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I over-tweezed my Bert-from-Sesame-Street unibrow & the hair wouldn’t grow back – now my ‘lazy’ approach filled them in

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A SALON beauty treatment transformed a woman in her forties thinning brows.

She said her eyebrow hairs stopped growing after countless attempts to tackle her pronounced unibrow in her younger years.

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A woman has revealed how she achieved fuller brows after years of overplucking (stock image)Credit: Getty

She shared her must-try hack for creating the illusion of fuller brows on Reddit’s 45 Plus Skincare forum.

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She recalled being “forbidden” from getting beauty treatments to manage her unibrow when she was younger.

“As soon as I was out of the house, I was in a salon paying & basically begging, for wax to thin my Bert from Sesame Street, unibrow,” she said, writing under the handle .

“I did that for years until it was apparent that I had a very pink strip below my eyebrows which didn't match the rest of my very tanned skin tone. 

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“I started to tweeze. And tweeze. And Twiggy Tweeze.

“They got too thin so I let them grow back then started getting them threaded. 

“One day, I realized they just don't grow now like they once did.”

The Redditor, who is also perimenopausal, said bloodwork revealed she had an underactive thyroid.

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Despite taking a prescription, applying topical oils, and using serums, her eyebrow hair still refused to grow.

However, she was wowed by the “huge difference” microblading made to them. 

“It accentuates the hair I have left and makes it very easy to dermaplane off the ‘overgrowth.’” she said.

“I no longer wax, thread, or tweeze. It's more time and pain than I'm interested in dealing with. 

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She paid around $450 for her initial microblading session and went back after six weeks for a touch-up.

The delighted woman said her brows haven’t faded at all within the year and a half since she had the treatment.

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