Inside SOS: Eyes, Brows, Cheeks & Lips!

Yesterday's Science of Sephora trainings were all about makeup! (Apologies to my partner for the amateur applications I did on her all day. Seriously.) Despite my lack of expertise of doing other people's makeup, I did learn a ton. Here's a roundup of my ah-ha! moments.

-If you wear glasses and the lenses make your eyes look smaller, wear light, frosty shades. This will make them look bigger. If the lenses make your eyes looks bigger, use dark, matte shades. This will make them appear smaller.

-Mascara can double as an eyeliner! Just use a flat, synthetic brush to apply.




-When filling in eyebrows, blondes should use a powder/pencil/wax that's 1-2 shades darker than their natural color. Darker hair colors should go 1-2 shades lighter.

-Another brow-defining tip: Use a soft color on the inner part of the brow and a deeper color on the outside to create perfect balance.




-For perfect blush placement, place two fingers next to your nose, and apply the product outside of them, extending no further downward than the tip of the nostrils.








-Lips don't have oil glands, so prep them with a balm before adding color.

-The tips of your fingers are the closets color match to your lips. Test lip colors on tem to see what they shade will look like on.

Brow Wow: The Art Of Anastasia's Arches

Depending on the shape of your brows, you may be wishing you'd been an audience member on The View yesterday - they all went home with brow kits by Beverly Hills eyebrow uber-guru, Anastasia Soare.
Anastasia's brow kits aren't just for Hollywood A-Listers and lucky TV studio audience winners - brow bone beauties can get her kits, pluckers, shapers and fillers at Sephora. In fact, many of her best tools are Sephora exclusives. What can we say? We love architecturally amazing arches.

Anastasia's fame isn't just based on being smart-as-a-whip with her tweezers - her kits make DIY brows a snap for anyone. If you want proof, just take a look at the before/after pics of our brow rehabers.

Kind of makes you want to go fill in your brows, doesn't it?

Bone Up On Brows: Watch our brow-how-to video.

Brow Rehab: Meet the Rehab-ers!

Last month, I asked three brave Beauty & the Blog readers to enter Brow Rehab and sent them each an Anastasia Tweezers Anonymous Brow Kit to start the recovery process. In the name of healthy brows, the tweezing addicts have decided to come clean about their over-plucking past. Meet the rehab-ers!

Cinthia, Plainfield, NJ
"Hi, My name is Cinthia, and I'm a tweeze-a-holic. I was born with beautiful, full eyebrows, with a little unibrow (hated it), but now I want to go back to those days! My eyebrows are so thin, and everytime I look at magazines/Sephora models, I crave those full, beautiful eyebrows that they have. I pluck and pluck but never seem to find the shape that is right for me. I need Anastasia to lead me to the eyebrow heavens and teach me to shape my eyebrows in the best way to flatter my face. Please help me reach eyebrow nirvana!"

Kelly, Tallahassee, FL
"I fell prey to the magnifying mirror. At 10x magnification, I thought I could make my brows perfect. Naturally full, I just wanted to fix the arch. My left brow, outer edge… it was always just a little off. Just a little. So I took tweezers to it, florescent-light highlighting every hair in the 10x reflection mirror. Pluck. Pluck. Pluckpluckpluckpluckpluck! I stopped, flipped the mirror over to get the view of my newly perfected brow, and then I saw… I had completely over plucked my arch! Now I have two mismatching brows. I don’t want to pluck the other to match because it’s too skinny for my taste. I could use this SO bad! The Brow Enhancing Serum could help me grow in the bald spot and, in the meantime, use the Duo Brow Wand to make my eyebrows symmetrical."

Louisa, Rocky Mount, NC
"I am not only tweezer-happy, but I admit to purchasing the electronic handheld mini-shaver with the eyebrow attachment, so I could nick every little unwanted browhair in sight. I should have stuck to the tweezer, because at least I could target the individual hairs. But no, the idea of tweezing my hair so quickly fed my addiction, and there I was about 20 seconds later with half my eyebrow cut off. Keep in mind that this was all in high school. So for the next couple of weeks I drew on the little sucker. Well since I was lacking on one side of my brow, I had to even out the other side, so I tweezed away until the whole thing was even in width. I ended up with an eyebrow as thin as a thick piece of thread. Although I am now a freshman in college, my brows are my worst facial feature. To top it all off, my eyes are huge. I have never seen celebrities or models with the shape of eyes like mine so I left my eyebrow shape up to my imagination. I have no clue how to shape my brows or stop myself from tweezing the life out of them, because I convince myself that the next little pluck will produce the perfectly shaped eyebrow. Yes..I think its time to get help."

Stay tuned! I'll be posting updates on their paths to plucking recovery soon!