Your eyebrows can completely change the way your face looks. So it's important to keep your brows tamed. Try these 10 professional tips for achieving A-List arches at home. Just keep in mind that fuller brows are in style now, so be sure not to go too thin.
1. Choose the right tweezers.
It's better to choose a sharp slanted style. They are the best when you are tweezing your brows on your own at home. They grab tiny hairs quickly and unlike the pointy versions, you'll be less likely to pinch your skin.2. Tweeze post shower.
Warm water opens the follicles and softens hairs, helping them slip out more easily. The easier the hair slides out equals less pain for you.
3. Ease the Ouch.
If tweezing is too painful or if it's right before your period (when your skin is most sensetive), dab on a numbing gel before you tweeze. Try a tooth pain medicine that you can pick up at the drugstore for just a few bucks.
4. Ditch your Magnifying Mirror
A magnifying mirror can make it look like there is more hair to remove than there actually is, which can lead to over tweezing. Use a regular mirror in a well lit room, if you can't see stray hairs under these conditions neither can anybody else. Also after every few tweezes take a couple steps back to see the bigger picture. This will really help prevent over tweezing. It is very easy to get carried away.
5. Know your limits.
Hold a pencil for guidance, your brows should begin directly above your tear duct. The highest peak of the arch should line up with the outer corner of your iris, and your brow should end at a point that falls 45 degrees from the outer corner of your eye.
Be sure not to arch your brows too high or they will look unnatural.
6. Create your shape.
Once you've determined how your brows should curve outline your ideal arch using a soft brow pencil. Then remove the hairs that fall above or below your self made stencil.7. Reduce Redness.
Immediately after tweezing gently pat on a small amount of over the counter cortisone cream to minimize any resulting inflammation.
8. Brush Up.
Style your arches with a brow brush or a brow gel. Coax the hairs upward at the start of your arch and brushing the rest toward the end of your eye. You can use a clear gel or to add a little more oomph to your brows use a colored gel. This acts like a hair gel for your brows, it keeps them in place and adds a little color to make them stand out.
9. Fill in the blanks.
10. Grow 'em in!
Over plucked? Refrain from tweezing for at least three weeks so you can see the natural growth pattern and shape. Remember now a days bigger brows are all the rage so fight the urge to over do it with the tweezers.
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