MY EYEBROW ROUTINE | MATURE, OVER PLUCKED BROWS

Hi everyone, it's Nisha. So today I am going to show you my eyebrow routine. As you can see I have eyebrows but they are very thin. They are quite dark because my natural hair as you can see by the roots is quite dark. But I obviously over plucked them a long time ago. I have a big bit missing here because I've had stitches here when I was a child so I don't have much hair growing here. But yeah they are very thin and I think thin eyebrows can be quite aging especially these days big eyebrows are the thing. So I want my eyebrows to be more defined because they frame your eyes. It's very important when you have hooded eyes to have good brows as well because they lift your eye up and you will see that when I've just done one eyebrow. But you know I want them a bit thicker but I don't want them to be you know like the Instagram eyebrows that are like really painted on. So it's very difficult. What I will show you is you can do with anything. You can do it with a pencil, you can do it with a brush and a eyebrow pomade you know like the Anastasia one. You can do it with brow powders really depends what you like using. I change up my products but it's the technique that I use. Okay so first of all obviously you should have your eyebrows waxed or plucked. I must admit I haven't waxed my eyebrows but you know they don't go too crazy because obviously they are not very thick. So let me just pin my hair a bit with these cute bows. I think I bought them in accessorize. Claire's. I mean in Claire's. Okay first of all you need to also trim your eyebrows. So let me show you first of all what I will be using. I use the Anastasia Beverly Hills eyebrow scissors but obviously you don't use it every day. I'll show you in a minute. And then I always use two colors of pencil or two colors of pomade or two colors of powder. Whatever you are using. Lighter and darker because I want the tail of my brow to be darker but the front not so much. I don't want them to look you know too solid. So I use that and what I use right now is the Dior brow styler and this is in 001 universal brown. I really love it. To be honest my favorite ones are the really thin pencils. So that's my darker one and then my lighter is the next micro brow pencil in top. And this one's got a really fine point. To me this one is in my opinion a dupe for the Anastasia Brow Wiz. Okay so first of all if I haven't done it for a long time I need to trim my brows. So what you do. Okay so your brows grow in two different directions. The front you brush up and from about middle you brush down. Okay so let's do the front first. So you brush the front up. That's how I do it by the way. You don't have to do it that way but that's how I do it. And if they're pretty even then that's fine but if you see some sticking out just snip them into a straight line. Okay now I'm gonna brush from the arch down and if you have any long pieces here I snip them as well. Gosh I hope this is not going out of focus. So you need to trim your brows and they look much better straight away. So let's do this one for now. This one doesn't look like it needs much trimming. I might just do a tiny bit and then I'm gonna brush down and here I can see I've got a really really long one. You sort of trim it in a straight line. So that's your eyebrows trimmed. Now let's start with the painting of the brow. Okay I start I don't know if you can see but my brows don't go from here straight. It's almost like a tadpole. So if I drew a straight line I would have to draw it there. So it's like longer here and then goes up. I want to straighten it up a bit. So first of all I'm going to define the bottom of my brow which is a bit thin as well. So I just brush my brows this way then for when that tadpole finishes that thicker bit I'm going to draw a straight line follow the bottom of my brow but make it a bit I'll go a bit lower if you know what I mean. Okay so I've got that line but now I'm gonna brush them up and you can see the gap. I've got a gap because I've drawn this line a bit lower. So I'm just going to paint over that gap. They might not look as good as when I'm not doing them on the camera because I'm not so comfortable here and then brush them back down and look if I need to make it darker anywhere else. Okay and most people just do the bottom brow. I think especially when you've got over plucked brows because that is still looking really thin you should do the top and I have little hairs there but they've gone a bit lighter some gone grey unfortunately but that's the only way you can thicken your eyebrow because you can't go much lower here it will look ridiculous. So then from about here okay not where my arch is from about here I'm going to draw like a parallel line on the top very lightly though you don't want to draw it really hard and I'm doing this with my darker pencil to my arch okay so can you see that and now because the hairs grow in that sort of direction I am going to draw like little hairs and all the time you're doing it keep brushing. So that is the tail of my eyebrow done now I'm going to do the front and to do the front I'm going to use the top so it's a bit lighter and first I'm going to do it at the bottom and I just go back and forth lightly to do this line then in this area when the hair grows up I flick my pencil up like that keep brushing in between all the time so you can see and then where I did this line I go very very lightly with this lighter pencil as well and that's my brow done and now I'm going to set it with a gel I like to use coloured gel because I feel like the clear ones almost take off the colour that you've just put on so my favourite is the Benefit Gimme Brow in the lighter one they only do two don't they yeah light medium oh I really like the L'Oreal Lip Plumper Brow Artist Plumper in light medium as well although do you know what I bought this a while ago and now when I look in shops they don't look like this they come in a black tube so I don't know if it's the same thing I think it's the same thing so let me do this one because my benefits ran out and now I brush a bit up here and then follow my hair growth very lightly I'm not going at it so I take off the colour but what does that what that does is sort of separates your eyebrow and eyebrow hairs and makes it look a bit more natural they don't look like one solid painted on colour and just leave them because they will dry like that and that's how I do my brows so look at the difference my eye looks much more lifted I think it's more useful that little thin over plucked eyebrow so let me just do the other one off camera so this is not too long okay so here are my both brows done that's how I likely do it I'm not saying this is right and that's how you should be doing it but that's how I do my over plucked thin brows I think it really really frames your eye and especially if you have hooded eyes I'm sure you you saw it when I just had one eyebrow done how that eye looked much more lifted so I hope this was helpful for you thank you very much for watching and I see you soon bye