Archive October 2008
Boo!
Naw, I’m not trying to scare you. Ok, maybe a little bit.
I did the makeup for this years and years ago back when I was in college (yes, Cats was all the rage…) for this shoot. Took me 4 hours to do! Now that’s a lot of makeup, and big eyebrows! Hmm, I wonder if I could do this again….
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Brow Trends :: Fall 08
Think that trends just happen in clothes and makeup? It happens in brows as well, and here you can see my top trends for brows for this fall and how to create them..
read on……….
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Before You Book: Tweeze or Wax?
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Elke’s Tips on what you need to know before you book.
Here are some things to consider before booking an eyebrow appointment. To tweeze or wax? That depends on the type of hair you have for your brows. Thicker, coarser hair responds best to waxing because you are more likely to get the root, therefore slowing down hair growth. Though thicker hair will almost always grow back (sorry!), you’ll get results that lst longer with waxing. Thinner, lighter hair likes tweezing because you can keep most of it’s shape without worrying about hairs not growing back. If you have thin hairs, be very careful with waxing along the eyebrow line. These hairs probably won’t grow back, since thin hair if finer and weaker, hairs usually don’t grow back. Ask any blonde that’s gotten her light blonde hairs waxed. And if it’s a bad wax job? You’ll be stuck with an eyebrow shape that may not grow back at all. Always request that stray hairs between the brows and way below the brow to be waxed, while the hairs along the brow line are tweezed. That way you can play and change the shape when you want with eyebrow hairs that will grow back. Elke Eyebrow Specialist The Model Eyebrow Service offers a precise eyebrow shaping every time with either wax or tweezing. Your choice. In fact, 98% of my clients perfer and request tweezing. After the service, your eyebrows and eyes are perfectly done to go either back to work, or a night on the town. |
Tweezer Manual: The Slanted Tweezer
The infamous, oh so popular slanted tweezer. And yes, Tweezerman makes the best one out there. They just do. But each tweezer has it’s pros and cons and best how to use tidbits. So let’s see what works for you. Is it the slanted tweezer?
The Slanted Tweezer is the easiest tweezer to use so it’s great for beginners. Easy to hold and easy to work with and no worry about poking or stabbing yourself as you tweeze away. The slanted tips make sure that you can easily grab the hair with a wider surface to work with and there’s no pinch factor with slanted tweezers. So if you’re starting out, slanted tweezers are the best choice. And yes, good tweezers should last you as lifetime. Forget spending $5 on drugstore brands (though some do work, but you have to search for it and not all drugstore brands have great tweezers in their entire line.. looking for a cheaper slanted pair for travel or such? Try Revlon’s…)
When working with the slanted tweezer, most people take the tweezer and hold the tips directly on the skin, so that the tweezer is pointing away from the face. The slant is placed even on the skin, but then the tweezer is actually in your way as you try to work it. An easier way is to hold the tweezer almost against the face, and work from the side of the hair. Grab the hair with the tweezer and then slide the tweezer against the skin as you pull. You’ll find that it’s virtually painless this way. Why? You’re not pulling the skin up. That is what creates the ‘ouch’ when tweezing. By keeping the skin still as you pull, you’ll have a much easier time of it. For even greater pain free tweezing, hold the skin down with your other hand as you tweeze. Place your thumb on the front of your eyebrow and your forefinger at the end of the eyebrow. Then stretch the skin tight between your two fingers. Pain free.
I find when I work on clients, slanted tweezers work the quickest and get the hair every time. Fine hairs like this tweezer because the wide slant grabs it easy and a lot of hair gets tweezed quickly because I find myself not ‘missing’ as I work. If I need to work quick, these are the tweezers I grab first. And when I do, clients always comment how fast I am. I can be fast because the tweezer lets me.
So to sum up, use your slanted tweezers when you need to:
1. work quick
2. tweeze fine hairs
3. tweeze a lot of hairs
4. tweeze for the very first time, for beginner tweezers…
NY Spender loves her eyebrows….
See what NY Spender has to say after I reshaped and filled in her eyebrows with the new brow line for a stronger look.
elke is my eyebrows’ best friend
Back in the 90s, I used to pluck my eyebrows very very thin, and as a result of years and years of plucking, today I am left with pretty thin eyebrows.
After spending some time talking beauty tips with celebrity makeup artist Elke Von Freudenberg, she helped me realized that my thin brows are unnatural looking, and that I should try and grow them back, at least fuller than they are now (if I can).
I thought that whatever hairs I had plucked at for more than 10 years weren’t going to grow back anymore, but Elke gave me hope and a tip: wash……read more….
Review: RED Tweezers
I recently got a pair of RED tweezers to try out. No, not the color red, the brand!
Cool point: totally inexpensive.
Cool brownie point: these totally work.
No sticking factor, grabs the hair really easy and I find that the pointed tweezer is their star tweezer. Now I’m not really a fan of pointed tweezers. Too close to the eye and one false move and ouch. I just don’t want to take that chance on myself or my clients. But I was wonderfully surprised. THIS pointed tweezer actually works. I find myself using it to get those little tiny black dots of hair right as they’re coming in. And this tweezer gets them all. I use this tweezer (and I use about 5 different ones based on what I’m needing during the course of working on a client…….) at the very end of the service. I just go and get all the little baby fuzz and little black dots for a completely clean, perfect eyebrow. Because I can get them when the hairs are really short, I’ve been told by clients that their tweezing service lasts just as long as waxing.
Now THAT’s a tweezer I am totally fond of.
Found at your local drugstore from RED.
No more bad hair days..
that means eyebrows too..
Thanks to No More Bad Hair Days blog for their nice mention of ours!
5 minutes, 5 questions with elke
Beauty in Real Life, (that’s a super cool blog by the way, run by two moms. Jennifer and Christine) did an interview iwth me, called, “5 Minutes, 5 Questions” Read on!
Recently we were able to interview the fabulous Elke Von Freudenberg, who just so happens to be having a new collection of eyebrow goodies coming out. Called The Elke® Brow Collection, it premiers August 3rd.
She’s amazing. She’s gorgeous. She’s phenomenal. And we positively love her here.
Okay…now we’re gushing…but seriously…she’s worked on celebrities and she works in LA and NY.
Lucky for us, she was able to take a break from her hectic schedule and answer some questions for us.
Here is our interview with her for our 5 minutes, 5 questions…..
In your opinion, what is the one mistake most women make when it comes to their eyebrows?
In over 20 years of shaping eyebrows, I’ve noticed that women either do 1 of 2 things. They either pluck way too much, or they don’t do anything at all! Some clients tend to pluck too much, or they do the 1/2 circle shape, which is a way of trying to create an arch which doesn’t work. The arch never comes from the middle of the brow. It comes from the beginning to the arch. If there’s not enough hair, it’s very hard to create an arch. Or they don’t do anything at all, afraid that they might ruin what shape they do have, but then they are left with no shape at all. Eyebrows don’t have to be tweezed down to 2 rows of hair to look good. It’s about creating and emphasizing the shape that your eyebrow is already doing and making it stronger. You get a very signature look that way that is yours alone.
Okay…I’ve over-plucked…what should I do now?Leave them alone if you can for 2 weeks. Don’t touch them. And then use your facial scrub on your eyebrows 1-2 times a week for about a month. You’ll notice your eyebrows growing in. Also, don’t feel you have to wait 3 months for your eyebrows to grow in before you can get your eyebrows on track again. I’ve easily reshaped and modified eyebrows 2 weeks after a tweezing mishap which can get your eyebrows back in shape again.
Can we just tell you that “Elke” Brow Collection is amazing! What one item do you think every woman should have
?
Thank you! I love them all! It’s hard to pick a favorite because it depends what your eyebrow needs are. If you’re looking for something that works for stray hairs that you just don’t want to tweeze, try the Eyebrow Tamer. It’s a clear wax that grooms and gets unruly eyebrows to stay put. You can also draw your brow color over without worrying about colors mixing. I also like the Nite-Brow Shadows. Made specifically to glamorize your brows for night… the colors are specially designed for blonde, brunette, dark brunette and red brows to shimmer and sparkle at night!
What are the top three beauty products that you can’t live without?
Only three? It would be my Kieh’s Lip Balm, my Estee Lauder lip gloss (love that fig/vanilla scent, I’m addicted) and third; my Youngblood Concealer. That concealer works great for under eyes, without creasing and gives great coverage.
Can you tell us the best piece of beauty advice you’ve ever received?
Smile. Whatever you did makeup wise will only look prettier!
For more information on Elke and her Brow Collection check out elkevonfreudenberg.com or one of her other great websites beautyblognetwork.com, thebeautyideal.com and beautyurls.com
With love (always),
Jennifer and Christine
photos courtesy of the elke brow collection and elke
Growing in those over plucked brows.
Don’t over pluck those brows!
Why?
It takes about 64 days for eyebrow hair to grow in after it is tweezed. Yep. That’s a long time. And even worse, hair grows in two cycles. So once you’ve tweezed a hair, the next hair that grows in is not the one you just tweezed, which is why hair never seems to grow back in the same spot. Have you noticed?
So what I always tell my clients? When in doubt if you should pull an eyebrow hair?
Don’t.
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