Best Brow Secrets
by Shavata Singh
- Get your eyebrows done professionally, even if this is only once a year. This will give you an idea what they should look like, and with regular maintenance they will remain perfectly shaped.
- Once you have the brows you love, tend to them on a daily basis; it is a lot easier to tweeze one or two stray hairs every day then a bunch at the end of the week.
- No two eyebrows are ever identical; so don't even attempt to get them the same you will end up plucking to nothing. They say eyebrows are sisters not twins.
- When shaping your own eyebrows always pluck after a hot shower, in natural daylight and never a week before and during your period.
- When tweezing, always sit in front of a large mirror with a magnified mirror in your hand. This gives you an overall view and the hand mirror helps with the detail.
- Always tweeze both eyebrows together taking a few hairs of each at a time; it is a lot easier as trying to mimic one brow shape after the other is very difficult.
- When shaping your own eyebrows there are a few rules to follow; eyebrows should start before the eye (nose side) and not after. Try to keep the shape even - there is nothing worse than a tadpole sitting on top of your eyes.
- Good quality tools are essential to achieve a professional finish.
- When applying makeup to your brows less is always more, you should never be able to see where the makeup starts and where the hairs stop. When holding the brow pencil always hold further down - like you would when sketching, and build up the colour. If you decide to have your brows professionally shaped and don't know where to go always ask someone whose eyebrow you like and check the therapist’s own eyebrows as this is always a good indication.
Published on Friday 01 June 2007