

Vixen Vanity: How To Broaden Your Brows
July 22, 2014 - 5:21 pm by Mary Waiyaki
Caterpillar brows have been crawling their way back onto catwalks and crosswalks across the globe. Starlets and stylist alike are rocking immaculately-groomed sets—their beautifully full fringes softening their faces and accentuating their eyes. Ultimately, brow shape can make a mug mahvelous or meh. Don't believe us? Just Google some of the shocking pics of preposterously-plucked pop stars before they discovered an eyebrow pencil.
That's great news then, right? Well, maybe not for those of us who've already plucked, waxed and threaded our brows to death, but what’s a girl to do if her brows are paper-thin or generally non-existent?
Well, don’t worry—we can still work the look even if we weren’t blessed with eyebrows like Cara Delevigne. Luckily for us, there are a whole host of make-up tricks and techniques to fake our way to big, bold brows.
Click through for our quick tips.
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Photo credit: Getty Images
1. Get the right tools
Before you get started, make sure you have an eyebrow pencil and/or powder that is as similar in color to your natural brows as possible.
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2. Stop tweezing
That's right, I know it sounds scary but the first step is to put those tweezers down and let that natural hair grow. This can be a terrifying prospect for most women who get trigger happy at the first sight of any sign of stubble.
This stage is essential however as you need to find your natural shape-trust us, you won’t have to be looking like Bert from Sesame Street for too long...
3. Figure out the correct shape for your brows for your face shape
If you can’t get a professional to do this for you there are several Youtube tutorials dedicated to this very topic. Generally however you need to locate the point where you want your brows to start, where the arch will be and where it will end.
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Photo Credit: Getty Images
4. Outline the shape you want
This can be done with a eyebrow pencil that as similar in color to your natural brows as possible.
5. Fill in those brows
You can do this with powder or using an eyebrow pencil using small gentle strokes in the direction of your hair growth.
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6. Use coconut oil to promote growth
Your real brows will already be thanking you for giving them a well-deserved break, but just to give them some extra TLC, use some oil to stimulate those follicles.