How to Arch Eyebrows With Tweezers

A natural-looking arched eyebrow

The best way to get natural-looking arched eyebrows is by using good, old fashioned tweezers. Waxes remove all the hair, even the soft little facial hairs and a layer of skin, leaving you with a slick and shiny surface that's anything but natural looking. Perfect eyebrows don't come from a stencil, either. Stencils are for art projects and sign making. Learn how to arch eyebrows with tweezers today.

Things You'll Need

• Tweezers
• Warm washcloth
• Cold water or liquid toner
• Mirror

Instructions

1. Wash your face thoroughly, rinse with warm water and blot dry.

2. 

   Examine your eyebrows, noting their general natural shape. You'll want to remove hairs mostly from underneath the eyebrow. It's best to keep the overall natural shape, because that's the shape that matches your brow bone. Perfect eyebrows do not cross the brow bone at an unnatural angle.

3. 

   First remove the out-of-place hairs below the brow. Select the hairs to be removed and then hold the skin taut by pressing the end of the eyebrow outward and stretching the skin tight. This relieves the pain and allows you to pluck the brow without pulling on the skin.

4. Repeat the removal of under-brow hairs on the other eye. Check periodically to be sure that each brow is taking on the same shape. Your face isn't exactly the same on each side, so don't be surprised if one arched eyebrow requires more work than the other. Just keep comparing them and do the best you can. No one will examine them more closely than you, so it really won't be that noticeable.

5. Remove just a few hairs from the top of the eyebrows. You don't want to reshape from the top. It's more painful and unless your eyebrows are extremely bushy, it's not necessary.

6. Pluck stray hairs that grow between the brows. If you want to do a little reshaping here, like rounding off the top corner, it's OK. But don't remove too much because a wide bald patch between the eyes looks ridiculous.

7. Use a cotton ball to apply witch hazel or another toner to the brow area. This helps the pores close up and relieves the pain.

Tips & Warnings

• Never use a tweezer when you're driving. You can poke your eye out that way.