Can I use hair regrowth treatment on my face?
November 26, 2010 by hrform3
Filed under Hair Regrowth Treatment
It sounds weird, I know, especially coming from a girl.
When I first started to pluck my eyebrows in high school (four or five years ago), I went overboard and made them too thin. At the time, I thought they looked fine and continued. For over a year, I’ve been trying to grow my eyebrows back, and I’ve been *mostly* successful. The big problem, though, is that the exact spots that are supposed to create the arch are missing.
I did some light research online, but unfortunately I could only find people asking about eyebrows that were temporarily overplucked (“Help, I accidentally overplucked this morning! What do I do?!”), instead of repeatedly overplucked (“Help, I overplucked four years ago. Now what?!”). A few, however, mentioned using hair regrowth treatment like Rogaine.
1) Can I use Women’s Rogaine on my eyebrows? I checked the back of a package, and it warned against using it on “other areas of the body.” (Other than the scalp, I’m assuming.)
2) How effective do you think it would be?
3) Would the store-brand alternative to Rogaine work, as well? It’s twenty to thirty dollars cheaper, plus I could get an employee discount on it.
The answer is NO.
According to Dr. Melissa Piliang, a dermatologist at the Cleveland Clinic. Americans spent an estimated $176 million on hair loss products last year, and chances are some of that money was not well spent. Don’t let charming salon owners, seductive ads or fancy gimmicks convince you otherwise.
My sister shaved her eyebrows when she was 17. They never grow back. She had double mastectomy by age 35. She no longer has cancer, but her eyebrows never grow back.