How to Shave Your Eyebrows: Tips and Tricks
Simply shave your eyebrows instead of laboriously plucking hairs one by one with tweezers? Sounds time-saving! We’ll explain how it works here.
It takes perfect eyebrows to frame a face. Whether plucking eyebrows with tweezers, removing hairs with a thread technique or shaping them with scissors – there are plenty of ways to trim your eyebrows! This time we will explain to you what you have to pay attention to when shaving your eyebrows.
Shaving eyebrows: Step-by-step instructions
Before shaving your eyebrows, it is first necessary to determine the ideal eyebrow shape – and this varies depending on the shape of your face. Then you should invest in a really good eyebrow shaver. Keep your hands away from common devices like those used for underarms or bikini line. If you’re unsure, leave your eyebrows to a professional.
That’s what you need
- Eyebrow razor
- Mirror
- Shaving foam or shaving gel
- Moisturizing face cream
Here’s how it works
- First, you should prepare your eyebrows. A hot shower or a washcloth soaked in warm water opens the pores and the hairs are easier to remove.
- Now apply some shaving cream to the desired area.
- Then stretch the skin to be treated with two fingers and shave in the direction of growth. Important: Work forward in small sections so that no unwanted mistakes are made.
- Rinse shaving foam residue with cold water and apply a splash of moisturizer. This prevents skin irritation on the eyebrows.
Advantages and disadvantages
If you want to shave your eyebrows instead of plucking them, you should thoroughly think about your plans in advance. Because every method has its advantages and disadvantages:
Advantages
- Ouch! While shaving eyebrows is almost painless, plucking eyebrows with tweezers (depending on sensitivity) can bring us to our threshold of pain.
- With the razor you can remove many more hairs with one hand movement, while you have to work your way hair by hair with the tweezers.
Disadvantages
- After shaving the eyebrows, the hairs can grow back faster and thicker. If you pluck the hairs, you get every single hair, including the root. This has the advantage that the hairs need a little longer until they sprout again.
- When shaving eyebrows, the result will be much less precise. After all, you may slip with the razor and there will be too many hairs removed than you would like. Well, then you have to wait and see and let the brows grow back.