Does your old ID card from years past show a veritable rainbow of brow shapes, depth, and arches? Mine certainly does. With the ever-changing brow trends, finding the perfect brow can be daunting. And what’s even more annoying is that trends never seem to realistically align with the average hair growth cycle! If you have spent your lifetime plucking your brows excessively, fuller, natural brows are virtually impossible to attain. Women spend hours in the morning repainting the remnants of the eyebrows; there’s powder, pencil, and paint all creating illusion brow perfection. Oh and for those “perfect” modeled brows… Photoshop is your best friend!
Here at Pearlman Aesthetic, Donna Fay, we Resident Beauty Specialist and licensed medical cosmetologists are eyebrow shaping specialists. Donna Fay consult patients for the perfect eyebrow shape to help bring out one’s natural features. It looks like a minor detail to worry about, but brows really add punctuation to a face.
Pearlman hears about brow concerns from many ladies who are trying to find ‘normal’ brows, whether based on shape, size, proportion or position. Eyebrows frame the face and have been probably the most traceable features of facial beauty throughout the ages. Beauty these days is too often defined by magazines and films, so when Dr. Pearlman wanted to show patients what perfect eyebrows looked like, the very first thing he did was open a fashion magazine and flip through the pages of adverts and editorials rather than plastic. surgery textbook.
In the book, “The Eyebrow” by Robyn Cosio (2000, Harper Collins, New York, NY), a wonderful treatise tracing the evolution of the eyebrow, Donna Fay is happy to read what she has largely endorsed and practiced on eyebrows for hundreds of years. -century. . From the flappers’ wispy arched brows of the early 20’s, to the postwar full brows of the 50’s, to the restoration of the 40’s “diva arch” of the 90’s…Donna Fay can remake (or undo!) any only .
So what makes for perfect brows?
Club shaped in the center then tapering along the tail with the center starting from a vertical line drawn up from the edge of the nostrils. The tail extends to a line that runs from the corner of the nose to the corner of the eye. The height of the eyebrows should be the same at both ends; normally at, or simply above the edge of the eye socket. Generally, in women, the eyebrows should be smoothly curved with the highest peak between the corner of the iris and the corner of the eye. Male eyebrows should rest on or at the edge of the eye socket and be more horizontal in shape. Estheticians like Donna Fay normally use a “pencil trick” to guide them in shaping their brows using a pencil-shaped brow stick to draw out these parameters when updating a patient’s brow style.
All of the above is well and good for teens, models, and obsessive magazine consumers, but as you become older, eyebrows can flatten and droop and thin. So what’s a girl to do? Well, a talented makeup artist can shape the brows to imitate youthful arches; but if you haven’t got a makeup artist available to draw in your brows every morning, Dr. Pearlman has perfected a number of non-surgical and surgical techniques for rejuvenating brows.
Eyebrows can be lifted without surgery using expertly placed Botox. Eyebrows can’t only be lifted, but magnificently shaped as well. Sometimes it is more of a drooping of the brow than a droop. In this case, fillers such as Restylane or Juvederm can be used to restore a youthful brow that looks like a brow lift but does not really lift the brow. Ultherapy can even be used to elevate the position of the eyebrows, restoring height and youthful arches.
When is surgery needed? When there’s significant wrinkling and redundancy of the eyelid skin, which may be because of drooping of the eyebrows. If any hood makes you visually “conscious” or uncomfortable with excess skin, and if the eyebrows are in good position and the skin is hanging down No far beyond the corner of the eye, blepharoplasty (eyelift) is the best solution.
When excess skin passes over the eye, it means the eyebrows have drooped and the eyebrow lift is more helpful. This is a very important distinction that many plastic surgeons may not know about. In the hands of a face plastic surgeons, such as Dr. Pearlman, you are in safe hands. Be careful if you see a plastic surgeon. In my opinion, eyebrows are too often lifted excessively or when not needed at all.
If you look worried, sad, or angry, it’s most certainly because of an eyebrow problem. If you look tired, it is normally more than your eyelids. Take some photos of yourself from your mid-20s, and check where your eyebrows are. Remember, it is about shape not height.
Schedule a consultation with “Beauty Expert” Donna Fay to discuss your brow restoration options.
