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Bodacious Brows
Get In Shape
Wondering how to make your brows work for you? Get your groom on, and shape your eyebrows like a professional.
1. Brush eyebrows up, and carefully trim any long hairs. This removes bulk and makes it easier to see your brows’ natural shape.
With thick and bold brows all the rage this season—and for the next few as far as we can tell—there are some tips, tricks and tools you need to master the look. Soon the world will bow to your brows!
2. Grab an eyebrow pencil, makeup brush or something straight, such as a pencil. Hold the pencil vertically against the outermost part of your nostril straight up to your brow. This marks how far inward your eyebrow should extend. Repeat by rotating the pencil to lay across the outer corner of the eye, and where it falls this time is where your brow tail should end or be extended to.
3. With a brow pencil, lightly draw the shape you’d like your brows to be. Tweeze any extra hairs growing outside the lines. Stick to tweezing below the brow— that’s how to get the best arch.
4. Using a pencil or cream formula and brush, make small strokes resembling hairs to fill sparse areas and shape where necessary.
face straight on in the mirror. Find the highest point of your eyebrow and tweeze directly below it
5. Brush through brows with a clean spoolie brush to blend so they look totally natural.
Tools, Spools and Pencils
These products are some of the beauty world’s cult favorites for managing and enhancing brows.
E.L.F. Studio Eyebrow Lifter & Filler, $3 elfcosmetics.com
Available in three shades, this double-ended pencil has an ivory end for highlighting and a built-in sharpener in the lid.
Benefit Brow Zings, $32 benefitcosmetics.com
This kit comes with pigmented gel to shape brows precisely and set them with powder. All the tools are included!
Laura Geller Brow Marker, $24 laurageller.com
This soft-tip pen is available in four shades and dries in seconds. Perfect for emergency fill-ins!
Tweezerman Brow Mousse, $12 tweezerman.com
With no stickiness or flaking, this formula holds hairs in place all day. It’s great for tinting small hairs to make thin eyebrows appear fuller.
