MORE: 3 Fast Solutions For Thinning Brows When I arrive for my brow reading, Bames whisks me away to her chair, where she examines my bone structure, natural brow shape and hair type, and investigates my preferences: How I want them to look and how much time I’ll put into my daily routine. Bames quickly zeroes in on my biggest brow issue: they’re naturally uneven. Thankfully, that’s no barrier to perfect arches, if you know how to work with them. Bames’ secret: shaping each one individually, and making them look more symmetrical by filling them in with a brow pencil. “Your brows are sisters, not twins,” she states, “The biggest way to make your brows more uneven is actually to try to tweeze them into the same shape.” Then she gets to work, starting with my left brow, plucking away with her tweezers, speedily yet so gently that I can barely feel it—a first for my sensitive skin. When I look in the mirror, I hear a Hallelujah Chorus. My brow is somehow longer and fuller, yet trimmer and tidier—the result of brow whisperer secret number two: the pencil trick. Bames holds a pencil vertically, alongside my nose and inner eyes, to determine where each brow should start, and then tips the pencil diagonally, aligned with the side of my nose and the outer corner of my eye, to pinpoint where they should end. (The arch should be just above the outer edge of the iris.) Using those three points as a guide, anyone can discover the ideal shape for their face, Bames explains. (Here’s .) My right brow proves to be trickier: It’s shorter but unrulier than the left one and requires a trim with scissors. (Bames only recommends snipping when hairs are so long that they extend beyond your brows’ groomed, natural shape, so you don’t overdo it.) not plucking them into oblivion, how to find the right brow shape for you MORE: The Very Worst Ways To Groom Your Eyebrows Lastly, she calls in a little cosmetic backup to help them appear symmetrical. She pulls out a Tom Ford Brow Sculptor ($44, tomford.com), which has a pencil on one end and a mascara wand on the other, and demonstrates how to extend the line of my natural brows to lengthen them. (Stop at the point a pencil would pass through if you lined it up with the side of your nostril and outer corner of your eye.) She follows up with a spoolie brush to comb the hairs and blend the pigment beneath. Finally, she applies concealer just above and beneath my brows them to create a contrasting effect that really makes them pop. The biggest secret of all? Not veering too far from what you were born with: “When you stay as natural as possible, you actually look better—more like yourself,” she says.
