@Midwest67 - Imagine these babies on a much older gray haired woman with wrinkles! Lol!! And I walked out of the store like that! I even bought something and was giggling to myself at the checkout counter. https://www.google.com/search?q=thick+makeup+eyebrow&client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=320&bih=494&tbm=isch&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZqOXqwq_dAhUq04MKHbYqDukQ_AUIDygC#imgrc=mESVJrfZZt7dZM:
@Midwest67 – I did laser hair removal (for bikini area only) – easy 20 minute sessions after work (6 in all). SO much easier than dealing with shaving or waxing.
I appreciate all the shared misery lol! No thyroid problems (at least as of last check up). I’m seriously considering microblading. If I do it, I’ll report back.
DH has one particular ear hair that actually sounds like a spring – so he reports – when it reaches a certain point in its growth. He was not receptive to my mention of electrolysis. 
My eyebrows are tamer than they used to be but still the first target for my hairdresser’s scissors every visit. She has told me not to wait for a haircut if they need trimming before my next appointment. She is really invested in keeping them tidy.
DH and sons have gorgeous, long, thick, dark lashes, whereas mine look like a bunny rabbit’s. However, a side effect of prescription eye drops I use for glaucoma is longer and darker lashes. I wouldn’t recommend it as an approach, but I’ll take the silver lining!
Oh yeah, I can see doing the bikini line. I just don’t see how regular working people manage laser hair removal, say, on their lip line or chin. My skin is fair, and the hairs are dark.
Thanks for posting that picture. It gave me a good laugh. 
A reporter in Charlotte, NC tested the “3 second brow” - the results are pretty funny!
http://www.wbtv.com/clip/13393646/kristen-hampton-tests-the-3-second-brow/
LOL those brows are ridiculous!!! But - even though they are crazy, they do make her look younger than her regular brows at the beginning of the video.
Oh please. They are ridiculously huge.
My eyebrows are fading away too. I use pencil everyday which helps. I’m somewhat intrigued by microblading but the idea of having eye brows that are too dark, scabbing or peeling for the first 10 days gives me significant pause.
Underarm hair is almost gone and there’s been a reduction on my legs too but not enough that I don’t have to shave. I look forward to that.
And yes to laser hair removal. After menopause the number of pesky dark chin hairs really increased and my previously undetectable moustache became darker. I’ve had several sessions of targeted lasering on these areas with about 90% improvement. Did my bikini about 20 years ago and wondered why I waited so long.
For the laser hair removal on your lip & chin, didn’t you have to grow it out before treatment?
Tell me how that works, please.
I have never heard of micro blading, but it sounds like what I need. What kind of person does that procedure? I’m a natural blonde with a thyroid condition so my eyebrows have always been an issue. Seems from the middle to the end is disappearing. I use a wand like mascara first, then a pencil. When I was little my mom used to say I’d get sunkissed - in the summer my eyebrows would literally turn white. I don’t know if that’s actually a thing, or just something she and my nana made up.
The Latisse side effects sound terrible - permanently changing your eye color - I have light blue eyes, I don’t want to turn them some other color.
I’ve been plucking my chin for years now. The stubs are growing in faster than I can pluck them - I tell my daughter when I’m old and in the nursing home to please come pluck my chin. I recognize that at least I’m blonde, it would be a way bigger challenge if I had darker hair.
@eyemamom I have a spa that does mircoblading near me. They also do Botox and facials that sort of thing. Also plastic surgery practices.
I had my make up done for son’s wedding recently and I ended up with what seemed to me Groucho Marx eyebrows. OMG, they were just too much. I wiped off a lot. My natural brows are thin and thinning so yes, I definitely needed help but not that much!
A blonde and a brunette from my gym both did the Microblading. Both are happy with the results. I saw all the little cuts and decided not for me, but they look great.
My brows are still thick and healthy looking, but I get the occasional wild hair that I have to trim short or pluck. A few years ago, I had electrolysis to clean up my brows. It worked like a charm. You can get sessions that are just 15 minutes long, and the women work fast and have great dexterity. You can trim anything that bothers you really short and they can still get it for you.
Lasers won’t “see” gray or really light hair so if that’s what you have, go for electrolysis. I know that lasers have improved, but they used to be very harmful to your eyes so they weren’t supposed to be used on the face at all.
@greenwitch, while it is true that laser hair removal can’t be used for the eyebrow area, it’s been used on the lower part of the face (chin, upper lip) safely for years. You wear opaque safety goggles the entire time although they’re the same goggles you wear when they laser your legs or bikini too.
@Midwest67, you are permitted to shave before and in between laser hair removal sessions. There are special razors just for a women’s face. I’ve tried an battery operated version and a nonelectric and they’ve both worked well. I happen to like the battery operated one more as it gets the “peach fuzz” that laser hair removal won’t get. If you follow Angie (Hot and Flashy) at all, she recommends the second one linked below.
Apparently Mabelline has come out with a brow pencil called Tattoo Studio or something like that which looks like microblading and lasts 2-3 days. I’m going to try it.
My eyebrows have always been bushy, and I’ve trimmed them since my 20s. Now into my 50s, they are still there, but they are white. The rest of my hair is still (mostly) brown, so the white eyebrows tend to disappear into my pale complexion and it just looks like I do not have any. I could darken them in some fashion I suppose, but that seems to be trying too hard (at least for a male). In any event, the rest of my hair color will eventually catch up to my eyebrows, and then they will look bushy again, LOL.
@FallGirl – thanks for that tip! I’ll try it too.
Didn’t realize microblading had little cuts and recovery time.
I’m surprised that no one has recommended Rapidbrow and Rapidlash, which have worked wonders on my formerly sparse eyebrows and lashes. It’s a clear liquid that you paint on in a few seconds at bedtime. Not cheap, but each tube lasts forever.
Benefit Gimme Brow is a gel brow mascara in many shades that covers grey hairs and contains fibers to fill in sparse areas. it’s great.