Tips for Tweezing Your Eyebrows at Home

If you want to save some money and pluck your eyebrows at home, the first thing you have to do is forget about those splinter-plucking tweezers. You really want a nice pair of tweezers with fine, pointy tips. Remember, one little mistake could land you with a bald spot on your eyebrow, which will not fill in for a good two months.

Next, you want a nice 10X mirror, preferably one that lights up. Try to get one that flips from standard viewing to magnified viewing. While this may cost you a little bit of money at the outset, you will save a great deal more by avoiding the salon.

Before beginning to tweeze at any hairs on your brows, you want to make sure your skin is clean. Any dirt that is on the area where you're plucking could actually enter the irritated follicle and cause micro eyebrow pimples, which not only hurt, but also are gross to look at. So clean your face thoroughly before starting to pluck.

To obtain the perfect arch, you want to start at the inner area closest to your eyelid. Try not to touch the top brow hair yet. Go ahead and begin to pluck this area, removing more hair near the sides closest to your ears. You do not have to go pluck crazy though, just lighten up the brows if they are too bushy, starting with the lowest brow hairs you see.

The most unattractive eyebrow shape is one that is too bushy, one that is over tweezed to a fine line, or one that was actually shaped too small thanks to too much plucking at the outer sides closest to your ears. You want the brows to stretch over your entire eyelid area, far and wide, not small and stubby -- it will make your eyes look smaller if you do that. 

Not only that, but you really want to try to make it appear that your eyebrows are higher up at the corners, with a slope toward your nose, sort of like a seagull's wings and how they branch out in a perfect arch.

While you are shaping, remember to flip your mirror back and forth. As things look much more enhanced in a 10X mirror, check what the brow looks like often in the standard mirror to make sure you are not over or under tweezing.

Now the kicker to all this is that if you tweeze the area for years on end, less hair grows in. Maintain the shape weekly, and over time less hair will grow in meaning you will not have to tweeze as often.