Beauty Tips
How to Save $264 a Year on Beauty TreatmentsLearn how to extend the life of your haircut, facial, manicure and more |
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Women who get their eyebrows professionally done usually get them shaped once every two to three weeks. Streicher (who charges her big-wig clients up to $200 a session) says you can extend the life of a shaping session by two weeks by following these tips:
Tip 1: Instead of getting your brows waxed, get them tweezed. It lasts longer.
Tip 2: Between pro tweezing sessions, only pluck the darkest hairs that lie farthest away from your professionally sculpted brow shape (above the bridge of the nose, and stragglers under the brow bone). Always pull hairs out at the root, one at a time, and in the direction of hair growth. Pulling too many hairs will negate your salon tweezing and make you have to go more often in order to fix your mistakes. Over tweezing is a fast way and expensive ticket to what Streicher calls "Brow Rehab."
Tip 3: When pulling necessary stragglers, use professional-grade tweezers. The one-time investment will save you money in the long run as they don't need to be sharpened. Streicher swears by Rubis Tweezers, $29.95
Tip 4: When your brows start to grow out, and lose a bit of their shape after your professional tweezing, use an eyebrow pencil to redefine them. Find a highly-rated eyebrow pencil or gel here. Filling them in and recreating the shape will take attention away from any random hairs outside of your sculpted shape, says Streicher.
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great article
by luxe Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 09:58AM Report as inappropriate
I saw some great information here! Thanks!
by EricaC123 Monday, January 21, 2013 at 03:37AM Report as inappropriate
Good ideas! I need to learn how to do some of these.
by Sari Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 11:18PM Report as inappropriate
great article. Totally agree with the previous reviewer, thoug. You definitely can save MUCH more if you do some of those things yourself. It is easy to do perfect (even better than salon) mani-pedi, eyebrow shaping yourself.
by venenumletalis Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 06:48PM Report as inappropriate
If you learn to do a lot of that stuff, you are gonna save. (And have some girlfriends who know how to do too.)
by nicky22 Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 10:22AM Report as inappropriate
I do everything except for my nails. I do my brows, my friend's brows and I even ombre'd my own hair.
by MizzPink Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 07:15AM Report as inappropriate
good tips.
by lazorc Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 07:10PM Report as inappropriate
I like doing my own nails. manis are too risky, who knows if they actually clean the tools???
by eatinglipstick Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 01:32PM Report as inappropriate
I cut and color my own hair, paint my own fingers and toes, make my own face and body scrubs, and bribe my boyfriend for massages. I save a lot more than $264 a year!
by xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 09:59PM Report as inappropriate
Nice
by queenphoto Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 09:26PM Report as inappropriate