How-To : Brows

Hey everyone!


Are you new to brow-shaping? Are you unhappy with how your brows look? I know I certainly was a few months ago, until I did some research and figured out how to shape and tweeze my eyebrows in the shape they have today, so I decided to do a blogpost on it to maybe help some of you girls out there who are struggling it.

Your eyebrows are a very important feature because they frame your eyes, but unlike the facial expressions they help create they are not universal. Each face shape has its own brow shape, that will enhance its assets and pull the attention away from its flaws. To illustrate that I brought a face and brow shapes from http://www.eyebrowz.com/faceshape.htm :

These are the most basic face shapes and their corresponding brows.

The Oval Face Shape : considered to be the ideal face shape and its brow is softly arched.

The Round Face Shape : is almost as wide as it is long, and the goal is to make it appear thinner and to do that we shape the brows in more vertical lines and a very high arch.

The Long Face Shape : needs a more straight brow to make it appear shorter.

The Square Face Shape : has a very strong jaw that can be balanced out with an angled brow with a soft arch.

The Heart Face Shape : has a strong pointed chin and to enhance the heart shape a rounded angled brow is best and can be adapted to your face - a low brow for a long heart face and a high brow for a short heart face.

The Diamond Face Shape : has a somewhat short forehead is widest between the cheekbones and temples, and to minimize that appearance shape your brows in a very curvy shape to soften the angles of your face and make its widest part look more narrow.

Obviously, these are guidelines and if you happen not to like the brow that corresponds to your face shape you can always choose another shape that goes better with your face. If you've overplucked your brows, or if you don't like the shape they have now you can always grow them back, but while you wait you can always fill them in with brown eyeshadow or a pencil and only remove the hairs you know you won't "need".

I happen to have a oval/oblong face and tend to do my eyebrows in a soft arch, rather than the really high upside down V everyone around me wears and that made me look surprised all the time!


Once you have figured out your face shape it is time to take out your favorite tweezers and shape your eyebrows:

I like to start by brushing the hairs downwards and outlining the upper part of my eyebrows with a white liner pencil to figure out which hairs need to be removed.

Then I remove all the hairs I painted white and the ones immediately over the line, but if I happen to have stray hairs that are not immediately over it I tend to them later with wax, since plucking them out would take too much time. Then I do the same under the brow:

Once I have removed the all the hairs under it (since waxing under the brow might damage the elasticity of the skin in that area) I erase the lines and remove any hairs I may have missed, creating lines as harmonious as possible and then I trim any hairs that are too long.

Then to finish I apply some wax to remove the really thin hairs I don't want to spend too much time plucking. To soothe the redness you can apply your moisturizer mixed with a healing cream (the same product you use to disinfect and heal a small cut).

And voilà!

One last tip: once you're happy with your eyebrows STOP! I know we tend to keep plucking and plucking but that will only ruin your brows and obliging you to fill them in until they grow back.

I hope this was helpful, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask me or visit www.eyebrowz.com

Love,

Nina.