Annabella from Skin Scrubs dm'ed me last night to say she wanted my eyebrows. When I stopped crying with laughter I realised she was after the version you all see in my fotd pics and not the really pathetic reality no one knows about. So I thought I'd share the sad reality of my brows and how I get them to look as enviable (??) as I do!
So here's me sans brows.
These look much better than they used to. I have over plucked from next to my nose - they used to meet in the middle and were down to my chin at one time and I over compenstated in my teens! I have grown them back by having them threaded a few times, which really helped and by learning that when they grow too long rather than pluck them out and trash the shape you can take a pair of nail scissors to them and trim them. Just comb them upwards and carefully snip off the ends that go over the line of your brow.
My brows drop down on the ends which makes my eyes look closed in so I have decided to pluck the ends out and just leave the upward flick of the brow and to draw in the bit from the arch down, does that make sense. Ideally its best to have a full brow but I didn't have that choice!
I use the clinique superine liner for brows in soft brown and as its a waxy, soft pencil I always powder my brows to stop it wandering off half way through the day. As you can see I extend the brow toward my nose a tad, too much and it looks really obvious. I then draw a line that runs slightly under my brow and up to the "arch" or end of my natural brow!
Then I extend that line outwards rather than down to keep my eye area open (thats the theory anyway but I did make it up!) Then I fill in the brow.
And now I have a matching pair!
The End!
