Spotlight Magazines Spotlight on Mansfield South, Nottingham June 2015 | Page 18

Spotlight Magazine

I

Brow Beaten

was born with my dad’s eyebrows.
Naturally thick, shapeless and unsightly,
they looked like two caterpillars stuck to
my forehead. At age twelve I followed
the fashion of the day and plucked away
until they were within a whisper of totally
disappearing - and I was on the point of
fainting!

Today, my eyebrows are thin, shapeless
and unsightly and I’m resigned to them
looking that way forever. Or rather I was…
Internet searches assure me that no matter
how over-plucked, over-waxed or overgroomed your eyebrows may be, there is
hope still for beautiful,
arched, perfectly
coiffed specimens.
The most extreme
method might be an
eyebrow transplant
(yes really!), but there
are other less drastic
options!
Most of us ladies –
and the odd gent
too – need to lose a
few hairs from the brow line. The easiest
solution is tweezing away the stray hairs
yourself, but the results are short-lived
and the risk of creating the wrong shape is
high.
Better results can be achieved by a
professional, with waxing and threading
methods achieving hair removal lasting
around 4-6 weeks.
Fair or very thin eyebrows may benefit from
being tinted. Like hair dye, this changes
the colour and lasts 4-6 weeks.
A popular look at the moment is HD (High
Definition) Brows which focus on shape
and design and promise to give you sleek,
stylish brows like those enjoyed by the
stars.

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A seven step process that includes a
consultation followed by tinting, waxing,
threading, tweezing, trimming and finishing
with a pencil or brush to fill in any gap