Your eyebrows tell a story. Every time you speak or communicate emotion, they talk to you: On the way up and down, dark or raised in excitement. They are one of the most striking features of the face, and yet often overlooked the most. Or worse yet, over-tweezed!
Ask an experienced Makeup Artist: The best make-up look at the world is not his best, when you have unmanaged eyebrows. The right eyebrow shape can balance appear on the face, your eyes bigger and your look years younger.
The trend at the moment is a natural, well-groomed eyebrows – a little thicker than in the recent past, but clearly defined and soft. Gone are the days of pencil-thin eyebrows are a severe arch. Fairytale princesses had full, rounded eyebrows, which gives them a soft, youthful, innocent look. Their evil counterparts were heavy, thin, highly arched eyebrows, they look mean, made old and hard. Definitely not the best look for a red bride!
So what does this mean for the bride? It means that you should not over-tweeze. This is perhaps the worst eyebrow faux pas. A few months before the wedding, let your eyebrows grow for 6-8 weeks. Then they form either on your own or a trained beauty professional to do it for you. It is much easier to continue to tweeze your own eyebrows for a trained designer has your eyebrows shaped correctly. An eyebrow designers know the best way to increase your overall beauty, by providing you with the right eyebrow shape for your bone structure and functions.
Here are a few pointers if you decide to try it on your own:
Look in the mirror, hold a pencil vertically, place the pencil along the nose toward the center of the nose. Where the pencil crosses the brow or forehead bone, is where the brow should begin. Mark this point with an eye pencil.
For the bow, hold the base of the pin, where it is, and while you continue straight, line-up, the upper end of the pin on the outside of the colored part of the eye, the iris. Where the pencil falls on the forehead, is where your arch should fall. Mark this point with an eye pencil on the forehead.
Without moving the base of the pencil, move the upper end outward to a line with the outer corner of the eye. Where the tip of the pencil intersects the brow should end where the forehead. Mark this point with an eye pencil.
These markings will accompany you as you begin tweeze. I recommend tweezing when working alone. Waxing can be messy, and you can remove too much hair with a quick flick of the wrist! The forehead should be most at starting point and gradually tapering toward the arch and then to the end. Take your time and take a step back and look at your whole face after every few hairs tweezed. It is very easy to pull too many brow hairs. If you stray hair on the forehead, you can, and tweeze, tweeze but carefully, or you could put a hole in the forehead, which would not look good to create. Trimming of the eyebrows is best left to a professional, but if you think that you are very long, brush them up and cut the hair slightly above the natural brow line. Too short, and they might stick straight out!
If your starting point is short, which means that your forehead does not grow on the brand you with the eye pencil, you are not hair where there should be hair. Either grow the eyebrows in a little more if they over-tweezed or fill in the brow area with a pencil or brow powder. Too much space between the eyebrows, the nose may appear larger.
The eyebrows can change the look of the face. You can make a full face slimmer, a long face looks less long, and give general harmony with the rest of the functions – if they are correctly formed.
Remember, not too thin or too weird. I will say that it again.not too thin! And remember, an eyebrow from a professional designer eyebrows shaped the best and least expensive investment that will look perfect wedding day.
