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. 106 PEACHYTHEMAGAZINE.COM 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