Peachy the Magazine August September 2014 | Page 108
BEAUTY REPORT
Lesley Holland Downey
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Tonya Russ Price, Poprock Photography
WRITTEN BY
The Art of the Brow
Loads of my friends have been asking me to do an article about brows. Women
struggle with brows that are too thin or too thick, whether to pluck, wax or thread
or how to enhance brows with makeup. As we age, our brows often thin out,
and since your eyes are what people notice first (and unfortunately, where aging
shows up too) most of us can benefit with just a bit of grooming. Framing your eyes
helps pull that feature forward—just like a great frame can enhance a piece of art.
We took two willing women, each
with different face shape, coloring and
natural arch, and gave them a brow
makeover. Jeffre Scott, my local brow
guru, started with Carol who wanted
the appearance of thicker brows.
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What was surprising to me is that
Jeffre started by trimming long brows
with scissors to make the shape more
prominent—I thought that thicker
brows would mean less tweezing and
shaping. Jeffre explained that even
thinner brows need shaping, using the
facial features as a guide. Holding a
makeup brush parallel to Carol’s nose,
Jeffre pointed out that Carol’s brows
didn’t come to the point they should—
so he started by filling in with pencil
there first. To add shape where you’ve
got bare skin, pencil is the way to go.
Using pencil, he lengthened her brows
towards the center of her face and
towards her temples. Then he added
brow color with an angled brush,
over the pencil, to give the look more