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Summary: Tweezing eyebrows is best done by plucking out the stragglers closest to the eyelid, as the hairs on the brow bone can be waxed off by a professional. Maintain beautifully shaped eyebrows with information from a practicing cosmetologist in this free video on makeup.
Chelsea Bagozzi started doing makeup seven years ago when she attended hair and makeup school. Bagozzi has worked for Paul Mitchell, Salon RZ and Mac and has been featured in Cut and...read more
"Hey, I'm Chelsea Bagozzi with suburbanheresy.com, and I'm here today with my model, Diana, and we're talking a little bit about beauty and makeup tips. And right now, we're going to talk a little bit about tweezing eyebrows. What you want to do when you tweeze your eyebrows is make sure that you get the little stragglers that are closest to your eyelid. And you want...less is more. The more you tweeze, the thinner they're going to get, and it's better to have thicker eyebrows than thinner eyebrows. Diana has a really nice shape to her brows, and she just has a couple little stragglers that we're going to get. And so you can see how we tweeze them. All right, when you're tweezing eyebrows, you want to make sure that you're tweezing the ones that are closest to the eyelid. When you wax your eyebrows, the wax is only up here on the brow bone. If the wax gets too low, it can rip your skin off. So tweezing is mostly for getting these lower ones down here and for doing the...some precision on the eyebrows. So you can see, her eyebrows have a really nice shape, and I'm just going to get a couple little stragglers that are in there. And it's best to grab the hair with the heel of the tweezer, not the point, but the...but the lower end because you'll get a better grip right there and it's easier to pull it out. And you just pull it really slowly. You don't need to pull it fast. You could just go on and just pull it out really slow. If you pull it too fast, then the hair will break off and you'll have a...you'll have regrowth really fast -- within a few days. So that's the way to do it."
eHow Article: How to Tweeze Eyebrows
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