How Should a Man Trim His Eyebrows? 3 Key Factors for Clearing the Undergrowth
When we talk about hair care in general, we are not only talking about your beard, your body hair and the hair on your head, but of course about the other hairy parts of you as well.
That includes the occasionally bushy eyebrows some of us are naturally blessed with. Heavy growth can leave a man with brows that bring to mind the golden arches of McDonald's or the German politician Theo Waigel. Individual hairs can end up sticking out of your face and flattening an otherwise well-groomed look. So in today's Charlemagne Premium blog post we decided to do something about the situation you are probably in, because you are reading this post, and get into the subject of trimming eyebrows as a man. Below we will cover the two most common problems and help you, as a likely sufferer, get your brows into shape.
The monobrow, "the McDonald's M"
Eko Fresh, the German rapper, is still a name people know. And with him, above all, that one demolishing line from fellow German rapper Kool Savas. Allow us to quote it.
"Your eyebrows look like the M from McDonald's."
Ever since that moment the term has been everywhere, and the monobrow a fashion misstep that has no business on a real man's face.
Fixing it means changing something. Trimming, in this case, is the wrong call.
Keep in mind that eyebrow hair should not be shaved, however easy that looks, because stubble comes back within no time. If your hair is dark, the effect is that much harsher. Plucking holds those problems off at least for a while, and the fresh look is yours. (A small verse of credit here to Freezy. We like you!)
Trimming your eyebrows as a man
Plenty of men have genuinely long eyebrow hairs. Trimming is the decisive move here. To trim your brows you need a comb. It acts as the tool that sets the hair length you want to end up with. With a beard trimmer you can then take off the excess length. For what it is worth, in men this only really shows up alongside a high testosterone level, so the female half of creation is spared. Once you have been through the procedure you usually get some peace for a while. Eyebrows grow slowly.
Plucking your eyebrows
Plucking eyebrows as a man is a heavily contested subject. In both the female and the male fashion world of the late nineties it was simply the done thing to have your brows plucked with a steady hand. Judging by the nostalgic evidence, quite a few of those hands were anything but steady.
Fashion casualties among men were apparently not rare.
These days that old trend reads as very feminine on a man, and fast. If you find hairs on your face, particularly around your eyes, that clearly do not belong there in that form, removing individual hairs by plucking is fair game. A pair of tweezers is the tool that will sort it. Where hairs are long, trimming is the better answer here too.
What you should not do is emphasise the contours too heavily, so that you keep the feminine effect at arm's length.
As you have read, eyebrows are not a subject to neglect, but they are certainly fixable. To round the look off, you will find the right care products as always in our Charlemagne Premium shop. Because always keep one thing in mind:
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