Quote Originally Posted by stinkyattic
On the subject, Birdgirl, this one's for you:
Do the hormones associated with pregnancy inhibit your body's ability to regrow hair that has been plucked?
I personally know two women who got into that trap of 'I feel preggers and puffy; therefore Ima primp the rest of myself big time'... they overplucked their eyebrows whilst pregnant and neither has been able to regrow them...
What's up with that?
I don't know what's up with that. I know pregnancy hormones sort of make people shed less hair than normal. That is, it sort of holds on during the pregnancy and then tends to fall out more like normal afterwards. Nails and hair get thicker during pregnancy, some of which may be attributable to prenatal vitamins. But I've never heard of eyebrows being affected. If anything, it seems like they'd grow in faster instead of not regrowing.

Eventually with enough plucking, eyebrows don't grow back in, pregnant or not. When I was younger, I'd still get stray eyebrows starting to grow in some areas. Now that I've plucked and replucked enough, they don't even come back in. That's why it's important not to overpluck. I have a friend whose mom overdid it with the plucking and she now has to draw brows on if she wants them. (And she ALWAYS gets the placement of the drawn-in ones wrong, which makes her look ridiculous!)

I like neat eyebrows, too! I noticed a scary thing in my left eyebrow yesterday when I was looking in the magnifying mirror. Two completely gray/white hairs coming in. It's the beginning of the end . . .