It might seem that eyebrows are just lines of hairs located above eyes, yet their importance is immense – they protect eyes from impurities, dust, sweat and even water. Although the protective function is their primal and the most important task, eyebrows also play other roles: depending on the colour and shape, they can either take years off or age us, slim our face down or make it look more round. When neglected, they frequently look bad and blemish eye skin area. Since eyebrows are one of the face parts that we focus on first while looking at others, it’s a good idea to take care of them in the right way. How to take care of eyebrows and shape them properly? How to match brow shape to face shape and how to draw a browridge?

How to shape eyebrows?

In order to define the right shape of eyebrows together with their length, you can make use of an eyebrow pencil (or eye pencil) and eyebrow brush.

You have to start from marking three main points on your face. To do this, you have to put a brush to the ala of nose and the inner corner of the eye; this is exactly where the beginning of your eyebrows should start. When it comes to marking the end of eyebrow, place a brush between the ala of nose and the outer corner of the eye. The arch of eyebrow should be located somewhere in 2/3 of the brow length looking from the inner part of eyebrow. It must also be remembered that the closer to the end of browridge, the thinner the hair should be. It isn’t advised against having pointy and geometric arches.

How to match the shape of brows to face shape?

Here are the basic shapes of face with matching eyebrow shapes:

• Oval face – brows should have a shape of smooth arch.
• Round face – eyebrows should be slightly risen up and rather long. If they are short, you can stretch them out using a brow pencil.
• Square face – eyebrows should be rather long, and their arch should be smooth. Such brows make face look more narrow.
• Oblong face – eyebrows should be rather long, yet not so pointy as it is in the case of square face.
• Pear shaped face – eyebrows should be fairly straight and not too long.
• Heart shaped face – the beginning of eyebrows should be slightly risen up, and the length of eyebrows shouldn’t exceed over the end point we marked using a pencil.
• Diamond shaped face – eyebrows should be less risen when compared to heart shaped face, rather straight marked low above eyes.
• Oblong diamond shaped face – eyebrows should be straight and slightly shorter than normally, so as to make the face wider.

How to remove hair from eyebrows?

It’s a good idea to get the first hair removal procedure done at a beauty parlour, so to let an expert take care of this. Generally speaking, you shouldn’t shape your eyebrows right before an important ceremony. In order to avoid skin irritations, it’s worth doing this at least a day before.

How to remove hair from eyebrows? You can follow a regular method of eyebrow hair removal, which is using either tweezers or wax, or undergo hair laser removal procedure which effects last definitely longer.

In the case of home facial hair removal using tweezers, it’s better to pull out individual eyebrow hairs right after taking a bath. The removal should be performed in the direction of hair growth. Moreover, the hair should be pulled out starting from the outer corner of the eye to the inner without skipping hair growing between the brows.

The alternative to tweezers are small scissors or a mini electric razor with the aid of which you can trim long hair. Before the procedure, the brows must be combed heading the central part of face. Because this type of hair removal is too complicated, it’s better to ask a beautician to help you with that.

How to paint browridge?

Natural eyebrows can be uneven, thin or too fair. In order to shape them well, you can reach for an eyebrow pencil or eyebrow shades. The good news is that a shop assistant working in a drugstore will surely help you find the right colour of the cosmetic. What’s worth realizing, you shouldn’t enhance the brows too much because in this way you might obtain really unnatural effect or even look older than you really are.

Women who don’t want to waste their time on everyday eyebrow makeup can make use of beauty treatments such as henna or permanent eyebrow makeup.

How to take care of eyebrows?

Unruly eyebrows can be tamed using a transparent eyebrow gels. Equally effective is eyebrow brush (or an old but clean toothbrush) and hairspray; just run the brush through eyebrows and apply hairspray.

If eyebrows are sparse, a castor oil can help. Alternatively, you can give a try to readymade eyebrow serums designed to take care of the hair and condition it.