How to shape eyebrows

To master your grooming technique, you need to first find your perfect eyebrow shape before you pick up any tools. This all depends on where your other features sit, namely your nose and eyes. Plus, you should be using your natural eyebrow shape as a guide. After all, this is about looking like the best version of you. Comb one eyebrow with the Duo Eyebrow Brush, then hold a pencil vertically against the middle edge of your nostril, following the bone structure of your nose up to your forehead – that’s where your brow should start. Next, line up the pencil at a slant from the edge of your nostril to the outer corner of the eye – that’s where your eyebrow should end. Your most natural-looking arch would fall mid-way across your eye, following the slanted pencil from the same starting point.

As you would with any other skincare routine, it’s important to prep skin before you start. In fact, around those precious peepers is a particularly delicate area so it’s even more important in your eyebrow step by step. Start off by washing your face with warm water before using our Oils of Life™ Intensely Revitalising Facial Oil on your eyebrow area. Just like any soothing spa experience, although you might go for some hair removal, a massage is never amiss. Use your pinky finger to do your own at-home mini massage on your brows, gently rubbing in the dry oil that’s enriched with three precious seed oils – black cumin oil from Egypt, rosehip oil from Chile and camellia oil from China. After using this luxurious facial oil, your skin will feel moisturised and soothed, helping relax the hair follicles and ready the brow hair to make a move.

You’re now ready to finesse your eyebrows fret-free. How to pluck eyebrows? Recalling the shape you defined, you should pluck out the hairs that sit outside of this. Using our Slanted Tweezers, for each hair, gently hold the skin in the direction of the hair growth so it feels taut. Place the tip of the tweezer at the root of the hair, get a grip on it and pull! Remember to pluck the hair out in the direction that it’s growing, too. Ideally, you should only pluck out hairs that sit at the bottom of the brow line, as the top of the eyebrows will keep your natural shape intact. Only remove hairs above your eyebrow that really look lost and out of place. Alternate between each of your two brows as your pluck and be sure to regularly stand back at a distance to inspect the two, keeping in mind the saying – your brows should look like sisters, not twins.

Now that you’ve got the desired shape down, it’s time to fill. Historic over-plucking or naturally barely-there brows might need a helping hand, which is where our Brow & Liner Kit comes into play. Depending on how thick the eyebrow hair is naturally, eyebrow powder helps to fill in between the hairs, helping create a more plumped-up, defined and heavenly hirsute look. How to do your eyebrows in this way? You’ll need to have our Duo Eyebrow Brush plus our Brow & Liner Kit to hand. The brow kit contains two shades of fine texture eyebrow powders, so that you can alternate between shades, creating a more natural look. Use the brush to switch between the two powder shades and build up a flawless finish. The brow kit also comes with a mini double-ended brush for on-the-go touch-ups so you can pop it in your bag for days at work and nights out alike.

Finally, finish the brows by using our Brow & Lash Gel to fix your newly groomed brows in place. A bit like using hair spray once you’ve finished you ‘do, or our Makeup Setting Spray once your made-up face is finished, this is a multi-tasking makeup bag saviour that helps keep everything looking immaculate and in place. Our transparent gel has a handy applicator to help smooth brows – not to mention lashes that are going sans mascara – and help tame the more unruly hairs, resulting in a more refined, defined look. Simply smooth the wand over your eyebrows in the direction of the hair growth and tease those brow hairs that need a bit of a nudge in the right direction. It helps set the shape you’ve created, whatever that might look like – whether full and fuzzy or trim and tapered.

Step away from the mirror. As tempting as it might be to keep going, plucking a few too many hairs, even the tiniest ones, can result in a more sparse shape than you’d perhaps first intended. Like cutting a fringe, you can’t put back what you’ve taken away so go slowly and intentionally and be careful not to overdo it.

Check the hair on your head if you don’t quite believe it. Your natural hair colour is made up of varying shades and when it comes to your eyebrows, just the same. So, for a natural effect when using coloured brow products make sure to use different shades, building up a similar 3D colouring by layering the hues.

While plucking away rogue hairs might be satisfying, there’s no need to take to the tweezers every day. Give your brows a break and let the eyebrow hair grow from time to time before you pluck again. You might just find that your brows look better a little bushier, or basically, a little less perfect. It’s all about the real you.

As obvious as it might sound, the amount of light you are working with will seriously impact what you can see when you’re plucking away. Give your brows the best shot at looking their best by maximising the natural light in your bathroom. Open the blinds, and make sure you’re not squinting through the sunshine. Basically, you’ll be able to properly see what you’re doing.