How To Depilate The Eyebrows | Unrivaled Guide 2024

Are you looking forward to plucking your brows for the first time? You will feel a slight pinch, but using the right technique will minimize the pain. Learn to pluck your brows and draw them like a pro.

Using the right technique

Get a good pair of tweezers. Use clean, fine-tipped tweezers to do this job. If the tweezers you use are too dull or difficult to handle, it will take you much longer than necessary to shave, hurting you without needing to. You have to be able to grab hairs individually and pull them out effortlessly.

Soften the skin near the eyebrows. When the skin is soft and supple, the hair comes off much easier. Shaving dry, hard skin makes the experience much more painful.

• Plan to pluck your eyebrows immediately after taking a shower. The hot water and steam will have made your skin soft and supple.
• If you need to shave at another time of the day, wash your face with warm water and pat it dry. You can also take a small towel and put it under hot water, and then leave it on the eyebrows for 2 minutes. This will open the pores, making hair removal easier.
• Put some moisturizer on your brows to make them softer and easier to shave.

Identify the direction in which your eyebrow hair grows. For most people, hair grows outward, from the nose to the hair. In some cases, the eyebrows can grow in more than one direction. Be careful, because the hair should be pulled in the direction of its growth when you shave it; this helps to extract them more easily.

Hold the tweezers in your hand like you would hold a pencil. The open part should be on top. Squeeze them a couple of times to get dexterity with the movement you need to do to pluck your eyebrows.

Put the tips of the tweezers at the root of the hair. You want to remove (follow the directions below to understand which hairs you should remove). Place them as close to the root of the hair as possible and pull, always pulling in the direction of hair growth and keeping the tweezers at an angle as close to your skin as possible.

• Continue until you’ve finished plucking one eyebrow, then repeat on the other side.
• If you have to stop and take breaks, that’s fine. Resume shaving when you are ready.
• Sometimes plucking your eyebrows makes your eyes water and your nose tickle. This is perfectly normal; it just continues until finished.

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Understanding Where to Wax

Identify where your brows should start. This varies from face to face, but the same technique can be used to identify anyone’s brow line. Take an eyebrow pencil or other long object, and line it up from the inner corner of the eye to the side of the nose. Use a white pencil to mark where it crosses your eyebrows. This is where the eyebrow should start. Repeat with the other side.

• Feel free to move this point a little further or further back. This technique shows you the approximate point where your brows should start, but take your personal preferences into account as well.
• Make sure the object you use to identify the beginning of the eyebrows is very thin. Using something thick will slightly change the optimal position.

Identify where to raise your eyebrows. Well-groomed brows curve over the eye, and where they arch can make a big difference to the final result. Take the same object you used to identify the previous point, and this time align it between the outer edge of the nostril and the outer edge of the iris. Mark the point where it crosses the eyebrow, and repeat on the other side.