When I was
younger, I had thick dark eyebrows. There was even a time when I almost had a “uni-brow” and had to constantly pluck them to keep from looking like the young Brooke Shields. What the heck happened? No more thick brows, and I seldom have to tweeze. I even color them now to give them definition.
In her book How Not to Look Old, Charla Krupp says nothing ages you like bushy unkempt eyebrows, shapeless brows, tweezed-too-thin brows, drawn-on brows or gray brow hairs. For a feature that gets so little of our attention, nicely groomed eyebrows can transform your look and truly make you look years younger. A nice arch can give you an instant face lift and will frame your eyes while making you look more sophisticated.
To get “Wow-brows”, start with a professional eyebrow shaping. Schedule an appointment with a well-known eyebrow expert and get the shape and size that is perfect for your face. After that, it is easier to maintain with occasional tweezing, and just go in periodically to make sure you still have perfect arches. Ask around for references before you go to avoid ending up with a disaster that can’t be fixed.
If you want to do it yourself, get an eyebrow stencil kit, like the Senna Cosmetics Form-a-Brow Kit. Choose a color that’s closest to your natural color, then select the stencil that’s closest to your real brow shape. Line the stencil up on your brow, color it in, and when you remove the stencil, the hairs that aren’t colored are the ones you remove. Voila! Perfect eyebrows in your very own home salon.
Once you have your eyebrows shaped, you need to fill in the color. Use a sharp eyebrow pencil to draw hairs where there aren’t any, or use brow powder to give more definition. Use a sweep of clear brow gel or tinted eyebrow mascara, like the ones at beauty.com or Maybelline’s Define-a-Brow for a finishing set.
And if you don’t have enough brow hairs to create a beautiful lush look, there are actually brow extensions–individual eyebrow hairs that are applied to your own just like eyelash extensions–and eyebrow prosthetics, a synthetic brow applied with an adhesive (I immediately think of Groucho Marx, but these really do look good, and would be a much better alternative to drawing eyebrows on if you’ve totally lost them) Check them out at NuBrow.
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What ever happened to age implying wisdom & garnering respect? Yes, I am interested in looking nice, but I don’t want to look younger, or BE younger again. I was miserable when I was 17–I wouldn’t go there again for all the tea in China! Yes, I color my hair, but it’s because a deep auburn is more attractive than my now generous greys with my skin tone–not because I am embarrassed about them–I earned every one of those little devils! Ladies, I say yes, do your brows, color your hair, do it all because you WANT to, not because you are frantic to look 20 again!
And use models that resemble our age range.
never had much for eyebrows when I was young,with age they too have thinned and turned gray.Didnt give much thought to them.Will give some of these ideas a try,what the heck,cant hurt,right?
One of the readers on my Flourish Over 50 site said she had been using Latisse to help thicken her eyelashes, and decided to try it on her thin eyebrows. After just three weeks she started noticing actual eyebrow hairs instead of fuzz. You can get Latisse online at http://www.eyelashesbylatisse.com, where the price is $68 after a $20 mail-in rebate. Or you can try Revitalash which is less expensive at $60 from Amazon.com, recommended by a friend of mine.