Like ThelmaLou says, it’s not meant to be overtly noticed. It’s just sort of a subtle distinction. It’s almost the same thing as having messy hair and neat pulled back hair - it just gives a general sort of neatness to the face.
Same. I don’t have any coarse hairs but I don’t like the peach fuzz on my lip. I go probably every 5 weeks.
And my point is that you probably couldn’t see the difference. But that if you saw a full face picture of me (not just eyes & brows, but whole face) before and after and were asked “Which picture looks better?” you’d probably point to the one where my eyebrows were done. Not because you’d notice the eyebrows (I believe you), not because you’d see the before and think “her eyebrows need plucking” (again, I believe you).
It is not entirely unlike how certain haircuts make some people’s whole face (not just their hair) look different.
I’m surprised more people aren’t mentioning epilators in this thread.
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Broomstick** I’m sorry I can’t post before and after pics of my eyebrows, it’s strikingly different. WIthout the trimming and penciling in they look like two bushy underscores. The hairs continue around but they’re blonde.
Since I think most current hair “styles” look like the lady washed her hair then slept in it without brushing it, or had a terrible collision with gel/oil and a ceiling fan, I wouldn’t be too quick to assume anything.
As I said with the linked example, all but one of those examples result in eyebrows that look unnatural and overdone to me.
The fact I live in an area with a substantial number of women who wear no make up and do not engage in things like eyebrow plucking may have skewed my notions of what normal is a little off from the mainstream as well. My reaction to what (to my eye) are overgroomed eyebrows are somewhat like my reaction to a morning talk show guest describing her “no make up look” make up application which used a greater array of brushes and paints than I have used to paint entire houses. No, the result didn’t look like “no make up” to me.
Sure, it makes you look different. That doesn’t always mean better. And if it’s so subtle you don’t see it, what’s the point? Sure, if it makes you feel better about yourself go for it. We’re talking about opinions here, and one of us has long admitted she’s fashion-impaired.
One good thing about not having a thyroid: You lose more hair than grow it.
Unfortunately that hair is now sparse, sharp, and white. Sometimes they like to play hide-go-seek, especially in bright bathroom lighting where you can’t see the damned thing but you can certainly feel it.
I used to pluck these errant hairs when I didn’t need glasses. Now I do and I can’t be arsed to first find them then pluck, so out comes the cheapie throwaway razor 
You could say the same thing about the beard.
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I work with a guy who has, honest to god, mad-scientist eyebrows. Every so often in a boring meeting, I think about fixing them. :smack:
That’s my hairdo! And I love not feeling the need to try to straighten or curl it daily. Wash. Let dry. Put in topknot. In the morning, undo, comb out, and go.
This current hairstyle of “undone” is great for wavy-haired women.
It saves me loads of time and it took me years (and inventive products) for me to use it. I have to use some product due to cowlicks. But 2 minutes work versus 10. Yay!
Back when I started modeling, I was taken aside and had the hell plucked out of my almost unibrow eyebrows. Whoa! What a difference! I kept it up and now hardly pluck a dark hair. With age and possibly the aformentioned treatment that caused heavy peach fuzz, I now have peach fuzz below the eyebrow. Irritating, but live-withable.
Yeah. PCOS, dark hair, palest olive skin, Eastern European heritage…I suspect I could grow quite a beard. Worse, I have really large follicles (?) so if I pluck or wax, I get all inflamed and every pore bleeds. I do a few swipes with a razor every couple of days. shrug It works well enough. Eyebrows, too. I have a nice arch, but there’s a bushy caterpillar growing around it. If I tweeze, it takes half the day, the aforementioned bleeding/swelling happens, and it grows stubble in two days anyway. So I just shave.
What’s kind of funny is that I rarely shave anything below the chin…usually only if I’m going to swim in public, or wearing shorts or a short (or sleeveless!) dress without hosiery. My partner likes me au natural for the most part. But I have to do the chin etc., for me at least. 
On that note, I do think that underarm hair on women should make a comeback. I’ve had many surreptitious compliments on the subject, though I do not overtly flaunt it. It’s normal, people, and can look quite hot.
My wife shaves her upper lip and chin with a regular razor. She’s never talked about it, and tries to hide doing it in the shower. She never needed to start in the first place.
I wish she never started. It created stubble to the touch (lips) and was a total shocker when I first felt it. Never have said anything, but doesn’t make kissing fun anymore.
Yeah, well, blame the meme that women are to be completely and totally hairless not only beneath their chin but anywhere but the top of their heads (some exceptions for eyebrows).
:dubious: Think of all those women who feel the same about you men.
Not just waxing/plucking/threading, either. I do those and get an OK general look, but I recently started filling in/grooming with Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow and, wow! Just a smidge and a run-through with a spoolie and I look so much more put-together.
The only thing I’m interested in doing with my eyebrows is maybe darkening them. They seem to be fading away with age and I miss them… but apparently not enough to do anything about it.