When you do your makeup, you probably put a lot of focus on your eyes and your lips. But what about your brows?
The eyebrows are one of your most important facial features. In fact, they have the power to completely change the look of your face.
For crossdressers and MTF transgender women, this means you can’t ignore your brows!
In this blog post, I share tips on how to feminize male to female eyebrows, including shaping, grooming, and using makeup to create your most feminine look.
Tips For Shaping MTF Eyebrows
As you can see from the photo of Laverne Cox above, gorgeously shaped brows add so much definition and feminine beauty to the face. Here’s how to achieve this effect for yourself:
Have your eyebrows professionally shaped
My #1 tip is to have your eyebrows professionally shaped if possible. An eyebrow artist will know exactly how to shape your brows to create the best shape for your face.
While eyebrow waxing is popular, I personally prefer eyebrow threading. This creates a more precise shape. It also tends to be more cost effective.
You can often find affordable eyebrow threading kiosks at the mall or in shopping centers. Just be sure to read reviews to find the best providers.
Shape your own eyebrows
If you prefer to tweeze your own brows, you can get great results if you follow some simple principles. The last thing you should do is start plucking random hairs without a plan.
Before you start tweezing, you need to figure out the shape of your eyebrows, including where the arch should be and where the brows should start and end. This is called “brow mapping.”
Using the above diagram for guidance, follow these steps to determine your ideal eyebrow shape:
- Hold an eyeliner pencil along the outer side of your nose. This line indicates where the eyebrows should start. (Note: The pencil should be aligned with the “bulb” of your nose, not the outer edge of the nostrils.)
- Then, angle the pencil across your eye, directly in front of the pupil. This is where the eyebrow should arch.
- Finally, angle the pencil from the outer edge of your nostril to the outer edge of the eye. This is where the tail of your brow should end.
After you have mapped out your brow shape, you are ready to start tweezing.
Use an eyebrow brush or spoolie to brush your brow hairs straight up. Then carefully tweeze any hairs that fall outside your ideal shape. Pluck the hairs one-by-one, tweezing in the direction of the hair growth.
It’s very important not to overpluck. Step back and look in the mirror every few hairs to check your progress.
How To Groom Your Brows If You Can’t Tweeze
While beautiful feminine brows can transform your face, I understand that this can be challenging if you have to maintain a male appearance. It might not be practical to completely reshape and feminize your brows.
If you can’t give yourself a complete brow makeover, you can still groom your brows. This will make you look better in female AND male mode. Here is how to do it:
- Use an eyebrow brush or spoolie to brush your brow hairs straight up. This will allow you to see any long hairs that extend past the top of your brows.
- With a small scissors, trim any hairs that extend out past the rest of your eyebrow. (Be sure to cut away from the brows so you don’t accidentally cut a hole into the eyebrows.)
- Tweeze any stray hairs that fall outside the natural perimeter of the brows.
The most important thing is not to over-tweeze your brows, especially if you are trying to maintain a masculine eyebrow shape. The goal here is to clean up the brows rather than completely reshape them.
Also, be sure to refer to the brow map above and keep in mind where the brows should begin and end.
Eyebrow Makeup Tutorial
After you have shaped or groomed your brows, the last step is to fill in your brows with eyebrow makeup. This is the finishing touch to creating perfect MTF eyebrows.
See the video above for step-by-step instructions on how to fill and feminize your eyebrows – featuring makeup artist Chris Scott.
In conclusion
Beautiful brows are a powerful tool for achieving your best female look. So, play with these techniques and get ready to wow the world!
As always, I’d love to hear what you think in the comments below. Take my poll and then show us your best eyebrow look by sharing a selfie!
Love,
Lucille
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Hi Lucille, I have tried your eye brow feminication and it works for me, thank you very much for the vidio on how to do it.
love Camille
Wonderful! 🙂
get help made me feel more like a lady keep up the hints love stacy
I’m a fan of Lucille’s website. But this video lefting me wanting more. I was expecting a lesson in how to tweeze the brows. The model’s brows were left untweezed, and hardly feminized. Everything presented, though, was correct: it just didn’t go far enough. I’ve learned that you should look straight ahead, and at where your pupil is, straight above it, where a line would hit the bottom of the brow, that’s where you start tweezing. You tweeze in a gracefully rising arch out to the upper portion of the brow.
I dint do any thing to my eye brows any more my mom used to pluck them before I transitioned and I messed them up by shaving them one time but I started getting them lasered with my other sessions and now that I stopped getting them dune I’m happy with the way they look now so glad their not as thick and a unibrow. You can see by the pictures my before and now from MtF
Christy, You have nice eyebrows,and have changed in your looks greatly. Go Girl. P.S. You might want to learn how to spell. Your spelling is really bad.
Wow, that’s quite a transformation! You look so pretty in your current photo! It’s amazing what an impact eyebrows can have, huh?
Love,
Lucille
Nice make up tip but I think all T girls with bushy brows need to at least pluck the underside stray looking hairs and I think the girl in the video should simply pluck the stray underside hairs at the second half of her eyebrows, I really think it’s essential. I pluck mine a lot but I’d love a guide on how to feminize the face through eyebrow shape. (plucking guide) ie. do round curved eyebrows look generally more feminine or what? awesome site by the way x
One tip on the stubborn brow hairs is to use small scissors to trim the hairs to a manageable length. Also, to help the eyebrows to become softer and more manageable you can use a leave-in conditioner on your eyebrows.
Thanks so much Lucille for all of your materials. I love your updates and information. Funny, I got “mam’d” at the store yesterday. I was in my normal male mode, not that I don’d get “mam’d” from time to time, but I had a baseball hat on. Then it occurred to me, it must have been my eyebrows, which I pluck daily and keep trimmed into a thin arch.
Hi Lucille, I really Love your website it is so nice to hear about others ideas and there techniques especially yours . I am glad I signed upo for your site and I have gained so much confidence over the past 2 years. I have been crossdressing for 47. Wow . it is such a beautiful feeling as a women . Thhanks so much Love Mandy