About Lydia — Founder of My Halal Brows Academy

The frustration no one talks about

At that time, I wasn’t broke emotionally: I was blocked.

I had confidence in myself.
I had motivation.
I had energy.

But I had no answers.

No training.
No mentor.
No clear steps.
No example of someone doing brows in a halal way, professionally.

I searched. I Googled. I asked around.

Nothing.

And that’s when the real frustration hit:
“If this doesn’t exist… does that mean I’m asking for too much?”

For a while, I had already started experimenting on myself.

Quietly.
Without really naming it.
Just trying to see if there was a way to clean the brow without removing hair.

It wasn’t perfect yet, but it was enough to feel something shift.

Then one day, I was talking with a friend about brow bleaching.
About how it exists.
How it works.
And how strange it is that no one really talks about it, especially as a real alternative.

I remember saying something like:
“Why is this not more known? Why does it feel like this option doesn’t even exist by brow artist?”

And in that moment, it clicked.

It wasn’t that the solution didn’t exist.
It was that no one had structured it, explained it, or made it accessible.

Not in a professional way.
Not in a halal way.
Not in a way brow artists could actually trust.

That conversation changed everything.

I realised the issue was never my lack of discipline or clarity,
it was the lack of guidance.

And that’s when I understood:
If I had to figure this out alone,
then maybe other women were stuck in the exact same place.

From awareness to intention

After that conversation, I couldn’t unsee it.

I had already been testing brow bleaching on myself for a while.
Not seriously at first.
Just enough to feel that it worked, that there was something there.

But now, I realised why it felt unfinished.

It wasn’t missing effort.
It was missing structure.

There was no clear explanation.
No method you could trust.
No guidance on hair types, skin reactions, products, timing.

So instead of asking “Why isn’t this more known?”
I started asking a different question:

“What would it take to make this a real, professional alternative?”

That’s when everything became intentional.

I started researching deeply, hair, skin, products, reactions.
I tested again.
I failed.
I adjusted.

I documented every step.
Not with the idea of teaching,
but with the need to understand.

I wanted to be sure that what I was doing was:

• safe

• consistent

• professional

• and truly halal

Slowly, things became clearer.

What felt like isolated tests started forming a process.
What felt uncertain started making sense.

& something else shifted too.

For the first time, I wasn’t just trying to avoid something uncomfortable.
I was actively building a solution.

I felt relief, real relief.
Not just because I had stopped plucking,
but because I finally knew why this worked and how to do it properly.

There was no more guessing.
No more inner debate.

Just clarity.

That’s when I realised this wasn’t meant to stay personal.

If I had spent so long feeling stuck
knowing something wasn’t right but not seeing another way
then other women were probably living the same thing.

Especially brow artists.
Especially sisters who love beauty but want to stay aligned.

What started as something I needed for myself
became something I felt responsible to share.

Not as a trend.
Not as a shortcut.

But as a real alternative.

Why My Halal Brows exists today

My Halal Brows exists because too many women were made to believe
they had to choose between beauty and faith.

It exists to show that you can:
✨ create clean, beautiful brows
✨ avoid removing hair
✨ stay aligned
✨ and still work professionally

Without guilt.
Without compromise.
Without figuring it out alone.

Without being curse.