Ten Tips for Perfect Eyebrows

Today at BeautyTidbits we are kicking off a four-week series on beauty tips for those often neglected parts of your body which are essential to round off your polished and pretty look.

If eyes take the cake on making an ordinary face look ethereal then eyebrows are literally the icing on that cake. But often we end up ignoring the eyebrow area beyond getting it shaped. A perfectly groomed eyebrow is usually the best bet to immediately freshen up your face and brighten your look.

Here are the top ten beauty tips for gorgeous eyebrows-

The perfect shape – The picture perfect eyebrow starts from where the nose bridge meets the brow bone. Lot of people mistakenly think that it should start from the outside of the nostril which makes the brows look too far apart. The eyebrows should start to curve just after the outer edge of the iris with a gracefully stretched tail.

Getting the shape – Always begin tweezing underside the brow in the direction that the hair grows and then tweeze the strays on the topside and between the brows. To find where the arch should be, take an eye pencil and hold it parallel to the outside edge of the colored part of your eye i.e. iris. Where the pencil meets the brow is where the arch should be.

Balancing the shape of face with eyebrows – Eyebrows are definitely not the case of one size/shape fits all. Depending on whether your face is oval, round, square or heart shaped the shape of the eyebrow can also vary to rounded, hard-angled, soft-angled, s-shaped or flat. If you have a long face do not get high arched eyebrows and if you have a round face then keep a fuller brow with a soft angle.

Do not Overtweeze – Overtweezing not only makes your nose bridge look too wide and eyes too far apart but it also makes your face look quite severe. If you end up overtweezing, then leave your eyebrows alone for a while to let them regrow and then leave it to the pros to shape them correctly. Just like you would tell your stylist about that kind of hairstyle you want, you should also be able to tell your aesthetician about the kind of brows/ tweezing you want.

Aftercare – Tweezing or threading is slightly painful and can cause redness or swelling of the eyebrow area. Do not apply makeup on eyes till the redness subsides and always keep a cotton pad soaked in an antiseptic or witch hazel to soothe the brows.

 

Faking it – In case you have too thin or sparse eyebrows then fill in the brows with an eyebrow pencil. You can also use eyeshadow to fill in and darken your brows and it actually gives a softer look compared to the eyebrow pencil. The color of the pencil/shadow should match the natural color of your eyebrows. As a rule of thumb, do not use brow color more than one-quarter inch away from where the natural hair growth stops.

Brow color – If you have dyed your hair then there is always a dilemma about what color should the eyebrows be. Usually it should be a shade or so lighter than the hair of the brow. A great tip is to use the color Taupe for eyebrows which allows you to go as light as you want or go darker if need be.

Eyebrow toolkit – The perfect eyebrow kit will have a brow brush, eyebrow pencil/powder, scissors and brow tweezers. Benefit cosmetics Brow zings is a good eyebrow shaping kit  to consider. Another item you might want to have is a gel which will basically condition the brows and serve as a quick fix for unruly brows.

 

Grow back Eyebrows – In case your brow has ended up looking like an overtweezed mess and you have a constantly surprised look due to your unusually high brows, it is time you look at tips to grow back your brows. Castor Oil has been long known to make eyebrows grow thick and shows very quick results. Aloe Vera gel is another effective remedy to make the brows thicker and since it has soothing properties it makes your skin soft too. If you want to use oils, coconut or olive oil are good options to regain your eyebrow growth.

Maintenance Routine – Ideally one should massage their eyebrows once a week and get them shaped once in two weeks. But this is not an ideal world so we can still get away with an eyebrow massage once in a while and shaping them once in three weeks or so.

I hope these tips will be helpful in taming your brows and achieving that perfect eyebrow. If you have any other tips on your mind, do share with us through your comments below!

This post has been written by our staff writer Swapna.