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Shten suggests rubbing a little coconut oil on your brows a few times a week before bed. Its great for skin and hair, and it can help protect those tiny strands from damage.

Use this simple three step trick to figure out your ideal brow shape: First, take your eyebrow pencil and, using a stick, line up the inner corner of your nose with the inner corner of your eye; make a mark with your pencil there. This is where your eyebrow should start. Next, hold the stick at an angle from the outside corner of your nose through the outer corner of your pupil and make another mark this is where your arch should be. Finally, line up the outer corner of your nose with the outer corner of your eye to make the final mark your eyebrow should end there. Use a powder or pencil to fill in from mark to mark to create your best brow.

Perfect symmetry is not something that anyone should strive for when it comes to their brows. Manias warns against trying to make them identical, as the over plucking that it would take to achieve this would result in thinner, less attractive brows. Remember, brows are sisters, not twins; one will naturally differ from the other.

Manias advises using caution when attempting to trim lengthy brows, as its easy to make a slip that causes the overall shape to change. Take an eyebrow brush, and brush brows straight up. Then, using small straight edged scissors, trim only the hairs that go above and beyond the natural brow line. Dont trim beyond the arch: Taking too much off the tail will shorten the brows.

Manias recommends doubling up your brow cosmetics: When grooming and filling brows, its best to use two different products in order to create texture, thus resulting in a more natural, hair like appearance. For example, use a combo of powder topped with wax, or pair a pencil with a gel.

Manias says that while plucking a grey hair will not result in having seven more grow in its place (thats an old wives tale), it could create a patchy space in your brow. Instead, salon tinting is one way of adding pigment back short term. Or, using a tinted brow product like Bene?fits BrowZings [shown here] you can disguise grey hairs in an instant. A setting brow gel can also be your best friend when attempting to keep unruly grey hairs in their place.

Simran warns against blindly wielding a razor or pair of tweezers without due care and attention. Ninety per cent of men who come to the centre need their brows rescuing after their wife or girlfriend had tried to tackle them at home, says Simran. One man came in with one eyebrow arched upwards and another went straight across his forehead with a razor and was left with awful stubble. Weve seen it all.If you really must perform a self trim, tweezers create the most precise finish and a white eyeliner pencil can be used to stencil on your desired shape. Never pluck above the brow line, follow your natural shape and remember to take it slowly.

Professional beauty therapists offer painless tweezing services and also threading and waxing. Threading uses a piece of cotton to wrap around each individual brow hair to remove excess strands one by one, Simran says. For waxing treatments we use lavender based wax that shrink wraps around the brow hair and is suitable for delicate areas. These treatments are popular and widely available.So whether you choose a professional thread or a home job with a steady hand and a magnifying mirror, seizing control of your stragglers can reshape your whole face. Just be careful not to end up with a pair of tadpoles.

First, use an eyelash curler to curl them up and create a wide open look. It took me a long time to learn how to use an eyelash curler, and I was always nervous when a makeup artist came at me with one of those. The trick here is to look down, get it as close as you can to the base of the lashes, and gently clamp down, holding it there for 5 seconds. Keep your hands free by putting a hand held mirror down flat and stand above it while looking down at it.

Next, use you favorite mascara and coat your top and bottom lashes. There are so many varieties of mascara thickening, curling, lengthening, colored, waterproof, etc. My personal favorite is DIORSHOW Extase by Dior in super black. I love it because it gives an amazingly long and thick look to my lashes. And the best part is that it doesnt smudge under my eyes in the heat and humidity throughout the day.