How to Create the Perfect Eyebrow Shape

Eyebrows are the most difficult part of the face to care for--and for women proper trimming and shaping is essential to create the perfect look. Properly shaped eyebrows will accent your eyes, natural face shape and create a professional look. Shaping your eyebrows can be done at home by plucking with tweezers or waxing. But how do you create the perfect eyebrow shape for your face and look?

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• tweezers
• scissors
• wax (optional)
• magnifying mirror

1. Examine your eyebrows before they are shaped. Notice the natural shape and arch. The perfect eyebrow shape will accent the features of the natural shape, and not dramatically change it.

2. Trim your eyebrows if they are overly long or thick. Take a comb and place it downward into the eyebrow. Trim any stray hairs that stick out through the comb.

3. Locate an area in your home that has strong natural lighting and a mirror. Natural lighting will accent the natural shape of the eyebrow and stray hairs.

4. Place a pencil vertically against your nose. Remove any eyebrow hairs that appear past the side. Also, tweeze any stray hairs located between the eyebrows to create a clean polished look.

5. Find your natural arch. On some people it is visible without shaping, however if it is not take a pencil and find the diagonal line that goes through the center of your iris from your nose.

6. Pluck or wax your eyebrows in a straight line from the beginning of the brow (inside area closest to the nose) until you reach the arch. If you are tweezing your brows, only remove a few eyebrow hairs at a time and check the results.

7. Taper the brow from the arch to the outside edge. Like the previous step, remove only a few hairs at a time.

8. Once you have finished, check your results. Remove any stray hairs left by plucking that are left behind by the waxing process if that method was used.

Tips & Warnings

• Have a professional shape your eyebrows the first time if you are unsure you can get the desired results. Once they create the initial perfect eyebrow shape, all you have to do is maintain the shape at home.
• Do not over-pluck with tweezers or wax eyebrows too thinly. Ultra thin eyelashes will not complement any face shape and will look unnatural.
• Use a magnifying mirror to find any stray hairs that may have escaped the tweezing or plucking process.

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on 9/19/2009 HAHA - I was just cleaning up my brows! These are great tips. I hate to see someone with brows that are so overplucked that it's all you see when you look at their face. 5* and a rec.