Eyebrows

[Guest SamIThinkIAm]

Aside from that neanderthal, two-caterpillars-kissing look?

All the guys I know just don't do anything to their eyebrows--so the fuzzy caterpillars are free to roam their foreheads happily ---and before my mom made me start plucking mine mine were pretty bad too.

Obivously really clean, highly-arched eyebrows are feminine--but there's got a be a nice in the middle area between that and caveman eyebrows--right?

I don't wanna just let my eyebrows go back to what they were prior to any plucking on my part (even when I did they were still pretty thick with only minimal arches) but I don't wanna have girly looking eyebrows either.

So guys....where the heck is the middle ground on this one??? Right now I'm still going for clean shapes but thick with no arch...sorta straight---but I dunno.

[Guest i is Sam :-)]

yeah pretty much just keep them neatly trimmed and only pluck out any stray hairs

[Guest sphere]

Keeping 'em clean can't hurt, but otherwise don't pluck.

I wish I had eyebrows. The little eyebrow hair I do have is very pale, so it looks like I don't have anything there.

[Guest SamIThinkIAm]

Ok that's what I thought---I just pluck the middle to keep from having a unibrow and keep the stray hairs under control.

[Guest i is Sam :-)]

here http://hairremoval.about.com/od/eyebrowsha...im-eyebrows.htm

[Guest SamIThinkIAm]

Awesome thanks

[Remus]

Good-o, I'd been meaning to post a thread about this for ages, my eyebrows aren't so much Neanderthal as utterly Cro-Magnon. They don't quite meet in the middle (except for the odd invisible hair or three), but they creep half-way down my eyelids and everything, quite charming caterpillars they are, yet I haven't wanted to pluck them 'cause that just makes them look all girly. I was kind of sick of being furrier than necessary, but as I say, furry > feminine.

Thanks SamIThinkIAm, I is Sam :-) and sphere!!!

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Weird reply from a MTF

When I was doing my own eyebrows (I since have had electrolysis) I sometimes would 'overdo them.' So them when I had to present male they were too girly.

Lick your finger, run against the grain! They muss up and look masculine.

Grin - never thought I would post THAT information!

Lizzy

OH yes - masculine - "wire-like - unrully - all over the place!" If I was FTM - I would NEVER pluck a single hair! But I am not FTM - whew! You guys have it as bad as we do - just the other direction!

Another trick from theater - to look like you have stubble - and if you have ANY pores on your face - brush stipple a little charcoal black make-up into them. or (GOD FORBID) a little mascara. Especially do the moustache area. All men have a moustache shadow - even we few who have hardly any beard (when I was male).

WHAT AM I DOING HERE!

Go back LIZZY - here lurks testosterone!!!

[Guest praisedbeherhooves]

Aside from that neanderthal, two-caterpillars-kissing look?

All the guys I know just don't do anything to their eyebrows--so the fuzzy caterpillars are free to roam their foreheads happily ---and before my mom made me start plucking mine mine were pretty bad too.

Obivously really clean, highly-arched eyebrows are feminine--but there's got a be a nice in the middle area between that and caveman eyebrows--right?

I don't wanna just let my eyebrows go back to what they were prior to any plucking on my part (even when I did they were still pretty thick with only minimal arches) but I don't wanna have girly looking eyebrows either.

So guys....where the heck is the middle ground on this one??? Right now I'm still going for clean shapes but thick with no arch...sorta straight---but I dunno.

Pluck, but don't super over do it. Just do it enough so you don't look like Jack McCoy. You're rather lucky actually. I have the opposite problem in that my eyes are naturally very feminine looking.

[Guest SamIThinkIAm]

Lizzy I am an FTM---not a neanderthal I pluck a little---but only because I'd look like a caveman without it and I don't want that---I'm a pretty boy

But as far as mascara oh heck no !!!

Thanks for the tips though in terms of creating stubble--although I'm acne-prone so I dunno how it'll work out. As far as the moustache I gots me a lil baby stache and I'm verra proud of the lil guy considering I got the wrong hormones coursing in this body right now

Praised---man sometimes I wonder about this old bod of mine and what's the deal with it. If I hadn't had genetic testing run on me as a child I'd swear I had something other than XX---I mean---I got big bones, coarse dark hair *everywhere*, deep voice and naturally prominent muscles/muscles that bulk up easy. I can't wait to see how happy it's gonna be on T....

Don't sweat your eyebrows though---I'd say you're lucky? Why? You on T---a nicely furry guy--not too hairy but not feminely naked. Me on T? ABSOLUTE BEAST. Lol--everything has it's upsides and downsides.

[Guest NatashaJade]

Avoid the unibrow. It's not attractive on anyone, really. I've only plucked the really long ones (TMI? Perhaps). Otherwise, let them do what they do. I have a guy friend who is a total metrosexual and he gets his waxed. It's a brave new world of hair care and beauty for men (hence, Dove has a line of male soap products and the onslaught of manscaping razor products...some genius finally realized that they can make a lot of money convincing men to go hairless and care about their skin).

Good luck!

luv

Gin

[Guest Neuro]

I have Italian thick brows, that, well, almost kinda come in to the middle like a Neanderthal XD but I am too lazy to make it look 'nice.' I think eyebrow-wise, plucking is awriite so long as it's not like... Celebrity wax!style. Manscaping--not just for pansies. For anyone who takes pride in their looks, so long as you can own up to it, it's cool in my book.

[Guest Nikki A]

yeah pretty much just keep them neatly trimmed and only pluck out any stray hairs

yessum! this would work best, ik im MTF but before i was out to people i was a very neatly trimmed boy! lol i'm too much of a baby to pluck them myself, but i would have a friend just take care of anything out of place, and (this next little piece of advice is for any other MTF who at first thought this was about femme eyebrows ) the process made me feel more girly even if it didnt show

hugs, Nikki

[Guest Mr.Yoav]

I love my eyebrows. I love eyebrows in general...

so anyways, I consider them thick, and I do mess them up once in awhile.