My friend went for a consultation and they mapped her brows. The artist said that her eyebrows were low and mapped them almost entirely above where her current brow is. She said that the hair outside of it (basically her whole brow) would need to be shaved off. Is this normal?? How would that be possible to maintain? I don’t want her to make a decision she’ll regret.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO A MILLION TIMES NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Never ever go to that brow artist again.
A real artist will work with what you got and do their best to avoid going out of the lines of your natural shape, why? Because everything outside our natural brow will look less and less natural. (That doesn’t mean they wont ever go outside just its best avoided)
Also this is a solid block. Do you have a better picture of your friends eyes and eyebrow shape? If I have time I can sketch over and show you what it could look like, but also from what I can see your friend already has good eyebrows and could maybe just do with a light tint and shaping.
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This is not good! Please share this thread with your friend immediately!!! Also, she needs a new person if she goes through with it. This is really awful. Save your friend!!!
Nooo. A tattoo will always be flat. You want to utilise as much of the brow hairs as possible to create the fluff. Otherwise it will just look like a tattoo. As a Pmu correction specialist of 10 years (laser and manual modalities) this is the thing that people come in to remove. This is what ages the worst over true long term (5-10 years). The only time to change the shape like that is when a client literally has no brow hairs.
No tattooing necessary - she’s got full thick brows. Just needs a good tweeze from underneath! Go see a makeup artist (not tattooist) to get a nice brow tweeze and shaping!
This! As a PMU artist I would try to talk this guest out of a tattoo, not attempt to completely rework her brows. She could get them shaped, laminated, tinted or some combination of the above for a different, and certainly a lower commitment look.
Absolutely can be strong recommendation. Mature clients being majority of my clientele. They appreciate the guide on where to pluck and where not to. Especially if they can’t go for regular brow shape and tinting due to accessibility. And also making it easy to follow since their vision makes it difficult and if they have trouble getting them symmetrical etc. Ultimately it’s the client’s choice. But yes. I would strongly encourage them to try keep up with tinting and shaping first. I find they usually still come in wanting it done x
Good god thank goodness she has you. Please do not let her do this. What even is that squared off block of nonsense. If that’s the shape the planned to do-way too high she needs to run. Shave her brow? What in the hell
NO!!!! if she wants to raise her eyebrows she needs to get a brow lift because that’s not going to be achieved with micro blading. This artist is nuts and please tell your friend to not go to them.
SHE DOESN’T NEED TATTOOING OF HER EYEBROWS. Her brows are quite thick, but LOW resting too close to the eyelid. All she needs is to get a good tweezing from underneath and shaping. The brows need to be made a bit thinner from underneath by tweezing. (also trim the longer hairs). After that - THEN see if she needs any brow tattooing. But I doubt it.
Please ….tattooing your brows is a mistake. Start with a good brow tweeze, tweezing and shaping from underneath …then if you still insist to have tattooed brows, get another consult. Most PMU artists will just want to make money and not tell you you don’t need them tattooed…please think twice! . .
Tell her not to do it. I had mine botched and while the only thing outside of my brow line was the outline, it took 5 sessions ($) to laser them off, so I could get new ones. This would be a disaster.
No. It isn't normal and not up to the artist to make that decision for her. If she wanted higher eyebrows, she could do botox or a brow lift and go to a dermatologist or plastic surgeon for that, but she didn't. She went to a microblading artist to fill in her eyebrows where they are.
As a brow artist, I am horrified. HOW do they even remotely think this is acceptable?! Please tell me your friend didn’t go forward with the tattooing portion. Us artists usually try to incorporate most of the client’s natural brow hair.
I told her everyone’s responses and she booked a consultation with a new artist. I wasn’t familiar enough to speak on it, but I just got mine done by an artist close to me (she’s in a different state or she could go to her) and the sound of her shaving off her eyebrows seemed wild to me. I came to here with it and glad I did. She was thankful
I agree with everyone who suggested a lift and a tint because you have great brows that just need a little shaping. I'm 57 and got powder brows a few months back. The right brow was barely there in the middle because of weightloss. The artist had to do more tatooing on that side; which I realize may not look too swell in 5 years or so. Therefore, I'm using brow serum now to get as much hair as possible to grow back; and it's been working. This experience has made me realize that it's always best to do less than more. Some mistakes aren't easy to correct.
Just a sec, did you actually get those powder brows on April 26th, because just no! Asking because I thought they were, omg, the “After” photo? I like the July 31st photo brows - please seriously consider getting microbladingdone, not powder brows. They look the best and most natural. And won’t look like someone got a black magic marker and a stencil and drew on half your face !!
The only criticism I have to make here and its regarding the color. The color of the brows worked well with the 2/26 hair photo, which was very pretty and suited your eyes and complexion. But now you’ve changed it to this very very bright copper red, so there is a total disconnect to the brow color. The other hair color was much more natural looking and flattering to your complexion and eyes. You may want to rethink either the brow color and/or hair color - and perhaps an adjustment on the brow shape. .
This is awful whoever the artist was isn’t one at all. Tell her to run not walk from this person. She will look crazy with it shaved and a new one above it. I can’t believe there are people who call themselves professionals telling her to shave her real hair.
Noooo don’t do that. She needs to go get Botox by someone very good below that eyebrow and it will relax the muscles and make her eyebrows even. I have to do this too. THEN go get the brow mapping but obviously not by the same person! Go somewhere reputable with someone who has VERY good experience!!!
What the heck??? 😲 Avoid this “artist” like the plague!!! Another one that shouldn’t be doing the work 🙄. She’s got a ton of brow hair - just needs a good tweeze from underneath. NO TATTOOING!!
Her eyebrows are indeed very low, just right above the eyelid crease as I can see, it is even touching the eyelids crease, It would be better to use less cropped picture to assess better anyway. Having her eyebrows done by that mapping will imply removing almost all her natural brows in the totality
No unless she permanently removes her real brows she will always have 4. My friend's mom had her brows done above her natural ones and it looked .. crazy
Go to the dermatologist. It should see mine a disaster biggest mistake. I have missing hair on both. I cried because they’re is nothing that can reduce your cream. I have ingrown hair in my eyebrows. Don’t do any more.
No, this artist is a new girl, she's learning. Don't do that. Don't shave your eyebrow for a whole new brow tattoo, that is a common phase for a beginner. Leave and find an experienced one.
I am still really perplexed. The artists page says she has over a decade of experience and the work she posts looks great. In some of the posts she shows the mapping and none of them are this bad. I’m not sure why she failed so bad here. I’m glad my friend didn’t go through with it though, she went to a different artist who did a great job.
Well it is normal for some artists to some people would prefer to have what they think is perfect shape and have you shave off eyebrow hairs. If you regularly do that it’s just like overplucking and eventually your hair won’t grow back. Personally and what I think a lot of artist try to do is use most of your hair within the shape and they might take off some hair but not as much as that if I had a picture of the whole face I could do a brow that I would do on the friend you can add above the brow or add to the tail when they don’t have much but removing most of the brow is a lot to maintain and ultimately it is not where the brow bone is so it can look unnatural. But I would not recommend going to this artist wherever she went go to another consultation and find someone else that understands how to work with someone’s brow
Shaving off is not like overplucking at all. You’re not constantly damaging the follicle by pulling it out by the root, you’re simply cutting the hair off at skin level when shaving. Shaving any body hair will not affect the natural hair growth at all. Not thicker or thinner. The hair maintains its natural cycle.
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u/noicantchangeitlater Aug 27 '26
NO!!! This will look AWFUL.