Hello, everyone. I'm a 47-year-old male and I'm considering using Kirkland 5% minoxidil foam to regrow my eyebrows. My brows have always been pretty fine and thin but in the past decade or so, they've gotten a lot sparser. I've had my thyroid checked and everything is normal, so I'm not sure why this is happening. Maybe stress or just aging. As I said, they were never very significant to begin with but I definitely had more eyebrow hair when I was younger. Here's a photo of how they look now:
[OK, I can't post a link to the photo, which is kind of important. Any chance this restriction could be lifted?]
As you can see, there's hardly anything there. Most of it is very light, fine vellus hairs that don't even show up on camera and seem to have replaced where I once had terminal hairs (which were quite fine to begin with). I'm blond so my brows were fairly light in color, although a bit darker than the hair on my head.
Will minoxidil bring back my brows? I don't expect or even want them to be super-thick and dense or anything. I'd just like to at least have something there like I used to! One thing I'm concerned about is shedding. If I start applying minoxidil, will I initially shed what little brow hair I have completely? I'm worried I would look quite odd if I had absolutely nothing there.
Also, is it possible for minoxidil to "go systemic" from mere eyebrow area application? And if it went systemic, would I find myself growing more beard and head hair as well? I'm considering using it for my beard, too, which is also pretty sparse and weak. I also have a receding hairline but it's been a very slow progression over the past 30 years or so. I think I may have similar hair genetics to someone like George H.W. Bush who was basically a Norwood 3 for life. But I certainly wouldn't mind my hairline filling in some as well.
My main concern is my eyebrows, though. I'd really like to get them back to how they were 10+ years ago. Or at the very least, have some more hair there than I do now. Any thoughts from others who have used minoxidil for eyebrow growth?
[OK, I can't post a link to the photo, which is kind of important. Any chance this restriction could be lifted?]
As you can see, there's hardly anything there. Most of it is very light, fine vellus hairs that don't even show up on camera and seem to have replaced where I once had terminal hairs (which were quite fine to begin with). I'm blond so my brows were fairly light in color, although a bit darker than the hair on my head.
Will minoxidil bring back my brows? I don't expect or even want them to be super-thick and dense or anything. I'd just like to at least have something there like I used to! One thing I'm concerned about is shedding. If I start applying minoxidil, will I initially shed what little brow hair I have completely? I'm worried I would look quite odd if I had absolutely nothing there.
Also, is it possible for minoxidil to "go systemic" from mere eyebrow area application? And if it went systemic, would I find myself growing more beard and head hair as well? I'm considering using it for my beard, too, which is also pretty sparse and weak. I also have a receding hairline but it's been a very slow progression over the past 30 years or so. I think I may have similar hair genetics to someone like George H.W. Bush who was basically a Norwood 3 for life. But I certainly wouldn't mind my hairline filling in some as well.
My main concern is my eyebrows, though. I'd really like to get them back to how they were 10+ years ago. Or at the very least, have some more hair there than I do now. Any thoughts from others who have used minoxidil for eyebrow growth?
