As people continue to enhance their faces, symmetrical facial features have become more important. For those who are not happy with their eyebrows, there are more options to create a more symmetrical brow. Understanding eyebrow asymmetry causes and how to correct them will help you make the right decision.
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🔍 Understanding Eyebrow Symmetry
Our faces are symmetrical, but no one has perfect symmetry. Eyebrow symmetry makes your face look more balanced. Eyebrow symmetry is when your eyebrows look the same, have the same shape, and have equal hair in each brow. Individuals with asymmetrical eyebrows often feel embarrassed and have low self-esteem and self-confidence, while others don’t let it bother them.
For those looking for a solution for eyebrow symmetry correction, there are plenty of options to choose from!
⚖️ Causes of Uneven Eyebrows
- 🔸Ageing Eyebrows: As we age, some people experience asymmetrical eyebrows due to the loss of elasticity of our skin and weaker muscles around our eyes.
- 🔸Botox: If you have had issues with crow’s feet, a wrinkled forehead, or lines betwixt your eyebrows, you may have had Botox injections. Unfortunately, when these injections relax your eyebrow muscles, they can also cause your eyebrows to look off balance.
- 🔸Hair Loss: Alopecia causes hair loss in males and females. Frontal fibrosing alopecia causes hair loss from your eyebrows and scalp. It causes your eyebrows to look irregular with uneven hair distribution in the brow.
- 🔸Hereditary: Your DNA affects every part of you, including uneven eyebrows. If your parents and siblings have them, it’s a solid bet you will too!
- 🔸Movement of Facial Muscles: Without facial muscles, we would not be able to make facial expressions. If you are someone who raises the same eyebrow all the time, you could be causing an imbalance in your eyebrow muscles by using one eyebrow more than the other.
- 🔸Too Much Eyebrow Plucking: Plucking, tweezing, and waxing are art forms. Most of us who try to do this ourselves end up with uneven eyebrows that have overly plucked spots. If the brows weren’t asymmetrical when you started, they sure are when you’re done!
- 🔸How You Sleep: Believe it or not, the position you sleep in can cause asymmetrical eyebrows. If you sleep on the same side every night, you can cause an imbalance in the eyebrow muscles on the side. You sleep on.
🧠 Your Eyebrows and Medical Conditions
- Bell’s Palsy causes one side of your face to droop, leaving one eyebrow higher than the other.
- Nerve damage affects your face because you can no longer use the muscles that make facial
expressions, leaving you with a drooping brow. - Strokes affect the opposite side (if you have a stroke on the left side of your body, the right side
is affected. The damage causes the affected side of your face to droop, making one brow look higher than the other.
💄 Temporary Eyebrow Options
These makeup tricks are easy and affordable to fix eyebrow asymmetry.
- Eyebrow Gels: These gels keep your eyebrows in place and well-groomed.
- Concealer: Highlight and give your eyebrow more definition by applying concealer.
- Filling In Eyebrows: You can create a full, lush eyebrow by filling in the areas where hair is patchy. The eyebrow pencil can also help define your eyebrows!
🔧 Temporary Cosmetic Procedures
Temporary procedures only last for four to six weeks, then must be redone. While this works for many people, it can be expensive to do them every six weeks.
- Botox for a Balanced Eyebrow
- Earlier, we discussed the use of Botox. If your use of Botox causes one eyebrow to droop, you can inject Botox into the other eyebrow to relax those muscles to obtain symmetrical eyebrows.
- Brow Lamination
- If you’re looking to keep your eyebrow hair in place, ensure identical placement, or need a temporary but stunning eyebrow line, this is the way to achieve it.
- Threading, Tweezing, and Waxing
- While these can be done at home, we recommend you have them professionally done. Overzealous tweezing, threading, or waxing can leave you with uneven or spotty brows.
- Eyebrow asymmetry correction can be done by using a tweezer to remove the eyebrow. Waxing the unwanted eyebrow hair off or using two threads to pull out the unwanted eyebrows.
- Eyebrow Exercises
These exercises can be done anywhere. Raise your eyebrows and hold the position to train these muscles to maintain brow symmetry.Eyebrow Symmetry Using Serums
If you’re looking to stimulate eyebrow growth, using a growth serum can help your eyebrows grow thicker and more evenly.
🏆 Permanent Eyebrow Options
Eyebrow Tattoos
Using a tattoo gun, they tattoo hair-like strands into your eyebrows. It is used to fill in hairless portions of your eyebrow. Making them appear symmetrical and lush.
Microblading
This involves using a tool with microneedles that deposits pigment into your eyebrows, mimicking hair strands. This method is semi-permanent as it has to be redone every couple of years as the pigment fades.
Eyebrow Transplant
An eyebrow transplant fills in where you have lost eyebrow hairs, making them look thick and filling them out. They use a graft from your scalp to get the hair to do the transplant. Then, the hair follicles are placed into your brow. Once in place, the growth looks natural.
Eyebrow transplant can be used to fix scarred eyebrows permanently, filling in hair to create a thicker brow, allowing patients to achieve the brows they want, restoring fullness to an over-plucked brow. It can make the eyebrow appear higher on your face.
🔄 How to Maintain Eyebrow Symmetry
- Once you have achieved the eyebrows of your dreams, you will need to do the maintenance to keep them looking good. These suggestions can help you maintain the eyebrow asymmetry you have achieved.
- See your eyebrow specialist regularly
- Eliminate eyebrow friction leading to eyebrow loss by using a silk pillowcase
- Maintain a healthy eyebrow line using growth serums. Serums keep the hair nourished and condition your brows
💬 Seeking a Professional Assessment
Once you have decided to seek a hair restoration professional, it’s time to call for an assessment. Be sure to write down questions you want answered. Ask when you make the appointment if you need to bring any records or information with you to expedite the process.
Consulting Eyebrow Experts
Successful eyebrow experts can be hard to find. Check websites for before and after photos and read the reviews. Reviews are very telling when it comes to patient services. Hairfix, located in Tijuana, Mexico, is renowned for its hair restoration solutions. Together, you and your eyebrow specialist will create your personalized care plan.
Our Physicians and specialists are all board-certified. Our FUE/DHI technique offers the highest rate of survival for transplanted hair follicles. You can expect natural-looking results at a cost that is half of what is charged in the U.S. Contact us today for a life-changing consultation!
