How to Shape Eyebrows in Four Easy Steps, According to a Brow Expert

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resurgence may tell you—to fluffier, healthier, fuller brows that, honestly, don’t need as much work as you think.According to , founder of in New York City, less is truly more when it comes to how to do your brows.

Vucetaj, who has groomed the likes of Rihanna and Sarah Jessica Parker’s iconic brows, is all about promoting brow follicle health and tells her clients the same thing whenever they want to shape their own.“Get rid of your magnifying mirror and get rid of bright light,” Vucetaj says. “Natural lighting only.” Zeroing in on your eyebrows will make you extra susceptible to going overboard, especially if you’re worried about tadpole brows. “It takes six months to get hairs to grow back,” she warns.Another one of Vucetaj’s brow commandments? “No creams, no lotions, nothing around the brows,” she says.

These products can flog your follicles and inhibit hair growth, so be extra cautious when applying skin care around the brow area.Lastly, Vucetaj warns against using waxing or threading for shaping eyebrows, since both can be damaging to follicles and run the risk of removing too many hairs. “Waxing stretches the skin,” she says. “It’s the thinnest skin of the body, but also wherever the wax falls, that’s pretty much the shape.

Threading, they pull the hairs in every direction and a lot of the times there’s no precision there either.”Vucetaj has owned her tweezer-only brow bar since 2011. “With tweezing, it’s one hair at a time, as you can see.