Beauty Tips from the Pros: Plucky Eyebrows

April 10, 2008— -- When you think of Brooke Shields, Audrey Hepburn, Bette Davis, Sophia Lore, and Elizabeth Taylor, what do you picture? Their eyebrows!

What about Groucho Marx and Oscar the Grouch? Brows!

If your eyes are the mirror of your soul, then your brows are their frames. Your eyebrows are one of THE most defining features of your face and you want to get them 'right'. Eyebrows seem to say a lot about your character, long before you open your mouth to speak!

Perfectly groomed eyebrows give the fastest refresher that will always brighten your expression. I have a mission and that is to put an end to incorrect tweezing: those tufts, tadpoles, triangles, and caterpillars will easily be trends of the past.

There are several ways to weed out stray brow hairs with waxing, threading, cream removers and even lasers. But I strongly encourage everone to get used to the basics of using tweezers, either as their first plan of action and also for maintenance between 'tune-ups' for the other options. If you can have a professional shaping first, then try to keep up with what the technician did, then all the better. Please, I advise you NOT shave your brows! It is not pretty, and grows back like a mini-beard.

Basics Brow Know-Hows
The best rule of thumb is to first consider your own natural brow shape, not tweeze too much or too many at a time, never tweeze when you are bored, angry, tired, or in a moving vehicle! Seriously. You could end up with bald patches that can take months to grow back.

It's important to be in a well lit area, have a good mirror -- hopefully, one you can get right in front of, and have a really great, precision pair of tweezers. Make sure that the actual ends -- the tips that grasp the hairs -- meet snugly together to assure that when you grasp the hair, it will come out the first time without tugging and irritating your skin.

Here are the general guide points to consider.

1. Map out the beginning, middle and the end of where you want your brows to ultimately be and stick with it.