... but I always end up pulling. It's become more rare that I pull, but the hairs are also taking A LOT longer to grow out. Some, I am afraid, are not going to grow back in at all. This is devastating for me. I don't want to spend my life filling in my eyebrows! I am getting married this summer and don't want to have to explain to the girl doing my make-up why my eyebrows are so sparse. I just want to be normal. =( My eyelashes are getting much thinner too. I tend to pull the ones that don't want to go in the same direction as the others, but in doing so, they just get thin and straggly.
I know what triggered my pulling. My mom wasn't one to help me during my "awkward years" of middle school and high school. I had really thick eyebrow that she would not help me trim. I got teased at school terribly and was mocked for not being allowed to shave my legs. I started feeling for "out of place" hairs in my eyebrows and pulled them. Eventually there was a bald spot, and I couldn't believe what I had done. I wasn't able to stop. It became something I did when I was particularly anxious or stressed. It's gotten better, but they won't grow in. I'm afraid to go swimming because I don't want the brow pencil or powder to wash off. I don't like my face being touched. I HATE it. I feel like there is no light at the end of this tunnel.
I wish there was some magic cream or serum that REALLY sped up the hair growth. I got that "Billion Dollar Brow" stuff, but the results are very minimal. I wonder if the eyelash stuff works any better. =/
Sorry this is so long. I feel like I'm suffering alone.
Silk Amino Acids and Castor Oil *UPDATE*
- allthatjazz251
on Feb. 28, 2010 at 6:06 PM