So I got some tweezers at the supermarket and decided to take a crack at making my eyebrows a bit more feminine.  Looked up some how to pages/videos which helped a bunch.  The question I have is more about the look of the hair...  My eyebrow hairs are kind of thick and long, not unlike eyelash type hairs.  In the videos it seems women (maybe not all of them?) have softer shorter finer eyebrow hair.  So the questions:

1) is this generally true about GG's?  Are there women with eyebrow hair more similar to the type that I described?

2) Does HRT affect eyebrow hair? (preferably would want to know about this one from someone with experience)

That's an interesting question. It seems the older I get the more bushy my brows become. And those annoying nose hairs. I just yank them out with hemostats. OUCH! Makes me sneeze. Some women have a unibrow. Not very esthetic. Maybe we just have to stay with the tweezers. Waxing is an option, but for me that would be weekly.

Some of my eyebrow hairs feel more like eyelash hairs.   Not all of them, though, and my brows are never what one would call 'bushy.'  More like.. unkempt.

Pluck and trim every day and it takes less than a minute to do and you'll find some days it will take no time because you've done such a nice job. I eventually did get my brows waxed to clean up the peach fuzz and make sure I had a good shape to follow as I plucked. Now its even easier to keep on top of the stragglers.

Also invest in a nice eyebrow pencil to fill in some bare spots. It is one of the best things I did to feminize my face. I'm now brave enough to go out with very little or no makeup. In fact my wife and I went out for super the other night and all I put on was a little bit of powder and some light lipstick. My wife overheard the kids in the next booth say I reminded them of their grandma. I took it as a compliment.

Whoops
I'm supposed to do mine tonight but ended up here instead.
I asked a similar question in the past and moet girls said to go to a salon the first time. Be brave. Ane then maintain them. I did.  I explained the situation over the phone before hand, didn't have to use a name. First hair removal salon I rang advertised laser hair removal for males. Had no probs with me. I went in boy drag, which caused some comment  . I'm getting them to do my facial laser and I go as my female self and do not get comments, well I do, but you know what I mean

I did ask advice though of the difference of cleaning up and totally female eyebrows, I'm about half way and when I have to present as male in work situatios I use an eyebrow pencil to fill out.

These places exist to make a profit. They don't have problems with TGs or anyone else. My technician said she far prefers doing my face to doing any level of X brazilian on girls. Don't blame her .

My face looks better than someones butt, some compliment
Love
Cindy James

Quote1) is this generally true about GG's?  Are there women with eyebrow hair more similar to the type that I described?

My eyebrows where quite small in length before T. Now they are how you discribed.

I really do sympathies with you though as I know how much it hurts to pluck.

Alot of my female friends get there eye brows waxed and it looks really good

Jay

I forgot all about this thread I started.  Right now my eyebrows are in a weird androgynous state.  I tweezed them a bucketload but they're still probably twice as thick as is fashionable (and I do like to be fashionable), which means they're still thick enough that no one has commented about it all in guy mode, but when I look in the mirror they seem pretty girly to me which is just fine.  I really can't do the tweeze extra ans fill in with eyebrow pencil because like I said, the hairs are thick -- eyebrow pencil would be blatantly obvious.


@Jay: actually I'm kinda weird -- it doesn't hurt at all to pluck eyebrows, in fact I kind of like how it feels and spend way too much time just searching for the hard to see ones just so I can pluck one more .  But beard hair... that stings like hell to pluck near the lips.  It's only the mouth area that hurts... I've plucked just about everywhere else on my body with little to no pain...

Quote from: Vesper on April 22, 2009, 05:04:22 AM
@Jay: actually I'm kinda weird -- it doesn't hurt at all to pluck eyebrows, in fact I kind of like how it feels and spend way too much time just searching for the hard to see ones just so I can pluck one more .  But beard hair... that stings like hell to pluck near the lips.  It's only the mouth area that hurts... I've plucked just about everywhere else on my body with little to no pain...

Sounds like someone likes a bit of pain It kept making me sneeze when I was plucking my eyebrows. Strange eh? 
I plucked the hard black hairs on the bottom of my chin and that wasn't to bad.. but my nose hair. thats another story.. How could anything hurt that much!?! It was like a scene from a movie, plucked.. eyes watered few choice words came out of my mouth while I jumped up and down. 

Jay

Quote from: Jay on April 22, 2009, 05:32:04 AM
Sounds like someone likes a bit of pain It kept making me sneeze when I was plucking my eyebrows. Strange eh? 
I plucked the hard black hairs on the bottom of my chin and that wasn't to bad.. but my nose hair. thats another story.. How could anything hurt that much!?! It was like a scene from a movie, plucked.. eyes watered few choice words came out of my mouth while I jumped up and down. 

Jay

Okay mouth area and nose hair hurt (had to tweeze some nose ones recently - OW!) - but seriously it does not hurt anywhere else.  It's more like a brief pang of tension followed by release -- I don't know, I'm one of those back cracker people too.

Good thing about eyebrows and being a woman is you can do what every you want from shaping to just removing them all together and drawing them on.

They are easy to control and play a big part in the over all look of your face.


Good Luck
Kristina

Quote from: Krisstina on April 23, 2009, 03:13:42 PM
Good thing about eyebrows and being a woman is you can do what every you want from shaping to just removing them all together and drawing them on.

They are easy to control and play a big part in the over all look of your face.


Good Luck
Kristina

I really don't recommend that, though.. Drawing them on, I mean.  It's one thing to use a pencil to fill in sparser areas, but completely drawn-on eyebrows tend to look.. clownish.  I'm not a fan.

Quote from: TamTam on April 23, 2009, 03:16:40 PM
I really don't recommend that, though.. Drawing them on, I mean.  It's one thing to use a pencil to fill in sparser areas, but completely drawn-on eyebrows tend to look.. clownish.  I'm not a fan.

I concur. My ex did that, totally tweezed them to nothing, wanted eyebrows and then spent a couple of years drawing them on. *sigh*

They looked ... well ... drawn on, and pretty ridiculous.

She's now had them tatooed and they look ... well ... just as ridiculous.

Just go with tweezing and thinning for a few years and see where that leads.

Nichole

There is a study, linked on Dr. Spiegel's website, that says that eyebrows are the number one facial cue that people rely on to determine the gender of another person.

So get those eyebrows done by a pro, if you want to pass!

I swear by eyebrow threading. It's the best method of all. It gives the cleanest lines, the most thorough hair removal, and the longest length of time before regrowth of any method. The technique of threading comes from South Asia, so try to find an Indian or Pakistani beauty salon. I go to a Hindu salon and I'm very happy with the results.

If Indians read you as a hijra, that's a plus. Hijras are believed to wield supernatural powers for blessing or cursing. So they will be careful not to piss you off. They always call me "Ma'am" and they're very polite. I lovingly gave a blessing to the owner of the salon I go to, and she got so happy! May her business prosper, may Lakshmi the Goddess of wealth shower success on her.



First I go to the salon for a good threading to get my eyebrows in shape. Thereafter I save money by regularly tweezing to maintain the good shape given me by the threading. Until it gets a little too sloppy again, because tweezing isn't as reliable a method, and I go back for more threading.

Quote from: GinaDouglas on April 23, 2009, 04:15:50 PM
There is a study, linked on Dr. Spiegel's website, that says that eyebrows are the number one facial cue that people rely on to determine the gender of another person.

So get those eyebrows done by a pro, if you want to pass!

That's excellent news for us, because the eyebrows are the easiest facial feature to shape.