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Article by BR Amelia
Eyebrows are an important feature of the face right? I'm not overly sure of their exact purpose, but I do know they'd be a lot of space between our eyes and our hairline.
2014 was the year of the brow, there's no doubt about it. Other than a few tries from the 'no-brow' trend, brow game is stronger than ever. Thanks to gorgeous celebrities like Kiera Knightley, Jennifer Connelly and Cara Delevingne more and more of us were growing out our brows, hitting the Brow Bars or investing in brow kits. Some of us reached for more permanent solutions. BR's Tabatha investigated Cosmetic Tattooing last year, and as amazing as the results are, I can't help but think, there's still no hair there. So when I discovered the latest 'fix' for your eyebrows, I raised my overplucked brow and thought, "This is genius."
Ok my first thought when I heard Eyebrow Transplant was "what if your brows look like Elton John's hair circa 1994". But upon reading further, eyebrow transplants are actually very cool.
Eyebrow transplants can be used to restore entire eyebrows or thicken existing eyebrows. They can also be used to even out eyebrows that are more second cousins once removed, than sisters. Sparse eyebrow hair can be caused by a number of factors including;
- Overplucking
- Low Thyroid
- Genetics
- Trauma
Like every good transplant you need a donor - and what better a match than...yourself! Donor hair follicles are taken from your scalp and then the cosmetic doctors use really tiny blades (0.5mm) and angle them to follow the natural direction of hair growth, and each tiny hair graft is placed one by one. The average transplant can use anywhere from 50 to 350 individual hairs, per eyebrow.
And the burning question - how much does it cost? Around $8.00 a hair. So for one full eyebrow as much as $2800. 8 times the cost of getting both brows tattooed on. Ouch.
So - eyebrow transplants - would you? Could you? Should you?
Get chatting below!
The cost is really far too much for the average person, but the after pic looks really good.