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Unibrow Removal

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  • 03-01-2016 11:11pm
    #1
    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭


    How do you remove the piece of hair between your eyebrows so you don't look as if you have the one eyebrow?


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    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Again as in recent days I say the women out there would be the best advisors on this score. Hell lads, we're really behind the curve on this. We need to step up godammit. :)

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    Atlantic Dawn
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    Didn't do the Gallagher any harm.

    I think tweezer and pluck or else go laser removal if that doesn't work out.


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    Jimmy Iovine
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    I would recommend against shaving it yourself. You'll likely not get it symmetrical but keep trying to.


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    Second Toughest in_the Freshers
    Site Banned Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Second Toughest in_the Freshers


    A run of a mach 3 every couple of weeks does the job, symmetry be damned. Although I've often started with a full beard and ended up with just a soul-patch trying to get the thing even...


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    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    Jimmy Iovine wrote: »
    I would recommend against shaving it yourself. You'll likely not get it symmetrical but keep trying to.

    That's what I have found. I'm not sure if I want to go into a beauty salon and get them waxed though


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    Jim Bob Scratcher
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    I'm sure you can get wax strips in the chemist for a unibrow.


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    Penny Tration
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    I wouldn't shave it yourself, because you'll just end up with a stubbly unibrow!

    Honestly, go to a salon and get it waxed or threaded. They deal with men all the time, it's no biggie.

    Threading is a little more painful than waxing but not particularly painful anyway, bit of a small sting is all. I prefer threading because over time, it thins the hair in the area being threaded, resulting in less growth. I find it lasts longer than waxing too.

    Best part about it is once you have it done once, you can just take a tweezers to any hairs that grow, as they grow. Once my brows start growing back, I end up plucking maybe 2 hairs a day. Waaaaaay less painful than plucking the lot!


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Thread wax or pluck, no biggie.
    Don't shave. Shaving is a terrible idea


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Gael23 wrote: »
    That's what I have found. I'm not sure if I want to go into a beauty salon and get them waxed though


    Why? I wax and thread all day long, it's my job, and lots of guys come and have it done. Lots of "normal" guys, nobody bats an eyelid. Nobody cares. Promise.


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    One eyed Jack
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    I use this -

    Philips NT3160/10 Nose Hair, Ear Hair and Eyebrow Trimmer Series 3000

    Every couple of days, does the job.

    Does ear and nose hair too.

    No way in this wide earthly world would I go plucking nose or ear hair - been there, certainly tests your pain threshold! :pac:


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    BabysCoffee
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    Either go to a salon and get it waxed, or pluck it yourself with a tweezers.

    I would recommend the salon - they will tidy up all of your brows not just your unibrow


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    Mickeroo
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    Been plucking mine with a tweezers for about 15 years now with no issues. Might go over it with the shaver occasionally if I'm in a rush but that's very rare.


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    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    I used to go to a men only salon in Dublin when I was up there a lot but I'm not anymore. I think I'll just go for the waxing though. I shaved them myself and they're ok but not perfect.


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    thebuzz
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    Is it true once you start waxing/plucking/ shaving it will come back thicker and more obvious meaning you will have to keep doing it once you start?


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    No. This isn't true.
    If you look at the structure of the hair, it's tapered at the top and you have the bulb of the hair at the end. A hair has three growth stages. 1, 2, 3.
    1 being brand new, 3 being the last stage (the shedding stage)

    So, if you come along and shave it, you're taking whatever is over the skin, ie the tapered part, the finest part of the hair. So if the hair is still growing, it'll grow out, so then the bulb is emerging because it's now what's left of the hair.
    The bulb is the thickest part so this is why it seems like it's thicker or stronger.

    Wax can sometimes break the hair. If the hair breaks the same principle applies, the rest of the hair comes up.

    Threading tends to roll the hair out, and when the skin is properly supported then it doesn't hurt too much. It would be my preferred method for hair removal to be honest as it is quite gentle, even though it doesn't feel it.


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Also, once you get used to not having any hair there, and it starts to grow back -- it can often seem much worse than it was as it was normal and you were used to it before waxing, but afterwards you're used to having the area smooth. It's not that it's any worse, it just feels like it is cause it hadn't been there for ages.


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    Dial Hard
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    thebuzz wrote: »
    Is it true once you start waxing/plucking/ shaving it will come back thicker and more obvious meaning you will have to keep doing it once you start?

    I can't believe this old wive's tale is still doing the rounds.

    Lexie has dealt with it above. Seriously, if there was any truth to it all balding men would have to do is shave their heads every so often.


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    Gael23
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    I actually only got it done for the first time on Friday. When I went in I was a bit WTF for a minute! The place was a hairdressers as well as a beauticians so when I went in there was a woman old enough to be my grandmother waiting to get her hair done! The procedure itself was harmless and I actually quite like it!


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    BigDuffman
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    I've nothing against lads looking after themselves and metrosexuals. But surely on a gentleman's forum I can't be the only one not really feeling the idea of attending a beauty salon for threading and waxing???? What's wrong with 2 mins and a tweezers?


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    chewed
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    Dial Hard wrote: »
    I can't believe this old wive's tale is still doing the rounds.

    Lexie has dealt with it above. Seriously, if there was any truth to it all balding men would have to do is shave their heads every so often.

    here's a question....does facial hair grow faster during the day when your'e awake than it does at night while asleep?

    Sometimes (to save time in the morning and avoid cuts), I'll shave just before I get into bed. That morning when I get up, e.g. after an 8 hour sleep, my face is still as soft as a baby! But, if I shave in the morning, after 8 hours out and about, I'll have the usual 5 o'clock shadow!


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    Irishphotodesk
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    iebamm2580 wrote: »
    Apologies to bump an old thread but has anybody ever got there uni brow lasered, seems like the most permanent solution.

    Laser isn't permanent it has to get topped up (depending on hair regrowth)

    Cheapest is self plucking with a tweezers, personally I shave mine, and also run the razor over the eyebrows to thin them out... it isn't very neat but .... I'm not overly concerned, I "groom" it to make it look less messy, my eyebrows can get bushy.


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    Irishphotodesk
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    iebamm2580 wrote: »
    Getting sick of plucking as it leaves the skin very red for ages afterwards recently so i think i might try laser 6 sessions and wouldn't mind topping up once a year if needs be, mediglow in cork seem to have a good rep and reasonably priced.

    Just be careful, there are scare stories out there of guys going to places to get stuff like this done but because the person doing the work isn't normally working with males the end result is a more feminine looking brow.

    It may just be scare stories, or could have been someone inexperienced thinking they can do it ..but I would rather have control over what the result is and do it myself.


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    I don’t know of any laser clinic that would laser an eyebrow


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