Eyebrow Mistakes: How to Get Back to the Full-Browed You

Mistakes happen. Most of the time, your mistakes aren't plastered on your face for everyone to see, but eyebrow mistakes aren't ordinary mistakes. If you mess up and take a little too much off here, take a chunk out there, or – gasp – take off a whole brow, your only option is to grow your brows back over time. It can take months fully grow eyebrows as brow hair is the slowest-growing hair on your body. Fortunately, there are a few things you can do while waiting for your mistake to become less visible:

1. Halt all hair-removal activities for the first month. Your brows need a break, and you no doubt remember how you got into this mess in the first place. The last thing you want to do is make the situation worse. Put away the wax and the tweezers; let your brows grow wild for a few weeks.
2. Eat a well-balanced, healthy diet. Drink plenty of water too. Your diet plays a huge role in how well and how fast your hair grows. When you are malnourished or dehydrated, your body compensates by slowing production of unnecessary cells, like keratin – the protein that hair is made of. Since hair is constructed of dead protein cells, eat plenty of protein too.
3. Take a vitamin supplement geared toward optimal hair growth. A good supplement will include protein as well as vitamin B, inositol, folic acid and biotin.
4. Massage your brows with your fingertips to increase blood flow. Hair is nourished at the root through blood-rich structures. Increased circulation brings more oxygen and nutrients to the site, resulting in faster hair growth.  
5. Condition your brows and promote growth with daily application of castor oil or some other oil that supports and encourages healthy hair growth.

In the weeks following brow-mageddon, you will have the urge to pluck and shape your brows. As previously mentioned, avoid doing so for the first few weeks. After three or four weeks, however, you can begin to shape your brows – slowly. Start by removing hair between the brows just over the nose – your uni-brow. Do not arch or shape your brows at this point. Instead, clean up the natural lines of your brows – just enough to make them appear neat. After about two months, you can fully shape your brows once again.

It's vital to groom your brows while growing them out in order to avoid spiky, out-of-control brows. Use brow gel and a brow brush to comb brows where you want them and hold them in place. Place a small amount of the gel on the bristles of the brush and comb the product into your brows. Brush your brows up and out to create an ideal shape.

For more eyebrow information and tips on how to keep your brows looking great, read the Perfect Eyebrows Guide Right here. In it, you will find your perfect brow shape, several tips for hair removal and some brow ideas you may not have considered before.