Talk to the Goat
Do we get to see a picture of how hawt your new eyebrows are?
Yeah, I wanna see too!
I have the same problem. Now I'm inspired by your example but I don't know if I can give the pluck up just yet!
I dont like eyebrows too thick , people look angry Like Bert(ernie & Bert)
Stay strong.
I am embarrassed to admit this post made me want to pluck.
It's like how those "Truth" commercials make me want to smoke, I guess.
I stopped plucking this year, and i started getting my eyebrows threaded. they look much nicer!
Good job on getting your OCD plucking under control. The consequences of not doing so are severe: the reapplication of eye make up, every time you want to change your facial expression.
G.
hi, i love your blog. i just started blogging myself and refreshing to read a witty, fun blogger such as yourself.
i think we need to see a pic!
here i thought you've been away, little did i know you must have been sitting on those hands of yours.
I used to overpluck too, and finally one day decided to stop. I'm good now, but man the first days were hard!
I'm proud of you for facing the shame and outing yourself. It takes a special person to face such withdrawal without benefit of a patch or gum or even a help line or support group. You've inspired me to admit that I abuse Q-tips. I can't seem to enter the bathroom without trying to remove earwax that isn't actually there. But you've given me the courage to at least cut back. It's like some weird form of masturbation. But it could actually make me deaf. One day at a time though. We can do it.
I have NEVER plucked - my god.. you people are nuts!
Seriously, how can you? *squirms in imagined discomfort* Mind you - I've never waxed either - and I've never been a smoker, man o man o man - i'm just virgin territory all over!
Jay - I applaud you for giving up this disgusting habit *grin* let me know when you get sick of martini's 
Good afternoon Jay. I have never plucked or waxed myself. I do use nair on my legs though. That is the only thing I do to myself besides bathe of course. LOL.. Hope things are going well and you are not tempting yourself with those tweezer. Its sounds painful in anycase but some people just have too. There is nothing wrong with it if you have to. I am no critic here. I have been critized all my life on things so i try not to with other people. Anyway hope you are well. Tweets.
I look back at high school pictures of me and it's all I can do not to scan the pics in and photoshop my eyebrows into the more tame version of today. But alas, life is a journey, right? [Scanning...]
yeeshk! i can't inflict that kind of pain upon myself (only to others). i go to the beauty salon and get them to wax and, if necessary, pluck it away.
people who are into that are sick! ;o)
It has been six weeks since my last waxing. I still tweeze every time I'm in the car. I'm going to lose an eyeball one of these days.
Mist1- I have a special set of tweezers that I always carry in my purse. I used to love to tweeze in the car - the sun is great lighting for grooming!
Vics - It only hurt for the first year or so. Since then, I have had no feeling above my pupils. I don't feel it at all anymore. Until you said that, I actually forgot that plucked used to be painful.
Oh honey - I could do a post on this myself. I overplucked for a couple of years when I was 13+ and then found out I had been doing it wrong. So I tried growing them back but it was too late. They didn't grow back - a little peach fuzz but very few hairs. I had to draw them on for years. Then a few years ago, my son paid for me to have some tattooed on for my birthday. There should be a law or something.
You are too funny...
Photos! We want photos. I hope you have some before and after shots. Actually, some time lapse ones would be really cool.
I love that you wrote about this! I grew up in the 70s - NONE of us had eyebrows, it was about having one thin hairline above the eye. Add shiny blue eyeshadow and you were ready to go out. AWFUL! I stopped plucking in the 80s and let them grow (I recommend having long bangs to help during this process) but it took a good decade for the damage to really be undone. Yet I still go in with the tweezers almost daily for tidying up - but no more 'reshaping'. It is a process. Congrats!
I have the same addiction. When I was a child, I pulled out eyelashes, then later, eyebrow hairs, with my fingernails. When I graduated to tweezers, I could do so much more damage, and finally decided to grow them back last year. Some places won't grow, though.
I've wondered if this is something that afflicts those who were molested as children, or otherwise traumatized.
It's a good think I don't have to pluck because plucking would suck.
Pull my hairs one by one off of my eyebrows?
Pluck that!
Some people "itch to tweeze" while others just twitch and wheeze...
I HATE tweezing...so much so that as cheap as I am, I get my eyebrows waxed. MUCH better.
We all have our terrible secrets and inner demons. It appears you have conquered yours. Or at least created a truce.
And when don't you look hawt?
We all have our vices. I chew my finger nails when nervous. But have never used a pair of tweezers on any part of my body. I am glad you posted this. Some of us would never have thought of it. Tweets.
I'm a pretty bad underplucker. I have a habit of going a month between brow tendings. And I'm not ashamed to be a guy that plucks. Basically, I've got two choices: I can be too manly for it and let them join in the middle, or I can do something about it. So, I made the good call.
OMG!!! This is so damn funny. I was standing in front of my bathroom mirror yesterday bitching bout the 'BROW' I had going on.
I hate to 'pluck', it hurts, and well, I'm a big baby.
Hope your weekend was awesome.
You're so brave! The 12 step programs are insirational only because of daring, sharing people like you.
Your tweezer situation puts my crystal meth habit to shame...
I have always noticed that stopping a bad habit looks very hard while I have it, but in retrospect looks much easier after I have beaten it. I wonder what's the reason for that?
How about a before and after pic?
Yeah, i want photos too. I've only recently started doing anythig to my eyebrows. Too chicken to do it myself, I go to a salon and get their "half lef & eyebrow" special. I LIke the look of less hair, but I make sure they make it look natural at the same time...so far so good.
Well, as long as you pluck the centre section so you get two separate eyebrows, that's OK 
Ouch..the pain alone leaves me to the occasional waxing. Tweezers are for splinters and the odd stray hair. Yes dear, lets see pics.
You can do it! Just keep reminding yourself how hot you look now and you can kick this thing.
I just started tweezing a few years ago. I swear it's just tidying up a bit. Honest. No, really. Um, uh, has anyone seen my tweezers? Anyone?
There was a time in the eighties where big, massive eyebrows were the height of hotness for gals. Think Jody Whatley, or Brooke Shields. Me, I like eyebrows. Not in a pervy way mind you.
I think it was seeing my Russian grandmother's Russian biddy friend WHO WERE COMPLETELY PLUCKED and had the worst drag queen penciled-in brows this side of Divine.
So let those bastards grow.
yea, but what are you going to do when it becomes a forest on your forehead?
You know the character 'Karen' on Will & Grace? She used to blatanly address Grace's wardrobe or hair problems... I had a co-worker like that, except the issue was my 'brows. They were arched and overplucked.
Although I felt disgusting, I grew them in. For weeks! I was embarassed to sit near people, for fear that they would see the horrors above my eyes. But then my coworkwer waxed them. And I've had great brows ever since.
I remember the pain of the overplucked, and will never go back again.
(Men should be weary of this too. Dave - good for you for acknowledging your needs!)
Before and after pictures would be lovely Jay dear!
I know of what you speak about. I'm almost 55 now, and in my teens and through my 30's I overplucked to the point of absurdity. Somewhere in my 40's I decided the "look" I had wasn't as great as I thought, and I let them grow out, carefully tweezing only where I should. The problem was, after so many years of over tweezing, there are bare spots that won't ever grow back. 
I now have to fill in little spots and it sucks.
Good for you hon! Take back your eyebrow power!!
I never found the Puerto Rican hooker look to be very pleasing. Sure, overgrown and super bush brows are not very attractive, unless you're from India.
Congrats with overcoming your tweezer addiction! I think you should make a self-help video for those with similar addictions.
aim for the eyebrow comb-over, it's majestic
You know, I'm never bored when I come here. I always know that I will find true Canadian Cabin Fever at its best here.
Wow, who would've thought you had this problem too. It's called trichotillomania, by the way. I did a lot of research on it recently after I started pulling out my eyelashes with my fingernails.
Much longer have I been a zealous tweezer-wielding eyebrow plucker. I have never plucked too many eyebrow hairs, but I do pluck them too soon, before they have grown back long enough to easily grab. I have tiny scars around my eyebrows from digging into my skin with the sharp tweezer point.
It never worried me before I started in on my eyelashes, though. Kudos to you for stopping it before it grows into something worse!
Groucho Marx singing Moon River might have been kind of interesting.
You post THAT and no pictures?!
You're such a tease.
I've always wished my brows were fuller (more full, whatever) too. But I'm not a plucker. I just have those medium-thick brows that you really can't pluck or wax much lest it make me look totally weird. So I darken in just a little with pencil.
I'm proud of you for giving up this addiction. Perhaps you can create a 12-step program for other over-tweezers.
I had to throw mine out after looking into the mirror one morning and realizing that I could probably sell advertising spance on my forehead. Be strong.
Ha, you think you have a problem. Wait until you get to be an old man and have to contend with nose and ear hair.
Eyebrows are a pain! I don't do much in the way of grooming ... they just keep growing back. But I keep an eye out for strays.
Have you ever had them threaded? Very cool!
Your bravery is an inspiration.
We need documentation, Jay! Photos please.
Two whole months! Wow Jay you are serious! (do you get coins, or get to make speeches at certain milestones or anything? Do you call your sponsor in the middle of the night?)
I'm proud of you. Ever since my recent over waxing incident that left me over-arched and perma-surprised looking, I've had to control my urge to tweeze out the hairs growing in for the past three months. The satisfying perfect brow is quite the reward.
Side note: I was always taught to call it tweezing, not plucking. As in, we pluck chickens, we tweeze eyebrows. Is that a me thing or do most people use tweeze and pluck interchangably?
I'm not sure how it works for women, but my eyebrows began a growth spurt at 45. If I forget and go a couple days without trimming them I end up combing the front of my hair every time I blink.
So is it true? Are Brooke Sheild eyebrows once again in style? (I'm so out of it. It comes with age)
Congratulations on your newly formed and "in-syle" eyebrows! In any addiction cessation prgram, one should reward one's self, at each milestone. So I'm thinking you've earned a new pair of shoes, or an outfit, for your discipline and success in kicking the habit.
3T
I'm so impressed with your self control!
i keep tweezers in my car at all times because i find that the best plucking light is the light of day that is filtered through my dirty windshield.
and finding an unwanted hair when you don't have any tweezers is the worst feeling in the world.
Over tweezer from the late 80's here. I finally stopped two years ago and started having them waxed professionally instead. They still haven't grown back properly to their "Brooke Sheilds circa 1984" status...and in fact occasionally I spot a grey hair growing ...or a horrendously mutant long hair.
Of course with the advent of middle age I have discovered new items to tweeze. Chin hair. I await the day when female goatees are in fashion.
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