How to draw perfect eye brows

Tweezing, filling, threading and trimming. The things we do as women to look beautiful are never ending. There are so many elements that we need to consider! One of those areas of our body that we can’t let slip is the eyebrows.

If it’s the first time or you’re fed up of spending a fortune getting someone else doing it, you’ll need to know how to shape your eyebrows just right. It won’t take you months to master. With these five easy steps, you’ll be on your way to perfectly shaped eyebrows by the end of the day!

Think About the Shape and Size

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Before you follow the five steps to get the perfectly shaped eyebrows, it’s worth thinking about your face and eyebrow shape and sizes. You’ll also need to think about the type of eyebrows you have. While this won’t affect the first two steps, it will affect the thickness of your eyebrows. It may also affect the amount you will need to tweeze to shape eyebrows properly.

Those with smaller foreheads, you’ll find that the rule of not tweezing at the top doesn’t stand. You’ll want to tweeze from the top to create more of a gap between the top of your eyebrow and the top of your forehead. This will open your face and balance your proportions.

Likewise, if you have a larger forehead, keeping as much hair at the top of your eyebrows as possible will help to close that gap. It makes your eyes look higher, and will create the proportions that way.

Now it’s time to start on shaping your eyebrows for the perfect look. Here are your five steps.

Find Your Starting Point

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No eyebrows are the same. We all have different starting and end points, and you’ll need to find where yours are. This isn’t where you just want them to start. To make your eyebrows look natural and appealing, you’ll need to start them from a specific point in line with your nose.

You can use your tweezers for this. Flip them upside down and hold them to your face. They should sit along the outside of your nose, between that and your eye. Your eyebrows will start so they are in line with the outside edge of your nose. Mark on your face where your eyebrows are going to start, so you don’t lose your place.

You’ll then need to check the other side. It’s important that both sides are in line with each other. The last thing you want is for one eyebrow to start lower down than the other.

Find Your Ending Point

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Remember, it’s not just the start that you need to find. The end is just as important, and this isn’t just about how far down you want your eyebrows to sit.

Again, use your tweezers to give you the straight edge that you need. Place them back to the starting point and then pivot the top around your eye, keeping the point of your tweezers by your nose. You want to keep going until the tweezers are sitting at the outside corner of your eye, in a straight line. Mark on your face where your eyebrows are going to end.

Do this for the other side. Again, you want to make sure your eyebrows are even in height for the ending point.

Eyeliner or Eyebrow pencil is a good choice for making your marks. They are easy enough to see and will come straight off when you wash your face at the end.

You can now start your plucking. Get rid of any hairs up to the two points—start and end. Don’t pluck in the middle! This is the next step of the process.

Decide on Brow Thickness

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This is the point where you have a bit more say in the matter. You can choose how thick or thin you want your eyebrows. Take into account the shape of your face and the colour of your eyebrows. Fairer eyebrows tend to work out better when they are thicker because they are so much harder to see. You can also think about the thickness of the hair on your head to help match with the thickness of your eyebrows.

Try to avoid a thickness of more than half an inch. This is about natural and will blend with the rest of your face easily. You’ll also find them easier to manage than much thicker ones.

Draw a line with your eyebrow pencil between the start and end points, with a natural curve along the bottom of your brow. You shouldn’t ever pluck from the top, so work out the thickness down from that! Marking on a natural curve will make it so much easier to avoid becoming over-plucky and ending up with no eyebrows left.

The line will also help you see if there are any stray bits of the eyebrow that need trimming, rather than plucking. Once you have your line, you can pluck all that have beds below the line. Any that have roots above the line but grow beyond the line, you will need to trim with small scissors.

If you have excessively thick eyebrows with strays at the top, you can then tweeze up there. For the basic shaping, though, you never really need to touch that part of your eyebrow.

Shape the Arch

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Now that you have the thickness, it’s time to shape the arch of your eyebrows. This will mean plucking just above your eyebrow pencil line, but only on a specific part of your eyebrow.

Put your tweezers in the middle of your eye and mark the central point on the eyebrow. Your arch will start just to the outer side of that point, and won’t stretch too far to the end. The aim is to make a tail to the end of your eyebrow. You’ll usually see this because the upper part of your eyebrow will raise, too. See here what Eyebrow Tweezers make-up artists use.

This is the part that many people pluck far too much on, making the tail of the eyebrow far too narrow. Start off slow and stop every now and then to see if you really need to do more. If you think you’re settled, move onto the next eye and even it all up. You can then decide if anything else really needs to be plucked.

Work with the arch from the top of your eyebrows. If you don’t have a natural one at the top, you don’t need to force one at the bottom. The focus should be on using your eyebrow pencil to create your arch instead.

Tidy Up Your Eyebrows

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Now that you have the shape, it’s time to tidy things up. Start by brushing your eyebrows upwards. You’ll get to see if you’ve missed any strays below your eyebrow line. This is also a good chance to see how long your eyebrows actually are so you can trim them where necessary.

Trim in the same way hairdressers do. Use your eyebrow brush to collect the ends and then use small scissors to chop across the brush, so your eyebrow hairs are all the same length.

Signs You’ve Overtweezed Your Eyebrows

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There are certain times that you will overdo it with the tweezers. Don’t worry, we all do this, especially when starting. It’s worth noting the signs, so you don’t do it again in the future.

The first sign is that your tail is far too narrow. Rather than a naturally arch, you may have cut off the tail of your eyebrow too much, so it is shorter than it should be. Another sign is that you’ve tweezed too much from the other start, and you start closer to the inner eye instead.

You may have also taken too much out of the central part of your eyebrow, leaving it looking thin and scraggly. Some people even tweeze from the top, making the eyebrow far too low.

You can recover from this, and it’s all about having a good quality eyebrow pencil. Use this in a similar colour to your eyebrows to fill in the bits that you’ve over-tweezed. You can also use the pencil if you have thinner eyebrows than normal, meaning you’re left looking like you have none even when you’ve tweezed just right.

Overtweezing is a common problem when you’re trying to even up your eyebrows and is not how to do your eyebrows. Rather than constantly tweezing, get an eyebrow brush and try to comb the hairs over. This will give you a better idea as to whether they are symmetrical or not. Once you take the hairs out, you can’t put them back and will have to wait for the hairs to grow back. It’s best to pause and check before tweezing more.