The eyebrow post

Hey, guys!

Thank you for leaving me your lovely comments on my previous posts, reading them, replying and checking out your blogs is literally one of my favorite things about blogging. Thank you all for stopping by, hope you enjoy and decide to stay a bit longer :)

Anyway. Have you ever been so bored, you start to google photoshopped celebrity photos without their eyebrows?  Well, if you have, you'll know, what a surprising difference that suddenly makes to a face. I didn't always appreciate this.

On one of my recent posts I received a compliment on my eyebrows and flattered as I got, decided to dedicate an entire post to the topic! (what can I say - I love compliments?)

Seriously, though, I decided to show, that my eyebrows have gone through some pretty rough times and almost went extinct! So there's an entire story to how I grew them back and how I maintain them now (which is really easy, actually).

I'm really an advocate of thicker than thinner, because I used to make mine ridiculously thin and round shaped, so I walked around looking surprised at all times. No wonder, I could never make myself look good, when no matter how much effort I put into my makeup, it was ruined by the weird alien looking arch I had going on. That's another thing. I just simply couldn't manage my eyebrows. I had them very thick, but very fine initially. So they were sort of... grey, I suppose. Just sheer and wishy-washy until I had them plucked for the first time, before my middle school graduation (about 14 years old).

In high school they were pretty thin, but okay, because we had these unwritten beauty rules in my class - all the girls did the basic things - a nice tan, nails, eyebrows, hair trims, that sort of thing and I used to pluck them at a salon every other month or so, but then I moved away to Denmark to study and didn't do anything beauty related out of my home. First of all, it was very expensive and second of all, I was so overwhelmed by all the changes, that finding the beauty treatment sports simply wasn't my priority. Not having bushy eyebrows apparently was.

And in time, I managed to pluck them thinner and thinner until they sort of shaped into these round and thin arcs. And when I came home for a semester of internship, which I choose to take back home in Latvia, my sister (who was studying at the time and is now actually a hairdresser) looked at them and told me to never touch my eyebrows again :D So, every time I'd go to my home town and saw her, she'd adjust them. For a while they looked even more hideous, than before, because she made me grow them out. But after a few months, she managed to completely re-shape them and even make a small bending of it, which I love. The problem is, though, that my face is asymmetric and (as my sister laughs, I got one eyebrow from my mom and the other, from my dad) they have a completely different structure.

For a while after returning I was struggling to manage them a bit, when I was on my own again. I was afraid to make the same mistakes again, but in time - they gave me less and less trouble. I literally pluck out a few hairs here and there that are obviously out of place (always plucking only the bottom, never from the top of the eyebrow) and fill them in slightly on nights out. Still, every time I go home, the top of the agenda is getting my eyebrows fixed (she also darkens them, so I don't fill them in for a while after), because I swear, neat eyebrows are just a beauty crush for me. In the summer time, I can have my hair up and away from my face, no makeup, a nice tan and if I have my eyebrows just done, I feel extremely pretty. It's weird. But I think, it's just such a beautiful, powerful feature. On everyday basis I brush them out, sometimes I'll use a clear gel and the natural shape of my eyebrows have proven to be the easiest to upkeep and the most flattering to have. I wish I'd know how to do it better myself, though or to go home more often, because they're obviously thicker and not as beautifully arched as when done professionally, but in comparison, the maintenance is completely worry free.

Hope you enjoyed it! How do you take care of your brows? What's your routine? Are you satisfied with your brows or don't notice them that much at all? I'd love to hear from you!

Also, I have a few interesting posts in mind, simple things like skincare and daily makeup (daily, meaning, once a week, maybe, when I wear makeup), but I'm also thinking of doing something a little different and I would love to know, if you're interested in seeing stuff like that. I've changed a lot throughout the last 5 years and that has affected my self esteem a lot and the way I feel about myself and others, so if you'd like to know, what I've learned, let me know in the comments below and I'll gladly do it :)

Have a great early weekend!

Renate ❤