How to Know if You Need to Trim Your Eyebrows
The shape of your eyebrows instantly effects the expression on your face. The wrong eyebrow shape can make you appear permanently angry or shocked. Plucking your eyebrows with tweezers is often not enough to get groomed eyebrows; long hairs may still be sticking out from your eyebrows and make them seem unruly. Tweezing the top of your eyebrows changes their shape and gives you an unnatural appearance. Trim your eyebrows instead, to get a better result. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Brush your eyebrow hairs straight up with a clean mascara wand or toothbrush.
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Look at the length of your eyebrow hairs. If the hairs are all the same length, there is no need to trim them. If there are several stray hairs longer than the majority of your eyebrow hairs, you have to trim them.
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Run your mascara brush through your eyebrow in an upward motion. Start at the roots of your eyebrow hairs and end just below the tips. Hold the hairs straight with the brush. Trim the long hairs with manicure scissors. Avoid trimming the hair too short; trim only a little bit off the hairs at a time, because you can always trim more if needed. Trim both eyebrows in this fashion.
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Brush your eyebrow hairs straight down and look for stray hairs sticking out. Trim only the long hairs sticking out; if the hairs are all the same length, there is no need to trim them.
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Hold the hairs straight down with the mascara wand and trim off any long hairs little by little at a time.
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Tips & Warnings
Trim your eyebrows before tweezing them, because trimming exposes your natural eyebrow shape, which looks best on your face.
Avoid tweezing the long hairs that are sticking out, because removing the hairs completely can result in gaps in your eyebrows.
Use eyebrow gel after fully grooming your eyebrows, to hold the hairs down and in place.
References
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