Our eyes are an important feature of our face, but eyebrows play the primary role in making them look the best. Ever imagined uneven, out of shape, bushy eyebrows? Hmmm...they are sure to make you look unattractive! That is the reason, grooming eyebrows is always on the to-do list of most of you. While each one has his/her own likes and dislikes of eyebrow shapes, what suits you the best is more important. Well, once you know the right shape, all you need to do is remove those stray hair and have the lovely looking eyebrows. There are various ways of shaping eyebrows, waxing being one of the best amongst those. This will help you have clean and great looking brows. If you are wondering how to wax eyebrows, here's the answer.
Steps to Follow
Waxing is a commonly used method of body hair removal. While it is also used for facial hair removal, most of the people don't opt for it to shape the eyebrows. Plucking and threading are more popular methods of hair removal used for shaping eyebrows.
Why Waxing is the Best Method?
Well, if you consider the results, you are sure to follow the method of waxing for shaping eyebrows instead of any other methods. You can easily learn the process at home and you don't need to wait for an appointment of your favorite beauty professional. Yes, learning it is easy, it will save your time and money, and help you stay well-groomed all the time. Remember that once you wax your eyebrows they do not regrow early. Moreover, waxing also clears your dead skin giving a fresh look to the waxed area. It helps remove the hair from roots, hence the effect is longer. What's good is that, after waxing eyebrows, the hair that grows back in this area is soft, as the natural hair, not thick, sharp and dark as that grows after plucking or threading eyebrows.
Necessary Preparations
Before you start following the procedure, you need to prepare your skin. Wash your face thoroughly, especially the area around your eyebrows. Pat dry. Now take cleansing lotion and clean your eyebrows and the entire area around it. Wash with warm water and pat dry. Now take an astringent lotion on a cotton ball and apply it over your eyebrows, below and above as well. Take a well pointed dark eyebrow pencil. Draw the desired eyebrow shape outline using this pencil. Repeat for next brow. Make sure your draw it perfectly, this will be your guideline for waxing. Stand a bit away from the mirror to check whether both the eyebrows are in same shape. Make the required changes.
Follow the Procedure
Take a good quality facial wax in a bowl or wax heater and heat it. Heat till its almost transparent and liquid. Remember that too hot wax can burn your skin. Also, it must not come in contact with your eyes. Take a brow brush and comb your eyebrows in their natural direction of growth. Now part the extra brows that are below the eyebrow pencil outline. With a spatula, take small amount of wax and apply it on these stray hair carefully in single layer and direction of growth. Take cotton strips or disposable wax strips. Cut them into small pieces of about 3 inches in length. Place one on the applied wax, press, again press and move your hand in direction of hair growth. Use fingers of one hand to hold tight your closed eye. With other hand pull the strip in opposite direction of hair growth, be fast and do it in one go. Repeat the procedure as needed on hair below and above the eyebrow to get the desired shape. You can pluck too short hair using tweezers. The long hair inside the outline can be trimmed using scissors.
Learning these steps is not difficult with the above mentioned home waxing tips. Each time you wax your eyebrows, you will find it easier. These tips will definitely help you have clean, perfectly shaped eyebrows that will enhance the beauty of your eyes.
