My grandmother was head RN of an Emergency Room for 13 years. She says they where never allowed to stitch anyones eyebrow without consent, because it required shaving and eyebrows will not grow back. I love my grandma, but I find this hard to believe. Perhaps it is a very slow process, but doesn’t ALL hair grow back at some point ? Looking for the SD . . .
i shaved off a chunk of my eyebrow once, and it grew back just fine.
a friend of mine shaved off both his eyebrows, and they are back.
bob geldof seems to have eyebrows now.
If it’s true, it’s news to my cro-Magnon appearing brother, who has to shave his eyebrow once or twice a month to keep it from being infested by starlings looking to winter in. I can’t wait to tell him he’s a medical oddity.
When I pluck my eyebrows the hair always grows back. I know girls who get electrolysis (sp?) and that hair always grows back.
I find it hard to believe that shaving them would stop the hair from growing back. Maybe it has something to do with the stitching, not the shaving.
I shaved my eyebrows off in fourth grade and they grew back just fine. However, what you grandmother is saying is not necessarily contradictory to this. Hair does sometimes grow back really strangely or not at all on scar tissue. Some kinds of stitches influence the size and shape of the scar tissue. Maybe this can have a noticeable affect on a patch of hair as small as the eyebrows.
Unfortunately, they do. If they didn’t, eventually Baglady would be satisfied with the appearance of my eyebrows and stop plucking them.
From “Ask the Doc” at DiscoveryHealth.com (in response to a question about someone pulling their eyebrows out):
Having healthy hair is really about having healthy hair follicles. The follicle is the “living” part of the hair at the base of a skin pore that produces the hair strand.
When a hair is pulled, a new hair follicle develops to grow a new strand of hair. It can take a few weeks to grow back new hairs. In rare cases, long periods of repeated hair pulling can lead to scarring of the skin, preventing regrowth
Maybe she was getting a little confused with cutting or doing something like that to the skin underneath your eyebrow. I have a small scar from a cut by a hockey stick on my eyebrow and it never grew any hair back (I mean where the scar is).
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Yes, they do. Even when they’re burned off (AMHIK…). They won’t grow back in the scar from the stitches, though.
Must have something to do with scar tissue…My friend wrecked his mountain bike, split open his eyebrow area and no hair has grown back at the cut location where the scar is located.
Yes, they grow back.
I fried off my eyebrows once when lighting a grill.
Fortunately my contacts didnt melt - all in all everyone
had a good laugh.
I think you misunderstood your grandmother. It isn’t that you never stitch up a laceration through the eyebrow because the hair won’t grow back. What you are never supposed to do is shave off an eyebrow and then stitch it up. Once you shave an eyebrow, it is very hard to tell where it is and if you try to sew up a laceration that runs through it you are liable to end up with an eyebrow with an unattractive zig zag in it.
It is also true, as several posters have mentioned, that hair won’t grown in scar tissue so if someone has a really torn up eyebrow they are likely to end up with an unattractive eyebrow no matter how good your stitching is. In order to prevent them from blaming you (or at least to prevent them from successfully suing you), it is prudent to explain to them before sewing up the eyebrow that the the result may not be perfect and ask them to acknowledge in writing that they understand this and want you to take a stab at it anyway.
Two things: First of all, they don’t need to shave the eyebrow to stitch it. Secondly, they likely won’t grow back over scar tissue. I had to get stitches in my left eyebrow once as a kid (long story; let’s just say that there’s no reason to stand behind a kid batting tee-ball), and they sutured it with eyebrow intact. The scar runs right down the middle of the eyebrow the long way, so I’ve got a little hairless line there.
I can’t BELIEVE nobody has referred to Leonard Nimoy, of “Star Trek” fame. And I doth quote “The Making of Star Trek”, by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry:
" .....Nimoy does not look like an actor. He is a quiet, serious man, with a warm personality and a flashing smile. He wears shell-rimmed glasses, which not only correct his far-sightedness but also hide the half-shaved eyebrows necessary for the make-up process". ( p.237).
Elsewhere I have read that the outer half of his eyebrow was shaved off, and hair was then glued onto his forehead, ONE hair at a time to achieve the upswept eyebrow.’
Man musta loved his work, Spirit Gum SUCKS to get off at the end of the day.
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I did read that if you pluck your eyebrows too much over too long a period of time they won’t grow back…like doing the Greta Garbo eyebrows for years and years and years…
Slight hijack-ever see those little old ladies who pluck their eyebrows bald and then draw them back on with a pencil? What’s up with that? It looks really gross.
Guin – that’s right.
The outside third of one of my eyebrows has refused to grow back. It’s probably been twenty years. I can’t find a pencil that looks natural, to fill it in, so I just go around unbalanced, facially.
Waxing - The process whereby warm wax is applied to the skin. Next, a cloth is pressed to the wax and then RIPPED from the person. :eek: Result: no hair there.
Beauty Parlor Urban Legend which I heard from someone who was actually in attendance…(no, really!)
There was this new hire in the salon to perform the waxing service. A patron had an entire eyebrow removed, just one. And no, that’s not what she requested. I can only hope they didn’t charge her for that. They didn’t even offer salon discounts for the rest of her life.
It does give a different image of a person described as having one eyebrow.