How to Tweeze Your Eyebrows

Introduction

Tweezing your eyebrows is one of the most dramatic way to change your face without makeup or surgery. Using the right techniques on your eyebrows, you can make your eyes look fresher, larger and give your face a clean, polished look. Follow these steps to get the right shape.

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Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Tips & Warnings:

Consider having your brows waxed professionally to get exactly the shape you want. You can then tweeze the strays as they grow in.
Habitual tweezing of your eyebrows may make some hairs stop growing permanently, so pluck with caution.
There are tweezers on the market that are specially designed for tweezing eyebrows. They cost a bit more but make the experience less painful.

Step1

The best way to determine the points on your eyebrow is to compare your nose to the iris of your eye and to the end of the your eye. Take a ruler or comb and starting at your nose, point the rule straight up and that will tell you where your eyebrows should begin. Make a mark with the brow pencil.

Then hold the ruler from your nose to your iris. This will determine where your arch should be. Mark your brow. Do the same from your nose to the end of your eye. That marks the end of the brow. Fill in your eyebrows using these marks.

Step2

Spray alcohol on your tweezers to make sure they are extremely clean.

Step3

Pulling the skin taut, at the outer end of the eyebrow, against the brow bone. Pluck the hairs out in the direction they’re growing in.

Step4

Brush the hairs up and then comb them by following the eyebrow's shape that you made. You can use a brow gel to hold them in place if you need to.

Step5

Use a cotton ball or pad soaked in pure tea tree oil or witch hazel to soothe your tweezed brows.

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cmbbb said

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on 1/8/2008 This was absolutely unhelpful, especially the part "I'm just going to fill in what I think your brow should look like." Oh, thanks! You're a professional stylist! It would be nice if you DESCRIBED what a good brow looked like and what an "arch" should look like.

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on 8/8/2006 If it's your first time tweezing your eyebrows, and you don't have anything to guide you, take your eye pencil and go from the edge part of your eye (closest to your nose) and slightly diagonally up to the inside of your face. You don't want your eyes to look longer than your eyebrows.

Anonymous said

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on 6/30/2006 If you add a bit of Bonjela to the stray hairs, it makes that area numb and it doesn't hurt when you pluck them.

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on 6/30/2006 If you have a Mary Kay lady, order the soothing eye gel (or go to their website). After tweezing (not plucking) your eyebrows, dab on a tiny bit of the eye gel on the brow bone with a Q-tip. It works!

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on 3/26/2006 Use a magnifying, lighted mirror. I use a ConAir mirror and it works great for getting eyebrows trimmed and makeup done, with a specific light for evening, home, office, and day!

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