Preparation
Growing out your eyebrows can be a tricky process, but it helps to be prepared beforehand. Before starting the eyebrow growth process, it is beneficial to understand the process and equip yourself with the right products and tools. This will ensure that you have a successful experience without any issues.
In this section, we will discuss the preparation you need to do before attempting to grow out your eyebrows:
Trim your brows
When growing out your eyebrows, one of the most important steps is trimming them. Trimming your brows helps to clean up any stragglers and create a more uniform shape. To ensure a neat and tidy look, use small scissors with pointed tips for best results. You should only trim the ends following your eyebrow’s natural arch.
Before you start trimming, use an eyebrow brush or spoolie to brush your brow hairs upwards so that you can see all areas that may need tidying. Ensure that all stray hairs have been brushed upwards and into place before snipping them off. When cutting, always err on the side of caution as it’s better to leave hairs alone than to accidentally snip too much off!
Always use short and precise snips as opposed to large haircuts. When finished, don’t forget to seal in your handiwork with an eyebrow gel or pomade!
Choose the right products
When growing out your eyebrows, it’s important to choose the right products to ensure that you get the best results. To begin, look for an eyebrow growth serum or mascara with ingredients such as biotin and castor oil. These ingredients are known to help condition and stimulate eyebrow hair growth. Eyebrow serums can be applied daily in the morning and evening. Mascara should be lightly applied twice a week before bedtime.
It’s also important to make sure that you’re using a comb or spoolie brush when styling your eyebrows. This helps separate any clumps of hairs, and encourages each individual hair shaft to grow more efficiently. This can be done every day if needed, while still using minimal pressure on your eyebrows so they don’t become damaged or broken off.
Choosing the right products can help enhance growth and get amazing results every time!
Growth Cycle
Growing out your eyebrows is a process that takes several months, and it can be different for everyone. It’s important to understand the growth cycle of eyebrows so you know what to expect throughout this process. Typically, eyebrows take anywhere from four to eight weeks to regrow completely, depending on genetics and lifestyle factors.
Let’s take a closer look at the growth cycle and what you can do to help manage it:
Understand the growth cycle of brow hairs
Understanding the growth cycle of eyebrow hairs is important for those who want to maintain or enhance the look of their brows naturally. Eyebrow hairs have three distinct phases in their growth cycle: anagen (growth), catagen (transition) and telogen (resting). Each hair has its own internal clock, moving through these phases at separate times.
Anagen is the active phase of the growth cycle when a new hair is produced and pushed up from the follicle. The length of this phase will determine the maximum length of your brows; on average, it can last anywhere from two to six weeks. During this time, eyebrow hairs grow approximately one centimeter every 28 days.
The catagen phase marks the end of active hair growth as the follicle prepares for hibernation and ceases nourishment to the fiber. This transition period typically lasts for 3-4 weeks before reaching its resting state in telogen. Resting can last anywhere between two to twelve weeks and once completed, it’s back to anagen again – but on a different hair!
This normal cell cycle remains consistent throughout your lifetime unless interrupted due to illness, medications or some other kind of disruption that affects your body’s natural rhythm and process. So while you may not be able to control how fast your eyebrows grow, you can definitely manage how they look by trimming where needed and filling in sparse areas with appropriate products like sunscreen lotions, powders or gels that provide natural color and coverage.
Stimulate growth with essential oils
Essential oils are an effective way to stimulate eyebrow growth and make the process of growing out your eyebrows faster and easier. Oils such as olive, coconut, almond, castor and lavender oil can nourish the follicles of your eyebrows and encourage them to grow faster by stimulating blood circulation in the area. Additionally, some essential oils may also help reduce trans-epidermal water loss (TEWL) which is when moisture on the skin evaporates due to environmental conditions.
To use essential oils for eyebrow growth, you can simply:
- Apply a few drops directly onto the eyebrow area once or twice daily depending on your skin type and sensitivity to oil.
- If you have oily skin or find that essential oils irritate your skin you can dilute them with some carrier oil such as Jojoba or Rosehip oil.
- Be mindful that any massage/circular motions you do whilst applying the oil could cause irritation so it’s important to be very gentle when using innovative products like these!
Maintenance
Growing out your eyebrows can be a lengthy process that requires some commitment and patience. It starts with a regular maintenance routine, which includes tweezing, trimming, and waxing. This routine can help your brows stay on track and looking their best as you wait for them to grow out. However, it’s important to keep in mind that this process can take some time.
Let’s discuss the details of an eyebrow maintenance routine:
Avoid over-plucking
It is important to avoid over-plucking your eyebrows. Plucking too much can easily damage the growth pattern of your brows and cause bald patches or patchy brows. If you make a mistake, resist the urge to keep tweezing – it’ll only ensure more mistakes. If you’ve already removed too many hairs, give your brows time to grow back. It may take anywhere from four to eight weeks for them to fully recover based on their growth rate.
In the meantime, there are a few things you can do to help your brows recover:
- Regularly combing them with a spoolie brush will help train them in your desired shape as well as define any areas that need some extra grooming.
- Another option is to use a tinted eyebrow gel or wax – these products are designed specifically to fill in sparse areas and enhance the look of defined shape.
- They can also help hold unruly brows in place and keep them looking groomed all day long.
Use a spoolie brush to shape
A spoolie brush is an essential tool for grooming eyebrows and helping them look their best. It can tame unruly brows, blend the edges and help you get the exact shape you want.
To shape your eyebrows, use a spoolie brush to comb through the hairs from the inner corner of your eyes outward. This helps hold hairs in place and prevents them from moving around as you groom. Then take tweezers and clear away any stray hairs outside of your intended shape or any shorter patchy areas. You may have to go through this process several times depending on how full your eyebrows are or how quickly they grow back in.
After shaping, use a brow pencil, powder or wax to fill out any sparse areas where needed. Go slow with this step and pay attention to not only color matching but also texture matching so that your eyebrow makeup looks natural. When finished, use a spoolie brush once more to blend everything together for a more natural look that will last all day long.
Fill in sparse areas with brow powder
If you have sparse areas in your brows, another option for filling them in and creating a natural-looking shape is to use powder. Brow powders are available in a range of colors suited to different hair and skin tones. To apply, use an angled brush to fill in sparse areas with short, light strokes until you’ve achieved the desired level of fullness and shape. Afterwards, use a brow wand or spoolie brush to blend the powder evenly throughout the eyebrows.
Be sure not to go overboard on your application; heavy makeup can look haphazard and unnatural. Applying a light layer of powder will help you achieve a subtle but attractive look.
Nourishment
Ensuring your eyebrows get the nutrients they need to grow is an important step to take if you want to speed up the process. Eating a balanced diet rich in proteins and other essential vitamins and minerals will provide your body with the necessary building blocks for healthy, strong eyebrow growth.
Additionally, there are certain foods that specifically promote eyebrow health. Let’s look at what those are:
Eat a healthy diet
Eating a healthy diet can help your eyebrows grow back faster. Make sure to get enough vitamins, minerals and protein for optimal eyebrow growth.
Foods rich in B vitamins such as whole grains, beans, lentils and green leafy vegetables support healthy eyebrow growth. Foods that are high in proteins like eggs, dairy products, and poultry are also beneficial for eyebrow growth. You should also include fatty acids like flaxseed oil and fish oils into your diet for nourishment of the hair follicles along the brow line.
Drinking enough water is also important because it helps keep cells hydrated so they can repair themselves quickly and promote hair regrowth.
Use a brow serum
Brow serums are designed to help improve the natural growth of your brows, restoring thinning or patchy areas and promoting thick, beautiful, arched results. Most of these are formulated with enriching natural ingredients like hydrolyzed keratin and biotin peptides that nourish the brows and offer antioxidant protection.
By using a brow serum each day as part of your routine, you will be providing your eyebrows with vital nutrients to help them grow healthy and strong. Additionally, you should pay attention to your nutrition by eating foods rich in vitamins A, B, C and E which will also contribute to healthier brows.
If you’re looking for an unfailing way to give your eyebrows a boost, using a high-quality eyebrow serum can make all the difference.
Long-term Care
Growing out your eyebrows can be a long-term process, but with proper care and maintenance, you can achieve the brows of your dreams. Achieving the perfect eyebrows requires regular trimming, tweezing, waxing, threading, and filling.
Long-term care will also involve keeping your brows nourished and hydrated, as well as protecting them from environmental damage. Let’s look at these long-term care tips in more detail:
Keep up with regular trimming
Regular trimming is essential to maintain the shape and length of your eyebrows. Use small scissors or eyebrow trimmers to trim away any strays, making sure to keep the natural arch of your brows intact. Be careful not to over-trim your eyebrow hairs, because regrowth can take a long time and only produces one hair at a time.
Brush or comb the hairs upward and outward and use a light, translucent powder eye shadow shade that closely matches your natural brow color before you trim – this will help you find any tiny stray hairs that need attention. Along with regular trimming, other tips for encouraging natural growth AND creating the look of fullness include:
- Avoid tweezing excessively as these hairs take much longer to grow back than those that have been trimmed away
- Use an intensely moisturizing brow serum or product like castor oil at night, which can help strengthen your strands
- Avoid products like gels and waxes that fix unruly hairs in place for too long as this can inhibit regrowth
- Use an eyebrow pencil with a consistency that makes it easy to draw crisp yet natural-looking lines
- Choose slightly lighter colors for the front of the brows in order to open up the eyes
- Pay attention when plucking below the brows so you don’t end up cutting off too much
Use a brow conditioner
To promote healthy eyebrows and help them grow, it is recommended to use a brow conditioner. This not only helps to nourish your brows and keep them strong, but certain ingredients such as peptides can also encourage growth. Look for conditioners with natural ingredients that are designed to be used long term. Apply the product according to the instructions on the label and notice an improvement in your brows over time.
In addition to using a conditioner, there are some other things you can do to give your eyebrows a boost:
- Make sure you aren’t over-plucking or using any harsh chemicals in your makeup routine which can damage your delicate hair follicles.
- Invest in a pair of quality eyebrow scissors and groom around your natural shape a few times per week; this will help keep your hairs looking polished and neat while encouraging new growth at the same time.
- Eating healthy and drinking plenty of water can also promote healthier looking brows!
Protect your brows from sun damage
For anyone looking to protect their long-term eyebrow health, it is important to prevent premature aging and sun damage. Prolonged exposure to UV rays can cause irritation, rashes, burns and discoloration among those with sensitive skin. Therefore, it is best to use a trusted sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30 on your brows before heading out in the sun. Additionally, wearing a wide brimmed hat or other protective coverings is an important element of protecting your brows from sun damage.
It is also best to avoid any unnecessary heat-styling tools around the delicate area of your eyebrows. This includes curling irons or blow dryers as both can cause extreme damage if used too often or too aggressively on the brow hairs themselves. Instead of using heated tools, try filling in the color with pencils or powders for a more natural look that won’t lead to breakage over time. With all these tips taken into account you should have beautiful healthy eyebrows for years to come!
