Eyebrow "Replacement"?

I have seen both natural hair brows on lace, and paint-on with stencils. Which are preferred by our community? I am pre-chemo, and want to get set up. Thanks!

You may or may not lose your eyebrows.  I asked the doc if I would lose my thick long eyelashes and my eyebrows....he said, "I don't think so."  Every single hair fell out.  I used eyeliner to make up for not having one eyelash left, and I used a sharpened eyebrow pencil using short quick strokes to fill in the eyebrow.  Use your eyebrow pencil (brown, not black!) and hold it straight up from the inside corner of your eye and this will tell you where to start your eyebrow.  It takes a little practice, but it looked pretty darn good.  By the way, all of my eyelashes grew back and the ends of my eyebrows seem shorter so I lengthen them a little....but I understand this could just be my age too of 55.

Best of luck to you.  Keep your chin up.

Linda Lou

On 2/15/2008 Linda Lou wrote:

You may or may not lose your eyebrows.  I asked the doc if I would lose my thick long eyelashes and my eyebrows....he said, "I don't think so."  Every single hair fell out.  I used eyeliner to make up for not having one eyelash left, and I used a sharpened eyebrow pencil using short quick strokes to fill in the eyebrow.  Use your eyebrow pencil (brown, not black!) and hold it straight up from the inside corner of your eye and this will tell you where to start your eyebrow.  It takes a little practice, but it looked pretty darn good.  By the way, all of my eyelashes grew back and the ends of my eyebrows seem shorter so I lengthen them a little....but I understand this could just be my age too of 55.

Best of luck to you.  Keep your chin up.

Linda Lou

Hi Linda Lou:

I was just visiting this site and seen your verbal demo on how to draw in eyebrows, this is of interest to me now as I have none from my recent bought with chemo.. the worst of it ended Jan. 16th..but I have more to come in March which is herceptin, I dont think there is suppose to be the hair loss with this medicine, so I should start seeing my own eyebrows grow back in..but in the meantime, I am drawing them on, and kind of like the look as oppose to my own which were thin anyway..  I might just go this way from now on instead of letting my own grow back.. I have always been wanting to try the no brow but was affraid to wax them off for fear I wouldnt know what to do afterwards.. thankyou for your tip, it will be helpful to me as well.  I do still have my eyelashes, but they are thin, I can just add mascara to what I have till they fill back in..  I am just now beginning to use a wig, my hair on my head didnt completely go, it just got very spiratic and very thin showing baldness..so until my regular hair does grow back in I am going to dawn a wig...it does make me look alot younger..as I am 55 as well.  Now if I could just do something about my saggy chin..haha!!  But I wont be that vain about it..I am just glad that the chemo does seem to be working for me as I am in early stage of stage 1V.  Hopefully I will be one of the 16% who survive past 2 years..right?

thankyou and I just had to say Hi...

Jodie

I am not sure where you live, but click on the following link to maybe find an anastasia location near you.  There was a counter at my local mall.  http://www.anastasia.net/  The beauticians will shape your brow now, and then you can buy a kit with stencils.  They teach you everything you need to know to have great looking eyebrows.  I suggest you do it before they fall out.  I still use it today after my eyebrow have come back.  Even during chemo, I got great compliments on my eyebrows!!!!!  Check it out.  Another thing that helped me was a book called JUST A LUMP IN THE ROAD... By Debbie Leifert.  Hope this helps!