Every teen ager is keen to know about new and exciting makeup trends? Most of the times, these trends are inspired by nature; You can imagine that smokey eye trend evolved from kajal filled eyes look liked by most indian girls. Similarly makeup trends also stem from pop culture age, and an edgy look that has evolved from safe makeup is the eyebrow slits. Here is each and everything you need to know about this bizarre trend.
Eyebrow Slits; what they are?
Eyebrow slits are actually thin vertical cuts within the eyebrow hair. They can be finished by a professional like your beauty expert or even you can do it yourself if you are gifted with a steady hand and a brave heart. The style was in full trend in the ‘90s, especially among hip hop artists. This trend has been brought back by modern beauty bloggers who are not afraid of trying even the weirdest makeup trends.
Where does this trend emerge from?
The concept of eyebrow slits is pretty dark in its origins. A slit or cut in the eyebrow hair occurs naturally in case a person has a fight and or is suffered from a ■■■■ in that area. These can also be remnants of an injury, generally seen in old criminal movies when the actors had to shave off a section from their brows to mimic that. It looks fascinating. It is more or less like to turn a scar into a beauty feature!
Methods of Creating Eye Brow Slits at home
Eyebrow slits are a trendy form of self-expression that involves making thin vertical cuts in your eyebrow hair. You If you don’t want permanent eyebrow slits, there are also ways that you can create them using makeup. If you follow the right steps you can create your own stylish eyebrow slits in no time.
Eye brow slits with razor or clipper
-
Making vertical lines with a white eyeliner pencil helps to mark where your eyebrow slits will go. Choose if you want eyebrow slits for both eyebrows or just in one side.
-
Looking the mirror determine how many slits you want, and where you want them to appear. Generally, people put 1-3 slits in their eyebrow.
-
Thicker eyebrows can generally look better in more slits, thus you must consider the thickness of your eyebrows while choosing your number. Traditionally eyebrow slits are made to the outward direction of your eyebrows.
-
By using a scotch tape you will be doing one eyebrow slit at a time. The tape will act like a guide and will help to shave straight lines.
-
You can use razor or clipper for eye brow slit. Careful movement of the razor while shaving the space between the pieces of tape and then slowly removing the tape will give you a fine and sharp eye brow slit.
-
You can wipe away the white eyeliner afterwards. In this way you should now have a slit in your eyebrow.
-
Extra hair left can be manually plucked by looking into the mirror so that you have a clean and smooth slit in your eyebrow.
Eyebrow Slits with Makeup
-
Use of a brow comb and brush to shape your eyebrows creates more defined lines. Then a makeup brush and eyebrow powder can be used to fill in your eyebrows to make them look thicker.
-
Matching your eyebrow powder with your eye brow hair will make eye brow slits look smooth and fine. For bolder and thicker eyebrows, the eyebrow slits look more noticeable.
-
A concealer that matches your skin tone is applied around the edges of your eyebrows. The use of concealer will make the shade of your eyebrow slits to match the shade of the skin tone around your eyebrows.
-
The concealer is applied with the help of small flat brush and allowed to dry for 5 minutes.
-
A translucent powder is applied over eye brows with the help of a makeup brush.** Use of a fatter foundation brush with a translucent makeup powder will make the slits look more natural and will help blend everything together.
Conclusion
Eyebrow slits is a stylish form of self expression that involve making thin vertical cuts in eyebrow hair. This style was popular in the 90’s and still it is adopted by people today. You can create eyebrow slits on yourself by the use of an electric or manual razor and tape. In case you do not want eyebrow slits to be permanent, then there are ways helping you to create them using makeup. Following the right steps can create your own stylish eyebrow slits within no time.