Those who appreciate a defined eyebrow will probably be familiar with tweezers. Plucking your own eyebrows is generally the quickest and easiest way to shape your brows, but it requires an ongoing effort, and this can create problems. Excessively plucking your eyebrows can irritate this sensitive skin, even to the point of scarring, not to mention the fact that there will come a point where your brows won't grow back properly. They will regrow, but this regrowth can be inconsistent, and certainly won't result in a defined look. So what are your options for excessively plucked eyebrows?
Makeup
Take a tip from drag queens, who often feature a sharply-defined brow while in drag that still allows them to go back to their natural brows when the makeup comes off. Some drag queens will actually shave their brows off entirely or will block them out with foundation before manually drawing in a brow of their choosing. The end result can be quite striking, but there's a cost. It's time-consuming to do, and such a look must be reapplied each and every time you want to go out. This means makeup won't offer a convenient solution.
Tattoos
Permanent makeup can offer a permanent solution of sorts, but this isn't technically makeup. It's a facial tattoo, so your brows are etched into your skin. This results in eyebrows in the shape of your choosing, and you won't need to reapply them each day. The tattoo will need to be reapplied at some point in the future, as the color will fade. Although permanent makeup will yield a noticeable result, the limitations of the process can result in brows that look a bit blockish, and unnatural.
Microblading
The process can be refined to overcome this limitation, so look for a clinic that offers eyebrow microblading. But what is this? It's still a facial tattoo, but one that is applied with greater detail. Instead of a block of color, your eyebrows are etched using a handheld tool (the microblade) that recreates individual strands of hair. The final look is as natural as possible (short of magically regrowing your eyebrows to their former fullness), and is long-lasting. The process will need to be reapplied (just as with permanent makeup) as the effects will fade over time.
You have a number of options for overcoming the effects of excessively plucked eyebrows, but some of these options are far more natural-looking than others.
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