Are you RUINING your eyebrows? Beauty experts detail the SIMPLE ways you could be destroying your brows

You might think you’re maintaining your eyebrows well, but it’s entirely possible that the products you’re using are actually ruining them.

Sania Vucetaj in Sania eyebrow stick in New York City, who counts Sarah Jessica Parker, Rihanna and Olivia Culpo among her clients, explained exactly what people do wrong when it comes to their eyebrows.

joey healeyowner of a brow studio in New York City and her own line of products, she also weighed in with the best tips and tricks.

These brow experts told FEMAIL about the sneaky ways people are ruining the health of their brows.

Make sure to clean your eyebrows completely.

If you put products on your eyebrows, be sure to clean your face completely before going to bed.

Sania recommended using her brand’s eyebrow shampoo, which contains vitamins, including biotin, to help promote hair growth.

The shampoo works to stop dandruff and flaking eyebrows and is made with clean ingredients. ingredients.

However, it is not always necessary to use a special eyebrow shampoo, as long as you wash your face with a gentle cleanser.

“I don’t know if everyone needs to have a huge medicine cabinet full of hyper-specific products,” Joey said, adding that he’s guilty of this, too.

Instead, she said everyone should use a gentle, fragrance-free cleanser.

“If it’s good enough for your soft skin, around your eyes and your face, then it’s definitely good enough for your eyebrows,” Joey explained.

Avoid Harsh Eyebrow Products

Many women use thick gel on their eyebrows, but the products can be too harsh for delicate hair.

“All of these brow trends (gels, brow soap, lamination, microblading) negatively impact brow health and will ultimately cause more problems in the future,” Sania explained.

Joey doesn’t believe that products like pomades and gels inherently damage eyebrows, but he believes that sometimes the application method can.

“If you find that you have a very hard, very waxy pomade and you drag it across your brow with a brush, you may dislodge some hairs,” Joey warned.

“If you’re using a gel that’s really waterproof and you’re trying to aggressively remove it instead of using a proper makeup remover, you can damage your hair,” Joe explained.

Joey explained that “the ingredients won’t be particularly harmful, but the removal methods on the application may be.”

Choose your serums wisely

There are many serums that promise to grow eyebrows, but be careful and be sure to check the ingredient list.

Sania joked: “It’s simple: if it worked, men wouldn’t go bald!”

“Most serums only create length and don’t create new growth, while other products can create new growth, but once you stop using them, everything falls back,” Sania said.

Joey believes it’s all about the ingredients and offers a brow renewing serum that he says is packed with peptides and amino acids, “which really strengthen the hair” and act as “building blocks of the brow.”

Joey agreed that “there are some that just don’t work” and that they might be beneficial for eyebrows, but they don’t “have that active ingredient to make them move.”

Joey explained that “one thing that can be harmful is any brow growth product with hormones, specifically something like Latisse,” because they can “darken the skin around the eye, not just at the application site, and can change the color.” of the eyes”.

He has seen the eye color change occur and said it is a strange experience that can leave a dark, cloudy area on part of the iris.

In regards to hormonal products, Joey said they should not be used by pregnant womenwhich he called worrying.

Stay away from microblading

Microblading can be extremely attractive: with an eyebrow artist you create a semi-permanent eyebrow tattoo in the exact shape you want; However, these brow artists told FEMAIL that it might not be worth it.

Sania is not a fan of microblading, and according to her it is “Just a fancy word for a tattoo.

“The color fades over time to blue or red, which is, in itself, unflattering,” Sania warned.

“But if the way is wrong, you’ll be stuck with it forever, or almost forever.” It doesn’t fade completely like they say, it just changes color.

“Lastly, as you get older and the skin starts to sag (which is normal), you can’t lift your eyebrows like you would with tweezers because the tattoo falls with the skin.”

Joey agreed that microblading is ultimately not beneficial for eyebrows, explaining, “You’re using a blade and you’re cutting into the skin of your eyebrows, so that’s not going to benefit hair growth.”

“Worst case scenario, you’ll go to someone who’s unhygienic and you could have an infection and possible scarring,” Joe said, advising people to avoid it.

Avoid lamination

It may be tempting to try brow lamination, which is like a perm for your brows that leaves them perfectly in place, but these brow gurus advise against it.

The process neutralizes the bonding of the hair and then allows the brow artist to reshape it with saran wrap.

Unfortunately, this can lead to dry hair and a strange texture, which people often counteract with serums.

When it comes to eyebrow lamination, Sania said, “a lot of chemicals are used to make the eyebrow hairs stand up and this process is very damaging to the follicle.”

“You’re using a chemical to straighten your hair, and if you do it repeatedly, the hair can become damaged and break like the hair on your head,” Joey advised.