How to Grow Your Eyebrows Back After Microblading

Short answer: Microblading fades gradually rather than damaging your follicles, so your natural brow hair generally keeps growing underneath. To grow brows back, stop any hair removal in the area, let the pigment fade fully, and groom and fill the natural hair with gel and soft colour while it fills in. Regrowth follows your normal hair cycle, so patience and gentle grooming do most of the work.

Does microblading stop your natural brows growing?

This is the big worry, and the reassuring news is that microblading is a form of semi-permanent tattooing in the upper layers of skin. It deposits pigment; it doesn't typically destroy the hair follicles. That means your natural brow hair usually continues to grow throughout, even if the pigment made it harder to notice.

What changes as microblading fades is the look. The crisp pigment strokes soften and lighten unevenly, and your own hair may have been shaped around the tattoo, so brows can look patchy or slightly mismatched for a while. Growing them back is really about managing that in-between phase.

What happens as microblading fades?

Fading is gradual and not always even. Knowing the rough stages helps you plan how to groom through them.

Fading speed varies with skin type, sun exposure, the original technique and how deep the pigment went. Some residual colour can linger longer than expected, which is normal.

How do you help your natural brows grow back?

You can't dramatically speed up hair growth, but you can create the best conditions and avoid setting yourself back.

1. Stop removing hair. No waxing, threading or plucking in the brow area while you rebuild density.
2. Be gentle with the skin. Keep the area moisturised and avoid harsh scrubbing over healing or faded pigment.
3. Let the pigment fade fully. Fighting the look with heavy makeup while it's still strong rarely helps; work with it instead.
4. Groom regrowth into place. Train new hairs in the direction of your natural shape as they appear.
5. Fill softly, not solidly. Balance patchy areas with light colour rather than drawing over the whole brow.

Be realistic about timing. Hair grows on its own cycle, so expect the process to unfold over months, and different sections to fill in at different rates.

How do you groom brows through the awkward phase?

Train the hairs

As your natural brows reassert themselves, they may sit at odd angles, especially if they were shaped around the microblading. A Clear Brow Gel brushes them into place and holds them, which instantly makes the growing-out phase look tidier.

Balance the colour

Where faded pigment and natural hair don't quite match, a Tinted Brow Gel in your natural shade evens things out, adding soft colour to sparse spots so the brow reads as one cohesive shape. For a full routine to carry you through, the Brow Set combines colour and hold so you can groom and fill in a single step.

One honest caveat: makeup and grooming can beautifully disguise the transition, but they can't remove tattoo pigment. If old microblading isn't fading and it bothers you, removal is a professional treatment, not something cosmetics can undo.

Microblading fades gradually rather than damaging your follicles, so your natural brow hair generally keeps growing underneath.

Key takeaways

• Microblading deposits pigment and doesn't usually stop your natural hair growing.
• Fading is gradual and often uneven, taking a few years to disappear fully.
• Stop all hair removal in the area while you rebuild brow density.
• Regrowth follows your normal hair cycle, so expect months, not weeks.
• Grooming gel trains awkward regrowth and makes the transition look neat.
• Makeup disguises mismatched colour but can't remove tattoo pigment.

Frequently asked questions

Will my natural eyebrows grow back after microblading?

In most cases yes, because microblading deposits pigment rather than destroying follicles, so your own hair generally keeps growing. The main task is grooming and disguising the shape while the pigment fades and density returns.

How long does microblading take to fully fade?

Typically two to three years, though it varies with skin type, sun exposure and technique. Some faint residual colour can linger even longer.

Can I speed up microblading fading?

Not safely with cosmetics. Sun exposure and exfoliation can lighten pigment but also irritate skin, so if you want it gone faster, professional removal is the proper route.

How do I deal with patchy brows while they grow back?

Groom the hairs into place with gel and fill sparse areas softly with a tinted product in your natural shade. This balances the shape until your own hair fills in.

Should I keep getting microblading touch-ups if I want my natural brows back?

No. If your goal is to return to natural brows, skip the touch-ups and let the existing pigment fade while you groom the regrowth. Touch-ups simply reset the process.