Is it better to wax or tweeze?

June 9, 2009 in Uncategorized Leave a reply

I get this question all the time, and if my clients were asked, you would get 90% of them requesting tweezing. Why? They’ve had such bad wax jobs in the past, that they just don’t trust it anymore. From way too thin brows, to the ends being taken off, not to mention getting uneven brows, it’s a never ending list of waxing don’ts.

They say that waxing removes the hair with the root, making the hair grow in weaker and less often. Which is true. But so does tweezing. There are countless clients that have told me they tweezed, only to have the hairs not grow back. So which is it?

it’s both.  Both tweezing and waxing can slow and and stop hair growth from coming back. The key is in the type of hair you have. The thinner the brow hairs are, the weaker the root, and the more likely that that hair is not going to grow back with repeated tweezing or waxing.  How do you know if your roots are weak? Just pull a hair. Do you have to tug like crazy to get it out, or does it slip out with no resistance whatsoever?  If that’s the case, you may want to stop waxing and start tweezing. The difference is that with tweezing you are removing only the hairs you really don’t need, and keeping the majority. With waxing, you are removing hairs you do want, especially with a bad wax job, only to spend time growing them back in.

Now what if your brows are coarse, thick, heavy? Then waxing is for you. Will waxing stop hairs from growing back? Probably not because your roots are so strong, they’re always going to grow back.  But waxing can slow down how fast it does come back.

So should you tweeze or wax? Look at the type of hair you have to determine and go from there.

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