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Old 12-31-2007, 09:00 PM   #3
Azhia
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Re: Eyebrows - Pluck, thread, wax?

Hullo Malena!

It sucks when your favorite aesthetician leaves you high and dry (though it's nice to know they have lives, too)! We'd be overgrown with hair and split ends and ingrown hairs if they completely left us!

I've never tried threading! I've heard about it and I'm fascinated by it; would love to try it myself. You can find another threader.

I prefer to tweeze. Waxing is fast and can be done accurately, but I love the double accuracy of tweezing. Aaaand I'm weird, I like the way it feels. Of course, this can lead to asymmetry, as you had described.

Some tips for tweezing:
Take a white eyeliner pencil and "white out" the hairs you wish to get rid of. You can check in the mirror for balance.
It's okay that you can still see the hairs underneath the white because those are the ones you will tweeze.
Hold your skin down/taut around the hair you will tweeze and grasp the hair as close to the root as possible so that the hair does not merely break off. Pull in the direction of the hair growth. (This is different for waxing, where you would pull against the direction of hair growth).
You may prep the area (and you should, for hygiene) with a gentle swabbing of alcohol, toner, or witch hazel. This helps soothe the area while it's being traumatized by the tweezing, as well.

If you have light coloured eyebrows, you can colour in the opposite way.
So instead of a white eye liner pencil, you would actually draw in the desired brow shape with a darker eyeliner pencil (or your eyebrow filling product, whatever that may be) and then tweeze whatever is NOT included in that filled-in area.

If you are used to tweezing yourself, and can easily balance both sides you can omit these steps but try this if balance is difficult to achieve. These techniques should insure accuracy. They take practice but so do undulations and figure 8s... you get the picture. ;0)

Let me also take this opportunity to say that if you (anybody reading this) is considering laser hair removal: save your money! Results are not permanent, contrary to what advertisers are saying.
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