Beauty Tools: Japanese Eyebrow Razors

Carolyn K, Sephora, and Japonesque - they're all at it. Creating dinky little razors to sever your face with. Actually they're for your eyebrows, but they sound dangerous to me. Apparently in Japan it's fashionable to have a totally smooth face, so girls have starting shaving their faces, all over.

Don't do it. Not even just your eyebrows. I don't care how fashionable Geisha style is, that's no excuse to make your eyebrows a stubbly mess. If you have incredibly bushy brows, then I suppose a bit of careful trimming with one of these razors might neaten up your brows, but that's it. Please!

Other bizarre Japanese beauty products (just to help convince you that shaving eyebrows is a bad idea) include eyelid crease makers, shaving templates and nose pegs to change the shape of your nose.

Crazy as it is, Japanese beauty can be a lot of fun, and Japanese online emporium Onatoko ships worldwide, Acne Dressing Pouch or Hello Kitty Sweat Absorbing Patches anyone?

Karen

I think it's pretty. But I guess the regrowth would be a nightmare. Hey, I'm asian-- I guess I was just influenced by asian culture too much. But yeah, it's really in fashion right now to have really light eyebrows and powdered in or having bleached eyebrows.

PJ

I never pluck my eyebrow with tweezers. I use one of these razors. It is actually better for my sensitive skin and it gets the job done.

Nadine

Have you ever visited Japan, I did in September on a beauty fact finding mission and loved the place. But beauty bizarre they are indeed. I write about it all on my site .... how can a culture be so formal and yet so ready to strip off naked and get into an Onsen hot spring with men they don't know (or even worse ones they do, say after work). They are obsessed with skin care and have ten steps every morning and night ... have hand towell sized face blotters and women well in to their forties have a strange urge to look like school girls in knee high socks. But Tokyo is a wonderful, wonderful city and the Harajuko girls who hang out around Roppongi with their cos play make-up and clothes are worth the plane fare alone.

lillien

they actually work really well! i've only used it once, but it grew back fine...no crazy regrowth. the make-up artist that did it for me uses it all the time and gets a lot of people hooked on it because it's so easy to use and really gets the pieces you can't pluck.

jill

I've used eye-brow razors for years, since living in Korea when I was in my early 20s. I don't shape my brows with them...but I do use them for touch ups between waxings. It does not hurt, I have never been cut, and the regrowth is no worse than from waxing. I also use them for my upper lip...again I gon't get stubble. I get the same slow and fine re-growth as I do when I wax. It's true, I swear.

Honestly, have you ever seen how perfectly groomed Japanese and Korean woman are?? I wouldn't knock their tricks without trying them!!!

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