OVERPLUCKED
PATTY PARFITT, 64. I WAS a teenager in the Sixties and, back then, the look — made famous by Twiggy — was for thin eyebrows with an extreme arch. I plucked them constantly and now, as a result, they don’t grow at all.
Nilam says it’s a fairly common problem in women of my age. She tells me: ‘Nothing is going to reverse that — but there are still ways of padding them out and faking it.’
Nowadays I just draw my brows on with a pencil. I don’t tend to wear much eye make-up, so I’d give anything for a decent set of brows to frame my face.
I’m a little alarmed when Nilam starts by giving me a wax. I wouldn’t have thought there was anything there to remove!
‘Even very sparse brows have light, downy fluff around them,’ she says. ‘To get a really tidy HD brow, that needs to come off.’
Next, Nilam tells me she wants to give me a less rounded shape to flatter my slim, oval face. She starts by drawing in fine ‘hairs’ with the HD Pro Pencil, then switches to a softer pencil to give an even colour, in an ashy-brown shade, which will suit my skin tone. The whole process takes just 15 minutes.
I can’t bear the thought of having two huge caterpillars over my eyes, but the result is delicate and subtle. I’ve gone a little darker and the brows reach to the outer corners.
My eyes now look wider and brighter — and the new brows shave off a few years, too!