Shape Your Eyebrow

Shape Your Eyebrows

Here's How:

 Cleanse your skin with a washcloth to naturally exfoliate the skin. If you want to go all out, use a facial scrub . Worried about pain? You can actually apply Anbesol, Orajel or any teething gel for babies onto the areas you plan to tweeze.

Brush brows up and out with a clean toothbrush or your fingers.

Situate yourself near a window with light pouring in or under a bright light with a good mirror (magnifying mirrors are best, but be sure and flip it over to see your overall effect in the regular mirror). I like to tweeze my brows on my back deck where the light is perfect.

Make sure you have a good pair of tweezers with a slanted edge (my favorite, hands down, are Tweezerman slanted tweezers (buy Tweezerman online). They last forever, because the company will sharpen them for free.

Tweeze hairs in the direction they grow. Try to grab one hair at a time. You can hold skin taut as you pluck.

You can start anywhere, but I usually tweeze the area under my arch first, then I move above the brow and I clean up in between my brows last. It's a myth that hair above the brow should never be touched. You want both the bottoms and tops to be smooth. 

The best brows have a slight arch. To find yours, take a long eyeshadow brush or pencil and hold it parallel to the outside edge of the colored part of your eye (the iris). Where the brush meets the brow is where the highest part of your brow should be. Tweeze the hairs underneath the arch.

Tweeze the stray hairs between your brows. The space between your brows should be equal to, or a little wider than, your eyes. To find where your brow should go, take the brush or pencil and hold it parallel to the side of your nose. Where the brush meets your brow is where your brow should begin. Tweeze the strays in between.

Stop every few hairs to step back and look at the job you're doing. If you overpluck, you're stuck. Unlike most hairs on your body, your brows won't always grow back once they're yanked.

Once you're done plucking, you can apply aloe vera gel, which will calm the redness right away.