Eyebrow Shaping: 12 Common Mistakes and Solutions

Eyebrows give a beautiful frame to the face, they highlight your eyes and enhance your features. In fact, they tend to make your eyes more expressive. They add something more to your emotions. Many professional makeup artists believe that women with well-shaped eyebrows and good skin tone need little or no makeup. Well-shaped eyebrows play an important role in how you look. That is the reason why we don't mind withstanding the plucking pain every month!

But neglecting the look of the eyebrows, often over-plucking them and doing certain experimentation are the mistakes that we commonly do! The right eyebrows can flatter your face and can make you look fresher, younger and tidier. One or two additional plucks can make your nice eyebrows look scary. Knowing about the "things to avoid" while grooming your eyebrows can help you get the ideal shape! Check out the most common ugly eyebrow mistakes:

1. Not Bothering About Trimming at All: Don't underestimate the contribution that precise eyebrows can make to your feminine look. Take a large mirror so that you can see your entire face and then clean the eyebrow contour of any stray hair. You will notice a big difference after this small change.
2. Over Plucking: The majority of women and mainly young girls don't consult a professional before tweezing their eyebrows for the first time and they easily develop a tendency to over pluck their eyebrows. If you make your eyebrows too thin, your eyes will become less prominent, they won't be so defined and your face can get a dull, unexciting look. When you are over plucking your eyebrows, there is a possibility that some of the parts will not regain the hair. Extremely thin brows were more popular in the past, nowadays, the natural, fuller eyebrows are trendy. Consult a professional in order to get some tips and have them done properly. Once your cosmetician has determined their basic shape, you will only have to maintain their ideal form.
3. Drawing Your Eyebrows With a Dark Pencil If You have Sparse Eyebrows: This mistake is also very common. If you want to fill your brows, you can avoid this unnatural look by opting for a pencil that is one or two shades lighter than the color of your hair. Another great option is to use an angled brush and fill the sparse areas with brow powder.
4. Allowing for Too Much Space: Removing too much hair in between the eyebrows is a mistake that many are guilty of. A lot of men even fall into this category. This mistake is usually the result of using a razor to remove excess hair between the brows. To avoid this look, use tweezers or wax to remove only the stray hair that grows between the sides of the nose.
5. Trimming Too Short: If you want to give your eyebrows a beautiful, natural contour, you can shape your brows by trimming those hairs that are too long, mainly in the front part. However, cutting down many hairs at once and trimming them too short can totally destroy the shape of your brows. In order to avoid this nasty problem, brush your eyebrow hair upwards and trim the hairs one by one, cutting only one at a time. Trim only those that are longer than the rest!
6. Giving Them the Shape of a Semi - Circle: Eyebrows that are arched into a semi-circle have an unnatural clown-like appearance. This look is the result of removing too much hair from the first third of the eyebrow and creating an arch at the half point instead of at the outer third of the brow.
7. Taking Too Much Off the Ends: Short eyebrows look less elegant than nicely shaped, longer eyebrows. You can easily find the ideal end for your eyebrows by touching your brow bone. The point where this bone ends should also mark the end of your eyebrow.
8. Tweezing Too Frequently: Grooming your eyebrows every day is too much because it is not necessary to pluck them too often. Your eyebrows will look gorgeous if you tweeze them only once in a week. If you develop the bad habit to groom them each and every day, you can also remove the hair that is essential to maintain their beautiful contour.
9. Shaping Them as Commas: We can see comma eyebrows most commonly. The comma brow doesn't flatter anyone because it's a very unnatural look. The comma eyebrow look results from removing too much hair when trying to shape the eyebrows into an arch.
10. Trimming Too Thin: Tweezing or waxing brows to the point that they are pencil thin is a common mistake that a lot of younger girls seem to make. They tend to go for a sophisticated look, but end up with eyebrows that are not proportionate with their features. Unfortunately, the eyebrow hair that has been repeatedly removed for many years may not grow back entirely.
11. Bleaching: Some women lighten their hair and are tempted to bleach their eyebrows to match their hair color. This is generally not a good idea since the resulting color can be unpredictable. If your eyebrows are dark, you may end up with an unacceptable brassy shade while trying to lift them to the blonde shade. There's nothing wrong with having your eyebrows a shade or two darker than your hair.
12. Getting Eyebrows Tattooed: Tattooed eyebrows are likely to look too harsh and the shade is almost never right. Even worse, tattoos don't fade. Don't do it!

Essential Eyebrow Shaping Tips

• Don't ever shape your eyebrows yourself. Find an eyebrow designer who specializes in eyebrows.
• Find out where your eyebrow begins and ends.
• Use an eyebrow brush to smooth eyebrow hairs while tweezing or waxing your eyebrows.
• Use quality tools.
• Always choose the best shape for your eyebrows in order to complement your facial features.
• Use a warm towel on your eyebrows or start the shaping process after a hot bath.
• Never ever shave your eyebrows.
• Don't have your brows tweezed for free at make-up counters.
• Don't get your brows waxed at a resort spa or with anyone whom you are not familiar with.
• Don't get your eyebrows waxed if you're using a product like Accutane or Retin-A. It can take off the outer layer of the skin.

We often admire the eyebrows of our favorite models and actresses. And it's nothing very tough for your eyebrows to get that perfect shape and look! And it is possible that your eyebrows will also look as if some artist has painted them with a single flawless stroke of a brush!