How to Grow Eyebrows: 4 Tips to Get Thicker Eyebrows

The first step to getting bushy eyebrows is proper care and maintenance. Eyebrow care involves hydrating and conditioning your brow hairs to nourish the follicles and support the growth of thick eyebrows.

1. 1. Avoid overtreating your eyebrows. Excessive hair removal from tweezing, waxing, and threading can damage the hair follicles and cause your eyebrows to thin. Give your eyebrows time to grow back to their natural shape between treatments.
2. 2. Brush your brows. Using a spoolie brush or eyebrow comb, brush your brow hairs with soft, upward motions. Avoid tugging the brush against your eyebrows, which can cause your brow hairs to fall out. Gently brushing your eyebrows will untangle long brow hairs and stimulate blood circulation, promoting the growth of thick brows. It also works as a low-maintenance way to tame your brows into a natural look.
3. 3. Moisturize the skin under your eyebrows. Dry skin can cause your eyebrow area to become itchy, irritated, and flaky. When moisturizing your face during your skincare routine, dab lotion onto the skin under your brow hairs. Use gentle, circular motions to apply the moisturizer, massaging it onto the skin, so the cream absorbs rather than sticks to your brow hairs.

While you can use beauty products like an eyebrow pencil and brow gel to fill in eyebrows for a full look, you can prevent breakage and stimulate eyebrow growth with natural remedies. Follow these steps to help you get thicker eyebrows:

1. 1. Exfoliate and moisturize. Before applying any brow hair treatment, cleanse the skin under your brows. Exfoliating this area with warm water and a gentle scrub removes dead skin cells that build up and clog hair follicles. After cleansing and exfoliating, massage a face cream onto your brow area to nourish the skin. Keeping your brow skin clean and moisturized will also help your brow products and treatments penetrate the skin.
2. 2. Condition with oil. Applying oil to your eyebrows is a natural way to hydrate and strengthen your eyebrows, supporting healthy hair growth. Choose a nourishing oil, such as castor oil or rosemary oil, and brush the solution into your eyebrows with a spoolie or clean mascara wand. Castor oil contains vitamin E and fatty acids, while rosemary oil assists with cell turnover in the hair follicles. Makeup artists also suggest conditioning your brows with coconut oil or olive oil, which are moisturizing and nourishing.
3. 3. Take a break from tweezing. As your brow hairs grow in, stray hairs may appear below and above your natural brow line. Avoid over-plucking these hairs with tweezers, so the rest of the hairs can grow and fill in your natural eyebrow shape. Tweezing your brow hairs can stunt the growth process in the long run, so give your brows time to regrow.
4. 4. Apply a hair growth serum. Eyebrow hairs take six to eight weeks to grow; however, you can promote regrowth by applying an eyebrow growth serum. Use a brow serum if you have thin eyebrows and want to encourage brow growth or if you have sparse hairs and want fuller eyebrows. Packed with nutrient-rich ingredients, such as peptides, antioxidants, and proteins, brow serums treat hair loss by stimulating and hydrating the hair follicles. Eyebrow hair growth serums have a similar consistency to eyebrow gels, so you can brush them onto your hairs with a clean mascara wand.

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