She Tweezed My Eyebrows Again Into Existence. I’m Transformed.

In late January, when a good friend emailed to alert me that her favourite forehead individual was doing a residency uptown not removed from the place I lived. I laughed. “I’ve no brows,” I responded. “I belong to the nice Carolyn Bessette disappearing eyebrow technology!”

I arrived in New York, younger and impressionable, not lengthy after Ms. Bessette married John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1996.

For these of us who had no probability at mimicking Ms. Bessette Kennedy’s “willowy and delightful” physique (as Time journal described it) or her “buttery chunks” (how the hairstylist Brad Johns described her highlights), there have been her eyebrows. Newsweek, in a considerably alarming step-by-step information to her face, detailed Ms. Bessette Kennedy’s barely there brows: “They was extra of a half-circle. Now they’re straighter with no pronounced arch, in all probability waxed or tweezed.”

And similar to that, off went thousands and thousands of brows. For a few of us, by no means to return, because of overplucking.

I used to be rapidly assured my good friend’s forehead individual, Sania Vucetaj of Sania’s Forehead Bar within the Flatiron district, that this was not an issue.

I used to be intrigued. I didn’t need microblading or tinting or something artificially everlasting. How would my very own brows be fastened?

Brows are the workhorse of the face. They have an effect on all the pieces. Mine have been pitiful and quick and drained. They not even wanted to be plucked. Whereas my mom couldn’t conceive of being seen in public with out lipstick, I by no means left the home with out extending mine with a pencil. In any other case I felt bare. Was there a risk of extra?

Per week later, my meager brows and I arrived at her spacious and welcoming salon within the Flatiron district.

Ms. Vucetaj, 55, who hails from the Bronx, has been within the forehead enterprise for almost so long as mine have been lacking. She turned obsessed after a childhood fall left her with a scar over one eye and ultimately began doing brows for buddies “at bars, within the nook, within the bogs,” she stated. “They known as me the forehead woman.”

Shortly after graduating from a 10-month aesthetician evening class, Ms. Vucetaj answered an advert for an upscale forehead specialist, “tweezing solely,” and located herself on the ground of Bergdorf Goodman in 2002, the place she rapidly developed a cult following that included the likes of Kathie Lee Gifford and Susan Brown (former spouse of Michael Bloomberg). Two years later, she opened her salon.

Ms. Vucetaj nonetheless solely does brows. And she or he solely tweezes, making her a rarity. “Tweezing is exact,” Ms. Vucetaj stated. “Each single hair makes a press release.”

Her aim is to return your eyebrows to their unique state. Nearly.

“Eyebrows needs to be near what you have been born with. Simply with somewhat little bit of form.”

I confirmed her a photograph of Ms. Bessette Kennedy, if solely to show my preliminary intentions have been harmless sufficient. “She’s very stunning,” she stated. “Now think about how rather more stunning she’d have regarded if she had full ones.”

Ms. Vucetaj was unfazed by the state of my brows. Extra vital, she advised me, Ms. Bessette Kennedy may not be responsible.

Whereas overtweezing can weaken the hair, the true villain, Ms. Vucetaj stated, is our skincare routines. “Are you able to think about placing all of your pores and skin merchandise into your scalp?” she stated. (I can not.) She added that we must always deal with our brows like our hair. Maintain them clear.

Step one was to even issues out: “I imagine brows are at all times twins. Not sisters, not cousins, twins. So, I reshape them so they appear balanced.” Shoppers are advised to return each six weeks for shaping ($95) because the hair (hopefully) returns.

She started reshaping mine by taking somewhat off the highest, and the underside. I used to be shocked on the fast distinction. They regarded intentional now. And, sarcastically, already extra substantial.

Then out got here the pencil so she will fill in what’s not (but) there. She has her personal line: a mixture of powder and pencil in a wedge form, with a brush on one finish to mix ($30). It is available in three colours: Gentle, medium, darkish.

The secret is “to not go inside. It’s extra hint above, hint under, mix it by means of and delicate.”

This was new to me. Usually I pencil over what hair is there, after which merely prolong. I watched as she thickened my brows into lush-looking arches that appeared completely pure, even to me. Goodbye, CBK. Whats up, Brooke Shields.

Ms. Vucetaj stated it might take six to 12 months to see any regrowth on her routine of getting tweezed. Draw them within the meantime, she stated, and earlier than you apply your skincare so you understand the place to keep away from.

Initially my new face regarded unusual to me. These thicker brows appeared barely masculine within the mirror. Nevertheless, in subsequent selfies to doc precisely what had been carried out, I can’t recover from how a lot greater my eyes regarded. Are these cheekbones I see?

That is critical enterprise to Ms. Vucetaj: “You by no means need to play with the body of your face or your eyes. You possibly can play with all the pieces else.”