If you’re worried you will sag, your best bet will be plucking, because it is more precise and pulls at the hairs rather than the skin. The worst offender is waxing, which pulls at the skin roughly. Check out my answer above to the comment “Parul” made, I went a little more in depth about how I feel about hair removal and sagging skin.

I’m not sure what you mean by holes – are her pores enlarged? If so, have your sister pluck after she gets out of the shower so her pores are open and hair removal will be easier. Afterwards, she should use astringent over the area she plucked to cleanse and close the pores. Hopefully that should help some

I normally prefer brow powder to pencils, but I think in this case pencil might be best. The pencil that almost all ladies rave about is the Shu Uemura Hard Brow one http://www.shuuemura-usa.com/_us/_en/makeup/brows/hard-formula.htm
If you want to a drugstore brand, people really seem to like Maybelline Define-A-Brow and Rimmel.

Good luck! And make sure to use light, feather, and short strokes to mimic natural hair.

First and foremost, welcome to the site! I’m glad you are finding the posts useful, if you have any recommendations I’d love to hear them.

Waxing Vs. Threading: This is a bit of a tough one. I have indeed heard of the sagging debate and unfortunately have not come up with any real answers. There is one camp that claims that waxing does cause sagging, as you are constantly tugging and stretching your skin. The effect of course is not immediate, but over time your eyelids will begin to droop. Then, there is a second group that claims you cause the same damage by rubbing off your eye makeup at night and that eve threading results in the same as waxing. Finally, the last group claims there is no medical research that has shown waxing to cause droopage over time. You will get wrinkles if you are genetically predisposed to them or in general take bad care of your eye area.

Here’s my opinion: There is not enough research done on the problem to take a real stance on the subject, but I personally am a mix of the 2nd and 3rd groups. I believe that your eyes will eventually wrinkle up if they are meant to, and that waxing and threading don’t CAUSE this, but work to speed up the process that was inevitable anyway. I feel threading is just as bad as waxing, they are both tugging at your skin – waxing is faster but harsher, and threading is less severe but pulls for longer. As far as I believe, it really is a matter of preference, either way you’re messing with very delicate skin. I personally like threading because I feel the hair grows back slower, and you can achieve a much more defined look with threading.

I am not sure where you live, but if you are in the U.S., check out yelp.com for recommendations on a good threading place near where you live or if you are visiting another town. That’s how I found my waxing lady, thanks to all the reviews, and I absolutely love her!

Again, welcome to the site and I look forward to seeing more of your comments!

I have thicker eyebrows so I will definitely try the Vaseline idea mentioned above. A question for you though- waxing vs. threading? I personally used to thread but the threading ladies near where I live were incredibly unprofessional and gave me horrible and very generic looking brows that didn’t suit my face shape at all, so I switched to getting waxed at an upscale day spa (but the esthetician is amazing, really pays attention to deal, and knows how to groom my brows to suit my features. It’s one of those “you get what you pay for” things.) I am very happy with waxing but I have heard that waxing pulls the skin above your eyelids and can cause the skin to sag over time or bring about wrinkles. Conversely, threading does not pull the skin and therefore is better. Would you happen to know if there is any truth to this or if you’ve heard this as well? The notion of saggy, wrinkly skin is enough to get me to consider switching back to threading (hopefully with a better threading lady though!)

Thanks!

PS: I am a new reader, just came across your blog a few weeks ago actually! I used to frequent a lot of beauty-oriented blogs and was delighted to see that yours reflects a Desi perspective! Wonderful topics, wonderful writing–I look forward to keeping up with your posts!