There are those who do not shave them and those, daughter of the traditions of the 90s, if they are irreparably ruined!
The eyebrows are often underestimated but they can change a face, its expressiveness and are a fundamental feature of the face. If you want to radically change your shape, it is better to go to a professional, who can evaluate the best shape that best suits your features, but if you want to try to make perfect eyebrows at home , know that you will only need a few simple steps and our advice to avoid making mistakes.
Whether you want to slightly tweak them or just need to get rid of excess hair, here ‘s how to fix your brows with tweezers , wax or even a razor. 🙌
Index
- What to do before adjusting your eyebrows
- How to know how many hairs to remove
- Tweezers, the most classic method
- Perfect eyebrows with wax, go fearless!
- Shaving eyebrows with a razor: pros and cons
What to do before adjusting the eyebrows
It is true that compared to years ago the eyebrows trends want them to be natural, thick, thick , a little uncultivated and not perfectly delineated, the so-called “bushy brows” but this does not mean not having taken care of them or in any case do not order.
In the meantime, to make perfect eyebrows you have to choose the best moment, without haste but dedicating the time necessary to fix them. Position yourself in a bright spot in the house to see well all the hairs to be removed and bring a mirror that can be placed on a surface, even better if one of those that also have a zoom side.
The best time to remove the eyebrowsand in the morning or in any case with natural light, to avoid that the artificial one creates shadows and makes it more difficult to see all the excess hair that takes away harmony from the shape of the eyebrow.
Better then to start the eyebrow hair removal session after taking a hot shower: in this way the pores of the skin will be opened and the hairs will come out more easily, especially if you decide to use tweezers or wax. In this way, you will prevent them from breaking and remaining under the skin, avoiding pulling off the hair with more difficulty, consequently you will feel less pain.
Even if you don’t trim your eyebrows after a shower, your skin needs to be clean, cleansed and completely dry, to avoid irritation, that the tweezers or the razor displace bacteria and dirt or that the wax does not adhere perfectly to the skin due to sebum.
Even the tweezers must be cleaned and above all disinfected and sanitized before starting to arrange the eyebrows, even better if you do it both before removing the eyebrows and once finished.
Again with regard to the choice of tweezers, there are various shapes but the most comfortable and easy to use are those with a slightly diagonal section. It is very important that the tweezers have not fallen to the ground, damaged but the tip must be intact, only in this way will it be easy to remove the hair and you will not risk having to pull too much or scratch and injure yourself. How to know how many hairs to remove
Once you have chosen the method for adjusting the eyebrows and found an ideal and well-lit place, it is time to prepare to remove the hair, understanding how many and where to remove them. Create your ideal shape.In front of the mirror, comb your eyebrows so that they don’t go down, then arm yourself with a white pencil to delimit the area within which you will not have to remove the hair. In general, to have a sort of guide, place the pencil vertically on the side of the tip of the nose and that will be the beginning of the eyebrow. Now move the pencil by placing it on the actual side of the nose (not on the tip), diagonally, and looking straight ahead with the pencil that passes diagonally in the center of the pupil, draw the second point, which will be the highest point of the eyebrow, angle. For the final part, however, keep the pencil in the same position but this time instead of crossing the pupil, pass it on the outside of the eye, as if the pencil were its continuation, to mark the end.
At this point, if you want to facilitate the removal of extra hair, with the sharp pencil join the points and outline the contours of the eyebrow. This way you will know the point beyond where you will not have to remove the hair, whether you want to make perfect eyebrows with wax , tweezers or razor. In any case, it would always be better to stick to the shape given by a professional and just try to remove the hairs that come out, to avoid damaging it and removing too many: better a few more hairs than finding yourself with holes and a stepped shape.
Another quick method that immediately gives you the idea of ​​what your eyebrows will be like is to use a corrector for your skin color, once the points have been identified, and apply it with a brush, thus covering the excess hair, those that are superfluous and ruin the shape. In this way, moving away from the mirror, you can evaluate if the chosen shape is to your taste and possibly correct it, and then remove only the hairs covered by the concealer.
Before proceeding, in any case, if you have particularly long or thick eyebrows, it is better to comb them following the direction of the hair, then slightly upwards and if necessary, shorten them with scissors. Help yourself with a special comb with very narrow teeth to avoid cutting them too short and remember that, with a razor or scissors, the hair tends to become stronger. Tweezers, the most classic method
Longer said than done, in reality the steps explained a little earlier are very fast and will soon lead you to the actual eyebrow epilation . In case you have chosen the tweezers, as already mentioned you will have to sanitize it before using it. At this point, in front of the mirror, positioned in a bright and above all comfortable spot in the house, identify the various hairs to be removed and squeeze them between the tips of the tweezers. Don’t be afraid to feel bad, squeeze and grab one hair at a time and pull with conviction, to avoid breaking or breaking it.
Pull the hair in the direction of growth to prevent it from growing back crooked and keep in mind that not all hairs have the same direction, pulling them against the grain risks breaking them. If this happens, don’t be so bad about trying to remove the black dot you see at all costs, even if you don’t like it. You would risk injuring yourself and letting blood come out with the tip of the tweezers, so better be patient and wait a day or two and, as soon as it comes out a little further, pull it away. Although you have prepared the eyebrow design before, if you use the zoom mirror every now and then move your face to get an overview and check the effect on the whole face, to get an idea of ​​the final result.
Once you have finished one eyebrow move on to the next and check to give them more or less the same shape. Remember: the eyebrows are sisters but not twins, they are not perfectly alike because our face is not perfectly symmetrical. Try to make them similar in shape but don’t worry if one has a few more or less hairs than the other, a more rounded or more angled shape, or if you have a slightly higher or lower eyebrow, it is completely normal. Perfect eyebrows with wax, go fearless!
Another method for making perfect eyebrows at home is with waxing, even if it is a bit more difficult method and you need to pay more attention. With waxing, in fact, the risk is to tear out too many hairs and take away entire portions of eyebrows, not just a few hairs.
Do not use hot wax at home, which is too difficult to manage, but rely on cold depilatory strips, already pre-cut and with the right amount of dosed wax. Choose the strips for small areas, there are on the market those for the bikini area or those specifically intended for the face, also excellent for the mustache, which are also more delicate.
After having thoroughly cleansed the skin and degreased the sebum from the eyebrows, dry them perfectly and once the preparatory design has been created, apply the strip following the direction of the hair. Place the strip carefully, preferably a little lower than where you want to remove the hair, retouching the shape with tweezers if anything. Better to remove a few less hairs than more! If necessary, cut the strip further with scissors to fit your eyebrow and handle it more easily.
Then tear firmly against the grain, to be sure to remove all the hairs trapped in the wax in one fell swoop. Then clean with a special wipe or oil and apply a soothing ointment, as the area tends to redden easily. It would be better, however, to use this method little because the tearing is not friendly to the skin in an area where it is so thin and, in the long run, could make it yield and relax too much, especially going further with age, when the skin and in itself less elastic. Shaving the eyebrows with a razor: pros and cons
For those who feel really too much pain to shave that area, here is the razor is the ideal choice. It is in fact a totally painless method even if, obviously, less lasting than the others.
However, it is essential to choose the right razor, which is not the classic one for shaving the beard or legs. You need a small, single-blade razor, specially designed with an easy handle to remove hair and facial hair, with a thin, angled blade. Alternatively, you can use electric razors which have various heads depending on the area to be depilated, but it is easier to make mistakes and remove too many hairs. After having done the drawing, proceed with caution and with a delicate touch and try to go downwards, because upwards you could also cut areas that you should not have depilated instead.