How to Get Eyebrows Shaped

Our eyes are one of our best facial features. Beautiful eyes can be complemented by perfectly shaped eyebrows. However, not every one is born with perfect eyebrows. Most women will try to acquire the eyebrow shape they want if they aren't happy with the ones they were born with by means of plucking, waxing or shaving. With a little bit of help you can give your eyebrows a shape that will not only match your face shape but enhance your natural beauty.

Things You'll Need

• Dark eyebrow Pencil
• Scissors
• Eyebrow brush
• Tweezers

Instructions

1. Know your face shape. The different shapes are diamond, heart, square, round and oval and each shape needs a different shaped brow.

2. Hold a pencil vertically at the outer edge of your nostril and inner eye, angle the pencil to the middle of your eye and then to the outer edge of your eye. These three points need to be marked with a dark eyebrow pencil as they represent the beginning, peak and ending of your brows.

3. Use an eyebrow brush and brush all the hairs up. Any that are longer than others need to be cut.

4. Examine both eyebrows and decide how you want them to look. You can take a dark eyebrow pencil and shade in the shape you want.

5. Use tweezers and pluck the hairs out to give your eyebrows the shape you decided on. Use a hand mirror to check if both sides match each other.

Tips & Warnings

• Oval-shaped faces can have just about any shape brows while diamond-shaped faces need a rounder brow. A square-shaped face needs the brow arch above the jaw line and a round-shaped face needs a high eyebrow arch while heart-shaped faces need a little roundness in their eyebrows. If you are wary of shaping your own eyebrows, going to a professional is always an option. When using tweezers, try setting a hot, wet wash cloth against the eyebrows. This will help to open up the pores, making pulling the hairs out less painful. Pluck a few hairs from one eyebrow and then move to the other eyebrow. Keep switching back and forth until your eyebrows are shaped. This way it gives one side a chance to recover from the plucking for a few minutes at a time. If your skin gets irritated after plucking then apply moisturizer to the irritated area. The end and beginning of both eyebrows need to be horizontally even. You can use an old but clean toothbrush instead of an eyebrow brush.

• Do not pluck eyebrow hairs against the grain. They come out easier if you pluck in the direction the hair is growing. Be careful when using tweezers that you don't thin out an area too much, but if you do, an eyebrow pencil helps to shade in bare spots. Take caution when trying to fix a mistake you made plucking. Sometimes the more you try to fix something the worse it gets.