Tweezing Brows
The most common way to give shape to your brows is to pluck them using threading or tweezing them with a good set of tweezers. Tweezers are of three types:
Tweezers with thin tips are great for getting a good hold on small fine ingrown hair to pluck them.
Tweezers with slanted tips give you more control and are good for novices.
Tweezers with square tips are quite useful when it comes to pluck off coarse thick hairs or more than one hair at a time.
Here are some tips to make tweezing easier for you:
Always pluck your eyebrows before bedtime to allow the redness to disappear overnight.
Keep a hot washcloth over your face for some time before tweezing as it loosens up hair follicles and make plucking hairs easier and less painful.
Calculate the length and arch of the eyebrows as state in the ‘Eyebrow Waxing’ article.
Smoothen up brows with a little moisturizer as it helps hair to slide out more easily.
Brush up the brows to define the natural arch and draw the desired shape using a soft eye shadow pencil before you start plucking.
Tweeze under the brows first and pull hair in the direction of the growth.
Comb brows upwards with an eyelash comb and trim hairs extending beyond the natural brow bone.
After plucking your brows, it is often relaxing to soothe the area with cool and wet tea bags.