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How to Define Your Brows

JoEllen — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:00:17 +0000

How to Define Your Brows

You know I’m all about simplicity. Getting back to the basics. Beauty should be easy. And a step that is often neglected in your beauty routine is defining your brows! But it shouldn’t be a hard step. Here is how to define your brows and how you can easily do it in your home!

Once your brows are nice and maintained, you need to give them a beautiful look by defining them. How do you do that?? Easy peasy. Just take an angled brow brush and either some eyeshadow or contour color that coordinates with your brow hair color. With just two things, you can get your brows lookin gooood!

How to Define your Brows

First off, it doesn’t do any good to define your brows by filling them in if they’re not maintained. You don’t want to accentuate bushy and furry brows. Your brows should be a nice shape before you define them. You can refer to brow maintenance here for some other great brow tips before you start with this step.

Take your angled brow brush, dip it in the eyeshadow or contour shade and fill in your brows. You want to use short hair like motions to mimic the look of hair growth. If you want a more natural look, then just simply fill in the areas of in your brows to make them appear fuller. If you want your brows really defined and dramatic, then use the brush to shape around your brow.

Defining your brows helps frame your face. It gives your brows definition and shape that helps finish off your look. It just tops your look off and gives your face a beautiful touch!

Products to Use

Some Maskcara eyeshadow shades that are great for your brows are:

Oak

Basic

Coco

Trust

Cole

Salem

Some Maskcara contour shades that would work great for your brows:

Shadow

Ash

And there you have it! Easy ways to get your brows lookin extra good! You don’t want to miss out on defining those beautiful brows! Click here to see how to maintain your brows too!

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Beauty Basics Brow Maintenance

JoEllen — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:00:46 +0000

Beauty Basics Brow Maintenance

Raise your hand if you want beautiful brows! Brows can really make or break your look. Taking care of your brows is such an easy but important step in your beauty process. So here is a beauty basics brow maintenance tutorial for you so you can get good brows in your home!

Shape

First off, you want to make sure you have a nice shape to your brows. This may mean that you need to invest in getting them professionally waxed or threaded or tweezed. But trust me, it’s well worth the money to get started on the right foot! You will save money in the long run because you can maintain them from home.

Boundaries

Once your brows are a nice shape, you want to make sure that they stay within their boundaries. Brows have boundaries?! You betcha! Simply take a pencil or makeup brush and place it vertically along the side of your nose and the inner corner of your eye. You don’t want your brow hair to grow past this point. Next, take the brush and place it diagonally from your nose to the outer corner of your eye. Your brow hair should not grow past this point. Easy peasy right??

Tweeze

Now what do you do if your hair is growing past your boundaries? What if you have stragglers making their way away from the beautiful brow shape? All you have to do is tweeze! But you must do it properly. Take a good set of tweezers and grab a lone hair. You want to tweeze in the same direction of the hair growth. This will allow the hair to come out easily without breaking the hair. It will also prevent ingrown hairs. Do this with all the stragglers that are outside of the beautiful brow boundaries.

Trim

You have a nice brow shape, they have boundaries, and they are tweezed. Great! But you must also make sure they are trimmed! Just like you need frequent haircuts, your brows need frequent trims. You do not want long, out of control hair growing on your beautiful face! You only need two things: cuticle scissors and a mascara wand. Simply take the wand and brush the hair up. Then take your scissors and trim the excess hair growth. And that’s it!

By shaping, having boundaries, tweezing, and trimming your brows you will have beautiful brows to frame your face! I love me some beauty basics and this is basic brow maintenance that you can easily do in your home! Good luck!

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College Ball Princess Look

JoEllen — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 14:00:40 +0000

College Ball Princess Look

In New Zealand, high school is called college and college is called university…a bit confusing, I know!! They don’t have “prom” here but college balls. A friend’s daughter was attending a college ball and wanted me to fancy her up. Since she’s a teenager, we didn’t want to make her look too heavy and done up but a beautiful natural look…something fancier than she would wear normally, but not too fake. So we settled on a college ball princess look and we all loved how it turned out!

Princess Process

Our princess has beautiful creamy white skin so White Peach was a perfect match for her! I applied the highlight with the 30 Second HAC Brush just under her eyes, along her nose, on her forehead, on her chin and upper lip. She wanted a natural look, so Olive was a great contour shade for her that enhanced her cheekbones beautifully! Pink cheeks sometimes intimidates women, but she was happy to try a nice & natural pink cheek out. And it looked so great on her! We added Pearl as the illuminator on the tops of her cheekbones and it made her glow in just the right places!

Now onto the eyes! Her dress was black so she wanted to have a bronze look to her lids. I used the I Shadow Everything Brush to brush Bubba all over the lid, put Bright Eyes in the crease, and Sabrina near the brow and the tear duct. It was a beautiful combo! The colors looked great with her brown eyes!

We topped the look off with adding some definition to her brows. I applied Salem with the Multitasker Brush . It gave the look such a nice finishing touch and shaped those brows nicely!

She wanted a very subtle lip, so Desert Sunset always comes to the neutral lip rescue!

Products

Highlight: White Peach

Contour: Olive

Blush: Pink Grapefruit

Illuminator: Pearl

Eyeshadow: Bubba, Bright eyes, Sabrina

Brows: Salem

Lips: Desert Sunset

She was right in the middle of doing her hair, so this before & after has an extra element of fun and personality with her curlers! =) But we love how her makeup turned out and she was quite the beauty of the ball!

Want to see another fun makeover? Click here!

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How to Get the Best Brows

JoEllen — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:00:50 +0000

How to Get the Best Brows

Do you want to get the best brows?! Let’s talk! So often, women do a marvelous job with their makeup but then completely forget to top their look off by managing their brows! Eyebrows can really make or break your look. Let me show you some brow tips and tricks that will make you feel like a million bucks. This is how to get the best brows!

Shape

To get the best brows you must (must!) have your brows nicely shaped. Some of us are blessed with big bushy brows and some of us not so much. And some of us have tweezed those bad boys til there isn’t much left! No matter which category you fall in, you still must make sure you have a nice shape to your eyebrows. How can you do this? You can pay someone a small investment to get your brows waxed, threaded, or tweezed to get them started off with a nice shape. You can continue to pay for their maintenance on a regular schedule or learn to maintain them on your own. Already have a nice shape? Then make sure to keep those brows looking good. Remember that your eyebrows are sisters, not twins! You don’t need to make them identical & symmetrical. They should coordinate, not match.

Home Maintenance

You can learn to maintain and upkeep your eyebrows on your own. Once you have a nice shape that will complement your face, then it’s important to keep them looking good! What do you need to do?

Invest in a good pair of tweezers and learn to tweeze the proper way. When tweezing, make sure to grab the hair and pull in the direction of the hair growth. This will allow for the hair to come out nice and smooth without causing irritation to the skin or breakage of the hair. Keep tabs on those pesky stragglers and tweeze often. There’s nothing worse than having beautifully shaped brows sprinkled with loose, crazy fur.

After you are up to date on your tweezing, now it’s time to keep your brows trimmed! Just like you need regular haircuts, your eyebrows need to be trimmed frequently. Purchase some small eyebrow trimmers and a wand. Together these tools will help you comb and trim your brows so they don’t become unruly. It’s such an easy but essential step to ensure your brows are fabulous!

Make sure your brows start and end in the right places. Take a thin makeup brush (or pencil) and hold it vertically in your hand. Hold the brush right along the bridge of your nose, up past your brow. Your brow should start here. Now take your brush and hold it diagonally under your nose, to the outside corner of your eye, to your eyebrow. This is where your brow should end. Do it to both brows. This is a quick and easy way to determine how long your brows should be so they fit your face well.

Makeup Your Brows

Makeup on your brows? You better believe it! It’s amazing the difference a little color to your brows can do for your face! Once your brows are nicely shaped and maintained, then you need to apply a little brown to those brows to give them a nice definition. With just 2 things, you can make your brows look like a runway model’s!

You’ll need some brown eyeshadow or contour that closely matches your brow color and the Hotline Brush or the Mulitasker Brush. Then you apply the color into your brows to fill them in. Simply follow the shape of your brows and add some color. Use motions that mimic the growth of hair. That’s it! Brows help frame your face so this is a simple way to give your brows a little pick me up.

With those simple steps, that’s how to get the best brows! Such simple steps that should not be neglected in any beauty routine!

Want to learn how to get the best face…in 3 minutes? Click here!

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