Don't mind the puffy eyes, I have a terrible cold.

I do my eyebrows the way people tell you not to do them. So, warning, this works for me, it might not work for you, always step back after plucking 3 to 4 hairs and look at how your eyebrows look to you. Your face may need a thinner or a thicker brow, every faceshape has a different brow that looks best on it. So if you feel like the shape this trick gives you before plucking isn't you, don't pluck them using my way.

But, here's how I do it. I first brush my eyebrows into it's natural shape. I take a very small eyeliner brush and use not the brush side, but the handle, and place it next to the tip of my nose (no. 1) You could also take a small stick, but I use a brush because I have those in my bathroom. I then use a white eyeliner pencil and draw over the hairs that can be plucked out. I then place the brush from the tip of my nose to the end of my eye and make a small line there, your eyebrow should not go beyond that line. If you look at the bottom the beginning of your eyebrow, there is almost a horizontal line you could put between it. Your arch should be higher then that. I then place the brush right next to my pupil and put a dot where my arch should be. (I'm lucky that I have an almost perfect arch naturally, I only have to pluck maybe 4 hairs there.)

I then put a small dot exactly above the dot in the arch and that will be the peak of my eyebrow. I then draw a line from the peak to the tail of my eyebrow. For me I take more of the upperbrow then in the past. There is a (stupid) rule that you shouldn't pluck from top of your eyebrow, but I do anyway. The rule is there because they say your eyebrow looks sticked on if you pluck from the top, but on me I think it looks fine. So I make sure the arch is the highest point and on the inner side of my brow, I place a dot a little lower then the highest point. I then play "connect the dots" around my eyebrow, now my eyebrow is ringed with a white line. I make sure the lines aren't stick straight (because not much in nature is straight). I made the lines in the next picture straight to make sure you see the underlying thought and the lines I use as a base, but I NEVER pluck straight lines.

I then step back a bit from a mirror that shows my entire face and look at the shape of both brows, no face has two exactly the same brows (because both sides of your face are never the same), but I try to make them look as much alike without making it look weird. On my face one eyebrow has more of an arch then the other. It's the one I can lift on it's own (strange huh).

Back to the mirror, do the eyebrows look like they fit in my face? If I think it could be a little thinner I draw the line in a bit, if I want it a little thicker, I take a qtip and take some of the white out. When I'm happy I take my tweaser and start at the bridge of the nose to pluck only the hairs that have white on them, remember to step back every 4 hairs or so when you're shaping them like this for the first time, one plucked hair to much is a lot less to worry about then two entire eyebrows that are wonky.

I then pluck the arch, switching from eyebrow to eyebrow (brushing the eyebrow into shape when needed), still taking steps back every few hairs to look at the shape. When I'm done with the arch I do the rest of the bottom, take off the white underneath my eyebrow and look at the arch I have. Am I happy? Should the arch be higher?

If I'm happy I brush the eyebrows into shape again and then go to the top. I start with the upper "line" of lashes still stepping back every few hairs. I do this line by line because I hate overplucked eyebrows. Finally when I'm happy I take off all the white and put some babyoil on my skin just because it feels great. After a small face massage I take off the baby oil and brush my brows into shape again.

I have a new thing that I saw in a magazine a few months back that you can cut your eyebrows. I'm very scared of this, but I do take an eyelash comb and comb the eyebrowhairs up to see if they're very long. I now take maybe 1 milimeter of the inner centimeter of my eyebrowhairs. I comb them up, hold them there and with a small cuticle scissor I take the 1 mm of. I then brush them back into shape and am happy that I don't have to do it this timeconsuming again for a long time (untill I want to change the shape again).

To keep it like this I just take stray hairs out every 3 to four days when I see them. And the cutting when I notice it looks different, but sometimes I forget for a month and no harm done.

A friend of mine uses another great trick, she gets an eyebrow shape (like brow stencils by Sephora, Tarte or Anastasia just to make a few) and places the shape she likes on her eyebrow, she then takes a deep pink/purple eyeshadow (she's a blond so dark pink shows up on her skin) and colours in the eyebrows. She then takes away the stencil and takes a step back to see in the mirror if they where straight and if she likes the look and then pluckes all the hairs that aren't coloured. So that's another trick you can try.

Don't over pluck your brows, thicker brows represent youth. When you get older your brows naturally think out a bit, so try not to make yourself look older. And don't pluck if you're not happy with the shape or if you're in a hurry.

I hope this helps everyone.
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