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Eyebrow Plucking: The Best Way To Maintain Eyebrows
Eyebrow plucking is a technique of removing extra hair of eyebrow to give it neat shape. Eyebrows define the shape of eyes. Plucking eyebrows is just like an art. You need practice, skill and patience to do it efficiently without making a mistake. You need right tools and a sense of symmetry.
Can I do Eyebrow Plucking?
Plucking should be done very carefully and with adept hand. Everyone cannot opt for technique of plucking eyebrows. If done with unsteady hand, it can lead to unbearable pain. You will get uneven eyebrows and you may cause yourself eye injury too. If you have any of the following problems, you should go for other techniques for removing hair from eyebrows.
- First look at your eyebrows, if they are bushy or overgrown, then you cannot shape them using plucking. Plucking is right for removing stray hair.
- If you cannot hold tweezers steadily.
- You find it difficult to bring anything near your eyes.
- If your skin is sensitive and you cannot bear the pain when hair are pulled.
- If you cannot see hair individually, you won’t be able to pull them out.
How to do Eyebrow plucking
Plucking is not just pulling hair, one at a time, out of the skin. It takes more than that. You need to follow proper steps and preparations for easy and safe plucking. Also you need a perfect tweezers to minimize the pain and other problems.
Getting a Right tweezers for Eyebrow Plucking
Perfect and painless plucking is possible only with right tweezers. You have to get tweezers, which can grab hair tightly. When you are choosing tweezers for shaping of eyebrows, make sure that they have a semi-blunt tip, which will help firm grip on unwanted hair. Tweezers should be pointed and sharp but not too much pointed as it can be dangerous to bring a pointed object near eyes. Also it should not be too much blunt, as they will grab more hair than one at a time. It can result in removing hair, which you do not want to remove and also it will cause lot of pain. Tweezers should have angled tips to grip the hair precisely. There are many tweezers available like tweezers with magnifying lenses to see and grab fine and light colored hair. Tweezers should have non-slip grip to prevent cramps and discomfort.
Steps for plucking
- First step, while plucking, is to find out the desired shape of the eyebrow. You should trace it with the help of a pencil and mark it with white pencil right on the eyebrows.
- To minimize the pain in plucking of hair, apply ice on brow area. It will make skin insensitive to pain. Wipe out the water and let it be dry, otherwise, tweezers will not be able to grip hair firmly.
- The best time for plucking is after a shower as pores are open at this time. Also you can put a wet towel to open the pores before plucking. It will make plucking easy.
- Grip one hair at a time; do not grab more hair.
- Plucking should be in direction of hair growth. Pluck with a sudden jerk to avoid breaking of hair.
- After taking out a thin line of hair, assess the shape of eyebrow, as it will prevent you from over plucking of hair.
Tips For Eyebrow Plucking
- Avoid plucking too much hair.
- You can soften the hair by a hair conditioner or shaving cream.
- Your brow should make a light curve.
- Do not shape your eyebrows, slanting upward. It will make you look angry.
- Be careful not to grab skin, instead of hair. It may cause bleeding or redness.
- After plucking, you should apply some gel or cream to soothe the redness and irritation caused by plucking. You can also apply astringent, in case any bleed etc.
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