the makeup cat: Beautiful Brows Tutorial

Forget those high prices in salons! In this tutorial, you’ll learn some tips and techniques you can use to get glamorous eyebrows at home! Check back next weekend for the Beautiful Eyes Tutorial - a sweet complement to your Beautiful Brows... in fact, the picture below is a preview of the colors I'll be using in the Beautiful Eyes tutorial!

Things you’ll need:

Note: I’ve listed some comparable products if you don’t have the Anastasia Brow Kit (available at Sephora, Ulta, and Anastasia).

*Parissa Eyebrow Waxing Kit

*Anastasia Brow Powder or a good eyebrow pencil

Find a color that works for you but here's some recommendations from Anastasia:

Anastasia's Brow Powder Color Recommendations

Golden Blonde – Suggested for golden and strawberry blonde hair

Ash Blonde/Taupe – Suggested for light to dark blonde hair

Medium Ash/Medium Brown – Suggested for light to medium brown and silver hair

Brunette – Suggested for medium brown to dark brown hair

Ebony – Suggested for dark brown to black hair

Strawburn – Suggested for auburn hair

*Anastasia Brow Brush or a clean mascara wand

*Anastasia Brow Highlighter or a very light cream/pink or white CoverGirl Eyeshadow

*Anastasia Brow Gel or Maybelline Clear Mascara

*Tweezers

1. Start by removing all your eye makeup with a good eye makeup remover. I like Sephora’s FACE Waterproof Eye Makeup Remover.

2. Look at your face in the mirror and visualize an ideal brow shape. Having something in mind helps you decide what you need to do. Here’s some ideas for ideal brow shapes based on face shapes provided in the Parissa Eyebrow Wax Kit. For myself, I have a combination of the Soft Angle and the High Arch Angle.

3. Prepare by brushing your brows with your brow brush into their natural shape.

4. Determine the start, arch, and end of your brows. First, make sure you are looking straight into mirror – don’t have your body or head turned or you might get the wrong shape! We'll design the brows with Step 3.

BEGINNING. Using an eyebrow pencil or your brow brush with a little brow powder, align the brush vertically against the side of your nose. Make a small mark (point 1) to indicate the starting point.

ARCH. Align the pencil or brush diagonally so if a line is drawn the points go through the side of your nose and the center of your pupil. Make a small mark (point 2) to indicate the arch point.

END. Align the pencil or brush diagonally again so if a line is drawn the points go through the side of your nose and the outer corner of your eye. Make a small mark (point 3) to indicate the ending point.

Brush your brows again with your brow brush and slightly trim any long or unruly hairs that extend beyond the edges of your brow.

5. If you don’t have a shape to your eyebrows, I recommend the Parissa eyebrow waxing kit. Just follow the instructions that are provided – they’re well written and easy to follow. Check out my blog post about the Parissa Eyebrow Waxing Kit!

6. Next, tweeze any hairs outside your desired brow shape (or ones that you missed during waxing). Always tweeze in the direction of the hair growth. If the hair grows outward to the right, pull the hair to the right. In terms of tweezing, I don’t recommend removing hairs before the ARCH point. If you want natural looking brows, the key to shaping an arch is to follow the outer shape of your eye.

7. Using a pencil or the brow powder, use small strokes to fill in your brows. When I fill in my brows, I follow the growth of the hairs.

8. Using your brow brush or mascara wand, brush your brows again. This is an important step because it blends the pencil and brush marks with the natural growth of your brows.

9. Using the highlighting pencil or lightly colored eyeshadow, apply to the brow bone starting above the iris to the end of the brow. Blend using your fingertip. Remember, this isn’t part of your eye makeup – it is just highlighting your brows.