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Eye Makeup: Five Brow Mistakes You Can Turn Around Fast

Tweeze cleaner, more perfectly shaped eyebrows with our rehab plan

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First mistake: Over plucking. Many people remove too many hairs at once. Instead, draw a line to use as a point of context. Take away hairs only one row at a time above this line rather than in groups. This helps you not to over pluck.

Next mistake: Being misled by the term brow shaping. You don't really want to change the shape, just enhance it. Start by finding your brows' natural highpoint. That's the spot right here above the outer corner of your iris. If it's higher than the rest of your brow, remove a few hairs underneath to emphasize the arch. If your arch is in line with the rest of your brow, skip this step.

Next mistake: Pulling the wrong direction. Grab the hair close to the skin and give it a gentle, quick tug in the direction of natural hair growth. Tweezing against hair growth damages the follicle causing it to regrow in the wrong direction.

Next mistake: Long hairs. Brush brows directly up with an eyebrow brush and trim the long ends with scissors. Even perfectly shaped brows can look bushy when hairs are too long, which can lead you to over pluck.

And the final mistake: Color. It's too easy to overfill with eye makeup, like a pencil, so go with a powder instead. The trick is to pick the right shade so choose a powder that's one shade lighter than your eyebrow color -- not darker. Use short, feathery strokes with a small angled brush to blend the eye makeup into the strands of hair.

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I don't really like doing my own eyebrows, I go get it threaded from time to time.

by MissXu Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 02:15PM Report as inappropriate

haha one time my mom made all those mistakes with a friends and shaved of almost the whole eyebrow!

by zoie_barnes Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 12:01PM Report as inappropriate

over plucking, worse mistake as a youngster.

by rosie1123 Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 01:56PM Report as inappropriate

better than paying to have it done!

by Amy0701 Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 06:31AM Report as inappropriate

I like how they barely plucked any hairs, that's why when I see pictures of myself when I was younger I notice that my eyebrows look a lot better when they are full and not overplucked so now I am leaving them alone and they are looking better!

by RoleModel Monday, June 6, 2011 at 02:23PM Report as inappropriate