Tips for Shaping Your Eyebrows Like a Professional
Eyebrows on fleek are every aspiring or current pro cheerleader's beauty goals. Face-framing brows look youthful and put together sans makeup. Professionally-shaped brows create balance--a round face looks slimmer and sharp features, softer. In contrast, bad brows look like a joke.
But shaping our brows is one of the hardest beauty skills to master. We all once over-plucked and fell for boxed in eyebrows. So how to get perfectly-shaped brows without heading to the salon? Here are some tips from the pros:
1. Determine your brow shape
There are at least six popular eyebrow shapes to choose from. There's the hard/soft-angled, rounded, straight, and S-shaped. The most flattering shape embraces the natural contours of your brows.
Map out your optimal brow shape with a fine-tip brow pencil. Know where to start, place the arch, and end your brows.
Where you start your brows can narrow or widen your face.
- If you have a large forehead or wide-set eyes, your brows should start in line with the outer part of the tip of your nose. This leaves you with very little stray hairs to remove.
- If your eyes are so close together and you have a small forehead or a narrow face, start your brow in line with the tear duct.
The arch can make or break your look.
- Your arch should start right over your brow bone. Starting the arch over the center of the eyes can give you cuckoo eyes.
An extended tail can make your eyes look disproportionate. If the brow ends in the right place, the cheekbones look lifted.
- Your brow ends in the angle formed from the outermost part of the nose to the outer corner of the eye.
2. Use your brow scissors first
Sometimes, all your thick brows needed was a trim. To avoid sparseness in your brows, cut the length not pluck the hair. This is most important for the hair at the thickest part of your brows, in the middle. Comb or brush the hair up and trim outside your optimal brow shape. Then, brush your brows downward and do the same.
3. Tweeze, don't wax
Waxing can be difficult to manage especially at home. It's best to pluck your brows fresh out of the shower using sharp, slanted tweezers. Think of tweezing as removing the weeds, not mowing the entire lawn. Now pluck the strays in the direction of hair growth. Keep in mind not to tweeze on top of the brow. You can use a brow shave for a cleaner look.
Avoid plucking on your period as your skin is extra-sensitive. You can use ice or a cooling gel after tweezing to prevent redness and bumps. Bonus tip: Teething gel helps numb the skin for pain-free tweezing.
Final Touches
Brows need maintenance every 4 to 6 weeks. Resist the temptation to use tweezers or scissors before then. You need not fill in well-shaped brows but you can use a brow pencil to create a dramatic effect.
Find it hard to get the shape you want? It's best to set an appointment for a professional brow shaping. Then, you can maintain them at home with the pro tips you learned.
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