Beauty Buzz Article

BEAUTY BUZZ
by Karen Peery

Karen Peery has 20 years experience in the newspaper and retail industries. For the past 8 1/2 years she has been an AVON Independent Sales Representative, certified beauty advisor, and top recruiter in her district since 1999. She is a mother and grandmother and enjoys helping people discover their beauty and second income needs. Karen currently resides in Iowa.

Shaping Your Eyebrows

Shaping your eyebrows is like shaping your personality. Your eyebrows have everything to do with your makeup and are your face’s most changeable feature.

Your eyebrows are a combination of what nature has given you and how your personality defines your nature. They define your character and can completely change the look of your face.

There is no makeup trick that will help you look better than a pair of beautiful eyebrows. So buy a good pair of tweezers and develop the skills to use them.

There are no set rules as far as eyebrow shaping is concerned. Most of us keep our eyebrows natural looking by staying with the natural shape. You do not want to alter your natural arch. Your brow should fade out gradually beyond the outer corner of the eye.

When shaping your brows you can make your eyes seem smaller, larger, closer-set or farther apart. After you create the shape that is right for your face, eyes, and your style, use makeup to enhance the arch and then you can play with the brow shaping.

A thicker brow gives you more of a soft and more youthful look while a thinner brow shape can make you look harder and older.

Your eyebrows should be a flattering frame for the eye, in proportion to your other features of the face, and to the size of your face.

If your eyebrows are untidy and shapeless, they can ruin your makeup effect.

To enhance the brows, you should thin out the hairs to help create balance. You can achieve the natural shape by tweezing, waxing, or using an eyebrow pencil.

Your eyebrows should lend interest, balance and intrigue to your facial features.

Before you start tweezing, wash your tweezers with mild detergent and rinse. Then dampen a washcloth with very warm water and hold it gently against the area you are going to tweeze. This cleans the area and opens the follicles slightly so it will be easier and less painful to tweeze.

A good way to start tweezing or plucking your brows is to look in the mirror, hold a pencil vertically against the highest bone on the side of the nose and note where it meets the brow. Do this on both sides of the nose. The brow should begin in line with the inner corner of the eye. Then pluck only in between.

When determining the end of your eyebrow, you should extend a pencil (or you can use your tweezers) diagonally from your nostrils, over the outer edge of your eye toward the brow and where it lands is where your eyebrow should end.

After you pluck a few brow hairs, stop and look in the mirror to see how you are doing as you can always tweeze more.

You can pluck the hairs that exceed these boundaries or you can extend brows with a pencil line to reach them. Another rule of thumb or eyebrow guideline is to take excess hairs away from below the arch of the brow and not above it. This will help keep the natural arch and helps lift the eye visually.

Another way of taking care of stray brow hairs is waxing. It is easier to have it done at a salon as it can be dangerous to use hot wax near your eyes.

Grooming your brows: There are several ways to fill you in your brows if they are sparse or spotty.

You can take an angled eyebrow brush and press just a bit of eye shadow to the brow (use medium or dark brown for brunettes, a taupe for blondes or redheads, charcoal for silver or gray hair. Then follow the direction of the brow and extend the brushed-on shadow to the edge of the eye.

An eyebrow pencil can add shape and fullness to your eyebrows. The color of the eyebrow pencil should never be darker than that of your brows or hair color, unless your hair is lightened.

To blot any excess you can pat with a tissue. If your eyebrows are really thin, you can pencil them in a little thicker. Then take an eye pencil under the brow and follow the brow line out to the edge of the eye. Next use your powder sponge to press some powder on top to soften the line. You can use a brush to lightly fill it in with a shadow.

To shape your brows properly you should use short, light pencil strokes to outline the top of the each eyebrow up to its arch. Then use feather-like stokes to extend each brow to the end. Fill any areas by using the same stokes as though you were drawing on individual brow hairs. To smooth the brows and blend in the pencil strokes, you just brush your brows with an eyebrow brush.

If you don’t usually accentuate your brows, try experimenting and you may find that you need less makeup. Remember when shaping your eyebrows you are adding expression to your entire face.

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Karen Peery, Independent Sales Representative

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