How to shape eyebrows

The angles of your face are highlighted by your eyebrows. You can narrow the facial structure, broaden it or lift the eyes by working on your eyebrows. You can frame your eyes perfectly and tone down or underline the eye makeup with the right eyebrow shape. Perfectly shaped eyebrows bring balance to your face and add symmetry to all of its features.


The golden ratio is a number that depicts the perfect proportion that is most pleasing to the human eye. Anastasia Soare, beauty ‘innovator’, was perhaps the first person to apply this number to the techniques of eyebrow shaping. Anastasia has created the perfect look for innumerable celebrities and has transformed asymmetrical and sparse eyebrows into the most stunningly attractive facial features.
Anastasia’s trademarked Golden ratio technique brings about balance in your face using the eyebrows as the starting point. You too can use this ratio to determine the shape that will set off your facial features in the best possible way. This is how to do it:

• A: Draw an imaginary line from the outside corner of your nose upwards towards the inside corner of your eye. Your eyebrow should end where it meets this line.
• B: Draw another imaginary line from the tip of your nose crossing the pupil of your eye diagonally. The point where this line cuts the eyebrow is the perfect position for the arch.
• C: Draw an imaginary line from the bottom of your nose to the outer corner of your eye and beyond. This is where your eyebrow should end.

 Keep in mind the eyebrow should start directly above the eye’s inner corner.
The initial three quarters of your brow should gradually move upwards where your natural arch and peak there. The last quarter heads downwards, tapering off at the very end. You have an option of curving the line from the peak to the end or making it a straight line. Do note that either option makes for a very different look so you might want to experiment with them both for a while before you understand exactly how they look on you.
A few points to keep in mind when shaping your eyebrows:
• Tweeze your brows right after a shower or bath. Hair is pliable at this time and the pores are open and this makes it easy to pluck your brows painlessly.
• Over-tweezing should be avoided because it may result in ‘too thin’ eyebrows.
• Threading at home is best avoided because there is so little control over the shape you achieve. Threading is best done by a professional.
• Waxing is an effective way to get the eyebrow shape you desire although tweezing is a quick and easy solution for a light instant clean up. With waxing you should take care to see that you do not remove more of the brow that you intend to.
• When plucking your brows, limit yourself to the area between the brow and the brow bone. Tweezing above this line may result in an uneven shape.
• Plucking a few hairs farther from the innermost corner of your eye makes the eye look bigger.