How to make thick eyebrows look neat

[lemonadensnickrs]

I have thick eyebrows so I don't need to pencil them in and if I put makeup over them, it looks too thick and I don't like how it looks. So usually I just leave them alone but then they can look sloppy. What can I do to make them look all smooth and neat? I've tried clear mascara that didn't do anything. Maybe someone can recommend some good products?

[michyed]

Have you tried plucking and trimming? I kind of have the same problem as you, but it all goes away when I trim... Except I'm too lazy!

[lemonadensnickrs]

Yea I do trim and pluck them but still can look sloppy! Mine kinda go all over the place.

[Filipe]

Maybe you could do your eyebrows at a hair saloon with someone specialized on that ?

[The_Ida]

Don't do anything to your eyebrows - don't pluck or trim. There's no reason. An old toothbrush and some hairspray works just fine.

Spray some hairspray on your old (clean! ) toothbrush, then brush your brows into place. If you want to make sure it lasts all day, then spray a tiny bit of hairspray on your finger and dab it onto your brows to keep them in place.

[hfhommes]

im a guy, so i usually brush my eyebrows after i brush my hair.

i pluck every so often just to make sure it doesn't look like two Velcro strips sitting on my face.

[Sav_]

When I get my eyebrows threaded, afterwards they rub them with a cottonball soaked in witch hazel. It's antiseptic AND makes the hairs softer/less rigid (I have very thick eyebrows also).

I also think trimming makes a HUGE difference. You just have to be consistent with it.

[michyed]

^I do the witch hazel thing, before and after using my epilator, before and after plucking my weirdly shaped eyebrows...

[silk skin paws]

Originally Posted by The_Ida

Don't do anything to your eyebrows - don't pluck or trim. There's no reason. An old toothbrush and some hairspray works just fine.

Spray some hairspray on your old (clean! ) toothbrush, then brush your brows into place. If you want to make sure it lasts all day, then spray a tiny bit of hairspray on your finger and dab it onto your brows to keep them in place.

Great tip. I never thought about using hairspray and an old toothbrush on my brows.

[abercrombiegirl]

I kind of have the same problem, i dont wanna look like Groucho Marx, I only wanna get Megan Fox´brows

[lemonadensnickrs]

How do people make their eyebrows look smooth? Mine look like black fuzzy caterpillars. I'll try the witch hazel thing and see if that softens them.

[tigerrouge]

I tweeze along the lower line, and trim along the top, but to achieve a really groomed look, I apply a few strokes of pencil at the beginning and the end of the brow, so that it squares off at the start, and has a nice taper at the end. I use a YSL eyebrow pencil, it lasts for years.

I never fill in the brow itself, that would be overkill. I also don't use hairspray or gel, because if your eyebrow hairs are stiffened by product, and get brushed the wrong way during the course of the day by a fingertip or something, they tend to stay that way instead of falling back into place. But such products can add shine to your eyebrows, if you're looking for that effect.

And instead of an old toothbrush - I find a cleaned mascara wand works much better for the purpose of combing the hairs, and isn't so unwieldy to store in your make-up bag. And doesn't look quite so weird either. So any mascara I use up, I take the brush and thoroughly clean it, use it for a while for my eyebrows, and then ditch it.

[The_Ida]

^Some of us (me ) have brows that don't grow evenly, so some of us (me ) actually need to brush the hair and set them to keep them where I want them. I personally don't think that old toothbrushes are better or worse than old mascara wands.

[tigerrouge]

Then I would use a completely new toothbrush, to avoid the transfer of mouth bacteria to the eye area - even if I thought I'd cleaned the old brush well enough, I wouldn't want to run the risk of infection of the follicles by those germs, especially if there's been tweezing or threading and the skin is still 'open'.

At least with old mascara wands, they haven't actually been in your mouth and in contact with oral bacteria and all the gunk that lives in that dark place. You can't live in a sterilised world, but it's better to avoid cross-contamination if you possibly can. Eye products for eye areas, toothbrushes for mouths.

[michyed]

I went to the MAC counter today and asked the SA if she could give me a few disposable mascara wands (that they use for applying mascara onto customers)... Whoopee, I now have three mascara wands to comb my eyebrows