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5 Tips to Help You Conquer Your Brows

Nothing makes a woman look better than shaped eyebrows. The shape and color of your eyebrows can have a dramatic impact on your face and the framing of your eyes. However, for many women, shaping and taming brows is a difficult lesson to master.

There are some key things to remember when working with your brows. Here are some of the top tips to follow from beauty experts:

1. Your eyebrows should begin and end in distinct spots on your face. Hold a pencil vertically alongside your nose. Where the pencil hits above your eye is where your eyebrow should start, otherwise you’ll look like you have an expanse of forehead between. The highest point of the arch should be just a little beyond the outer corner of the iris (colored portion of your eye) and should taper off to the end.

2. The color of your brows should be two shades lighter than your hair color in most instances, except if you have very light blonde hair or gray hair, in which case it should be darker. If you are having your hair colored dramatically, find out if the salon also does eyebrow dying as well. However, do not attempt to dye your brows at home, which could result in the chemicals dripping in your eye, possibly causing blindness.

3. If tweezing your eyebrows is exceptionally painful, try numbing the area with ice or a topical numbing agent.

4. Trimming long hairs on your eyebrows can also keep them tamed. Brush the hairs up with a toothbrush or eyebrow brush and trim across. Don’t trim too much or else you can get bald spots.

5. Eyebrow powder can help define your brows and is more subtle than penciling in sparse areas.

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