I Haven't Tweezed My Eyebrows Since February, and It's Weirdly Freeing

Pre-COVID-19, I used to lightly touch up and pluck stray hairs from my eyebrows maybe once a week, but I relied on Joey Healy, the king of brows himself, to routinely fix the shape and do maintenance on them. However, I haven't seen Healy since February, which was five months ago. During this time at home, I could have taken my eyebrow shaping into my own hands — I'm confident I could do it without totally ruining my brows — but I just didn't feel like it.

So, here we are four months later, and I can't remember the last time I took a pair of tweezers to my brows. Instead, what I've been doing is applying a brow serum to help nourish hair growth, and I think it's working. I've also occasionally trimmed the superlong hairs that I notice sticking out of place. The other day, I had one that was so outrageously long that I ran into the living room to show my boyfriend, yelling, "Look! Look!," to which he responded with a weird look on his face, "Congrats?"

My goal for this beauty experiment is to finally fill in the ends of my brows to the point where I don't need any color cosmetics to achieve the look I want. Considering I'm rarely going outside and I don't see other people, save for my boyfriend, whom I live with, it's been easier than I thought just letting my eyebrows grow wild. Although I'm not going to lie: it has been very tempting to pluck the stray hairs that pop up way out of place — I mean so out of place they're borderline on my eyelid — on my brow bone. I'm just thankful I was persistent enough with my plucking back when I did do my brows that I don't have many hairs growing in between my eyes . . . yet.

Moral of the story: right now is the perfect time to do those not-so-pretty beauty treatments or experiments, and not touching my eyebrows right now feels weirdly freeing.

Considering I call Joey Healy the king of brows (because he is), it should come as no surprise that I'm obsessed with his Joey Healy Brow Renovation Serum ($125). I love that it has a spoolie applicator so you can easily comb it through your eyebrows.

The neuLASH Brow Enhancing Serum ($100) is a bestseller and top rated for a reason — it works. In three to four weeks, you'll start to notice thicker hair regrowth in your eyebrows from using this serum nightly.

I was told by a makeup artist when the No7 Lash Impact Lash Serum ($10) launched that this product does wonders on nourishing eyebrow hair, too. After using it for two months, I'm a believer.