How To: Trim your Brows by Lien Bui
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The biggest brow crime women commit is not trimming their brows (or rather not knowing how). Avoid yanking out hairs and leaving holes in your brow with this brow-saving technique.
Tools
Equip yourself with these essential tools before you get started. It doesn’t matter which brand you buy, they all do exactly the same job.
- Spooley brush (or clean mascara wand)
- Flat scissors
DIY Trimming
Step 1 – Assess your brows
• Comb your eyebrows up and down to find long hairs that stand out from the rest
• Look at the direction of your hair growth
• Also assess the length of brow hairs
Step 2 – How and where to trim
Best tips:
• Always trim before tweezing
• Trim at least 3-5mm above the top of your natural brow line (and/or below the lower brow line around the tail end)
• Trim a bit, then test to see if the brow hairs will lie flat
• Never trim coarse hairs at the brow line because they will spike up and make your brows look thinner
• Soft brow hairs can be trimmed shorter than coarse ones
• Brow sparseness can be hidden by doing a brow ‘comb over’ (downwards) by trimming hairs at the lower brow line
Step 1: From start of the brow, about 0.5cm inwards (towards the arch point), brush up and trim close to the top brow line. The length dictates the thickness of the brow.
Step 2: Brush up and trim (in the direction of the hair) about 3-5mm above the top brow line and brush it back into the shape from the end of where you trimmed in Step 1 to the arch point.
Step 3: From the arch point to the end of the brow (the tail end), brush down and trim about 3-5mm below the lower brow line and brush it back into the shape.
Step 4: Shorten the brow length by measuring out where the brow should end. Position the pencil at edge of the nostril and diagonally to the outer corner of the eye. Where it meets your brow is where it should end.
If there is excess brow length beyond this position then trimming is necessary.
Tip: Do not tweeze the length off because the root of the hair is situated inside the brow shape. This will avoid creating holes in the brow.
So Primpers, what disasters have you encountered with trimming?
Lien Bui is a PRIMPED Pro and our resident brow expert.
Posted by: Lien Bui
Mon, 30 August 2010 10:07AM
