Q&A for How to Pluck Your Eyebrows

Pluck, definitely! Over time, waxing causes your skin to lose its elasticity. Plus, the skin around your eyes is so sensitive and delicate that frequent waxing will eventually cause damage to your eyelids.

Talk to your parents about grooming your eyebrows and figure out what is best for you as an individual.

Some people find that pulling up on the skin helps reduce the pain. Other people find that pressing ice cubes (wrapped in tissue or fabric) helps numb the area, and this reduce pain. Aloe Vera gel is also very helpful in soothing irritation and pain after plucking.

Make sure to mark the areas that you wish to even out with a dark brow pencil. Draw a short, soft, straight line on the end tail of your eyebrows, then repeat the process on the starting point of your eyebrows.

You could ice your eyebrows both before and after, or you can apply something soothing such as aloe or neosporin after.

keeping the skin around your eyebrows well-moisturized may make it easier to pluck, but you should not apply lotion directly before or after plucking to avoid irritation.

Wearing glasses should not affect plucking your eyebrows. If they get in the way, slide your glasses down just enough to reach your eyebrows (or try contacts). You can also take them off entirely and lean close to the mirror to see what you're doing.

Yes, this does work on bushy eyebrows. Just focus more on the trimming step, i.e. brushing the eyebrows up, then cutting long hairs.

When you are satisfied with how your eyebrows look. Step back and take a good look at yourself every so often. If you're unsure whether you should keep going, it's usually best not to - overplucking is a common problem.

You can try threading, it's a hair removal system using ordinary sewing thread. Look up instructions online, it's a little difficult at first, but once you've mastered it, your brows will look awesome.

Specially cleaning your eyebrows around plucking isn't necessary -- the cleaning they get when you wash your face at night will suffice.

It's hard to say exactly! You should ask your parent or guardian at what age you think it'd be OK to pluck your eyebrows. (Personally, I think anyone older than 13 should be able to do so.)

You can try threading instead. It's a little difficult at first, but once you've mastered it your brows will look amazing.

Just start in the middle of your forehead and work your way out on each side. Go slowly and keep standing back and checking your progress. You don't want to go too far and have too big of a gap between your eyebrows.

Use eyebrow gel to set them in place, or go to a beauty salon to get them threaded.

If this is how your eyebrows are naturally, then they most likely suit your face. Shape them in a way that makes them look right next to each other; this is when you can fill them in with makeup to make them look the same.

If you have overplucked a part of only one brow, don't pluck the other to match. Fill in the overplucked part or just leave it to grow back.

Buy new tweezers. Maybe you are holding the tweezers too loosely or you are not having a good grip on either the tweezers or the hairs. Otherwise, your tweezers are probably just inadequate. Be sure to get ones with sharp edges and a good grip. Some cheap tweezers are kind of rounded and slippery, which makes them hard to use.

Start very slowly, and don't pluck too much or you could over-pluck, if you aren't comfortable doing your own eyebrows, you could make an appointment with a professional.

Try to pluck the upper part of the higher brow and then apply an eyeshadow or eyebrow pencil to the top of the lower brow. This should even them out.

You can buy special ingrown hair cream - this will help pull the hair through the skin and then will be easy to tweeze out.

Yes, you need too do a full pluck around the entire eyebrow area, just be careful at the top.

You can follow tutorials online. YouTube has a lot of them. You can also look at pictures of the celebrities you want to look like and try to make your eyebrows like them.

Placing an ice cube on your brows after plucking them can help. Also, pluck your brows after a hot shower.

Plucking your eyebrows is pretty painful even if it is not your first time. If you cannot tolerate any pain at all, consider using an alternative method.

Go to a beautician and have them do it for you. They will do it properly and put a special cream on you so the skin won't hurt afterwards.

Just leave them alone. And try to put on some brow gel to make it less noticeable and make them look fuller.

Some people need or prefer to pluck their eyebrows because they are bushy or they form a unibrow, which many people do not like. Also, some people find too many eyebrow hairs can irritate skin.

You can give a shape to your eyebrows with careful plucking. You can use edges to make the perfect shape, like a strip of paper of edge of a spoon.