Brow Makeover Time!

Author: Jayna
Let us talk about eyebrows. I honestly believe that a perfectly groomed eyebrows can enhance your facial features and will definitely define your look. It balances your features and frames your eyes. Even if your make up looks beautiful on you, if you have bushy eyebrows, then it will just ruin the whole look. Some people are born with thick dark eyebrows while others are born with thin, small eyebrows and you just have to work with what you have. Eyebrows do not just define your face but it also protects your eyes from sweat or raindrops so it will not go straight into the eyes.

There are a lot of ways to groom your eyebrows depending on your threshold for pain. You can have it waxed, all the pain in just one strip. Of course you have to be really careful with waxing because you do not want to end up with no eyebrows at all. It is best if a professional does this instead of you doing it yourself.
For those who can stand the pain and have a lot of time in their hands, plucking and tweezing can be done to shape those eyebrows.
Threading it is also an option. More people choose this option because unlike tweezing the hair one by one, this can take a few strands of hair all at once and it can also remove the hair up to the roots. It is a little bit painful at first but once you get used to it, it will get better.
If you are lazy to go to a salon to get waxed, plucked or get a threading and you cannot stand the pain, you can also just buy an eyebrow shaver and shave away. The downside to this is that the hair will grow thicker and it will be more visible when it is growing.
If you are going to groom your eyebrows yourself, remember one thing. DO NOT OVER PLUCK. It is better to under pluck than over pluck. If you over pluck and end up with weird looking thin eyebrows, you will regret it and have to live with potentially ugly consequences. Hair takes awhile to grow and you will have to live with thin brows (which could make you look manly or washed out) for awhile. Having thin eyebrows will make you look older than you are.
Now, let me share with you how you can shape your eyebrows at home. It is quite easy and I am sure you will be able to do it on your own. For this step by step guideline, I will use the plucking/tweezing technique.
What you will need:

• Mirror that magnifies your face
• Angled tweezers
• Cosmetic scissors
• A brow brush (an old mascara wand will work too)
• A pencil or thin make up brush
• Ice or numbing cream (To be put before plucking, for those who are sensitive to pain)

Steps:

1. Know your face shape* to figure out what kind of eyebrows will suit you. If you have an OVAL shape face, the perfect brow shape is a soft angled shape (Grace Kelly). For those with HEART shaped faces (Gwyneth Paltrow), a low arch, round brow will define your face. Those with LONG faces (Denise Richards) will look good with a flat eyebrow shape while those with ROUND faces (Jennifer Aniston) look better with a high arched brow. Those with SQUARE faces (Cameron Diaz) look better with angled thick brows while those with DIAMOND faces (Halle Berry) look good with curved eyebrows.
2. With the mascara brush or eyebrow brush, brush the hair upwards and then with cosmetic scissors, trim any hairs that are longer than the natural shape of your eyebrows.
3. Hold your pencil or make up brush vertically from the outer most corner of your nose and to the inner eye. Mark it so you would remember where it falls. Pluck any stray hair that is outside of the line.
4. Again, take the pencil, look straight on the mirror and from the edge of the nose, angle it across the iris. It should be right below the innermost circle in the middle of the eye. Again, mark it with an eyebrow pencil. This is where the arch of the eyebrow should be.
5. Tilt the pencil until the corner of the eye from the corner of the nose and this is where the eyebrows should end. Any hair exceeding this will be plucked.

And there you go. That is how you can shape your eyebrows. This tip also helps when putting on make up. Remember that it is still advisable that you go to a professional to get your eyebrows shaped and just do the grooming at home once you have gotten a hold with the shape of your eyebrows. Also, remember the cardinal rule, DO NOT OVER PLUCK. It is very hard to fix this.
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