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I did a few google-searches, and there seems that some people have had varied success with using minoxidil on their face, specifically regrowing eyebrows (women, mostly), and beards (men, also mostly).
Here’s a link to some bears talking about their beard-growing with minoxidil :http://jefffsbeardboard.yuku.com/topic/862/t/Rogaine-Experiment.html?page=5
Unless you’ve tried it already, you might want to look into it. You might also want to look into needling, as it not only can restructure scar-tissue (it’s very effective in this regard), but can also spontaneously coax life back into hair. I grew some hair - though nothing of much value - the time I did it all over my head.
It proved pretty painful, and the improved texture of existing hair was even more pronounced when I switched to lasers, sans the pain, so I just dropped it altogether.
Interestingly enough, needling is also very effective when it comes to distributing minoxidil more effectively into the skin. It’s something like a 400% increase, so results should come quicker, and probably be more substantial.
Furthermore, since brow-hair is not lost due to being constantly attacked by DHT, it is - atleast in theory - very plausible that the gained hair (if any) will stay once you chose to stop applying, provided the area is normalized, which I think some moderate needling should take care of.
If it were me, I’d needle semi-deeply once a week, and make very, very light needling just before putting on minoxidil, and probably at most once a day. This is more of an art than a science, so I guess you’re just as qualified to judge this, but that would be my estimation.
You can buy commercial needlers which will be excellent for long-term use, and will puncture the skin evenly at a very shallow level, so it’s perfect for minoxidil use.
I bought some diabetes lancets, taped 4 together, and just learnt how to do shallow and less shallow punctures by practice. There are benefits for both these measures, but if you don’t think you need to restructure any obvious scar-tissue, you might be well off just getting a commercial needler.
You can get them for a variety of places, and sometimes go by the name of derma-roller. Here’s one of them: http://www.derma-rollers.com/44/skin-needling
Be mindful of the concentration of minoxidil, and that what you’re effectively doing is helping the solution by-pass the tough layers of skin. I’d suggest something mild.
I’d also suggest that you be patient if you’re going to try it. Eyebrows grow very, very slowly, so if you’re embarking on this, have a long-time plan. Give it a year or so.
It’s very low-cost, and it doesn’t hurt to try it. The worst thing you can do is jump into something with impatience. I’m currently doing some home-treatment on mole-removal which has turned out to be very successful, and I’m sticking to a slow, low-impact approach, even though it means I’ll go a few weeks with very noticeable scabs/sores/wounds.
That’s a very small prize to pay for a projected life-time of not having so much as a scar where the mole is.
As a side-note; I actually do believe your hair-situation, even though I can also understand why some people may find it annoying that someone feels their world has fallen apart because they have thinner eyebrows now, when baldness is a - seemingly - more complex riddle to solve.
I think the same mechanic that enables hair to spontaneously grow, aka “the Follica-thing” can happen in reverse, and that makes perfect sense.
Afterall, if growth could be observed naturally (by accident), and if Follica found a way to both grow and permanently remove hair through chemical manipulation, it seems logical that permanent removal can also happen spontaneously.
Basically it all has to do with what occurs in the “window of opportunity” while surface-skin is healing. If certain WnT-chemicals are amplified (under certain conditions), hair is more likely to form. If those chemicals are in short supply, hair seems to die out (permanently, if you’re to believe both the original, and the recently filed patent).
That women sometimes lose their eyebrows from shaving is well known (at least anecdotally), but not very well understood. In light of what we know from Follica’s research, that process might be more understood in the future, and maybe people should cut and pluck their eyebrows rather than waxing, or shaving very aggressively, which from the sound of it is what you did.
If you drew blood it’s very likely that you reached this window of opportunity, and if you’re very unlucky, you might have lost some hair. I guess the good news is that since the hair isn’t constantly being degraded by DHT, you have the rest of your life to slowly set up a situation in which hair can thrive.
Minoxidil (and in combination with needling) might be one way to go.