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Hi Polly,

I have my eyebrows dyed when I have my hair colored. Eyebrow hair is pretty resistant to hair dye, but it lasts a good 3 weeks. And, no, I have not become blind as a result!

I am not a makeup person, but you could buy eyebrow powder and put it on with a q-tip.

You can have your eyebrows tattooed, yes, indeed. My mom had her eyebrows tattooed as well as "eye liner."

Yes, aging is for the birds...

Karen in Wisconsin

Polly Esther wrote:

Eyeliner tattoo too? Really? Cool. I don't need to look like a Munsters star but I would like to look like I'm still here. Polly

I think there are salons that specialize in these types of tattoos. I would not recommend a "regular" tattoo parlor!!

Karen

Polly Esther wrote:

can't you get eyebrows dyed at salons, or is it only lashes?

There are places that do 'medical' tattoos to cover scars and to create the 'nipple area' for mastectomy patients and other types of cover-ups. I'd start asking at a dermatologist office and work out from there. I know someone who had eyebrows tattooed and she's quite pleased with herself and her 'new' eyebrows. VBG I still want that tiny green vine and tiny leaves tattooed to twine around my ankle. If I don't decide which ankle someday soon the undertaker will be the one tattooing me!

Yes -- they have permanent eyeliner now, along with the eyebrows and lip liner! I am one of those strange women who have always had BLACK eyebrows and eyelashes. I was born really blonde but always had black eyebrows & eyelashes -- go figure. My hair turned a light sort of dish water brown but the eyebrows & eyelashes stayed black. Now that I am getting "more mature" (OY the pain -- LOL) my eyebrows are starting to turn white -- one hair at a time!!! Looks VERY odd with a grouping of 3 or 4 hairs right smack in the midst of my black eyebrows. It rather looks as if I have had that little grouping of hairs pulled out. My solution is to use an old, almost dry tube of mascara -- black in color, of course -- and very carefully color just the white hairs of my eyebrows. I tried using pencil and all that did was draw a nasty line on my skin. I tried the eyebrow powder, too but it didn't stick to my eyebbrow hairs. I'm not sure if something like this might work for you. I like it because you can gently control the mascara so that it doesn't color your underlying skin 00 just the eyebrow hair itself. I'm not sure what color you would need but someone has to make a color mascara that would work for your eyebrows. Whatever you decide, you need to let us know. It might be something the rest of us would like to try :-)! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Dye your eyebrows and lashes. Most beauty salons and some hairdressers do this, or you can get kits. A friend dyes her eyebrows along with her hair about once a month.

You can have your brows dyed as well as lashes. Never turned me blind (yet).

On the tattoo - if you decide on this kind of thing, make sure that you see lots of pics from previous clients. I know a few people (state side only) who had this done, and regretted it - it is slightly too much and looks like they are going to a disco...

Hanne in London

Just last Saturday, I met a friend whose eyebrows had gone very pale. She had hers dyed (professionally) and that was so successful she recently had her eyelashes done too. She looked a million dollars. Do go ahead with it Polly. You'll love the difference. My friend's eyebrows were just a few shades darker than her natural colour, so didn't look like Groucho Marx at all >g< . In message , Polly Esther writes

...but aging is better than the alternative :)

-Irene

Polly,

I would do the dye job. My son (yes son) is a local actor and rock musician, (my hair should be graying!) and when he has to dye his hair for a part he will always dye his eyebrows. The first time he did this I about had a heart attach but all came out well. I do not dye my hair, yet, but if I was unhappy with my hair color I should wouldn't hesitate.

Tattoos? Well, I just try to look ahead to when I am 70 or 80 and it makes me laugh. Great Granny has eye liner and eyebrows but how will they look with the wrinkles??? I'm not giving up my leathers either!!

Go for it!!!

JMHO,

Marsha

When I get my hair colored I ask the colorist to do my eyebrows. They do and I love it. I don't like using pencils.

My hairdresser dyes my eyebrows, puts the stuff on and they are hair-colored again by the time she finishes cutting. Doesn't cost much, looks a lot neater than trying to apply eyebrow makeup before my eyes are properly open, and I don't terrify the postie if he rings the bell before my face is on. She can do eyelashes too, but in my case it doesn't make much difference. Roberta in D

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One of my best friends had her eyebrows tattoo-ed awhile back. They look GREAT! You'd never know they weren't real.

She had plucked her eyebrows for so long, and there was that incident with the wax (ouch) and they were no longer even and she was getting gray and you just couldn't see them anymore.

It wasn't cheap, but she thought it was definitely worth it.

My eyebrows have always been very light. When I went through my "redhead" stage a couple years ago, I colored my hair myself and I always swiped a gloved finger across my eyebrows to get some color back into them. It wasn't runny. It stuck. Never hurt anything. Course, I'm immune to most stuff, YMMV.

I think you mainly have to be careful when you get your eyeLASHES dyed.

Cindy

I'm still trying to get that last vision of Tammy Faye out of my head.

Cindy

Eye brow pencil.

I've just realized that my lips are fading. Luckily I found a lipstick color called nude that seems to be close to my former natural lip color. Now I just have to learn to put up with the taste and feel of lipstick. Yuck! Debra in VA See my quilts at

Ah yes.. I use the 8hour lipstick colour Nude..Put it on in the morning and it lasts all day and no lipstick feeling as a normal lipstick does.. I love it.

FiederEls.