Ugh, eyebrows.  You want to talk about a sensitive subject?   Just ask me about my eyebrows.  I have fought these things my entire life.  Thanks to my parents, who were apparently cavemen, I have the thickest, darkest, most coarse eyebrow anyone has ever seen.  That’s right, I said eyebrow.  I am a victim of THE UNIBROW.  My mother made me hang on to that look all the way up to my freshman year of high school.  I know what you’re thinking.  How could a mother do that to her child?  Don’t even get me started.  Luckily, after much begging and many tears, I was able to convince my mom to schedule an appointment with her esthetician to wax my uni into a duo.   Yay, I finally looked like a normal person and not like I was trying out for a part on the next Progressive Insurance commercial.

Problem…She didn’t explain to me how to maintain my eyebrows.  Unfortunately, after time, I slowly tweezed my brows into one thin line of hair.  This was just as unattractive as the unibrow.  Needless to say, the brow pencil was my closest friend for many months.

So, in hopes that I can save you from falling victim to the under-tweezed or over-waxed eyebrows, here are a few helpful tips to achieving the perfect brow shape for your face:

• Look closely at the natural shape of your eyebrow.  The key to having great eyebrows is to work with what you naturally have.
• Using a pencil, place it vertically next to your nose (as depicted, line 1).  This should also line up with the inner corner of your eye.  This is where the eyebrow should begin.
• Next you will need to find where the arch of the brow should start.  Line the pencil straight up and down alongside the outside edge of the iris (colored area of the eye) (as shown, line 2).
• Finally, line the pencil from the side of the nose to the outer corner of the eye and this is where the eyebrow should end (shown as line 3).

It’s important to remember that our faces are all shaped differently. Also keep in mind that no one’s eyebrows are exactly identical on both sides (they are sisters, not twins!). Do your best to make them match, but you may have slight differences between the two. Working with your natural shape is always the best way to go.  Hopefully these tips will be as much help for you as they have been for me.

As someone who has been in this industry for close to a decade, I sometimes take for granted that many people don’t know the very basics of skin care…..How many times a day should I cleanse my face? Why does oily skin need to have a hydrator/moisturize? What’s the difference between a hydrator and a moisturizer?

Listed below are the major categories of skin care products in order that you should use them and a short description of what they do.