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Eyebrows Are A Girl’s Best Friends

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Maintaining your eyebrows can polish your look. Tweezing, threading or waxing are the many ways people shape their brows.

Appearances are everything to some people, and can sometimes be very stressful. Grooming takes place every day from the time a person wakes up to the time they’re getting ready for bed. Students were asked to take a survey to see the difference in how they managed their eyebrows.

Eyebrows are a very popular topic because certain people tend to think that they make a difference on a person’s face. Over the years, people have had their eyebrows shaped differently and experimented with them in many ways such as letting them grow out to be bushy, waxing them off completely, and dying their eyebrows different colors!

Some people get their eyebrows threaded every 2-3 weeks but other people have different ways of doing it. Some even get them waxed, which is a technique that started with Egyptian women around 60 B.C. Prior to being called waxing, it was called “sugaring” because of the homemade sticky solution to that is put on the paper to start the process.

Eyebrows can also be managed at home as well by using tweezers to pluck each unwanted hair. The best part about this is that even if you mess up and you take off too much hair, you can easily fill in what’s missing with an eyebrow pencil and it can still have a natural look.

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There’s no specific age to start managing your eyebrows, it depends on you and how you feel about your appearance. Some people have waited until they were almost adults to start doing them, and then there are others who started getting them done at younger ages as well.

It’s very important to know that once you begin to do them or get them done, you have to stay on top of it because you don’t want your eyebrows to grow out of control. However, too much tweezing, waxing, or threading can lead to very thin eyebrows or no eyebrows at all.

There are many different styles that you can get when shaping your brows, no matter what your face is shaped like. Celebrity eyebrow stylist, Joey Healy, is a well known brow beautician who makes all of his clients look fabulous. His services are expensive but his work is undeniably great. Below are a few examples of what he can do:

Mindy Kaling's round shaped face makes her brows blend perfectly.
Mindy Kaling’s round shaped face makes her brows blend perfectly.
Jessica Alba's eyebrows look stunning on her oval shaped face.
Jessica Alba’s eyebrows look stunning on her oval shaped face.
Julianne Hough's heart shaped face makes her eyebrows fit perfectly.
Julianne Hough’s heart shaped face makes her eyebrows fit perfectly.

 

 

 

Healy also gives great tips by saying you don’t need a magnifying mirror when tweezing but rather a mirror where you can see both brows. You also need great lighting, doing your eyebrows in dim light is not beneficial and you are bound to mess up. Healy believes it’s important to reserve time when managing your brows, meaning, don’t decide to do them while rushing out of the house, the more time you take the better the result will be.

Hopefully, readers will find the importance in grooming, especially when it’s done on your own, so that you will always be satisfied with your appearance.

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Kahlia Carmichael, Fall reporter
Kahlia Carmichael is in the 12th grade at Colonia High School. Her interests include photography, writing, and blogging. On most days, she uses Tumblr which consists of all of her interests and allows her to build a page based on her opinions and different things that she likes. Also, she has a dog named Sparkle who is 2 years old.  Kahlia is the youngest after her 2 older siblings and strives to attend Howard University after graduating high school. In college, she plans to study media & entertainment, even theater arts as a backup. Her role model is Keke Palmer; an African American actress who has grown up to be successful, positive, and full of ambition and that is exactly what Kahlia aspires to be now and in the future as well.

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