I always thought I was alone being eyebrowless, but it seems quite a few people have the problem.

I basically want a bit of advice to what some more knowledgeable people know about such skin problems.

I don't have the classic symptoms of having like scaring, or spots nor itching of any sort on my eye brows.

I've never really had eye brows, even when i was younger, when there was actually no redness around them.

Yea so anyway, I found this website and saw lots of people responding with ways of actually treating the redness and actually growing them back. I'm just wondering if I actually have one of the skin problems that I've been reading about in here. If I do it is hardly severe, since I basically just have 1/3 of my eyebrows , which everyone assumes I shave off, annoying :P

Picture is of me below, any advice, diagnosis etc would be appriciated. I was slightly drunk on the picture, so the cheek redness might seem quite a bit more severe...

It looks a lot like UO to me from what I can see in the picture. The outer eyebrow area does look red - does it return to a normal colour when not drunk!

99.9% of the time people with UO will have some other KP symptoms such as KP bumps on the top of arms - do you have anything like this??

UO can start in infancy - can your mum remember your eyebrows being red and having red bumps on your face/eyebrows???

Thanks for the response. They're pretty much red all the time, even when not drunk :P

Now that you mention it I have always had strange bumbs on my arms and legs, mainly my thighs.

I checked photo's from when I was younger, until my middle teens, there was no redness on my eyebrows.

My brother has the same skin complexion as me, he said he had the same problem with his eyebrows, but now his have grown back and look fine. He still has the redness, but they grew back in his early-mid twentys. I'm not sure whether that means he had it? Or is there no way your eyebrows with grow back with the condition?

Anyway, again thanks for the reponse, after 21 years I've finally found out why my skin is the way it is.

mmm..... UO is very interesting. For me it was rapid hair loss and redness when I hit my teen years and no hair has grown back and eyebrows remained red on the outer part.

However a close relative has slightly red eyebrows and minimal hair loss - so I think there is a bit of variation when it comes to UO.

My 12 year old started showing some redness and hairloss in one brow and pediatrician agreed something was going on. I starting putting on Annuu's oleum (posts on this forum) and it calmed the redness and hair loss stopped. May have been a coincidence. Son is now 13 and redness has not appeared again so am not sure what is going on.

My eyebrows get itchy still so I use the oleum cream at night to help settle them.

At 21 I suspect you have lost as much hair as you are going to and here is hoping you will be like your brother and experience some regrowth???

Well tbh, from pictures when I was younger, it seemed like I had less hair on my brows than I currently do.

However my hair may have darkened, I seem to have hair on my brows, but it's very faint, almost blonde. Ofcourse there is not much, but there is something, so I'm hoping it will grow back, or get darker or something, as my brother experienced.

The redness is a kind of a pinkness these days, and even on the very outer of the eyebrow its actually normal skin colour - (Im from UK). I've never ever experienced itching of my eyebrows that I can remember, I'm talking uncomfortable itching, not just the occassional itch as you get on any other body part.

I checked the back of my arms last night, I have 1 small patch on each of my tri-cep area with red bumps, which is hardly noticeable. I seem to remember my arms used to have more. Im pretty convinced the condition is getting better as I get older, or maybe I'm just imagining things.

I'm pretty sure I have both the skin conditions, just they are not very severe.

Oh a quick question, is it at all possible that steam could help the condition? for example a sauna? Again I might be just imagining things, but I've been using a sauna recently and noticed my skin in general looks a lot better, but I'm not 100% sure.

My experience has been that these conditions do get better with age.

As far as the humidity thing goes I find the same. Unfortunately I don't live in a humid climate but when I have visited countries that do I find my skin is better.

Hi Dan123:

I don't know for UO, but for regular KP some members, including my husband, say that sauna does help a lot.

He used to go to a sauna everyday when he lived in NJ and it helped.