You’ll Make Less Mistakes Shaping Your Brows If You Follow These Tips!

This beauty knows the secret  behind perfect brows.

Shaping your eyebrows can change your entire face--that is if you do it right.  Sometimes, it can be easy to jump in with the tweezers and over pluck.  However, here is a foolproof way to save yourself grief from a bad job in the future.  

Before you pick up your tweezers again, you should look into makeup stash or head to the store to buy a white eyeliner pencil.  At this time, try using that white pencil to lightly sketch the natural shape of the brow. Think of it as making yourself a pattern of what you were born with that can easily be wiped away when finished.

Now you are ready to grab your tweezers.  Don’t ever pluck above the brows.  Instead, start at one end of your brow and tweeze one hair at a time.  Look at yourself in the mirror after each one is removed before plucking another as follow your arch.  Remember the older we get, the more gravity will cause our brows sagging downward.  But tweezing them in this fashion from underneath will give the eyes more lift.

Another thing that I want to point is both eyebrows don’t have to be exactly the same.  No one ever has ones that are identical so stop worrying about that.  

For the most natural looking brows, you might want to stick with a shape suited to your unique facial structure.  Do read my previous post on how to create the most flattering shape of brow for you.

Trust me, but these few tips and a white pencil definitely improve your odds of the best shaped brows ever. I hope that you do try them.

Why You Should Be Conditioning Your Lashes and Eyebrows Every Night!

You may reach new lash extremes after you read this beauty post.

Some of us are lucky to be born with a crop of thick, long lashes while others of us get just so-so lashes or short, scrawny ones.  However, sooner or later age catches up with everyone due to the change in our eyelash follicles, which slows and sometimes even prevents our lashes from regrowing.  Despite this alarming news, there are some helpful things that you should be doing each night to stimulate and keep you lashes and brows healthy and beautiful.

Make it a habit of conditioning your lashes before bedtime.  What this does is moisturize, encourage new growth and provide your lashes and brows with a protective coat to keep them strong. Of course, you can turn to a conditioning lash serum or some wonderful DIY beauty remedies that I am about to share here.  

Castor oil is great for this purpose, especially if you buy the purest form, cold-pressed.  I told you how I like to apply this oil in an earlier post.  Other oils that you probably have at home right now that also work well are sweet almond, coconut, olive, argan and sesame oils.  Pour a little on a cotton ball or a cotton swab and gently dab over clean lashes and eyebrows, working into the roots. 

Another excellent choice is vitamin E oil.  Though you can take a pin to a vitamin E gelatin capsule and squeeze the contents out to your cotton ball or swab, I recommend the liquid vitamin E oil (70000 IU) strength done in the same way.  Personally, I prefer castor oil for this purpose, but the vitamin E oil is also very good.  Since we are all different genetically, I suggest experiment to see which oil gives you the best results.   

Besides nightly conditioning, you also should give some thought to exfoliate and massaging those lashes and eyebrows.  The reason this is important is to keep those hair follicles from being clogged with dead skin cells from any lingering traces of eye makeup. What helps is using your fingertips and gently massaging both lashes and brows for just a few seconds first before finally washing your face.  This technique will increase blood circulation that is necessary for prompting growth.

Still, there is another solution open to you.  This is lash serum, if you want to explore that option since this type of product often has an exfoliating ingredient such as hyaluronic acid as well as conditioners. 

Regardless of your choice, healthy, long lashes and eyebrows are often within reach with a little time and patience!    

How to Create the Most Flattering Eyebrows for YOU!

Your facial structure matters when deciding the best shape for your eyebrows. 

I like to think of eyebrows as the frame that sets off your features.  Just like a lop-sided painting, if your brows are unruly, they tend to also unbalance the picture that makes up your face. Therefore, I want to show you how to artistically design the perfect brow for your specific facial shape.

Through the years, eyebrow trends went from thin to thick with different arches. The style for 2015 is thicker and fuller brows that are slightly arched.  Despite styles, medium full brows with a tapered end and soft arch are the classic ones you can count on since they have remained popular. Nonetheless, you can take your beauty further.  You can do this by customizing the brows arches according to the shape of your face. 

First, you need to take into consideration your features themselves.  For example, small, dainty features can take more thinness in the shape than prominent features. 

For instance, if you have a round face do aim for a stronger eyebrow with both a longer line and a higher arch, tapering them off with a bit of a downward slope.  This choice of a heavier brow is better for how it distracts from the fullness in this type of face compared to a skinner brow that will zoom in on that roundness.  The height could add some appealing angles for more balance. 

Long faces should try slightly shorter eyebrows by plucking just a few hairs from the outer ends.  Also, keep with a soft arch and taper.  Shaping this way will help give your face more needed width.  The importance thing to remember is the higher the arch, the more you are elongating your face.

Heart-shaped faces are best sticking with the classic type of natural brow only with slightly more of an arch to it.  Avoid too thick of a brow because it will only overpower your features.  Also, do aim toward the spot in the brow directly above the middle of your iris to begin the arch.  This technique will give your brows a bit more length.

Square-shaped faces should concentrate on softening the angular edges of the face.
A strong jaw calls for fuller eyebrows since the thickness can help direct attention from downward at your chin to upward at the eyes.  Start plucking the arch in the brow at the spot at the far corner of the iris and tapering it at the end to make it shorter and uplifted. Avoid making the brow dip down at the end because it will yank your eyebrows down.

For those that went overboard with the tweezers and plucked too much, you need to let your brows grow. Try filling them in with an eyebrow powder, pencil or cream to get you through this time.

To help stimulate your brows to grow, you might want to try applying some castor oil to your eyebrows and even your lashes before you go to bed.  Another helpful thing to try is rubbing on some vitamin E oil or coconut oil at night. 

Take care and stay beautiful until next time!

IT Cosmetics Award-Winning Brow Power Perfector 5-in-1 Powder Gel Pencil (Dark Brown) Works Magic on Eyebrows! (Review)

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IT Cosmetics Brow Power Perfector 5-in-1 Powder Gel Pencil

Shaping your eyebrows takes a bit of skill.  Your attempt though is easier when you have a wonderful product at your disposal like IT Cosmetics Brow Power Perfector  5-in-1 Powder Gel Pencil that I received to review.  This is a fabulous eyebrow pencil for getting your brows just right being a QVC Customer Choice Award Winner to give you an idea of how well received this product has been.

Actually, those beauty experts at IT Cosmetics thought of everything by packing five products into one with brow pencil, brow fill-in powder, taming brow gel, brow-enhancing treatment conditioner, and a brow brush.  The formula never ceases to amaze me with its cutting-edge technology and ingredients like biotin, lecithin, saw palmetto, nettle leaf, green tea, grape seed extract, antioxidants, and horsetail flower extract to help you pull all those tasks off.  Furthermore, there are no parabens, fragrance, phthalates, or sulfates to ever pose a risk.

Sometimes, brow pencils can give you grief with difficulty in spreading or being thicker than you would like.  However, the tip of this pencil was thin enough to fill in where you need without looking obvious.  You can make short strokes without tugging or smearing since this formula glides on and sets completely in about two minutes.  Smooth everything over with that spooly-brush to perfect your brows for that final polish.

The Dark Brown color was a wonderful match for my brown-black brows.  Though my brows are slightly darker, this color was more an intense deep brown than a brown-black, which worked beautifully for me.
 
Trust me on this, IT Cosmetics Brow Power Perfector 5-in1 Powder Gel Pencil can change the way you work on your brows because it is all you need for eyebrow perfection.  It retails for $24.  Do yourself a favor and pick one up because you are not going to believe how this one product will simplify the process of doing those brows.  Find it at  IT Cosmetics, QVC.com, Beauty.com, Ulta Beauty, and the Shopping Channel!

*Disclaimer:  A free product was provided to facilitate this review--not my opinion.*