How to Thin Wild & Thick Eyebrows
Eyebrows protect your eyes from sweat and shade them from the sun, but when they are left untamed and ungroomed, they cause your face to look unfinished. Grooming your eyebrows is a basic beauty task that helps the eyes look bigger, and it also helps you lighten your face overall. If your brows are currently wild and bushy, it is important to start by shaping them well. This makes future eyebrow grooming significantly easier. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Sit down in a comfortable spot with a pair of tweezers and a mirror that allows for at least 5x magnification. A strong magnification allows you to see every hair and to remove it accordingly.
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Draw a mental line from the corner of your eye nearest your nose up to the eyebrow. That line is where your eyebrow should start, so tweeze away everything past that line.
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Draw a mental line from the bottom of your nose to the outermost corner of your eye, extending it up to to your eyebrow. This is where your eyebrow should end, so tweeze away everything outside of that line.
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Divide your eye mentally into 3 horizontal parts. The place where the outermost third begins is where the tallest arch of your eyebrow should be.
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Tweeze starting from underneath the eyebrow, clearing out any stray hairs between your eyebrow and your eye.
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Shape your eyebrow by thinning the hair at the edges, but leaving the center line of the eyebrow untouched. Tweezing too much creates a startled look.
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Brush away the loose hair with the tissue and examine your eyebrow. If you notice that there are hairs interrupting the smooth line of the eyebrow, pluck them away as well.
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