Drawn-on Eyebrows help?

I'm considering either plucking or shaving my eyebrows off because I want the stylized drag-queen brows that I see so many makeup bloggers with. But I'm not sure which I should do? And how. I've got a steady hand so the actual drawing them on part shouldn't be difficult, but its which removal method that I'm a bit unsure about.

Some people have told me shaving them off is bad because the hair will grow back wonky, and others have told me the same thing about plucking. So which is better? (I figured this would be the best place to ask.)

I naturally have very thick, dark eyebrows, so just going over them with foundation or such isn't an option.

I've also been told to leave some hair so that if you don't have time to draw them in you won't have to go out eyebrow-less. But would that still work if I'm going for super stylized, Amanda Palmer type brows?

Any tips?

Hey, thanks for the quick reply!
I guess I'll go with plucking, that seems to be the preferred method for most of the people I've asked.
And as convenient as waxing is you never do get the wax residue off! X__X
I meant wonky as in hairs growing in at odd angles, or much thicker. (Though I'm pretty sure the second one is an old wives tale.) Nothing a brow pencil and brush won't fix if I decide to grow them back in.
So it becomes part of the routine then. Thanks, I'll keep all this in mind. Now its just a matter of being brave. Its odd, I've made a ton of "wild" changes to my appearance over the years and have never cared what anyone thought, but this seems different, or scarier somehow.

I've done it before for a couple of years but it was too much of a pain in the a$$ since I would get overly obsessive with the shape and whether or not they were even, making sure the arch wasn't too high, trying to make them look somewhat realistic by smudging them a little bit. To start, shave them off first then pluck them as they grow back, and examine the contours of your brow to be sure you aren't drawing the arch too close or too far from the center (if possible, try to line the arch with your pupil at a forward stare).

What I would best recommend is to keep a thinish line of real eyebrow hair and fill around it with pencil and brow shadow to get that drag queen look; in fact, a lot of queens use a glue stick to matte the hairs and cake makeup on it to look like they are shaved.

Yeah, I could definitely see myself getting obsessive over placement. I might just leave a bit at the inner corner and take the rest off. I've got a pretty steady hand for makeup too. I figure if I can get my cat-eye liner to match up, this shouldn't be too far off the mark.
I have heard of the gluestick method. I'd definitely go for it, but that would mean using foundation everyday. X__X I've gotten away without it so far.

I know this doesn't help, but personally I've found that I can't do that. I've been too tired and too lazy to do something as simple as eye liner or redying my hair. But I would say Ginger has a point when she says to not completely get rid of them at first and just build from there.

Thanks for the input here!

I know I'm a very lazy person, but I figure if I've kept up with redying hair this long, I'm probably ok for eyebrows.

And I think I may just do that, take a while to practice with different eyebrows. I love the two different designs thing too. Its part of the appeal, there's so much more you can do than just plain eyebrows.

Though, another thing I'm worried about is that my face is too round to pull this off. (I'm quite a bit heavier than when my avatar pic was taken.) Most of the people it looks good on seem to have an angled face, or are else very thin.

So I finally got rid of the eyebrows and redid them:



They turned out much better than I hoped, so thank you all for the advice!

They look really good.

Huh, lets see if this works, I set it as a thumbnail instead:



And thanks! (to the person the link is working for! )

Thanks! And yep! Well, the blue is manic panic. The green and red (that you can't really see) is Punky Color, and there's some purple from Splat that you really can't see here either.

I had a bunch of half jars of dye left over.