Friday 24 August 2012

Eyebrow Lightening: Before&After Pictures!

Hello everyone, long time no talk! I am back and once again here to stay. So here's a little back history on my hair, because it is why I decided to lighten my eyebrows. Up until last summer  my hair was virgin hair, I had never dyed it other than once for Halloween. It was a ashy dark dirty blonde that I hated, and along with that I had extremely naturally dark eyebrows (like chestnut brown coloured eyebrows). I eventually started dying my hair very dark for about a year, and now for grade 12 I've decided to go blonde with highlights. My eyebrows though are still very dark so for it to blend better with the blonde (I am getting highlights so there will  still be some brown) I wanted to lighten my eyebrows about 3 shades.

What ways you can lighten eyebrows:
Bleach 
Chamomile Tea & Lemon Juice
Lemon Juice 
Sun-In 

Bleach: I would never use this method UNLESS  I was getting it done by an experienced professional, too much can go wrong (ex. getting in your eyes, eyebrows falling out).

Chamomile Tea & Lemon Juice: This natural remedy works, although I have not tried it after researching I noticed that it can be very time consuming and need to be used several times to achieve a noticeable difference.

Lemon Juice: Same as above in the sense it takes quite awhile to achieve a noticeable difference. It also has to be heat activated. 

Sun-In: This product is pretty much a small concentrate of bleach in a bottle, it works but has many dangerous factors such as getting in eyes and eyebrows turning orange. 

WHAT I DID/BEFORE&AFTER  PICTURES:

Products:
5 volume developer (don't know if this is really necessary but it adds thickness to the sun-in so it's easier to apply)
Sun-in 
Q-tips
Container

Instructions:
I put 1ml of the developer and Sun-In into the container then mixed it together. With a Q-tip I gently smeared it on my eyebrows then let it sit for an hour. I have done it three times now with the amount of time I left it on varying from 20 minutes to an hour. Of course the longer you leave it on the better the effect. Then I wiped it off with a kleenex then wiped them down and put a little conditioner on them, just so they don't get too dried out. So far I have gotten superior results, but I noticed that the ends are going so light you can't see them as well so now I am only applying to the chunkiest part of my brow. 

Anyways, always do what works best for you and just because this worked for me there is a chance it will not work for you. 

BEFORE 
*before: this is in 100% natural light, cropped from another random photo hence why it`s not as up close! sorry about that! I am fairly pale here too, due to it being taken in June before the sun came. 

*after: please ignore un-maintained state of my brows, I am currently trying to grow them out. 


                                          AFTER 3 USES