EyebrowNothing is worse than over-plucking your eyebrows!  Eyebrows create balance and frame the face while drawing attention to the eyes.  There are few things that can enhance the look of your face more than well groomed eyebrows.  Many people underestimate how much groomed brows actually lift and open the eye area.

If you're a novice or first timer when it comes to plucking your brows...you may want to consider having a professional Esthetician at a local spa give you a lesson in brow shaping.  Then you can maintain them at home yourself by tweezing the stray hairs as they grow out.

        Brow Shaping Tips:

  1. Prep the Area First - While in the shower, exfoliate the brow area with a gentle scrub.  The warm water from the shower will also help to open the pores, making it easier and less painful to extract the hairs.
  2. Shaping Your Eyebrows - First brush the brows upward and outward with an eybrow brush/comb or clean toothbrush. Take a pencil and hold it parallel to the side of your nose and the inside corner of your eye - where the pencil hits your brow is where the eyebrow should start.  Using a white eye liner pencil helps to mark the hairs you want to remove.  To find the natural arch, hold the pencil perpendicular to the outside of your iris when you're looking straight ahead.  Finally holding the pencil against your nostril, place the pencil to the outside corner of the eye. This is where the brow should end.   
  3. Sensitve to Pain?? - Apply teething gel (for babies) to reduce the sting.
  4. Use Good Tweezers - Using a good pair of tweezerswith a slanted edge, wipe the tip before and after with alcohol to disinfect and remove any oily build up.
  5. Use Good Lighting - Natural sunlight works best for tweezing.  Also, using a 5X or more magnifying mirror helps you to see every little hair.
  6. Start Plucking - Pluck hair in the direction it grows and hold the skin taught as you pluck.  This is very important!!!  Pluck one hair at a time, starting below the brow, going slowly and checking often. DO NOT overpluck!  It may take months for your brows to grow back.
  7. Avoid Over Tweezing Above the Brow -  A few obvious stray hairs are fine to remove, but plucking above the brows is usually considered a no-no and can create an unnatural look.

Once you've finished, use an aloe vera gel, azulene oil, or tea tree aromatherapy essential oil to calm and soothe any redness.  If your brows are sparse in spots, fill them in with a brown eye shadow or brow powder, brushing them to soften the effect.

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For a lesson on shaping your brows, check out the video below