How important are your eyebrows?
If you watched Eyebrow Coloring 101, you know the answer to that!
Now learn how to keep up with those stray hairs and have amazing brows every day.
Plus, watch the video to hear Anna K’s tips and insights about two other methods for shaping eyebrows.
Before you begin you’ll need the following items:
Step 1: Brush your eyebrows with a spoolie and choose your preferred eyebrow to begin with.
Step 2: Find where your eyebrow begins by measuring a line from the inside corner of your eye to the side of your nose.
Mark that spot with your eyeliner.
Step 3: Find where your eyebrow ends by lining up from the corner of your eye to the corner of your nose.
Make a mark here with your eyeliner.
Step 4: Find your eyebrow arch by lining the outside of your pupil up with your eyebrow.
This is where your natural arch is. Make a mark here.
Step 5. Draw lines connecting the marks you’ve made.
Step 6: Fill in the lines.
Step 7: Pull up your eyebrow so you can see all the hairs outside of the lines you drew. Tweeze those hairs.
Step 8: Next, you’ll trim your eyebrows. Use your spoolie to comb eyebrows straight up.
Step 9: Trim your eyebrows.
Step 10: Remove the eyeliner, do the other eye and voila! Beautifully shaped eyebrows.
Great tips ladies! Really needed some direction on the trimming because I was sooo doing it wrong!
Being a natural redhead, my eyebrows and eyelashes are translucent. I want to know how you know how thick to make them. I have to draw mine on every day. I use both a pencil and powder. It’s kinda like what AnnaKay does in the video. But I am always flumoxed by thickness. My own “invisible” brows seem very wide, but I feel like Groucho if I fill them in completely.
Speaking from experience, I think threading is very painful. With that being said I’ve done it a few times and ended up with my best shape from one visit. I wish I had remembered who did them that time because the results from the next visit weren’t as good. Waxing is less painful but it seems like they always take too much off for me. I like to tweeze at home and definitely get best results when drawing the guidelines. Tweezing feels the least painful to me. I’ve had trouble with trimming though. I never remember if I’m supposed to trim hair by brushing up or down and I always take off too much when trimming.
I had a stylist who did waxing and as my brows thinned, I would go to her salon and heavily color in the shape I wanted (like Anna K does in this video) and she would wax around the perimeter. Yes, I look ridiculous for those minutes, but it gave her a very clear idea of the shape and limits I wanted, so there’s that option 🙂
I’m just beginning to deal with my eyebrows after years of totally ignoring them. I’m dealing with the triple threat of age-related thinning of my hair (including brow hairs), graying, and my wild and crazy curls (brow hairs can be curly, too–who knew?) in other words, the few brow hairs that you can actually see are incredibly unruly. Suggestions? Short of flying to Utah, that is…
Thanks SO much for this tutorial! I was finally able to tame my unruly eyebrows! Inherited my Dad’s bushy brows. Most helpful was the trimming; I had lots of long eyebrow hairs. Looks so much better now. I have also begun to accept my comparatively straight eyebrow shape, as part of my T4 defining look.
Wait, line it up with the outside of the pupil or the iris? Because the photo and videos look like it’s lined with the iris.