The brow is really the medical term for the eyebrow and the area above that and what tends to happen is this tends to sort of come down slightly with time and this is known as browtosis. So if your eyebrows are a little bit low that is known as browtosis and the eyebrows can either be low in the middle bit or the outer bit. So the ideal shape of the eyebrow in a female should be naturally arched with the highest point of the eyebrow two thirds of the way along. So you have two thirds of the eyebrow on the inner aspect, a third on the outer aspect, nice gentle curve and the highest bit there. This is different for men; men tend to have much lower eyebrows, much flatter eyebrows so I’m going to concentrate more on female brows.
So if your brow is slightly low, this can actually have secondary implications to your upper eyelid. So if the brow is low, you can actually get an extra fold on the upper lid itself so it’s very important to assess, as a plastic surgeon, or even look in the mirror; is your brow low or is it that you’ve got excess skin on your upper eyelids and I’m going to talk about how to treat excess skin on the upper eyelids in a different video, called upper blepharoplasty.
So the important thing is have a look at the position of your eyebrow in the mirror and then you can do this at home, have a little look at your eyebrow, just move it in different positions and see how it affects your eyelid and how the brow looks, does it look better in any particular position. So raise up the outer bit, inner bit and just have a look at that. The second thing to look at is do you have any deep cross ways lines on your forehead. If you you’ve got deep lines like this on your forehead, the reason for that is because the muscle is pulling up your brow. So you need to be very careful not to have too much Botox treatment which weakens the muscle as this may relax the muscle which won’t be able to lift up the brow and the eyebrow will go down.
