Lighten brows with honey - need actual recipes and tips!

[Exoducy]

There are a few threads on this topic, but they are inactive and didn't give me what I searched for.
I'd really need some tips on lightening eyebrows with honey, and in particular, how I should keep the honey moist over my brows during the bleaching time.
Secondly, if the eyebrows are a tad bit more sensitive to bleaching and cinnamon (which can give irritations), I'd happily bounce some ideas with people in this splendid forum.

Natural recipes/methods only!

[Kizuna]

Interesting topic! I would like to know more about this too (my eyebrows is much darker than the hair on my head).

[ktani]

I would not use cinnamon in the recipe. If it drips into your eyes for any reason you are in for major pain.

You would need to cover the brows with a solution - best least drippy method/recipe - honey and conditioner - covered by plastic and sealed with tape.

[Exoducy]

I bump this once again.
Do you suggest the usual hony recipe proportions, just without adding cinnamon?

I will try this tonight and keep a photolog of my brows!

[ktani]

I bump this once again.
Do you suggest the usual hony recipe proportions, just without adding cinnamon?

I will try this tonight and keep a photolog of my brows!

For this, I would use 1 part honey 2 parts conditioner - no cinnamon, covered to keep your brows wet. It will probably take several treatments.

ETA: Less drippy, less risky for eye irritation cinnamon pain.

[maborosi]

I would not use cinnamon in the recipe. If it drips into your eyes for any reason you are in for major pain.

You would need to cover the brows with a solution - best least drippy method/recipe - honey and conditioner - covered by plastic and sealed with tape.

Ditto. Getting cinnamon on the skin is bad enough- but getting it in your eyes...:shudder:

This is an interesting thread, and I'll definitely keep an eye on it. My brows are really dark, but there are also quite a few hairs in there that are dark blonde that take up dye from henna. It'd be nice if I could get my brows just a smidgeon lighter so I could have a more noticeable result.

~maborosi~

[swearnsue]

I would love to henna my graying eyebrows but it won't work. It would either dry on or drip into my eyes. I just use a bronzer on my brows with a small brush.

[Katze]

Um, I am curious if anyone has actually lightened their eyebrows with honey?!?

And why you would want to, given current beauty standards? :confused:

I regularly do honey masks on my face and my eyebrows have always been much lighter in color than my hair - they are still blonde, although my hair is dark. However, as I get older, my brows have gotten darker on their own (as has other body hair) DESPITE regular honey treatments.

There are cosmetic products you can buy to lighten facial hair, although I believe they are specifically NOT meant for eyelashes and eyebrows.

My best suggestion would be to ask a cosmetic salon for something that actually works and for its safe application.

[LauraDay]

I'm tempted to try this honey method for lightening my brows but I'd love to see some previous results posted to see if it's worth it. If not I might just stick to good old bleach :)

[Kelikea]

I wash my face every day with honey and do a leave-on mask sometimes on the weekend. I don't notice my brows lightening. With time, do you think they will?

[Neya]

My eyebrows stay pretty brown. I have lightened my eyebrows with conventional products and I've found them to be EXTREMELY resistant compared to hair on head. I hope honey does work, it would be a lot safer.

[Oksana]

I dye my eyebrows darker because they are very light and I have to do this every sex weeks.

Honey lightening is a very gradual process and I would estimate that by the time the hairs started lightening they would be falling out and new hairs would be growing in... :shrug:

[Katze]

I wash my face every day with honey and do a leave-on mask sometimes on the weekend. I don't notice my brows lightening. With time, do you think they will?

No.

I have been doing regular honey masks for about two decades. My eyebrows used to be blonde (or 'clear' as my dark haired sister said) and have now darkened to light brown, despite regular honey on the face.

I am one of those skeptics on the honey-as-bleach theory. My husband, who has his PhD in organic chemistry, says that the peroxide in honey is so negligable that it will not bleach hair or fiber - for example, my honey masks (or SMTs) have never bleached a single towel, washcloth, shirt, or bathrobe in all my years of putting honey on face and scalp.

Not trying to be a naysayer here, but just pleading for some critical thinking. :)

[kionkichin]

Honey lightening is a very gradual process and I would estimate that by the time the hairs started lightening they would be falling out and new hairs would be growing in... :shrug:

Hmm.... that makes sense, maybe you're right. Anyways if anyone is going to try the honey treatment in their eyebrows i'd like to follow the process, my eyebrows are darker than my hair and i'd like to find a method to make them lighter!

[maborosi]

No.

I have been doing regular honey masks for about two decades. My eyebrows used to be blonde (or 'clear' as my dark haired sister said) and have now darkened to light brown, despite regular honey on the face.

I am one of those skeptics on the honey-as-bleach theory. My husband, who has his PhD in organic chemistry, says that the peroxide in honey is so negligable that it will not bleach hair or fiber - for example, my honey masks (or SMTs) have never bleached a single towel, washcloth, shirt, or bathrobe in all my years of putting honey on face and scalp.

Not trying to be a naysayer here, but just pleading for some critical thinking. :)

The only thing is, I have had noticeable results doing nightly honey treatments on my hair, personally. It's gone from an extremely dark color in the sunlight to a more noticeable brown with reddish brown tips. I think it depends on if you do the method that people here do, which is cut it with distilled water, let it sit, then apply it. I doubt that just applying honey straight to the head would affect the color based on the fact that you have to do those steps first.

~maborosi~

[summergame]

I will follow this thread to! Very interesting!

[Katze]

The only thing is, I have had noticeable results doing nightly honey treatments on my hair, personally. It's gone from an extremely dark color in the sunlight to a more noticeable brown with reddish brown tips. I think it depends on if you do the method that people here do, which is cut it with distilled water, let it sit, then apply it. I doubt that just applying honey straight to the head would affect the color based on the fact that you have to do those steps first.

~maborosi~

Actually, I tried the supposed recipe, and tried it on DH's hair too. I would love to get my hair lightened naturally - I miss being a bit blonder than I am - but despite multiple SMTs, honey washes, washing with diluted honey, and so on and so forth, my hair is just getting darker. As are my eyebrows, despite many, many years of honey masks.

What I think MAY be happening is that honey fades dyes and henna - it did with my last dye - and strips buildup and other colors.

My DH is a chemist and he says the peroxide theory is bunk. Again, I would have liked it to work, but it didn't. and I have not seen any convincing photos of hair truly lightened with honey.

We can agree to disagree - this is LHC and everyone is entitled to her opinion :) but I do want to inform people that many LHCers also do not think that honey lightens hair - just as many others do. :)

[Exoducy]

Hi, thread starter here!

I am yet to try this out. I am considering what to mix in the standard honey lightening recipe to make a paste that will not zero out the effects (I believe in them since I've seen them making my own hair much lighter), but thick enough not to run down my entire face. Do you have any suggestions?

As soon as I figure this out I am ready to start the process and post pictures!

(And for those who are asking why I want light eyebrows: it's because my own are ugly shaped, thin, and I just want them to disappear as much as possible. I look better with almost non-visible brows. I don't care much for beauty standards).