How I do my eyebrows

Posted on February 05, 09 Filed under home 3 Comments

I posted this at a couple of messageboards that I frequent and thought I’d share it with the world-at-large, so here’s how I generally do my eyebrows.

I just waxed my eyebrows and completely forgot to take photos for a mini-tutorial on how I do them, so I did this with the magic of Photoshop and my “l33t grafix skillz”. but I’ve now simulated what I do without actually waxing I wish I’d removed my eye makeup from last night though – oh well.

I buy the small wax strips by Waxaway – I don’t have one with me right now but I’ll guess they’re about 7-8cm long by 2.5-3cm tall – perfect eyebrow size anyway.

I take one of the strips (I can do both my eyebrows with one strip) and hold it against my eyebrow (before I separate the two halves of the strip, obviously).

I then take a Sharpie and trace out the shape underneath my eyebrow. I generally never change the shape of my eyebrow, just tidy them up, so this is easy for me, but whatever shape you want them to be this should work.

Then I remove the strip from against my brow and carefully cut along the line I’ve drawn with the Sharpie. This leaves you with two separate pieces, and since they each separate into two pieces each, this is all you need.

I then pull the halves apart and place the side I drew on (if you use a Sharpie or other permanent marker, you’ll see the black line from the pen on the side you drew on) and place it carefully under my eyebrow, lining it up.

Pull the skin taut at the tail-end of your eyebrow and let ‘er rip (I wasn’t pulling the skin taut in the photo because a] I was holding the camera, and b] I wasn’t actually waxing my brow).

Rinse and repeat with the other side of the bottom piece you’ve cut out – this is symmetrical to the other side.

Then pull the halves apart on the top piece, place the half you drew on above your eyebrow, pull taut at tail-end of eyebrow and rip ‘er off.

Rinse and repeat with other side of the top piece you’ve cut out. Again, this is symmetrical.

You’re done! You can use tweezers between your brows to tidy up the uni-brow area, and that’s it.

Thank you for listening to my presentation.