- Eyebrows
- Eyebrows are the most important feature in defining the face, as they both frame and give it balance.
- The trick to applying a natural eyebrow shape is using a hard stiff, short brush, and working with colorations instead of pencils.
Pencils can be used, but it takes practice and patience to get a natural look. Tweezers are also essential to remove stray hairs and give your brows the shape you want.
- How to Maintain Your Eyebrows
- The general rule is that your eyebrow should start with a straight vertical line from the eye's inner corner straight up to the brow.
- The arch of the brow should begin as seen in the illustration, at the outside edge of the iris of your eye. The arch helps to lift and open up your eyes.
- The outside corner of your eye is where you want your eyebrow to stop as seen in the illustration. If your eyebrows grow past that point, it tends to make your eyes go down.
- Eyebrow Map
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- 1. To find where your brow begins hold a pencil very carefully vertically against the side of the nose. This should line up with the beginning of the eye, the eraser nearest the nostril and the point nearest the brow. Tweeze excess hair that extends beyond the pencil over toward the nose. Excess hair towards the nose tends to make your eyes look close together.
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- 2. Now keep the eraser end in place and move the top point toward the temple stopping diagonally at the point above the outside edge of the iris of your eye. This is where the arch of your brow should begin. Being sure not to make the brows too thin, tweeze away excess hairs beneath the arch.
- 3. Once again keeping the eraser in place, move the pencil point to the outside corner of the eye. This is where you want your eyebrows to stop. Tweeze hairs that extend beyond the point where the pencil meets the brow. If your eyebrows grow past that point it tends to make your eyes go down. At this stopping point it helps to lift your eyes up. The same is for the arch. The arch helps to lift and open your eyes.
- Always use a brow colour that is as natural looking as possible. The main objective is to define not create over-powering brows. To fill in, comb first, then use feather like strokes with your pencil to fill in. To create a more natural look, comb again after applying the pencil.
- The first step is tweezing. Start by thinning the eyebrow, then slowly begin to define the arch. The arch should reach the highest point above the middle of your iris. Thin from that point out.
- The shape and grooming of your eyebrows will make your eyes look bigger and open up your face more naturally then wearing a lot of makeup. Be careful, as heavy brows will overpower your face. Shape your eyebrows by tweezing the hairs from underneath, not from above and pluck in the direction that the hair is growing.
- Eyebrow Tips
- The rule is to comb, apply and comb.
- If your brows are low or close to the eyes, bleaching them can “open up” the face.
- Do not over pluck your eyebrows, as doing so can leave you having to draw most of your eyebrow; which is liable to smudge and look very un-natural.
- While darkening the hairs, do not darken the skin as this will create an unnatural effect.
