All women tend to the ideal, they spend time on make-up, they want to be attractive. Great importance in makeup is attached to the eyes and many girls try to emphasize their eyes, while forgetting about the eyebrows. To give the right shade to the eyebrows, you do not need to spend a lot of time, and the effect is staggering.
Special eyebrow pencils help to mask those places where the growth of the hairs of the eyebrow is uneven. A pair of skillful strokes with a pencil - and the eyebrows acquire a beautiful uniform look.
Often women have a question, how to apply a pencil for the eyebrows? But before answering this question, you should choose the right pencil.
Which pencil to choose
All pencils for eyebrows can be divided into those that require sharpening and mechanical, the rod in which extends itself. Both have their advantages: a mechanical pencil is easy to use, and the usual more durable.
Well, if you have in the range of several pencils in different shades. They should be ground sharp enough, but do not scratch the skin. When using an automatic pencil, you need to monitor its tip.
To pencil eyebrows, use pencils of light colors, especially if you bend the eyebrow from the inside or paint their tips. Do not darken your eyebrows. This method is used only in the case of very white eyebrows, but even then it is recommended to use light beige or gray pencil shades. Remember that the pencil should be slightly lighter than the color of the hair. So, if your hair is light, then choose a gray or light brown pencil. If your hair is chestnut, then a light brown shade of eyebrows will be suitable. If the hair is completely dark, use a dark gray or dark brown hue of the pencil. A light black pencil (charcoal) is used only if the girl is a burning brunette with very dark skin. In the case of red or golden chestnut hair, get a light brown pencil. In its color there are always notes of a warm reddish hue.
How to use a pencil to draw eyebrows
Eyebrows should be tinted only after applying makeup and powder to the face. First, brush your eyebrows with a special brush, and then, slowly, apply a pencil on your eyebrows in small strokes along the hair growth. Never give an eyebrow a solid line!
The base of the eyebrow should be made wider. Use pencils of two colors, but they should not be very different shades. A darker pencil is best used for tinting a wide part of the eyebrows. In the middle, the eyebrow can be raised to give an open look.
At the end of eyebrowing, pencil your eyebrow with a brush. This contributes to the retouching of painted lines and gives the eyebrows a more natural look.
Some common tips
- To make the eyebrows look natural, draw them in small strokes, as if they are small hairs. Do this in places where the eyebrow is very thin, at the tips, over the bend to slightly lift it.
- Do not overdo it. Be guided by a principle: it is better less, than it is more. Retouch the painted strokes with a brush, this will give a natural look to the eyebrows.
- Avoid fat lines, they will not give your eyebrows grace, but on the contrary, weight them.
- Use only a special pencil for eyebrows, and not for eyeliner.
- The pencil must be sharpened sharp.
- After drawing the eyebrows, comb them first upwards, then sideways.
- Do not pluck your eyebrows completely, to then draw their outline in pencil. These eyebrows look unnatural and vulgar.
With great care, a pencil for eyebrows should be used by women with gray hair. Gray eyebrows, finished with a pencil, look unnatural. However, do not despair, such women are recommended first to paint the eyebrows in the appropriate shade (it should be slightly darker than the color of the hair). In addition, in the case of graying eyebrows, the pencil can be successfully replaced with a powder for the eyebrows.