<p>Ok, this will be a contender for “shallowest thread of the year” , but I need the collective parent experience here. I have realized in the last month that my eyebrows are turning gray/white quite rapidly, one more than the other. I don’t have more than a few strands of gray in my hair yet, so this was pretty surprising.
My eyebrows are not thick ( I don’t need to pluck them) and were kind of medium brown. Does anyone have any experience with having their eyebrows tinted? I know salons will do this, but at what cost and how long does it last? What color do you have them tinted? Match your hair? Is it worth the cost?
I really don’t want to spend the next 50 years drawing them in with eyebrow pencil (or tattoo eyebrows -yuck!).</p>
<p>Aaah yes, from the land of botox and tushie lifts. My mother dyed her hair and her eyebrows. My father dyed his hair and eyebrows.</p>
<p>I do not dye my hair and eyebrows. I get my natural color restored.</p>
<p>I also dye my eyelashes. How long it lasts depends on how fast your hair grows. I believe that I go every 4 and a half weeks </p>
<p>The dye used for the eye lashes is different…I believe my hairdresser lumps the brows with the rest because it takes a few seconds to apply the brow color. Lashes…$30 I think.</p>
<p>I do not think this is shallow at all. My eyebrows are super light (dark brown hair, go figure). I also have a bit of a scar through one due to an unfortunate encounter with a sibling and a Tinker Toy can at an early age. Anyway… I would LOVE to have mine tinted/dyed/something so I wouldn’t have to mess with the eyebrow pencil daily. It never occurred to me til now. Must say, don’t care at all about my hair, which is getting some salt & pepper. But the eyebrows – that just needs to be taken care of daily, and maybe someone can describe the options!</p>
<p>I had to laugh out loud about the tinker-toy can. Between that and the Lincoln-log can we had all kinds of fun with toy containers back then.</p>
<p>Yeah, for my brother, closing his eyes and spinning in circles with arms extended and the empty can in his hand ended in trouble for his little toddler sister. 
Not that I BLAME him after 48 years… well, maybe a little. Maybe I should make him pay for eyebrow dying.</p>
<p>Cross post</p>
<p>I dye my hair at home (light neutral brown) about every four weeks and put the same dye on my eyebrows while I’m at it. I use a cotton swab to apply it to my eyebrows and leave on about 10 minutes. Works for me.</p>
<p>I have eyelash extensions (love, love, love) and every couple of visits, they’ll also dye the eyebrows. Just a little darker than they are normally (I have light brown hair and green eyes.) It takes 5 min tops. I no longer wear eye makeup most days – with the lashes and the brows, it frames my eyes nicely and I’m out the door. My eyebrows had gotten thinner and lighter over time.</p>
<p>A good friend of mine was convinced by her hairdresser to tint her eyebrows. She did not care for how it turned out on her, but it did fade over time. I didn’t think it looked as bad as she did, but maybe she was just not used to seeing herself with darker eyebrows? </p>
<p>I wear bangs which mostly cover my eyebrows, so that’s one way to avoid the issue!</p>
<p>As we get older, our eyebrows do often fade. I had a makeup artist at Laura Mercier do my eyebrows, and just a little subtle darkening and shaping really made a difference. This is the same principle. It’s not like it’s really noticeable or that you turn into Brooke Shields with thick eyebrows.</p>
<p>While you’re deciding, get a good eyebrow brush and light brown eye shadow and sort of “cover-up/fill-in” areas that are needed. Bobbi Brown has many options and they’ll show you how to do it. Stays on all day.</p>
<p>I dye mine, whether doing roots at home or the occasional visit to hairdresser.</p>
<p>I bought a product, like a mascara, at Sephora. Its called Tinted Brow Gel, by Anastasia Beverly Hills. It takes seconds to put on and lasts all day</p>
<p>My hairdresser does it while I get my hair cut, just a medium brown. Sometimes have had them waxed as well. Typically I don’t bother, but if going to an event where I need to look more put together, have started to do this. My British heritage makes everything look washed out as I age. Never had much in the way of eyebrows to start with! </p>
<p>Appreciate the other suggestions.</p>
<p>I have my brows waxed and tinted every 5 weeks. I’m blonde so I have my brows done in light brown. I used to have my lashes done too but it didn’t add any volume so I stick with mascara now.</p>
<p>I just had mine shaped and tinted at the Benefit Brow Bar. I love it. I have naturally blond eyebrows and they’re relatively thin but she did a good job shaping and tinting them. I plan to go back in a few weeks.</p>
<p>I’ve had my hairdresser do mine over the years. Unfortunately, about 3-4 weeks is the most I’ve ever gotten out of the dye before it starts to fade.</p>
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<p>What is the “Benefit Brow Bar”? Is this a place just for brow treatment? Or… is there drinking involved as well?</p>
<p>I had my (blonde) eyelashes tinted recently. Lasted about a month. Worth the $23 plus tip. Let me go without eyeliner/mascara for normal everyday. Thinking about doing it again – but I don’t have desire to visit the salon all the time. I get my hair cut and colored every 5 weeks, with highlights about every 3rd or 4th visit. </p>
<p>I consider it my inalienable right to have hair the same color as my kids – at least that’s when they were towheads. And hair that goes with my skin tones and eye color – fair and hazel. So I am blonde.</p>
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<p>They’re located in different stores - the one I went to was at Ulta but I’ve seen them in department stores also. It’s sort of like a salon for brows. Run by the BeneFit cosmetic company. </p>
<p>Though it would be nice if they offered complementary wine with your waxing! :)</p>
<p>Okay, I would absolutely go to one of these… if there was one within 300 miles of my house. Nearest is Chicago. Maybe I can squeeze in a stop in LA while dropping D2 off at college this fall… (intparent schemes…).</p>
<p>This reminds me of the time I was in college a million years ago. A girl in the dorm whose mother was a cosmetologist (or so she said) told me she could dye my eyelashes. She mixed regular hair dye with FLOUR and put it on my lashes. I couldn’t tell any difference at all. I think I paid her $5 for doing it. Wish I had that $5 back…:)</p>