Everything you need to know about growing out your eyebrows
Bold eyebrows have never been bigger (pun totally intended) or more on trend (thanks, Cara Delevingne). And if your eyebrows are looking a little sparse and thin thanks to some accidental over-plucking, then you’re probably looking for the best method for growing out your brows.
It makes sense - and not only because it's trendy. Full brows with a softer arch (the anti-90s brow) are incredibly flattering and do wonders to frame your face. Plus, they can make you look years younger. Which is exactly why we consulted Brow Expert Jazz Pampling for her best tips on successfully eyebrow growth and how to start growing out your brows.
Here’s Jazz’s guide to growing your eyebrows fuller and thicker.
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What are your tips for trying to grow out your brows?
You really need patience. What you have to remember is if you have been incorrectly shaping your brows for years, it can take time to regrow. Generally I have found if you have one bad session of waxing/tweezing it will take up to six months for that section to regrow. Don’t be afraid to grow your brow out, no one will pay as much attention to your messy brow as you will. If you aren’t sure what your shape should be, I suggest you see someone who specialises in brow shaping, even if you only see them once or twice, it will put you on the right track.
Is there anything you can do to help the hair grow? Do brow serums work to help hair growth?
I have had clients use brow growth serums and they do work. Just keep in mind that it can take up to six months to really see a difference, so stick with it.
bh loves: Hello Brows, PONi Lash and Brow Serum, Soshan Brow Boost
When growing out your brows, are there any areas you can pluck so that you don't look completely dishevelled?
I always tweeze quite low around the brow bone. Don’t take anymore than about your pinky width of hair on the bridge of the nose.
If you aren’t sure, don't go crazy. The moment you "umm" or "ahh" about a hair, don’t take it. If you do make a mistake, don’t try and balance it on the other side, just pencil it in until it grows back in. Put the tweezers down and walk away from the mirror.
Where should you avoid plucking/waxing when growing out your brows?
Pencil in your brow the way you would like to see your brow grow, this will help identify areas that need to re-grow, then tweeze around that shape. This way you won't keep tweezing the same areas time and time again.
For more from Jazz, check out her website.
Are you trying to grow out your eyebrows? Have you had any success in growing out your eyebrows?
280 Member Comments
Good tips but some people just have little eyebrows- I always have not had a lot of hair so doesn't matter how much I grow them out they don't grow LOL
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Great tips here - growing your brows can be so tricky!
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Great tips here - growing your brows can be so tricky!
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Viviscal hair supplement seems to grow my patchy brow. I love it.
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I’m lucky not to have ever plucked my eyebrows much, even in the peak thinness danger time of the 90s!
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I think I'm too old to grow mine any thicker now. But I started thickening them up a few years ago and I'm reasonably happy with them now anyway ... and by the time I add brow powder they look good. Gosh ... every time I think about how I used to pluck them SO THIN way back when I was a teenager it makes me cringe! You know what though ... give it another decade or two and thin will probably come back again! Everything does go in circles!
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She is so right, I've spent the last six months growing mine out, I couldn't believe how long it took! They look much nicer now though, I had gotten a bit carried away with the tweezers:)
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Mine have always been full and I've never really done anything much to them. Thin eyebrows make you look older.
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Thick brows look so much more flattering than thin ones. I need to get mine professionally shaped though, they're a mess!
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I might need to look at a more permanent fix for my brows!
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Mine just grow so fast that it's starting to annoy me! I have to do my eyebrows more than often.
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I’ve found that using a face oil at night really speeds up my eyebrow growth lol
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Stopped plucking my eyebrows about 8 years ago and they're still thin and bare :( I used Revitalash for about one year and had a lot of new growth (also my lashes grew super long), but as soon as I stopped using the product, everything went even worse than what it was before. Now I'm using castor oil every night and slowly seeing an improvement. For some of us, it's just not meant to be!
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I haven't plucked my eyebrows for around two weeks? Trying to grow them out but it is taking so long—it feels like I am trying to grow out my actual hair xD
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Well. I don't have a lot of brow hair to begin with. i let my brows grow out for about 4 months (not because I want to but because i didn't have time to get them done.) And then I couldn't do it anymore so I tweezed myself. I'll never have really thick and full brows not matter what I use. Not in the genes.
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I've always plucked mine. Thank goodness I never went the same route as my mother who has plucked hers to the point of near nonexistence!
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I am so glad that I was too young in the 90's and early 2000's to be one of those poor people who overplucked their eyebrows. I don't pluck mine, I never have but my hairs are blonde and the strays are invisible.
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I never realised there were serums to help regrow brows.
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From the age of around 29 when I started having our three kids my brows grew out for about a decade because I just didn't have the time to put emphasis on my looks. So my brows kind of grew naturally into fashion all by themselves without me even thinking about it! When I was around 39 I joined bh and realised I'd better atleast do something about my looks which I'd neglected a lot and I tidied them up a little according to the advice on bh of course!
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Over the last 3+ years I've let my brows grow back and I would say 15% has grown back but 90% is still bare. Luckily I have thick brows so most of it is still there but I tweezed too much of the inner brows, the ones that seem to grow in a different direction. I would try a brow serum but I've heard you have to apply it for the rest of your life to keep the hair.
ETA: Apparently I don't do math very well either. -_-
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Fortunately never overplucked my eyebrows when younger - even still, they are becoming sparse as I age.
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The Mavala lash serum is amazing for growing out your brows!
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I've left mine for months but they just won't grow back. I didn't know there were serums to help grow them back so I'll give anything a try I've waited this long anyway.
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I am so glad that I never over plucked mine, looking at Lauren’s thin eyebrows made me realise that
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