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Beautiful Brows: The Ultimate Guide to Styling, Shaping, and Maintaining Your Eyebrows

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This little book definitely offers some excellent tips for learning how to groom your brows. It begins by reviewing five basic brow shapes and then discussing how to choose the best brow for your own face shape and features. The teaching part of the book describes how to shape and color your brows, reviews various hair removal techniques, and provides guidelines for using the most popular shaping methods. The book ends with a list of famous brows--eg, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Madonna--and how to acheive them.

Despite the good information contained therein, I found the style and format of this book to be unappealling; for me, this detracted from the book's utility. I was surprised to learn that the book was published in 2000, as it has a very dated look and feel to it. When pictures are used (black and white only), the very overdone and made-up appearance of the women is reminiscent of the 1980s, and the quality of the photos is poor. Most of the illustrations are in the form of simple line drawings; they were easy to understand but not at all enjoyable to use. If you are looking for some basic guidelines on brow grooming, this book is likely to be helpful, but keep in mind that the book is just that--basic.

This is a purse sized book jam packed with information about eyebrows! The eyebrows frame and "set off" your face. This book teaches you simple steps to help you choose a brow shape that suits your facial shape ie square, oval, round etc. and facial features ie nose shape, distance between the eyes etc. The writers explain different methods to remove unwanted eyebrow hair, and how to shape the brows into the desired style. Each part of the anatomy of the brow is explained and details on how to shape it properly are covered. I had never thought about the shape of the inner part of my brow that is near my nose for example. But the authors cover different effects you will achieve by shaping this in different ways. The book also includes a few celebrity pictures and their brows and explains how to achieve the look. The book is written in a friendly, easy to read manner - entertains as it educates. A good buy!

I never realized the impact that properly groomed and trimmed eyebrows can do for a face until I read this book. I had never given much thought to my eyebrows other than to make sure they didn't overgrow and look ugly. However, I was never satisfied by my eyebrows and always found them lacking. It was the weak link in my made-up face. After reading this book and buying a few inexpensive supplies, I'm happy to say that I know what to do for my brows and I love the finished look my makeup now has. (And I didn't need to use stencils!)

The information obtained in this book makes it possible for any woman to have neat, attractive eyebrows that are best shaped for her own face. Nancy Parker also advises on what to do if you have more pronounce facial features, such as widely spaced eyes or a dominant nose. She also helps you figure out which type of eyebrow makeup will work best for your existing brows to get the look you want. (Brow powder vs. brow pencil, what color, etc.)

Because this book reads so quickly, you'll be off and ready to do your own eyebrows before you know it. However, please take the time to you make your plan of action before you start plucking (or waxing) away - it will be so worth it! Stencils are not required.

The b/w photos are nothing sophisticated, but they serve the point of showing the impact of what brows can do.

After reading this book, I've never been able to look at brows the same again now that I know how much they can affect the face. I now see the brow effect in every model and magazine ad I come across.

Beautiful Brows is a great book for the average laywoman who wants to gain knowledge on how to manage and make beautiful her own eyebrows. It's worth the modest price for a lifetime of beautiful brows.

This book is very easy to follow. My brows have never been so beautiful! All along, I knew I was doing something wrong, I just didn't know what...then, along came this book!

While I agree with some of the reviewer's about the 'unappealing format' of the book (would it have killed them
to make it a little bigger? how about some color pictures?), I can't argue with it's efficiency! If you are trying to decide between this book or another brow manual, go with this one. You won't regret it.

This unassuming, tiny book is jam-packed with information on how to change your appearance and how you appear to others. The shape of your eyebrows can give the alure of being shy, demure, aggressive or even mysterious. This is more than just a guide on how to make a mono-brow into two separate eyebrows.

If you have light-colored eyebrows or they are thin and sparse, this guide shows you how to enhance and mold what you have to make your face pop out in a crowd - in an exciting way, not a weird way.

If you have big bushy brows that make you feel like you're the missing link, there are step-by-step guides with illustrations and photographs on the proper way to pluck, shape and even trim when necessary.

Diagrams for different face shapes are provided as well as photos of models and of celebrities with very different brow shapes, and before & after shots showing what a dramatic difference brow shape and density has on the the appearance of the face.

The book gives you tips the pros in Hollywood use on celebrities and the rich and famous... some folks spend a pretty penny to have the fancy-shmancy make-up artists of the stars do their mojo on their brows.

Read this before you start plucking!

Turns out that the right eyebrows can really change the way you look for the better! After reading this book, I learned what is the right eyebrow shape for my face and how to achieve it. The book does advertise the author's products, but they give step by step instructions for achieving desired shape with or without those products. Check out their site to see what I am talking about: www.eyebrowz.com. I gave it a 4 because I think it is way too expensive for such a tiny book.

I've read just about every beauty book out there and this one is really special. It demystifies the whole brow grooming process and makes it so easy to discover the right shape for you--and then achieve it. The illustrations are clear and the instructions are easy to follow. Ever since I used this book, I keep on getting compliments on my brows. Very worth the low price!

A friend gave me this book because she knows I pay a fortune to have my brows waxed at a salon once a month. The brow lady there had me terrified to use tweezers myself, so I kept on coming back to her. Well, no longer! This book holds all her secrets and more. The instructions are super easy to follow. Now, I do what the pro at the salon did in just a few minutes in the privacy of my own bathroom and my brows look just as good, even better because I don't have to put up with any stubble in between appointments. And I figure that I've saved mega-bucks (of course, I spent it all on shoes, but that's another story).

The define & conquer section of this book laid out a pretty simple shaping plan. I followed it and it worked beautifully for me. I also tried some of the different effects with my inner corner and each made a big difference to how I looked. It was pretty surprising to me how much better I looked following some of the advice here. I thought the pictures in this section were great. They showed me pretty clearly in a step by step format how to shape. This book has changed my brows and I didn't think I would ever say this but this has made a difference in how I look - well worth the money. The book includes a few celebrity brows at the back. What I found interesting was seeing different inner corner finishes on the different celebs. I also found it interesting to see all the different basic shapes referred to in part one on the celebrities.

This has got to be one of the most helpful how to books that I have ever read!It has helped me realize how very IMPORTANT brows are on our faces.It shows us what to do about thick brows,over plucked brows(My dilemma),how to polish them up so that they don't look fake,what shades are right with what hair color,etc.
It also let me know what shape of face I have,and along with that,what brow shape best suits me.I don't care what negative comments the other reviewers have made,this book can easily suit our present day fashion trends.(In fact,aren't designers and make up artists often looking towards the "past" for inspiration?)
What the hell is wrong with sporting "Liz Taylored" thick brows if it suits a woman who can pull off her lush,sexy look,why does it always have to be dictated by make up artists,just because those barely there,Studio 54 1970's brows are seen on Kate Moss,does not mean that every woman wants to look like her!
In addition to this eye opener of a book (No pun intended),the authors also have an online store,where over 80 celebrity inspired stencils of eyebrow looks can be purchased,for the artistically challenged, so women can sport a different brow look everyday!This book was the 911 of brow rescue, and it is so nice that someone finally wrote a book about this overlooked area that so many women need help with.Now that's amore!