Shaping Your Eyebrows
My husband thinks that Jennifer Aniston is the hottest thing going, but there has always been something about her that I just don’t really think is right. I think I figured it out today. Her eyebrows are way too close together. She is in danger of growing a unibrow, I think!
So, in her honor, I am going to share with you the basics of brow shaping.
Grab a pencil and a mirror. Hold that pencil against the “flare” of your nostril, and line it up with the inside corner of your eye. Make sure that pencil is long enough to reach a little past your brow. You should have NO eyebrows extending any further towards the center of your face than that pencil. If you do, please pluck them, wax them, thread them, whatever - just get them outta there!
The other end of your brows aren’t usually such a big deal (after all, there is no word like “unibrow” for them!), but the rule is to keep that pencil by your nose, but this time line it up with the outside corner of your eye. Any eyebrow extending past that point needs to be gone.
If your brows are “bushy,” pluck, wax or thread from the bottom, creating a bit of an arch somewhere between the center of your pupils and the outer rim of the iris (gray area in the photo). Generally, the closer in your arch, the “sweeter” look you will achieve, while an outer arch tends to give you a “vampy” look. Also remember that thin eyebrows are no longer in style (and haven’t been for a good long time now), and a great many women my mother’s age have virtually no eyebrows left from plucking them down to a thin line years ago. Eyebrows, for some reason, seem to be the only hair that follows the rule of not growing back after you remove them from the roots.
Stay tuned for my report on the self tanning airbrush!
10 opinions for Shaping Your Eyebrows
Tammy
Sep 17, 2005 at 5:41 pm
Wow! I’m amazed at how involved this is. I am a big babby when it comes to my eye brows. At 12 years old, my girlfriend decided to pluck mine for me. One pluck, and I was dying of pain! That was it for me. I mean, hey, that hurts! Luckily, I’m blonde so I barely have any eye brows.
On another note, semi-unrelated, I wanted to let you know how great your tip for the friz was. A little extra cream rinse after washing and voila! What a difference. Thanks so much!
CC Jones
Sep 18, 2005 at 6:39 am
A little advantage to being a blonde! But please, if your brows start growing together, take a Tylenol and tweeze! LOL I am so glad my tip helped your frizzies!
TammyP
Sep 18, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Oh, yes, if I had to worry about a uni-brow, I’d got have a professional wac job. Ick!
CC Jones
Sep 19, 2005 at 8:26 am
LOL I guess you had best consider yourself a lucky gal then! :)
Zandelion
Sep 19, 2005 at 3:05 pm
Tip/trick for those with sensitive eyebrows–use either ice, or–my personal fave–Oragel–on your eyebrows before tweezing. Yes, I said Oragel, the same thing you put on baby’s gums when teething. It has a topical aenesthic (Benzocaine), which will help numb your eyebrows. Also, don’t tweeze the week before your period, as your skin is a little puffier than usual–whether you can see it or not, and you will be more sensitive. Another tip for those who may have over-plucked in the past and now have sparse, thin brows–Rogaine works on your eyebrows just like on the hair on your head.
CC Jones
Sep 19, 2005 at 3:36 pm
Hey now, that Rogaine thing is something I have never thought of! And yes, I have heard that Oragel is quite good for the pain :) Thanks for the tips, Suz :)
eBeautyDaily - The Beauty Blog - Keira Knightley’s Fierce Eyebrows
Jul 10, 2006 at 10:22 am
[…] And when I say fierce, it is not the good fierce! I think Keira is very beautiful, but what makeup artist in her right mind would leave those brows in that kind of shape? I know, I am a little fixated on eyebrows sometimes, but I really think they make a tremendous difference in your looks and they are a simple thing to groom properly, and most often, when I find someone beautiful to be odd looking, it is their overgrown brows (Jennifer Aniston). Here is Keira on the July InStyle cover: […]
Krstia
Jun 21, 2007 at 7:09 pm
I do think Keira is a beautiful girl and when in the movies (Pirates) in a close up they do not look that bad, but I do agree that she needs a little more taken off. She might have the problem that I do which is the part of the brow where you have plucked or waxed or whatever starts to grow back almost 2-3 days after doing it ,this is common for me and I have gotten to the point where I just leave them because it is too hard to stay on top of it and a waste of money, but I do not have the press taking my picture all the time.
alicia benefiel
Aug 22, 2007 at 12:09 am
there is nothing worse than overtweezing! full eyebrows are attractive. some people just don’t have the right shape eyebrow to pull it off though…you need a lower straighter shape to pull it off, and you gotta keep them trimmed and twized or else they look messy…but i don’t think your eyebrow rules really apply any more..sorry
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JAY
Dec 27, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Ok well as a man I beg women not to listen to anything said on this blog about eyebrows! Sorry, but I don’t get why some women love to go crazy with the tweezers and overpluck…then they end up with scarce, sad looking lines instead of eyebrows. That is probably the ugliest thing you could do with them. It looks like those grandmas who draw their eyebrows in…or like a clown. And neither one is hot, girls…so I’m not saying get an unibrow, but don’t overpluck…biggest mistake you can make with the brows. :)
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