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When it comes to perfectly-shaped eyebrows, you want to use what you already have to its maximum advantage to frame your face and enhance your features. That means no pencil-thin eyebrows or very busy ones—the former look dated and will give you a permanently surprised look, while the latter are just distracting! This article tells you how to get it right.

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When shaping the eyebrows, the three main components to consider are the arch, length and thickness. The beginning of the eyebrow should align with the inner corner of your eye; the arch of the eyebrow should follow the natural curve of your eye line falling over the back third of the eye; and the length of the eyebrow should finish at the outer corner of your eye.

Tweezers are the instrument most commonly used to remove hair from the eyebrows. Although some people find this process a little painful, especially the first time, with frequent plucking you will quickly get used to the sensation and feel little or no discomfort. However, if it is your first time, placing a hot face cloth over the area will open the pores and make removing the hair less painful.

Use tweezers with a slanted or pointed tip as these give greater accuracy in selecting the hairs, as well as a better grip. Start by plucking the hairs in the centre of your eyebrows (above your nose) to give you practice for when you come to start shaping your eyebrows. Pull hairs out individually in the direction they grow.

Never pluck hairs from the top of your eyebrow, as this ruins the natural shape. Use a small pair of scissors to trim any straggly long hairs as plucking will result in gaps in the eyebrow.

Some people use a magnifying mirror when plucking their eyebrows to help select the individual hairs, but it’s important to check your whole face every so often to ensure that you are shaping your eyebrows correctly and not over-plucking. Stop when you’ve reached the stage where you like what you see: it’s easier to remove more hairs later than it is to fill in gaps in your eyebrows with a pencil every day because of over-plucking! Once you’ve finished, apply a calming gel to any redness around the area.

Other methods used to shape eyebrows include threading and waxing. Threading, an art form originating in Asia, involves the use of a cotton thread looped around an individual hair and then quickly pulled to remove it. Some claim that threading is less painful than tweezing. As well as removing individual hairs, threading can be used to remove more than one hair at a time so is less time consuming than tweezing. Threading is an increasingly popular method for shaping eyebrows and most salons now offer this treatment.

Waxing cannot achieve the same precision in removing eyebrow hair as tweezing or threading. This process involves placing waxed strips—cut to the desired shape and thus acting as “stencils”—on the eyebrow so that the unwanted hair falling outside of the stenciled shape is removed. Waxing is quicker than tweezing or threading as all unwanted hair is removed at once. It does, however, require precision in placing the waxed strips on the eyebrow (or you could lose a lot more eyebrow than planned), and therefore, as with threading, is best carried out by an experienced beautician.

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