Some people may not be happy with the consistency of their eyebrows and would like to change them so that they look even across the brow. Some people would like to see more of an arch to their eyebrows and attempt to alter the way in which it curves.

The desire to shape and control the hair that comprise your eyebrows is one of the main reasons behind why people choose to pluck them. Plucking eyebrows is a relatively safe beauty task as long as you don’t take things too far and make it a habit that ends up damaging the hair follicles. There have been many horror stories of people who have plucked and plucked their eyebrows to be left with patchy or disappearing eyebrows.

One of the reasons you may want to pluck your eyebrows is to make your eyes appear larger. By framing them with a cleaner expanse, the eyes are given a larger frame of reference.

There is a right way and a wrong way to pluck your eyebrows if you wish to retain the healthy growth that you started with. This article is not a tutorial on how you go about plucking eyebrows – there are plenty of those available online. The main thing to keep in mind is that you should only be touching those stray eyebrow hairs that are not on the eyebrow ridge.

In other words you should be removing hairs that sit under the natural arch of the brow. Try to take them out one by one following the direction away from the nose – so, from the center of the face outwards.

Many people get way too enthusiastic with the whole plucking concept and wind up with a brow area that has been completely devastated. By removing too many hairs at once or by ripping them out in any direction, the delicate hair follicles can be irreparably damaged and eyebrow regrowth after plucking will either be hampered or impossible.

Give your brows a chance to recover, work a little bit at a time. If you need to cover up a mistake or there is a sign that your eyebrows are becoming sparse you may want to take out a soft pencil and begin coloring the brows so that they appear to be fuller than they actually are. This may simply be a temporary measure while you are waiting for your eyebrows to grow back into shape.

When hair is ripped out of the skin it is also ripped out of the hair follicles from where it is growing. During the growth cycle of a hair there are times when the hair will slip out of the follicle easily because one of the stages is a stage where hair falls out naturally. Pulling out hairs that are at this stage should not cause any damage.

But earlier in the growth cycle, the hair is healthy and growing and is well rooted to the spot. Pulling the hair out at this stage can cause significant damage to the hair follicle to the point where it will not be capable of producing new hair.

An extreme case of over plucking is known as trichotillomania, a compulsive urge to pluck hairs all of the time. Constant plucking of the eyebrows like this is inevitably going to damage all of your hair follicles and they will never replace the plucked hair again.

The Correct Way To Pluck Eyebrows

There is a right way to pluck eyebrows so that you reduce the chance of causing permanent damage. The tip is that you should pluck the hairs underneath the eyebrow arch from below and always in the direction that the hair grows.

A couple of tricks that will also assist in the plucking process is to do the plucking either after bathing when the skin pores have been opened up or after warming the eyebrows with hot compresses.

Aim to pluck the eyebrow hairs one at a time so that you are in more control and you don’t inadvertantly pluck hairs that you don’t intend plucking. Draw the skin tightly to help make the process cleaner, this will also hurt less.

There may be some options available to try to get your eyebrows to regrow but the first step that should be taken is to visit your local physician.

If the news is not promising it might come down to finding a permanent eyebrow replacement option such as eyebrow tattooing or eyebrow transplant surgery.