Poll for the men on the board only: Do you groom your eyebrows?

[dkaplowitz]

The orange guidos in the moderator "picts" thread got me wondering how many guys actually manicure their eyebrows.

What'll it be then?

[marsellus]

No.
If I start to get a unibrow, then I might at least pluck out a middle section or something, but so far I've been lucky.

[SEEGERMANY]

Yes

[dkaplowitz]

My apologies. I forgot the "I get them waxed" option. You can include that in the "I go to a place that does this kind of stuff" option.

[KeithC]

My wife will sometimes give me a strange(r) sideways look and then tell me I have a really long eyebrow hair happening.

Then she'll want to pull it or cut it.

I'm usually up for anytime she willing to put her hands on me ;) so I let her.

[jaycee]

I only yank the freakishly long ones that stick out (brow hairs, that is). No uni-brow issues. The hardest thing is to remember to look for them in the first place.

[S-L-A-C-K-E-R]

My wife loves to wax my unibrow when it starts to show. Other than that though, I leave 'em alone.

[scottlr]

Well, back in 9th grade, this girl used to tease me that I plucked my eyebrows. I had no idea in the world what she was talking about, but she drove me crazy (a short drive, even back then) going on and on about it. Well, years later, from other "nicer" girls, I find out that girls envied my eyebrows! WTF? So I have a look, and sure enough, they are perfect! The only thing on my entire body that was perfect. LOL Then I forgot about it.. until the last few years. NOW, a few of the hairs in my perfect eyebrows are growing way longer! They are not bushy like Andy Rooney, but they are now long enough to get mussed up. A few of the longest ones have bugged me enough to pluck them out. Now, if any hair decides to get out of formation, it's gone. My dad had close to Andy Rooney brows. I will NOT allow that. So far, I have managed to do OK without having to trim them.

Now why in the world does this happen? THAT is the real question. The hair on my head falls out. Now, my small amount of chest hair has grown to about 2-3 inches long, and much of it has turned white towards the top. Then my eyebrow hairs start gaining length, and black hairs start growing out of my freaking ears! WTF?!?!?! I pluck those ear hairs, as well as any hair that has the audacity to extend out of my nose. Why doesn't the hair on my damn head grow. I'd settle for any color/consistency I could get as long as it was there. :D

[The Golden Boy]

http://love2tap.com/paul/images/wonka_oompa_loompa.jpg

[TNJ]

I'd be all unibrow if not for my shaver.

Dont tell anyone, o.k.?

S>
j

[Kingbeegtrs]

my "barber" is a milf, which makes it entirely ok

[chrisr777]

I never even realized this was actually an issue.

:confused:

[antojado]

Well, back in 9th grade, this girl used to tease me that I plucked my eyebrows. I had no idea in the world what she was talking about, but she drove me crazy (a short drive, even back then) going on and on about it. Well, years later, from other "nicer" girls, I find out that girls envied my eyebrows! WTF? So I have a look, and sure enough, they are perfect! The only thing on my entire body that was perfect. LOL Then I forgot about it.. until the last few years. NOW, a few of the hairs in my perfect eyebrows are growing way longer! They are not bushy like Andy Rooney, but they are now long enough to get mussed up. A few of the longest ones have bugged me enough to pluck them out. Now, if any hair decides to get out of formation, it's gone. My dad had close to Andy Rooney brows. I will NOT allow that. So far, I have managed to do OK without having to trim them.

Now why in the world does this happen? THAT is the real question. The hair on my head falls out. Now, my small amount of chest hair has grown to about 2-3 inches long, and much of it has turned white towards the top. Then my eyebrow hairs start gaining length, and black hairs start growing out of my freaking ears! WTF?!?!?! I pluck those ear hairs, as well as any hair that has the audacity to extend out of my nose. Why doesn't the hair on my damn head grow. I'd settle for any color/consistency I could get as long as it was there. :D

It's the weight of the atmosphere. It weighs down on your head and pushes the hair out your ears and nose. Either that or global warming.

[daddyo]

If I didn't trim my eyebrows, I'd be staring through foliage after about 2 months.

[Midnight Lady]

I'd be all unibrow if not for my shaver.

Dont tell anyone, o.k.?

S>
jYour secret is safe with me Steve!!! (not... :D)

[Johnny V.]

Not sure if manicure is the right word, but the woman who cuts my hair trims 'em with her clippers or I'll run my disposable razor over them. Don't like the "twin caterpillars above the eye" look.

[RichieRich]

i have a few hairs growing in the unibrow section that i shave.

i also get a few greys in my brows that i pluck.

oh yea, i'm 26 years old. :rolleyes:

[RiseofRock]

I never had the problem. My eyebrows aren't bushy.

[jay42]

No unibrow issues, however, mine grow very quickly and very long. They tend to poke me in the eyes if I don't keep them short. Celtic ancestory I suppose.

[twinrider1]

No, but I've got a long eyelash growing right now, and it's gray! Is it okay to pluck an eyelash?

[BluesForDan]

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u86/BluesForDan/miscellaneous/weedwacker.jpg

[Jeeves]

yes, and I have a nose hair mower also

[TRIODEROB]

why would I do that ?


http://bp1.blogger.com/_PfNfwJW2ZVo/R9ElVlgs1mI/AAAAAAAAAR0/UZs-thh9whU/s400/monobrow6ik.jpg

[Doodad]

Growing copious amounts of hair is not one of my many problems.

If I did not trim a bit I would look like a Russian trawler captain before too long. Nyet!

[roomservice]

can't be doi9ng with those stray wiry ones that weren't there yesterday but today - they're a foot long....how did that happen??

and as for the odd hair growing out of the top of your ear......

[Suproman77]

Manicure your eyebrows? WTF does that mean? LOL!

Men don't manicure, ok...we 'groom'.

[Doodad]

Thank God no one said "manscape" like that awful commercial.

[rattles]

Well, back in 9th grade, this girl used to tease me that I plucked my eyebrows. I had no idea in the world what she was talking about, but she drove me crazy (a short drive, even back then) going on and on about it. Well, years later, from other "nicer" girls, I find out that girls envied my eyebrows! WTF? So I have a look, and sure enough, they are perfect! The only thing on my entire body that was perfect. LOL Then I forgot about it.. until the last few years. NOW, a few of the hairs in my perfect eyebrows are growing way longer! They are not bushy like Andy Rooney, but they are now long enough to get mussed up. A few of the longest ones have bugged me enough to pluck them out. Now, if any hair decides to get out of formation, it's gone. My dad had close to Andy Rooney brows. I will NOT allow that. So far, I have managed to do OK without having to trim them.

Now why in the world does this happen? THAT is the real question. The hair on my head falls out. Now, my small amount of chest hair has grown to about 2-3 inches long, and much of it has turned white towards the top. Then my eyebrow hairs start gaining length, and black hairs start growing out of my freaking ears! WTF?!?!?! I pluck those ear hairs, as well as any hair that has the audacity to extend out of my nose. Why doesn't the hair on my damn head grow. I'd settle for any color/consistency I could get as long as it was there. :D


Sorry Scott, but I couldn't help but burst out laughing as I read your post!

NO ONE....repeat, NO ONE should have a unibrow growing. IT LOOKS GROSS! Women do notice the bushy eyebrows, the fuzzy ears and I've even seen a few men growing "sprouts" of hair on top of their nose.
CUT, PLUCK, TRIM....whatever it takes!!! Hair does NOT belong growing like a forest out of your ears, on top of your nose, nor all the way across your forehead.

Got it? Good! :BEER

[Stike]

I only yank the freakishly long ones that stick out (brow hairs, that is). No uni-brow issues. The hardest thing is to remember to look for them in the first place.

Yep. My ears and nose is a different story.

[scottlr]

Sorry Scott, but I couldn't help but burst out laughing as I read your post!

NO ONE....repeat, NO ONE should have a unibrow growing. IT LOOKS GROSS! Women do notice the bushy eyebrows, the fuzzy ears and I've even seen a few men growing "sprouts" of hair on top of their nose.
CUT, PLUCK, TRIM....whatever it takes!!! Hair does NOT belong growing like a forest out of your ears, on top of your nose, nor all the way across your forehead.

Got it? Good! :BEER

I have no unibrow at all. But as I grow older, that Bill Cosby special (50 I think it was), keeps ringing true! No ear trimmer for me, I pluck that shit out.

[halorealm7]

my "barber" is a milf, which makes it entirely ok

+1 My barber can "trim" anywhere she wants to!!!!

[The Guy]

im shocked by how many men actually do manipulate their brows. i always thought the tweezers belonged beside the mascara

[rattles]

im shocked by how many men actually do manipulate their brows. I always thought the tweezers belonged beside the mascara


wrong!!!!!!!

[DanR]

I do them myself when they get too wild, but sometimes when I get a haircut, the barber/stylist will ask if I want my brows trimmed and I'll accept the offer. A couple of times, this one particular girl swiftly and surreptitiously did my ear hair, which I appreciated greatly.

[dkaplowitz]

im shocked by how many men actually do manipulate their brows. i always thought the tweezers belonged beside the mascara
Me too!

I was about 30 the first time a barber went after them and I almost freaked out. I've always liked my brows and to have anyone messing with them really scared the shit out of me. But as I get older, they are starting to shag out more, so once in a while I trim them. But in general, I don't mind them a little shaggy. Grow your hair and your mutton chops out a bit and they look normal. ;)

I'd rather look like Edgard Varese or Brezhnev as an old man than some squeaky clean browless wonder.

[phoenix 7]

I occasionally get a super long eyebrow hair and yank it out. Maybe 2x a year I'll pull out some center ones to avoid the Neanderthal look.

[mike80]

I got cursed with hair, so if I let them grow, I would have one giant unibrow. My ex-wife used to insist that I get them waxed, so I would get that done. I thought it was weird at the time. After we divorced, I let them grow until I got with another woman who wanted me to get them waxed and trimmed. So I did them again. After my fiance wanted me to get them done, I didn't really think it was weird anymore. She is a hair stylist, so I get them done for free now. Every couple weeks I'll take the trimmer to them, and when they get out of control and start looking like caterpillars, I'll get them waxed.

There's a difference between looking like a man and a neanderthal.

[scottlr]

im shocked by how many men actually do manipulate their brows. i always thought the tweezers belonged beside the mascara

So you don't MIND looking like Andy Rooney?

I refuse to have fur on and in my ears, and I refuse to have hair sticking out of my nose, and no way will I tolerate eyebrows that look like a BBQ brush. As long as some plucking takes care of that, I'll be a plucking mofo. My FIL has been seen with actual furry ears. I will NOT allow that!

And anyone in show business should NOT be afraid of makeup. There's a reason all of the stars look the way they do...as far as you know.

[justMe]

Don't touch my forehead!

[rattles]

Don't touch my forehead!

fine......we won't touch your forehead..........just your bushy eyebrows!!!

[The Guy]

So you don't MIND looking like Andy Rooney?

I refuse to have fur on and in my ears, and I refuse to have hair sticking out of my nose, and no way will I tolerate eyebrows that look like a BBQ brush. As long as some plucking takes care of that, I'll be a plucking mofo. My FIL has been seen with actual furry ears. I will NOT allow that!

And anyone in show business should NOT be afraid of makeup. There's a reason all of the stars look the way they do...as far as you know.

well, im not an especially hairy person; i can thank genetics for that i guess.

cmon, andy rooney exudes manly perfection. he is truly all the ladies delight. :D

[JohnLochner]

No way.. if any hairy part of my body is out of whack, I'm sure somebody would tell me. Nobody's said anything yet, so I must be good...

http://thedreamatists.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/suicide-frida-kahlo-b.jpg

[The Guy]

All the ladies delight. . . BEHOLD!

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m139/nativealienx/images-2.jpg

[mike80]

All the ladies delight. . . BEHOLD!

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m139/nativealienx/images-2.jpg

I've been trying to think of who my Persian cat looks like....and I've finally figured it out!

[rattles]

All the ladies delight. . . BEHOLD!

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m139/nativealienx/images-2.jpg



I like Andy....I really do. But every Sunday night at the end of 60 minutes, I want to pull my hair clippers out SOOOOO bad that I can't hardly stand it! Surely his wife doesn't find those huge bushes on his face sexy or attractive.

[crosse79]

Do they actually call it there? Manicure - I thought it was for nails?

[The Guy]

Surely his wife doesn't find those huge bushes on his face sexy or attractive.

how concerned with sexiness would you be at 143 years of age? :barf

[rattles]

how concerned with sexiness would you be at 143 years of age? :barf


True!

But my kids would NEVER let their dad go around looking like that! Not even at 143!

[The Guy]

poor andy. . . all the man wants is for us to accept him for who he is, and we instead make him an example of how not to maintain eyebrows. we ought to be ashamed. :roll

go on, mr rooney. fight the good fight.

[rattles]

Okay Mr. Guy......would your wife, kids, SO, let you go out in public with that 'stuff' growing on your face????? :huh:dunno:nono:confused: Please tell me no!

[The Guy]

oh, no way. she would emotionally abuse me until i caved. thats what she does when i wear white socks with pants. what can i say? theyre more comfy than the dress socks. and besides, you cant even see them unless im leaping about.

so, no. she would kill me.

[scottlr]

Andy can do whatever he wants. I will NOT have eyebrows like that. And if my lip develops a uvula, I'll take care of that, too! Sorry, Andy, but you HAVE seen better days. I like you, but damn, spend a little money on yourself!

[dmczern]

I was wondering when I would see a thread like this.
I do some plucking when they get out of control. My girlfriend
is always trying do use her "eyebrow" brush and trimmers on
me but I don't go there.

She and I have had conversations regarding "man grooming". Eyebrow,
ear and nose hair etc. We have a male friend that's married to a, shall
I say a well groomed meticulous woman. He is 30 years old. Yet sometimes
when we see him he has a virtual shrub growing from each nostril and ears.
He even has some wild-ass hairs growing on the surface of his nose.

A secondary question to this thread, might be "is it a girlfriend/wife's duty
to point these things out to her man, we thought that the answer is YES!

Sorry for the yammering..........goodnight MEN!

[dmczern]

HA !! Just saw the above related replies, way to go Rattles !

[crosse79]

He is 30 years old. Yet sometimes
when we see him he has a virtual shrub growing from each nostril and ears.
He even has some wild-ass hairs growing on the surface of his nose.


Sorry for the yammering..........goodnight MEN!

OK - this scares me....

[Hackubus]

I knock out the crazy ones that look like they're flying off my forehead & the strays that might pop up in the "Uni-zone", but leave them alone for the most part.

[xntrick]

yes, i may be a guy but i'm not a caveman

[urizen]

T'anx for reminding me---I'll get out the laserblade and do it right now...
http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr155/mzyxplx/Photo5.jpg

[amigo30]

I'm reading this before I got very much coffee in me.

I read the title as: Do you manicure your elbows? I had a pre-coffee WTF moment.

[Bussman]

...Manicure - I thought it was for nails?

You are right.
Etymology: Fr < L manus, a hand + cura, care

Unless your eyebrows are on your hands...

[dkaplowitz]

Do they actually call it there? Manicure - I thought it was for nails?
You're right. I mistakenly misused it synonymously with "groom". I've asked the mods to change the thread title.

[Suproman77]

You are right.
Etymology: Fr < L manus, a hand + cura, care

Unless your eyebrows are on your hands...

Right, that one had my scratching my head earlier although when I looked it up in the dictionary, besides involving the nails, it also said, "to trim or cut meticulously: to manicure a lawn."

Apparently, it can be used both specifically and generally. That's a new one to me.

[big mike]

I hit mine with the beard trimmer every so often.
Not to shape, but to make sure they don't get long and look weird.

[dkaplowitz]

Right, that one had my scratching my head earlier although when I looked it up in the dictionary, it said, "to trim or cut meticulously: to manicure a lawn."

Apparently, it can be used both specifically and generally. That's a new one to me.
Hmmm.... that's how I was using it. I will have to check one of my "real" dictionaries when I get home. The one I used online only mentioned nails. It made me second-guess myself.

[Suproman77]

Hmmm.... that's how I was using it. I will have to check one of my "real" dictionaries when I get home. The one I used online only mentioned nails. It made me second-guess myself.

I found it right here:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/manicure

...learn something new every day.

[Bussman]

The deterioration of language never cease. No wonder the western world is going to hell in a handbasket!

LOL

[VintageToneGuy]

My wife got near me with wax just one time and one time only! I had this patch of hair on the back of my lower neck that just drove her crazy. She convinced me to lie down on the bed face down and she'd wax it off. She plugged in the 'machine' and let it get warm (not hot, but only warm). She came over to 'roll' the wax on my hairy spot and the wax wasn't hot enough to come off the roller and onto my neck; instead, as the roller wheel turned it pulled all the hair off my neck and I mean 'slooooowwwwly'. I came off the bed with big crocadile tears in my eyes and swore that was the last time!!!

It's been 21 years later and that was the last time!!! I don't care if I begin to look like a Beaver on Steroids and hair growth tonic; I'm just gonna let it grow!!!

vtg

*Boy, I feel better now that I've got that off my chest from 20 years ago!!!

[dkaplowitz]

The deterioration of language never cease. No wonder the western world is going to hell in a handbasket!

LOL
Although I disagree with you and actually think the growth of English in general is a good thing, I'd recommend you learn classical Latin and stick to that. It no longer changes. Same could probably be said for classical Greek. At least you have options for a static language that's still very rich.

[dkaplowitz]

I found it right here:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/manicure

...learn something new every day.
Funny, I stopped using that one in favor of merriam-webster.com. dictionary.com started doing weird things like trying to sell me things/services when I looked certain words up. But merriam's entries seem kinda' sparse. I'm going to have to find another alternative (that doesn't cost as much as the OED online).

[eBay]

Waxing looks peculiar to me. However, I had both a unibrow and excess stuff on the sides when I was young. I found a good person who did electrolysis on them and she said that the key to male eyebrows is to stagger the line. So she did this alternating thing, one hair on one side of the line and one hair on the other. It came out great and doesn't look strange like waxing does to me. Later, my girlfriend who didn't know said that I was lucky I had incredible looking eyebrows. I mentioned that I had them worked on but I could tell she didn't believe me.

Now that I'm fifty, I get the occational long one and my barber trims them. They still have a good shape though but I could use a little touch up 25 years later.

The real problem is weird hair growin the edge of my ears; that and chicken neck. OMG! Aging sucks.

[Blueswede]

Cracks me up to see a guy like Andy Rooney, who looks like a couple of huge caterpillars crawled up and went to sleep over his eyes........dude, look in the mirror!

[Teleplayer]

You get older and hair grows where you don't want it.....and doesn't grow where you do want it.

[Bussman]

Although I disagree with you and actually think the growth of English in general is a good thing, I'd recommend you learn classical Latin and stick to that. It no longer changes. Same could probably be said for classical Greek. At least you have options for a static language that's still very rich.

You'd be surprised. My sister teaches Latin and Classical Greek at university. She tells me that what they do is more speculation than anything and there is a lot of room for interpretation. She travels the world to attend endless debates about dead languages... I think it is interesting but it doesn't sound like my idea of fun.

I was just being sarcastic though. Silly me. I guess you missed the LOL.

[dkaplowitz]

You'd be surprised. My sister teaches Latin and Classical Greek at university. She tells me that what they do is more speculation than anything and there is a lot of room for interpretation. She travels the world to attend endless debates about dead languages... I think it is interesting but it doesn't sound like my idea of fun.

I was just being sarcastic though. Silly me. I guess you missed the LOL.
Speaking of speculation, LOL is used a lot of different ways online. But yeah, missed the sarcasm. I tend to do that from time to time.

I'm actually doing classical studies as a major, so I'll be doing a lot of speculating the next couple of years. I like it a lot though...very rewarding study, great for the memory muscles.

[tone4days]

yeah - i pluck the space between to beat back the encroaching unibrow, pluck the straggly strays (esp the grey ones), and trim (always with the grain!) when they get too bushy ... i dont go so far as manscaping, but i try to belie my cromagnon heritage

[Bussman]

Good on you dkaplowitz. My sis is the Baccalaureate Studies Director in the Classical Studies department at uOttawa. She's had a translation published (http://www.editionsducerf.fr/html/fiche/fichelivre.asp?n_liv_cerf=7589&refer=relevant) last year. Maybe your paths will cross since she lectures all over the place.

I used to tease her and tell her that the only thing she could possibly do with that kind of PhD was to turn around and spread the "disease". (this may even be a Zappa paraphrase, hahaha.)

Good luck with it!

[jaycee]

This thread reminds me of a guy I used to work with. He would come in with these stray nose hairs in each nostril and they would almost be down to his lip. Many times there were boogers on them. It was disgusting. He never noticed this?

[Jagsound]

Now why in the world does this happen? THAT is the real question. The hair on my head falls out. Now, my small amount of chest hair has grown to about 2-3 inches long, and much of it has turned white towards the top. Then my eyebrow hairs start gaining length, and black hairs start growing out of my freaking ears! WTF?!?!?! I pluck those ear hairs, as well as any hair that has the audacity to extend out of my nose. Why doesn't the hair on my damn head grow. I'd settle for any color/consistency I could get as long as it was there. :D

This is a very good summary of my position as well, except... I can't pluck nose hairs, the eye watering sensation I get is too much, so I clip them with a thing.

[Jagsound]

This thread reminds me of a guy I used to work with. He would come in with these stray nose hairs in each nostril and they would almost be down to his lip. Many times there were boogers on them. It was disgusting. He never noticed this?

Oh man, no, that picture is going to be hard to forget!

Boogers? Seriously? Oh crapping hell!

[billygoat]

33 years old, half Ukranian...as we age, and lose our hair, the hair from our ears and eyebrows grows very long so that we may may comb it over and keep our heads warm during cossack raids in the cold winter....

So basically it's all genes, but I had my barber trim them for the first time for two reasons: The top ones were hanging over the top of my glasses, and the bottom ones were growing into my eyes....

I said to my wife: "Honey, when you look straight ahead, can you see your eyebrows? Cuz I can"

Barber did a nice job, trimmed em without making them look manicured

[dkaplowitz]

Good on you dkaplowitz. My sis is the Baccalaureate Studies Director in the Classical Studies department at uOttawa. She's had a translation published (http://www.editionsducerf.fr/html/fiche/fichelivre.asp?n_liv_cerf=7589&refer=relevant) last year. Maybe your paths will cross since she lectures all over the place.

I used to tease her and tell her that the only thing she could possibly do with that kind of PhD was to turn around and spread the "disease". (this may even be a Zappa paraphrase, hahaha.)

Good luck with it!
Sounds like an Anthrax paraphrase to me. ;)

Thanks for the well-wishes. I've been having a lot of fun with it so far, so we'll see how it keeps up. I'm just finishing up an undergrad I never finished in my '20s, so it's not like I'm doing grad work. But I've not ruled doing grad studies out either.

Kudos to your sister. What you describe about her sounds a lot like my Latin teacher.

Best,

Dave

[bkd_guitarist]

This thread reminds me of a guy I used to work with. He would come in with these stray nose hairs in each nostril and they would almost be down to his lip. Many times there were boogers on them. It was disgusting. He never noticed this?

Ughhhhhh, that's nasty.

Yes, I trim my eyebrows, nose hairs, ear hairs, etc. I also use facial care products and eye cream. I'm basically a metrosexual without the theater and martini bar outings. Out of control eyebrows and nose hair will be the ruination of our society.

[MBreinin]

I have to take care of the unibrow..and the odd eyebrow hair or two that likes to grow to about 5 inches. LOL.

[fusionbear]

If I didn't trim my eyebrows, I'd look like a young Gandalf in a week!

[tybone]

Thank goodness my testosterone level appears to be below that needed for cro-magnonesqe eyebrow growth. If you want to talk about ear hair, well that's another story.

Larry