It's been a while since thin eyebrows stopped being a trend and although eyebrows are now quite bushy and wide (and in many cases excessive and cartoonish), the truth is that this evolution has made many pay more attention to this part of their face. Now the eyebrows have more prominence and makeup has become the great ally to highlight and enhance their natural shape.
We are more about getting the best version of our eyebrows, and to achieve this, not only does it have to be a good job of waxing, but you also have to know how to do makeup correctly. To achieve defined and denser eyebrows but without giving up the natural finish, we wanted to count on the eyebrow expert and makeup artist Ana María Ochea (@anammua4).
The expert begins by telling us that to do eyebrow makeup with a natural result, you don't need too many products or get very complicated. “Having a fine-tipped pencil (such as Precisely My Brow from Benefit or Micro Brow Pencil from Nyx) and a good eyebrow fixer is enough, says Ochea. Which means that with two such basic products, we can now begin the transformation of our eyebrows.
But before getting down to work, the makeup artist recommends that we take a good look at the eyebrows and distinguish three key points that will serve as a reference: “The starting point, the high point and the end point.” But if you are wondering what those points are, the expert gives us the correct guidelines to find them. “We find the starting point if we use a stick to go in a straight line, taking as a base the internal fin of the nose and going up the nasal septum. For the high point we have to take as a reference the internal part of the nostril, passing through the pupil. And for the final point we will take the external part of the nostril as a reference, passing through the end of the eye,” explains Ana.
Furthermore, something that we found very interesting is that according to the expert “the ideal is for the beginning and end of the eyebrow to be in a straight line to have a harmonious eyebrow.” But in any case, clarify that it refers in general terms since this is not always true, because it depends a lot on the bone structure, the muscle and the person's own tastes.
Once we know this and have a more global vision of the eyebrow itself and what we have to achieve, we can move on to makeup. “To be able to make up the eyebrow naturally, the first thing we are going to do is use our fine-tipped pencil and at the bottom of the eyebrow we will draw a line that goes from the beginning to the end, outlining the eyebrow and giving it definition,” Ochea tells us.
Since what we want is a natural and credible result, it is very important, as Ana tells us, that “we do not fill in the entire eyebrow, that is why we are going to fill in only the areas where we have less density, this is usually the beginning or the end of the eyebrow.” This way we will achieve a realistic eyebrow and not a block. After filling comes one of the most important parts, which is to blend what we have filled. “Normally eyebrow pencils come with a gupillón to be able to comb and blend. What we are going to do is blend by combing upwards all the strokes we made before until we like the result,” says Ana María.
Once we have reached this point, it is time to record the work done. The expert recommends “using a transparent eyebrow gel (such as Benefit's 24-HR Brow Setter, Anastasia Beverly Hills' Brow Freeze or GOT2B's Glued 4 Brows) and combing the hair in the direction we want it to stay,” says the makeup artist.
But if what you're looking for is a laminated eyebrow effect, “the ideal combo is an eyebrow pomade (like Anastasia's Brow Feeze Gel or Revolution's Power Brow Fix Clear) and an eyebrow marker (like Nyx's Lift & Snatch). In this case, first you're going to take a little bit of the gel and you're going to comb your eyebrows in the direction you want. When it's dry, with the marker we're going to make loose hairs to fill in.” With this technique the result will be more polished and the eyebrow hairs will look more defined and styled.
As a final trick, the eyebrow expert recommends applying a little highlighter to the upper part of the eyelid (at the brow bone), especially if we want to give greater definition to the eyebrow.
