Meet the New Brow-Smoothing Treatment That Will Change Your Life

If growing out bangs is a headache, then growing out over-plucked eyebrows must qualify as a full-on migraine. Eyebrow rehab—truly allowing the brows of your youth a chance to return—can take up to six months depending on your genetically predetermined hair growth cycle, and that awkward in-between phase, when recalcitrant hairs sprout out at odd angles, is when many of us fall off the wagon. And while there’s no shortage of pencils, powders, and pomades on the market to help fake fuller brows, one new treatment promises to change the grow-out game by smoothing your own hairs into place for eight weeks.

“I am not into those overdone, ‘on fleek’ brows,” says Houston-based brow whisperer Edward Sanchez, who has been flying into Los Angeles every couple of months to perform his Brow Smoothing Treatments at A-list colorist Michael Canale’s salon (devoted clients include Jennifer Aniston and Carolyn Murphy). “I like natural, beautiful, feminine brows that complement the face.” To achieve this, Sanchez has developed a secret weapon: a proprietary blend of oils and proteins that relaxes the disulphide bonds that shape the hair follicle, allowing him to meticulously comb each hair into place, covering sparse patches and redirecting rogue strands. After 20 minutes, the solution is removed and another lotion applied to reset those bonds and lock the hairs into position.

“In the past we were trimming brows or removing wayward hairs that wouldn’t lie flat instead of allowing as much regrowth as possible,” Sanchez explains. “Now we can shape the existing brows to look fuller, and as new hairs grow in, we can direct their growth, too.” The result? Soft, glossy, low-maintenance brows that stay in place for up to eight weeks—by which time you might even be able to catch Sanchez in New York City or Washington, D.C., as he has plans to roll out the service at several more locations this year.

Brow Smoothing With Edward Sanchez, from $45, archedbeauty.com

 

 

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