Can Microblading Fix Overplucked Eyebrows?

If you look at early pictures of me, I was born with eyebrows that took up most of my face. However, in the early noughties, it was on trend to pluck them into obscurity and be left with two small lines of hair on either side of your face - with no business but being that far apart. 

Inspired by nineties Gwen Stefani and much to my mother’s horror I assaulted my unsuspecting brows with a pair of tweezers. I didn’t have a clue what I was doing, and they never grew back. 

My lack of brows changed the shape of my face entirely and really affected my confidence. I tried every product on the market, from pencils and pomades to brow cushions and gels (even cosmetic tattooing but let’s not even go here); I spent a small fortune.

And then I discovered celebrity microblading artist, Nez Hasan and the more I scrolled through the transformation pictures on Nez’s Instagram page, the more I wanted to try this relatively new semi-permanent technique that looks like real hairs. 

Whilst tattooing involves the use of a ‘gun’ with multiple needles that penetrate the second layer of skin, microblading is done with pigment on one thin blade. The blade has 12-15 small, long points which enable an artist to scratch thin, hair-like strokes into the first layer on skin - the strokes don’t go as deep into the skin as a tattoo and the lifespan is shorter, but it can last up to two years.