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Eyebrow plucking

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monkeysmama · 03/05/2010 11:05

I always have my eyebrows threaded but just over a month ago disaster struck and the threader removed half of one eyebrow.

It is starting to grow back and my eyebrows are in desperate need of some help but I don't want to have them threaded again until they've grown more iyswim. In the meantime they need a good pluck but I haven't been at them with tweezers for a good decade. Any tips?

TIA

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Bonsoir · 03/05/2010 11:06

Why don't you aim for a stronger brow look? Fill them in with - the Benefit eyebrow kit is really good - and keep them in place with some brow gel.

monkeysmama · 03/05/2010 11:08

I bought that kit when it all went wrong and have attempted to fill them in. In reality one needs to be actually drawn on as she took so much of it off. I look very made up though. Perhaps it just takes practice?

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Bonsoir · 03/05/2010 11:37

If you have no hair at all at points on your brow, I suspect that it will look very made up at that point. Maybe an eyebrow pencil with a very sharp point, with which you can draw on hair-like strokes, would be better for that bit? I would just hesitate to start plucking at all at this point.

Bonsoir · 03/05/2010 11:38
mrsflux · 03/05/2010 11:47

i would have a mono-brow if it weren't for my tweasers! i LOVE them!

if you are plucking

  • ONLY do stray ones from under your brow line
  • never do above the eyebrow
  • take a pencil and hold it vertical against your nose, anything under the pencil or the wrong side of the pencil can be plucked safely
  • take the same pencil and hold it diagonally against corner of nose and outside edge of eye. anything the wrong side of that can go too.

DO ANY PLUCKING SLOWLY! seriously i sometimes get carried away as it's so satisfying!

Tortington · 03/05/2010 11:51

shade in the shape you want with an eye browpencil - then ancything not in the lines you pluck,

spend money on good tweezers - its woprth it

open your pores first with hot steam 9 run the shower or something)

leave the top of your brow - is a general rule, however if you are darker in colouring, its just not an optionto have a furry head like i could do - so if you are akin to a werewolf then you might have to pluck the top of your brow.

the arch should be to the side - not above the eye.

traceybath · 03/05/2010 11:57

MM - She is meant to be the best threader in london according to the glossies.

I'd head there for a repair job rather than start tweezing yourself.

I go to blink brow bar in HN and they're good and I use their eyebrow pencil too.

monkeysmama · 05/05/2010 08:50

Thanks for all your advice. I had a small pluck last night and look better today though I think I will have to get them threaded again soon. They're not as clean as they seem when they're threaded.

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