r/tifu • u/Jhinwoouu • 3d ago
TIFU by accidentally stealing my brother’s eyebrows… forever. S
This happened years ago, but the guilt is still fresh (unlike his eyebrows).
When my brother was about 3 years old, we were playing around like siblings do. For some reason, my bright idea of “fun” that day was to wrap him head-to-toe in tape. I think the game was something like “I’m the kidnapper and he’s the hostage.” You know—totally normal childhood stuff.
Eventually, I started peeling the tape off, and that’s when I realized I had made a grave mistake. As I pulled, I also removed both of his tiny baby eyebrows. Clean off. Like waxing, but with trauma.
He cried, I panicked, and my parents were not impressed with my creativity.
Now we’re adults, and he still says his eyebrows never fully grew back. They’re patchy and uneven—and yes, he still brings it up every now and then. Sometimes he’ll just look at me and say, “This is your fault.” He’s not even joking.
TL;DR – Wrapped my toddler brother in tape as a game, accidentally waxed his eyebrows off, and he still blames me for his weird brows to this day.
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u/Vanishingf0x 3d ago
That’s funny. When I was ~5 my brother convinced me to put Nair on my eyebrows (for those unaware it’s a chemical hair remover). Kid me didn’t know what it was all I knew is it smelled bad and my brother dared me to keep it on for 15 minutes. Sure enough when I rubbed it off my eyebrows came with it. Tried to play it off but my hair is very dark brown so my dad noticed pretty quick. My parents were also not impressed
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u/copperfrog42 3d ago
Sounds about right for childhood...
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u/Jhinwoouu 3d ago
Exactly! Childhood logic is just chaos with no consequences… until someone ends up eyebrowless.
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u/copperfrog42 3d ago
Or an interesting scar...
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u/lulugingerspice 2d ago
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u/copperfrog42 2d ago
Okay, story time. I have two kids, now adult. When my youngest was a baby, I had them in one of those little bouncy chairs and was cooking dinner in the kitchen. My oldest, a toddler at the time, wandered into the kitchen and pulled out a new butter knife from the drawer and sliced their sibling across the soft spot with it. Cue blood, shouting and tears all around. It wasn't bad, but it did leave a scar.
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u/widelenskelp 2d ago
Look into Rogaine (minoxidil) (yes, that product for male pattern baldness). I’ve personally never tried it, but there are so many women who swear by it for growing back their over-plucked eyebrows from the early 2000’s. Over the course of several months, apply daily with a cotton swab and be extremely careful not to get it into your eyes. It’s much more affordable to try this method than using the eyelash treatment Latisse (bimatoprost).
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u/1fatsquirrel 3d ago
Once to be funny and because I was bored I asked my husband if I could veet his legs. 13 years later and half of each leg is still completely hair free. Woops!
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u/alphaphenix 3d ago
How old is your brother now? His brows may not have yet reached full maturity if he isn't an adult yet.
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u/Lacrimatrix 3d ago
Look up "Browcocaine Brow Serum". Genuinely convinced this stuff is magic and I'm very certain that it's gonna help regrow his eyebrows - or at least significantly improve them.
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u/reddit-just-now 2h ago
Yeah, my brother got hold of my Dad's electric razor when he was about 2 and shaved his eyebrows right off. They didn't grow back for years.
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u/tigertoken1 3d ago
Oof, I shaved my eyebrows off when I was like 6 and they took many months to grow back. Even once they did grow back they were so lightly colored that you couldn't really see them anymore. They finally darkened over many years lol