Eyebrow Threading Instructions

The other day I had gone to my friend's place for a stay over and we were having a ball of a time. Just then, one of my other friends, who had joined us for the stay over, noticed herself in the mirror and almost let out a shriek. We asked her what happened and as if in a sheepish confession she said that her eyebrows were close to resembling a squirrel's bushy tail. The surprise of the night came across then, at least for me. The friend of mine who was the host then said that it's no big deal, she would thread her eyebrows. I was quite impressed and asked her how to do eyebrow threading and she gleefully parted with this supremely important knowledge in this contemporary world. After I got the hang of threading instructions, I was thrilled. That is why I thought I might share this with all the women out there. Here it comes!

How to Thread Eyebrows
To begin with you would need a cotton thread and a skin toner. Now let's start.

• Cut a piece of cotton thread in way that you get a 24-inch strand. Follow this up with tying the ends in such a way that a circle is formed.
• Coil the thread around all the fingers and thumb of both the hands and then open them. Then, using your fingers and thumb, transform the circle of the thread into a rectangle in front of you.
• Around the center twist the thread approximately 10 times. Now with your hands in front of you and apart, the string should look something like the alphabet 'X' with the center being the twisted portion.
• The twisted portion of the thread must be pushed to the right by the extension of the thumb and fingers of your left hand. Simultaneously, close the fingers of your right hand to the thumb.
• Repeat the earlier step by switching hands. Do this till you attain an ease in doing this.
• Position the thread on the skin while ensuring that the twisted portion of the thread is just to the side of the hair you want to get rid of. Follow this by gently moving the twisted part of the thread along the skin in a sideways motion in order to capture the hair. The sideways motion could either be left or right, whichever way you are more comfortable. Once you trap the hair in that twist, just pull them out.

There! I guess this wasn't that tough, right? These are the basic instructions, which are the most common nowadays. In fact it is the basic aspect of eye makeup. There is however, another eyebrow threading technique, or rather a manner to shape your eyebrows which is perhaps not as complicated as threading. That is tweezing. How do you do that? let's take a look.

Shaping Eyebrows with Tweezers
You would need a pair of tweezers, eyebrow pencil, eyebrow stencil, eye brush, eyebrow powder and gel. After you have compiled this, this is what you would ideally want to do.

• First of all mark with the eyebrow pencil as to where do you want your eyebrows to start and end.
• Now position the stencil lining up the inner corner of the stencil with the previously made white mark.
• Through the stencil hole, brush the hair according to the shape of the stencil. This has to be done carefully because here you would need to make the hair turn or twist in the manner you want it to be.
• Next is tracing the stencil outline. Taking the white pencil, trace the outline of the shape of the eyebrow.
• Here you would keep the stencil away and then tweeze the hair which is beyond the tracing line.
• You are almost done in this step. The marking line and the hair have been tweezed. But we are not totally done as yet. For that, place the stencil once again and apply a bit of eyebrow gel on the eyebrows. Brush the eyebrows using the brush as in step 3. Use the powder to touch up the tail area a bit. Lastly, remove the stencil.
• Slightly outline the entire eyebrow using an eyebrow pencil. The shape of the eyebrow will get well-defined by doing this.

Finally, let's check out some minute and often forgotten tricks to deal with your eyebrows, be it threading, tweezing or otherwise.

Eyebrow Threading Tips

• When starting off on eyebrow treading, tackle the part between the eyebrows. Then move on to the top and bottom of the brow, creating the desired thickness of the brow.
• Go gentle while doing the bottom of the eyebrow, it is more sensitive there. To prevent pain or burning sensation and close the pores left due to the removal of the hair follicles, use a skin toner immediately after threading.
• Eyebrows which slant upwards, could give the impression that you are frowning and angry. Thus, do not remove hair too much at the outer corners.
• Once you are done and you have sparse hair on your eyebrows, use an eyebrow pencil, adequately sharp to fill in the gap with quick and light strokes.

It will get easier with practice. Take adequate care of your eye while doing this. All the Best!