Eyebrows: Why Plucking is Better than Shaving
My husband doesn’t seem to realize that he has a giant, hairy caterpillar growing across his face. I’m not trying to be mean, but his eyebrows could stand-in for a wooly mammoth on the Discovery Channel. As a man, he believes in 
the ease and comfort of shaving his unruly forehead mustache.
He can’t, for the life of him, understand why I would endure the time and pain of plucking my eyebrows. This matter was recently settled, when I had to do some creative manscaping on my husband’s mangled brow (i.e. “the mistake factor“), in a futile attempt to make him look human again.
The bottom line? It’s better to pluck than shave. It’s your duty as a wife to show him the error of his ways, before it’s too late.
The Mistake Factor
We’ve all seen those unfortunate folks who look like their eyebrows went through a shredder, have one side longer than the other or have no choice but to shear the entire thing off after a shaving experiment gone bad. Lets face it, taking an electric or bladed razor to your brow is just asking for trouble. One false move (or an unexpected cough) and you look like something from a horror flick. Plucking may take longer and be more uncomfortable, but by removing a single hair at a time, you are eliminating the risk of a major disaster.
Shaping
My husband’s eyebrow hair grows like a weed and is about as unruly. If he lets it go for any length of time, it begins to look like a forehead afro. The idea of plucking one hair at a time to create an attractive eyebrow shape is preposterous when he can just “trim” the hairs with a swipe of his electric shaver. Little does he know, this actually nurtures the bizarre landscaping of his mega-brow. When a hair is plucked, you’re pulling it out from the root and it grows back in roughly the same direction. When a hair is cut through shaving, you leave a portion of the hair and it may no longer grow with the grain. Instead of growing into a well groomed brow, you have a renegade hair sticking straight out with several of his rebellious cousins nearby.
Five O’Clock Shadow
Beard stubble on a man can be sexy. It‘s rugged and manly. When that stubble is on an eyebrow it just looks weird. Electric shavers don’t get as close as necessary and you can get little black spots where the hair used to be (aka: eyebrow stubble). On a good day, it looks strange and every other day it looks like a bevy of blackheads riding on your eyebrow. If he tries to cuddle or nuzzle you, the stubble acts like Velcro and a smooth act can quickly turn into a game of snag-the-sweater. The other downside is as this hair grows back, it looks like he had eyebrow hair plugs … NOT sexy.
Next time your husband or significant other goes for the razor or electric shaver to take care of his eyebrows, grab it and offer to pluck it for him. He will protest, but it’s always up to us women to show men the error of their ways.
Image Source: flickr.com/photos/russelljsmith/3750019
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