There is a reason why actresses like classic Hollywood’s Audrey Hepburn and contemporary figures Lily Collins and Lucy Hale are known for their beauty, and it has nothing to do with their makeup choices. All three actresses have one thing in common — they have outstanding eyebrows.
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Eyebrows are more than a mere accessory to the body. They are the ones that frame your face and give you the allusion to the perfect bone structure. So you must take care of your eyebrows by brushing them before heading out, trimming when the time comes, and even coloring them if necessary.
The perfect eyebrows will help you attain an even better makeup look, and the following are five fantastic and easy ways you can achieve perfect eyebrows.
1. Give yourself a brow lift
A brow lift is a surgical procedure, or it can be attained through a couple of botox sessions, but if you are on a budget, you can choose to give yourself a brow lift in a more natural manner. An easy way to do this is by giving your eyebrows the right arch.
Some people are born with the perfect arch, but others may have to work for it. If you are one of the latter, you will need to hold a pencil to your nostril and line it up to the center of your eye. The highest point of your arch should be right where the pencil hits your brow.
Once you mark the point, take a brow pencil, ideally a brown color that best suits your facial tone, and lightly brush the color on your brow to create the perfect arch. Once you are happy with your arch, brush your eyebrows and remove any access color.
2. Go for threading
Although waxing is great to remove hair in no time and using ingrown hair tweezers at the last-minute prep are lifesavers, threading is hailed as the best method to endow your face with the best eyebrows. First off, a professional will be taking care of your brows, which is always the way to go if you want to give your face the best chance of looking fabulous.
Secondly, threading is the most precise and gentle way to attain the right brow shape. It removes hair that is too short to be pulled by a tweezer or through waxing. Moreover, it is gentle on the delicate skin around your eye.
3. Don’t over tweeze
Probably the number one rule when it comes to the perfect eyebrows is to avoid over-tweezing. You have heard of flawless bushy eyebrows — Lily Collins and Lucy Hale are a prime examples of this, but over-tweezed eyebrows have never been a trend.
So when you are working on shaping perfect eyebrows, remember to have the right mirror in front of you and good lighting. This process isn’t something you should do in a rush. It would help if you stepped away from the tweezers now and then and take a good look at your brows to avoid overdoing it.
It sounds contradictory, but sometimes, the best thing you can do to get perfect eyebrows is to leave them alone. The ideal eyebrows may need a little growing, and so the only productive thing you can do is wait and use an eyebrow pencil until the waiting game is over.
4. Invest in eyebrow stationery
You have probably heard of eyebrow gels and pencils, but what about eyebrow stencils? If going freehand when shaping your eyebrows is too much pressure, you can opt for an eyebrow stencil. These stencils come in many shapes and sizes, and they are beneficial if you want to attain the perfect brows while avoiding mistakes.
The eyebrow stencil will be your guide to coloring your eyebrows without going outside the lines, regardless of whether you use gels, powders, and pencils.
5. Practice, Practice, Practice
Much like drawing the perfect eyeliner wing, attaining the ideal eyebrows for your face requires practice. There’s no stopping at the first mark of frustration here. This process will entail a couple of colored eyebrow pencils and maybe a gel and powder to give those a go.
Luckily, we live in the age of YouTube, where you can browse through thousands of eyebrow tutorials without spending a dime. Looking at people shaping their eyebrows is a helpful way of getting better at this. But don’t forget to practice as well. Your hand needs to learn how to steady itself and bend at the right curve to create the ideal shape for your face.
It may seem like hard work but having perfectly shaped eyebrows will save you so much time.
Really, with great brows, you can skip the eyeliner if there’s no time for it, brush your lashes with a good dose of mascara, tint your lips with the right shade and head out the door looking fresh-faced and effortless.
