By following the 6 easy steps below, you’ll get the wedding-worthy brows you’ve always wanted. Whether you have nice naturally bushy brows as a basic base or you’re blonde and have light brows or sparse growth, no growth, or a single brow like poor Bert from Sesame Street, beautiful brows may be in your future. I’ll share with you a fun and easy approach to achieving professionally styled brows on your own. Get started now and in 6 weeks you’ll have beautiful, professional-style brows!

Get the brows you’ve always wanted: Brow Fact:

Your eyebrows are one of the most important features of your face. Eyebrows frame your eyes and move with your facial expressions and balance your entire face. when styled right, you actually look better and need less makeup, which is a godsend for women in their 30s and 40s. Think young Brook Shields good brows are boyish. While Brook’s brows from the Calvin Kline days of the 1980s are fuller in style than trendy brows today, they’re still youthful and alluring in their naturalness.

Get the brows you’ve always wanted Step 1: Let your brows grow!

If you shave, over-pluck, or just have sporadic growth, leave them alone for at least 6 weeks so you can see which brow you’re going to have to work with and begin to define what kind of shape they naturally have. . Because to look good, your eyebrows need to be shaped in harmony with the way they grow naturally.

The biggest mistake I see with my clients is plucking or shaving or plucking the wrong parts of the eyebrow (THE WORST!) The biggest offenses are plucking the outer corner (near the temple), the inner part near the nose and the area of ​​the arch of the eyebrows. A good rule of thumb is to keep the basic shape of the brows in perfect harmony with the inner and outer corners of the eyes at every point.

To achieve this, use the handle of a thin makeup brush to make an imaginary line at each corner, mark it with an eyebrow pencil if you need to even it out, there is no hair at the outer corners of the temples, this will allow you to see where you need grow. the hair inside, and don’t worry, you can fake it in the meantime. Just remember that all good things come to those who wait!

Get the brows you’ve always wanted Step 2: Study how brows work with eye and face shape

I’m going to show you how you can study brows so you don’t have to spend up to $50.00 each for basic brow shaping for the first time. Instead, spend $4.00 on any good fashion or beauty magazine that features women’s faces in ads and layouts, examples of good studios are: In-Style, Vogue, Allure, Bazaar and Marie Claire, etc. With a magazine in hand and a bit of time, at least half an hour (grab some herbal tea, a marker, and a hand mirror) sit in a cozy chair in a well-lit area and watch… really study the brows of these models and actresses. in advertisements and designs. Study how her eyebrows work with the shape of her eyes and the shape of her face. See where they start and where they end, and compare the brows.

Then the fun part, take your marker and (no, don’t draw mustaches on the models…although I know it’s tempting) start drawing circles on the eyebrows that are most similar in color to your own. Notice how they are shaped, just keep looking and you will see a defined style between the brows. Then take your mirror and take a good look at your eyebrows and see how they are the same or different from the ones in the photographs. Are they fixed? slightly arched? Too skinny? Of thickness? etc… crop or tear off the eyebrow photos that are most applicable to your eyebrow shape and color.

Get the brows you’ve always wanted Step 3: Use brow tint regularly when needed

I can’t express enough what a difference a little brow tinting can make, especially for blondes and those with light or gray hair. It is a great advantage to dye them before shaping because you will see that you had hair on your eyebrows that you did not know about. Think Gwen Stephanie with platinum brows to match her hair… not good.

Brow tint I uses 10% peroxide (you can use 3% household peroxide with good results or you can use 10% peroxide (available at beauty supply stores) The tint is easy to use, (mix it 50/50 tint /peroxide in a shot glass) and all you need to apply it is a disposable mascara wand $1.95 for 20 (good for future applications and brow grooming) these can be purchased at the same beauty supply store. leave it on 1-3 min max, wipe it off with a cotton ball, then one dipped in tap water and voila you have instant brows to shape Lasts about 2 weeks (varies for each individual) but easy to re-shape apply and is a vegetable based tint for extra safety your eyes.

Get the brows you’ve always wanted Step 4: Use the right brow styling tools

First of all, brow grooming tools can and do make all the difference. Good tools allow for faster brow styling that is more precise. Invest at least in some good tweezers, a brow/liner pencil, and the closest matte eyeshadow to your hair color.

Make sure the brow pencil isn’t too red if you have blonde/ash brown hair (some blonde pencils and light brown pencils have too much red). You’ll have many brands of pencils to choose from, and the less expensive the better, just in case. you find out you bought the wrong color. Taupe or a soft charcoal brown for blondes is always safe. You will then need one of your mascara wands from your brow tinting session, a small scissors (one used to clip nails works well), a small slanted eye makeup brush and a mirror, some brow stencils made or bought for yourself and a mirror preferably one on the wall that magnifies or one of those three way lighted makeup mirrors from Con Air Brand will work great this is to keep your hands free to work.

Get the brows you’ve always wanted Step 5: Start using these professional techniques when you design your own brows.

First, brush your eyebrows upwards with the mascara wand, trim any hairs that are excessively long when brushing and parallel to the temple with scissors. Then take your pencil and start at the end of her brow near her temple and work inwards towards her nose slightly and as if drawing with a charcoal pencil brush in short sporadic but directional strokes back and forth against the growth of his eyebrow. This will make the brow pencil blend in and look more natural and leave the brows slightly waxy so you can brush them into place and they will stay put.

Then carefully, with slow, methodical study, look at your images and, starting at the outer corner of the temple, work inwards towards the nose, being careful to look at the image periodically and see how the brows form where the nose meets forehead at the corner of your inner eye… don’t take too much brow here look at the photo again see how the models brow is shaped. The only place to really go to town is the baby hair on the flat plane of the nose between the eyes. But here again… look where the brow ends on her high style groomed brow from her ad model.

Get the brows you’ve always wanted Step 6: Fill in the blanks

What’s next: Take your mascara wand and brush your brows in short but flowing strokes in the direction they’re growing. Then take your flat, angled eye makeup brush and dip it into your matching shadow or brow powder and using short, flowing strokes, this time brush the powder in the direction of your brow growth, dabbing more into any missed spots. This serves two purposes, one to prevent the pencil from wearing out and two to fill in the empty spaces.

Once this is complete, take your mascara wand and brush your brows into place in the direction of their growth and, like magic, your brows already look fabulous. Add some minimal neutral eye makeup, mascara, some light apricot blush and some coral/pink or clear lip gloss and you’ll be glowing beautifully!