how to: eyebrows

Hold a straight edge, such as an eyebrow pencil or a ruler, vertically in front of your face.(see A in chart). Line it up so that it touches the outermost of your nose and the inside of your eye. This line will determine where your eyebrow should start. Mark that spot with an eyebrow pencil. Repeat for the other eye.

 

Angle the straight edge so that it lines up with the outermost edge of your nose and the outermost edge of your iris. (see B in chart). It's very important that you look straight ahead--both your face and your eyes should be looking directly forward at the mirror. Wherever the line intersects your eyebrow is where the peak of your arch should begin at the top border of the eyebrow. Mark that spot with your eyebrow pencil. Repeat for the other eye

 

Angle the straight edge further so that it touches the outermost edge of your nose and also passes along the outermost edge of your eye. (see C in chart ).This tells you where the eyebrow should end. Mark this point with your eyebrow pencil. Repeat with the other eye.

 

Next, cleanse your skin and brush brows up and out.

 

You should be near an open window or under a bright light with a good mirror (i find that magnified mirrors work best)

 

(You will need slanted tweezers for this next step.)

 

Make sure to pluck hairs in the direction they grow. Don't grab too many hairs at a time. You can hold skin tight as you pluck.

 

It's a myth that brows should never be tweezed from above. You want both the bottoms and tops to be smooth. So be careful, but tweeze the top AND the bottom.

 

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

 

TIPS:

If your brows are sparse or spotty, you can fill them in by pressing a brown shadow into your brow. Chanel's Perfect Brow Compact is the ultimate brow shadow. It's expensive, but worth the price.

 

If you use a pencil to fill in sparse brows, apply with short, feathered strokes from the outside of the brow in. Then carefully rub brows with a brush or your fingertips to soften the effect.

 

Brow gel helps keep your brows in place all day.