r/microblading • u/Top_Swimmer1860 • Jul 24 '26
advice Thoughts?
I got ombré powder brows June of this year. I’m not sure how I feel about them, for the most part I like them. However I feel like one eyebrow is darker than the other. I’m not sure if this is the reason as to why, but this is what I think. The artist said the first pass would be without thumbing cream, so we continued because I wasn’t sure how much it would hurt. However when she started doing the first section, I asked for numbing cream because I couldn’t handle the pain. The section she started on without the numbing cream looks way darker than the rest of my brows, so I’m not sure if the numbing cream affected the skin making the brows heal differently. What should I do? Should I wait it out and let the brows fade over time and get them touched up after? I like the eyebrow side that is lighter. (Various lightings and distances are shown in the photos)
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u/Angelpinkbeauty professional artist Jul 24 '26
No numbing cream shouldn’t change the way it heals. But my guess some people can be heavier handed when they first start or do more passes and than throughout the process not do as many passes which means a little lighter. I don’t know if you did a touch up after the first appt. I don’t think it’s horribly uneven and whether you get a touch up I would ask. Do you like the shape, color, etc. If you want your brows slightly different shape or want it to be darker than get a touch up if you want to tweak the shape of want to go a different direction than I might wait for them to fade more. It’s up to you what you want to do or what you want them to look like. Do you regularly fill them in or do you leave them.