Trauma: "I got my eyebrows waxed and I don't have much to work with as it is, so when they were done with me my eyebrows were so thin that you could barely see them at all! What's a browless girl to do?"

On-Call Beauty Doctor: Anastasia Soare, eyebrow expert and founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills

Prescription: "The best way to advise a new brow artist is to cover up areas that you do not want her to remove with brow pencil — just ask her to wax or tweeze around it. Also, avoid brow threading. It's a method of hair removal that doesn't follow a line or template like wax does.

Leaving your arch to grow in naturally can take six months or more, as hair grows back in sparse patches. During the growth process, you will need the right products to help stimulate growth quickly. Try a peptide-enhanced growth stimulating serum, like my Brow Enhancing Serum Advanced.

If your brows are over-tweezed and you'd like them to look fuller, use a dry wooden brow pencil — it has a harder formula and will fill in thin lines of color without the heavier look of a mechanical pencil, which tends to be waxy. If you don't want any color at all, use a clear wax pencil to groom your brows and train stubborn, spiky hairs to grow upward in the direction of the arch."



Illustration by Eddie Larios