to electrologists’ opinion on if I should touch up my eyebrows at some point and get them shaped or leave them alone.
Thank you both! I of course meant readers can offer their opinions as well (I was so tired that I really meant opinions in general, not just electrologists lol) so thank you for giving yours!
My electrologist seemed to want to thin the shape a bit.
If you have your eyebrows shaped it will make you look feminine, if that is your goal then fine, otherwise it would be a mistake and you cannot put the hair back. For male eyebrows the middle part is cleaned up, very rarely is it necessary to remove much more.
Anyways, I understand that there is a strong risk of having “too feminine” features, and I of course have a difficult time picturing different features and how they’d look on me. Seems like I’d be making a big mistake doing anything to them, so I think I’ll end up just leaving it, but wanted to throw out the pictures just so you could see what I was thinking about.
I’m sure you know that everyone’s eyebrows are different, it is difficult to make one person’s eyebrows look like another persons because you have a completely different brow to start with. So as skilled a practitioner as you can find, they cannot give you the same results as the picture.
I think you are wise to leave them as they are, they look good and suit your face.
I tell people all the time, I can fine tune the eyebrows you were born with, but I can not give you some other person’s eyebrows.
One of the hardest jobs I ever had on eyebrows was a guy who had an injury that split off a section of his eyebrow on one side. He wanted me to eliminate the short piece ahead of the scar, and reduce the undamaged side to line up and give him symmetry.
While we were successful, it was not a task I relished, and did a lot of work trying to talk him out of it.
Speaking as a cosmetologist, you MIGHT consider very slightly shaping some of the brows that grow too far outside the main “line.” HOWEVER, as others have pointed out, this is an area you must be very cautious in lest you end up looking feminine. I would first visit a male-oriented salon that does eyebrow tweezing or waxing, tell them you want a very natural look, and see how you like the end result. Assuming you do, and the result is not feminizing, you could then have the hairs treated as they return. Considering your electrologist seems hell-bend on giving you feminine brows, though, I would think about sticking to non-permanent methods until you find an operator who’s experienced in doing male brows.
I wouldn’t say my electrologist is hell-bent. An extremely large chunk of her clients are actually people who are transitioning so I think she forgets who actually is and who isn’t transitioning. I think she forgot I wasn’t going to transition which is why she wanted to do stuff to my eyebrows. I’ll make sure to remind her I’m not transitioning and then see if she thinks my eyebrows should stay the same then. I’ll consider something temporary in the meantime (though in all likelihood I’ll just leave them alone lol)
Hi Brenton,
I read the first page of this thread and was going to comment, but then I got to page two and found that WeRNotAfraid already said just what I was going to. You might remove a few strays around the perimeter (which I would consider more “tidying up” than true shaping) …but overall I agree with the earlier posts, that your general eyebrow shape suits your face already, so don’t muck about with them too much! If at all.
I also like the temporary tweezing/waxing approach – not a practice I would suggest normally, but as a one-time treatment for this specific area, I think it could serve well as a “test run” to see whether you like the adjusted shape before committing to anything more permanent.
