Thursday, 04 February 2010
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Tweezing Children’s Eyebrows
Guest post by Glamorous Insanity
My hubby and I both have pretty thick eyebrows. Mine I pluck or wax, while he decides to look like “The Count” from Sesame Street. “ONE…..ahh ahh ahh.” Sorry, I just can’t say “The Count” without imitating him.
Anywho, having 2 girls with our hairy genetics really scared me. There was a huge risk of giving birth to two “Counts”, or even worse…. Bert.
Yea that’s not cute.
I’ve always said Little Miss Spice resembles Madonna’s daughter, Lourdes. How cute is she, right? Shes got the same wavy brown hair, and I’m starting to worry that she may be headed in her direction with the brows as well. If you’ve never seen Lourdes’ brows, allow me to show you.
Now I understand that its completely superficial to care about things like eyebrows and such but sh*t. I don’t want my baby running around looking like a baby gorilla!
I have heard of moms plucking as early as 4 yrs old, and that just grosses me out. I cry when I pluck my own eyebrows, and usually it’s because I’m watching a Lifetime movie….but a little because it FRIGGIN hurts!
I can’t imagine plucking my 5 1/2 year old’s brows anytime soon. But then it takes me to this question……
When is a child old enough to pluck their brows?
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gosh I would wax them D: I know a girl who is like 11 or something gets her face waxed because her hair is dark
As long as it's not RIDICULOUS... I'd say wait till at least 10... or whenever they ask.
My girls have bushy eyebrows, but its' not ridiculous.. they can wait till probably 12.. then maybe they'd be interested in having them waxed.hahahaha!!! Well if it bothers you or your kid you can get an eyebrow razor and shave them. It's painless. But I'd let the kids be hairy! LOL
I think perhaps I'd see how long I could get away with just running a razor between her brows to keep them in check...at least until she started asking about other options, like Nina1981 said.
I view eyebrow plucking, getting your ears pierced, and wearing makeup, all on the same level... when they're ready to personally do it, why not?
I wouldn't pluck my kid's eyebrows, and I totally disagree with people getting their baby's ears pierced... I got mine done when I was 11, and was thankful that I got to choose whether or not I wanted holes in my earlobes.
Sorry for the tangent. :p
I was at a nail/waxing salon last summer and saw a mother and her young daughter come in. The technician that was doing my nails said the girl was only 4 and her mother brings her twice a month to get her brows waxed!!
I was so stunned.
The technicians all said they thought 4 was too young but her mother insisted on getting her daughter's brows waxed. The waxing specialist said she would only do between the brows so I guess that's some sort of compromise.
I say wait til they get to junior high/middle school before grooming their brows.
I'd say do it a non-painful way, like shaving or bleaching (carefully), once the child was 5 or so, and then let the kid decide if she wanted to do more when she was older, like 10. But I know what you mean...I don't think I could stand it if I had a little girl with a unibrow...I don't want other people making fun of her!
Id say wait. if its absolutely necessary, get them threaded. then you don't have to do it so often.
dag.. i have bushy eyebrows.. and i'm thankful for them bc i have more to work with when i go waxing. but i didn't get my first wax until i was 15.. and i didn't have a desire to do it any earlier.
my oldest daughter has really bushy eyebrows.. and i like it. i don't plan on doing anything to them until she's about.. i dunno prolly 14.
She should begin plucking her eyebrows whenever she starts caring about them. I'd give it a couple more years. In the meantime, let her be hairy.
If she lets you pluck them now, go ahead.
My son's only 2, and when he watches me pluck mine, he wants his done too.
I'll pull out a few hairs between his eyebrows, and he laughs.
It's really not that painful, but I guess some kids handle pain differently.
I would start getting them waxed around 10 or 11 if they're really bad.
Some may think that's too early, but that's the age when kids start really caring about their appearance.
@KimisBarbie@xanga - aw thats cute
Im sorry but if my kids eyebrows looked like that, Id HAVE to do something about it! lol
@wideopenskies@xanga - I agree with the earrings comment completely. My older son is 9 and has a single hair that grows rally long, like over an inch long if not taken care of. He hates the hair but is scared of me cutting it as it is near his eye. He tells me when he wants it gone and I pluck it when he is sleeping. He does not feel a thing. Unless there was truly a unibrow, I don't think I would ever consider any plucking/shaving/bleaching unless the child asked.
when she is ready is the right time. i started waxing my unibrow at age 8....bc someone else commented on it. i was ready then. everyone is different....
I don't know, but I wouldn't do it. It just seems mean. I wouldn't have a problem letting a professional do it though.
I would have to say that inflicting physical pain on a small child for such a vain reason as having nice eyebrows is highly unethical.
But at the same time, I know kids will make fun of other kids, and little girls already have enough to fight with to combat a low self esteem, let alone bushy eyebrows- so not letting her pluck her eyebrows could be just as bad for her in a way.
My solution would be the same way I clean up my eyebrows. I have a crazy uni-brow (although it is very light blond, so no one probably notices) and I use an electronic razor that is made for trimming eyebrows. They are slim, like the size of a mascara tube, and they are really cheap- like $10.00 bucks. They sell them in the beauty sections of stores like walgreens and rite aid, right next to the regular tweezers (altough you may have to ask where they are because different stores put some of the same things in different sections. It takes literally two minutes to create perfect eyebrows and it is 100% pain free. I would recommend it to anybody, especially to people who don't like the pain of tweezing their eyebrows/ don't have the time to mantain them.
I would probably pluck them as early as 4. I've never had to (thank god I have good genes. All my thick hair is on my HEAD) but I've heard it doesn't hurt if you take a nice hot shower or bath and then pluck them (the hair comes out easier)
I should have had mine plucked early, but I didn't really notice until I was older :( This made for traumatic photo album revisits. If my child ends up with scary brows (as they most likely will), I will probably make it so at least they have two brows. I'll leave the shaping up to them when they get older, but I won't let them unknowingly suffer with a unibrow for a decade of their life.
When they're old enough to decide to do it themselves.
You can buy eyebrow shavers that have a teeny tiny little blade that is sharp, but so hard to cut yourself with. You can use those until they are old enough to pluck, then wax. Shavers take half the time too, and you have to do it 1-2 times a month unless you're really superficial. :D at bells outlet they are 2-3$ for 3, and from NoXema they are about 4-5$ for 3 - at publix or walmart.
:D gooood luck. I'd be doing my kids eye brows too!
Eye brow tinting is great, it lightens them up so they don't look as "count-y" and doesn't hurt at all.
My grandmother manually pierced my ears at home when I was 6 "just for a wedding party". And my mother shaved off all my hair and my eyelashes when I was a baby "so that they will grow back stronger and thicker" (which by the way worked). My mother also plucked my eyebrows when I was about 9 years old, not to the point of ridiculousness, but just enough so that I had a more defined brow that wasn't mono. Later when I was a teenager, she taught me the full technique of shaping my brows and to this day I shape them myself.
Ultimately it's down to your own judgment. But a good warm shower opens up the pores for easier more pain-free plucking, and it might be worth numbing the aftermath with a bit of ice. And you'll be surprised how a girl's pain tolerance level can go up when you tell them they'll look even prettier after!
Gosh!
Don't the sell kits with a finger pad that you rub over the area? When one of my friends daughters started asking about shaving her mom bought her that, it's painless and it gets rid of the hair.