Eyebrows are the very first step of stage makeup. They frame the face and provide you with a guideline for your eye makeup, especially that all-important eyeliner wing. When we think of the most beautiful women (Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, and Marilyn Monroe) all have beautifully thick, gorgeously groomed eyebrows.
However, we aren’t all born Cara Delevingne. Some of us have naturally thin brows. Some of us have transparent ones. And even for those blessed with an abundance
of brows, shape is important.
Here is what we don’t want to see: atrociously plucked
brows. You know the ones: the tadpoles, the scouse brows, the thin
semi-circle arcs, the ones that don’t begin until somewhere above the iris,
etc. These disasters are completely
man-made*.
Nobody ever saw a toddler with
weird crescent moons above their eyebrows.
So what shape do we want to see? One of our dance fairies has sparse pale
blond eyebrows, so we’ll use her to demonstrate.
Let’s start at the nose and work our way out. Firstly, the eyebrows should begin no further
out than the beginning of the inner corner of the eye. Ideally, begin closer in, aligning with where
the nostril begins its flare.
From there, it is a mostly straight line (some ascend, some
are horizontal, but the width generally remains stable) to the peak, which
occurs at the outer edge of the iris. It
is this line that controls how much of an arch you will have and depends
entirely on face shape. Try to follow
the natural line. Most often, nature
gets the basics right.
Finally comes the tail, which is where the eyebrow tapers to
a point of sorts. To find the end of the
tail, imagine a straight line from the edge of your nostril to the outer corner
of your eye. You might even go beyond
that line. And voila: eyebrows!
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