How to Trim Your Eyebrows Like a Total Pro (2024)

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Choose the Right ToolsClip Your Hair BackFill In Your Brows With a PencilBrush Your Brow Hairs UpwardBegin Trimming

Assess and EvaluateTrim More and Tweeze, If NeededFinish With Styling GelThe Finished Look

Kristie Streicher is the creator of The Feathered Brow and co-owner of Striiike beauty studio in Los Angeles.

Choose the Right Tools

As with anything beauty- or makeup-related, the tools you choose will make a big difference in your execution. You'll need scissors that are small and easy to use, as well as a spoolie brush with soft bristles. Try the Kristie Streicher The Essentials Eyebrow Grooming Kit—it comes with scissors that have lightly curved blades and a pointed tip perfect forprecision trimming, a spoolie that allows you to brush through brow hairs easily, and a pair of chic, vanity-worthy tweezers.

Clip Your Hair Back

Clipping your hair back will allow you to see your brows without disruption (especially if you have bangs), minimizing the risk of over-trimming.

Fill In Your Brows With a Pencil

Streicherrecommends filling in your brows with a pencil based on how you actually "wear" them before trimming. Thishelps you create a visual guide and avoid over-trimming. To do this, use short, feathery strokes to lightly shade the skin underneath your brow hair, making sure to go against the direction of hair growth to access underneath them. We like Make Up Forever's Aqua Resist Waterproof Eyebrow Definer Pencil.

Brush Your Brow Hairs Upward

Start your brow-trimming process by first figuring out which brow hairs need to be trimmed. To do this, take a cleanmascara wand(or a spoolie brush) and brush all your brow hairs upward, tailsincluded.

Begin Trimming

Next, take your brow scissors (use a pair that is slightly slanted, which provides a superior angle) andtrimthe long hairs that stick out above the top of your brow'shairline. Cut the hair where it starts to bend or curl, staggering the lengths for an even more natural look. Be careful not to trim them too short, as doing so can give the appearance of gaps in the brows.

Assess and Evaluate

After your initial run-through, it's a good idea to move back from your mirror and assess. In many cases, you should likely stop here. (After all, we all know how easy it is to just keep going when it comes to brow maintenance).

Trim More and Tweeze, If Needed

If you find that your brows still look uneven, continuetobrush the hairs up andtrimany strays until they all align with your natural brow shape. When it comes to stray hairs, this would be the time to tweeze them. Normally, stray hairs sit beneath your brow shape. A word of caution: Be careful tweezing above the brow—you'll find very few strays there, to begin with.

Finish With Styling Gel

To keep brow hairs in place, Streicher says to finish with a styling gel, brushing the brow hairs up and out. We're fans of R+CoMagic Wand Brow Gel for its sturdy hold and conditioning, flake-free formula.

The Finished Look

Voilà! Perfectly trimmed brows ready for action.