How to paint eyebrows with a pencil
Doing it very often makeup, women pay attention to their eyes and lips, but ignore their eyebrows. This results in the image remaining unfinished. You can use different cosmetic products to tint your eyebrows, but most often girls use a pencil.
How to choose an eyebrow pencil
Cosmetic pencils for tinting eyebrows are conventional or mechanical:
- Ordinary pencils need to be sharpened; they allow you to draw a line of any thickness and accuracy. These are the tools professional makeup artists use.
- There is no need to sharpen mechanical pencils; the lead is pulled out by turning the body. But unlike a regular pencil, a mechanical pencil cannot draw a fine line.
In addition to the design, when choosing a pencil, you need to take into account its texture. A good instrument should be dense, dry in consistency, the same color and should not contain any foreign inclusions. With the help of such a pencil, thin, clear lines, similar to hairs, are drawn. In some cases, a cosmetic pencil may contain shimmer; such a tool is suitable for creating an evening look. For daytime makeup It is best to use a matte pencil.
When choosing this cosmetic product, you must carefully select the shade in accordance with the color of your curls. The basic rule is that the shade of hair should be a couple of shades lighter than the shade eyebrows. Another rule is that the eyebrow color resulting from the use of a pencil should be an average between the shade of the curls and the color of the eyelashes.
To ensure that the shades of your eyebrows and curls look harmonious, choose a pencil in accordance with the following recommendations:
- Blondes should not use too dark pencils. Shades in beige or gray tones will look best. If your eyebrows are too light or colorless, then choose a light pencil. For gray eyebrows, you should give preference to grayish colors or a light brown tone.
- For ladies with light brown or reddish curls, shades of brown are suitable. These same shades are used for reddish hair. With a rich, bright red shade of curls, choose a pencil of terracotta, reddish-brown or golden-chestnut tone. Brown colors are suitable for fair-haired ladies.
- For brunettes, pencils slightly lighter than the tone of their curls are suitable. If your hair is dark with a warm undertone, then you should prefer terracotta tones of pencils, or a dark brown shade. For curls with cool undertones, choose dark gray pencils.
How to paint eyebrows with a pencil
Before you fill in your eyebrows, you need to correct your eyebrow growth line. To do this, find the starting and ending points of the eyebrow and its highest point. The starting point is at the intersection of the eyebrow and the straight line running from the wing of the nose to the inner corner of the eye. To determine the break point, a line is drawn from the wing of the nose through the center of the pupil. To find the end point, a line is drawn from the wing of the nose to the outer corner of the eye.
Order makeup eyebrow pencil looks like this:
- First, a cream with a moisturizing effect is applied to the skin, and after it is absorbed, a foundation is applied.
- Then the eyebrow is combed with a special brush, directing the hairs downwards.
- After this, draw lines imitating hairs in the direction of their growth using short dashed movements. They start from the bridge of the nose and gradually move towards the temporal region.
- You need to press the pencil lightly so as not to get too bright a shade. If necessary, excess pigment should be wiped off with a cotton swab.
- Finally, the eyebrows are combed and the shading is slightly shaded. This will give your eyebrows a more natural look.
