When we talk about facial care or make-up, we traditionally accentuate eyes, lips or general state of skin – either copying a “porcelain” skin of eastern women, or striving to imitate olive duskiness of luxurious representatives of Mediterranean. And we extremely seldom think about form and state of our eyebrows and the meaning they have for our image’s entirety.

And now in this fashionable autumn-winter season visagistes offer us to correct this mistake. Practically on all shows of most famous Fashion Houses with autumn-winter 2006-2007 collections make-up experts accentuate eyebrows rather unexpectedly. We could see such images on Alessandro Dell’Acqua, Dries Van Noten, Ferretti, Jean Paul Gaultier, Zac Posen, D&G, Bottega Veneta, Celine, Diesel, DSquared2, Gucci, Oscar de la Renta and many other shows. Leading make-up masters showed fertile imagination.

Poorly chosen shape of eyebrows can change your look significantly and even make you look older. Short thin eyebrows add an innocent expression and childish helplessness to your face, curved eyebrows – severity and official character, straight and slightly elevated in the end thin eyebrows – playfulness and coquetry.

Eyebrows (even very light ones) crossing on a bridge of nose can suit you a lot, but will inevitably add 3 additional years to your age. Down eyebrows corners will make you look diffident, and it will hardly be appropriate for a business-woman, striving to makea carrier and demonstrating aggressiveness in business…. As we can see, you shouldn’t underestimate this feature of your face.

However, massive stroke of make-up masters somehow stuns. The first thing that catches your eye, - is almost strict conformity between hair and eyebrows tints. Even if you decided to become a platinum blonde, today’s fashion requires that your eyebrows would gain the same tint. But they should be at the same time glaringly wide and catching an eye. Do you imagine, how much efforts you should put so that your eyebrows would be of old whiskey or wheaten ear color? And so that they would attract attention to your face first of all? They should be of a thumb’s breadth! And a famous “pretty woman” Julia Roberts can become your model.

And this is a second thing you should necessarily pay attention to. In fact, your eyebrows can be plucked in a string, however, when you apply make-up, draw a substitute on their place – a wide long line to match your hair color. It’s better to use soft cosmetics, which you can shade with fingers, not only a pencil.

Eyebrow line is so accentuated today, that it lies far beyond the bounds of external eye corners. However, visagistes don’t insist on some certain shape. Many offer almost a straight line, what can be explained by this season’s passion for medieval Gothic motives. But highly penciled elevated eyebrows, girlish orbed eyebrows or even artificially low eyebrow line, which creates a feeling of slightly squinted “cat” eyes have absolutely equal rights.

But if you think this interesting trend will save you from a painful eyebrow plucking procedure, then you are mistaken. You won’t manage to avoid this. All the same you need to keep their form. And best of all is to do it in an appropriate beauty shop, relying on professionals.

If you’re absolutely self-confident and ready to sacrifices in the name of beauty, then you should firstly think about a general form you want to create. For this you can use various tints and soft conceal correctors, just to cover over excess hairs. This will help to use several variants before you really proceed to annihilation of excess hair. And do it simultaneously on both eyebrows, as such method will allow you to create more or less appropriate symmetry.

By the way, when you go shopping for cosmetic novelties next time, ask about special cosmetic for eyebrow make-up surely. Using same cosmetic, as we use for eyes (liners, pencils etc.), we don’t think that eyebrows, eyelids and eyelashes require absolutely different approaches.

Moreover, today you can find lots of appropriate cosmetics, among which you should pay a special attention to various shading gels, which not only tint eyebrows in a necessary color, but also model their form. Eyebrow pencils are usually softer and wider. Moreover, there’re special fixative pencils, which can be both shading and colorless, transparent. There’re also eyebrow shades, which allow creating rather wide, smoothly shaded eyebrow line and painting over skin under hairs at the same time.

And finally, there’re several practical advices.

You shouldn’t pluck your eyebrows in the morning. Any woman knows that at this time even most wonderful face can be sligthly dropsical. This adds additional pain to a procedure, and besides, it’s difficult to catch shortest and thinnest hairs, which ends are often invisible because of swelled up skin.

It’s also important to remember that during period procedure of plucking eyebrows can be too painful and can lead to skin irritation. Don’t do it before swimming in the sea or closed swimming-pool: both chlorine and marine salt also cause irritation. And don’t forget to smear skin after the procedure with special moistening creams for delicate skin around eyes (better with antiphlogistic effect).