Eyebrow plucking is an art and involves skill, patience and creativity. Finding and finalizing your eyebrow style is a big concern. Eyebrows should be of good color and shape or else they will tend to dominate your face or disappear entirely. While a few women choose to visit salons to get their eyebrows threaded by professionals other resort to tweezers to pluck extra hairs. It is always recommended to first get a professional to do your eyebrows. Once you are satisfied with the results then all you have to do is pluck where the hairs grow in. Plucking eyebrows is a quick way to shape the eyebrows. Listed here are 10 tips to pluck perfect eyebrows.
1. Choosing the right tweezers
Get a good pair of tweezers with a slanted edge. You can get them through any of the cosmetic departments, Beauty shops or also through online shopping stores. Keep the tweezers in a proper box or case. Always clean the tweezers before and after you do the plucking. You should sharpen the tweezers after six to seven usages. This will keep the sharpness or else it may get blunt soon. Regularly wipe the tips with alcohol. This will remove any oily build up and will also keep the edges sharpened.
2. Good mirror with proper lighting
Stand before a good mirror with proper lighting. You can stand before your own dressing mirror and check for the lighting. If your mirror is at a wrong place where there is no sufficient lighting then try setting up some bright lit lights near your mirror or you can also place the mirror near a window with good daylight coming in. The idea is that you should be able to view your eyebrow hairs clearly.
3. Cleaning your face
Cleanse your skin with mild face wash or an exfoliating face wash. This helps in not only cleansing your face but also makes the skin a little soft to carry out the plucking process. Pluck your brows after taking your bath. Your skin is soft during this time.
4. Brushing your brows up
Gently and slowly brush your brows up. For carrying out this, you can use small eyebrow combs available in market or can also use a clean toothbrush or the common tool i.e. your fingers. Wash your hands properly before carrying this out.
5. Use your hands
Gently use your hands to hold your skin. Tweeze hairs in the direction they grow. Donât grab too many hairs at a time. Hold the skin while you continue with the plucking.
6. Moving your tweezer
Start with tweezing the area under your arch. Slowly move above the brow. The last cleaning should be done in the area between your eyebrows. Tweeze the top and the bottom. Be careful and after every movement look at your brows in mirror. Then continue. Be careful or else you can prick your own skin.
7. Create your shape
Slight arched brows look best. You can see models and actresses flaunting them nowadays. Take a long eye shadow brush or pencil. Hold the brush or pencil parallel to the outside edge of the iris. The highest part of your brow is the point where the brush meets the brow. Tweeze the hairs underneath the arch. Foe enhancing your arches you can use pencils and powders. Another option is brow tinting.
8. Tweezing in between your brows
The space between your brows can be either equal or can be kept a little wider than your eyes. Take the brush or pencil. Hold it parallel to the side of your nose. The place where the brush meets your brow is where your brow should begin. Tweeze in between.
9. Observe the job
Stop in between and observe the job youâre doing. Do not over pluck as brows wonât grow the way your hairs grow.
10. Reduce redness
Once you are done with the plucking, apply some gel or cream. This will help in soothing the skin and calm the irritation and redness. Gently massage the gel or cream in right to left finger movement on your brows. Use brow gel to help keep your brows in place all day or apply a dab of hairspray to keep unruly hairs in place.