HI.
I’m Antonio Centeno.
I’m the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, gentlemen I’m going to talk to you about grooming your eyebrows.
Basically, I’m going to give you five tips on how to do it.
I’m going to talk about why it’s important and, guys this is something that isn’t really
talked about much.
I know many of you guys are out there thinking, Antonio, I don’t want to be shaping my eyebrows,
I don’t want to be doing any – I mean these things should just – I’m going to
leave then natural.
And, guys I understand that.
And, a lot of that comes from when you’re younger, you don’t have to worry about this.
But, as you get older your body changes, the hair and the amount the growth rate, the thickness,
all of these changes.
And if you’ve ever met a man that he’s got just these eyebrows that are out of control
or someone’s got a uni-brow, what happens?
You are distracted, you think that they are frowning or they’re grumpy, and they’re
not.
Just look at Bert.
Remember old Bert with Bert and Ernie?
I mean he always looked grumpy and what does he have?
He’s got that uni-brow.
Guys, the reason that you should care about this is it affects the way that you communicate
with the world and that people perceive you.
I want you to understand that it is something that you can and if you’ve got questions
you don’t want to do it yourself, talk to your barber.
Most men never ask their barber, but your barber he can actually trim your eyebrows,
he can go in there and he can take care of any ear hair.
You can ask him to make sure, you know, stop in there and just have him trim the hair off
the neck.
All these loose excess hair, simply talk to a man who’s that as his profession.
Go visit them at a salon if it’s something you want to have professionally done.
Okay?
So, let’s talk about the five methods.
Number one is to actually pluck the hairs.
This is probably, it’s a little bit painful, but I find and I do this myself occasionally.
I would have maybe a little bit of uni-brow here, I’ll probably once every two weeks,
I’ll go through and I’ll pluck out a lot of the hairs that are right here.
Within twenty four hours oftentimes, I will have a little bit of redness.
So, if I’m going to film, I’m not going to do that right before.
So, you would probably maybe want to do this on a – maybe a Sunday morning that way,
Monday morning, you know, there’s – there’s no redness or anything.
I find that it’s very simple.
Yes, it’s a little bit painful, but that is the best way to prevent a uni-brow.
In addition if I’ve got any random stray hairs that are way outside and just growing
there, I’ll remove those as well.
Now, the types of tweezers and I’ve talked about this in another video when we talk about
different grooming instruments, actually more for your nails, but I did talk about tweezers.
The two styles I’m going to recommend are going to be the rounded tip and basically
the angled edge.
Either of these are going to work.
Make sure you’ve got a good pair.
These are made by Apex.
You guys know I also recommend Zamberg and the products they have over there that are
coming out, you know, Solingen, Germany.
But, guys make sure you got a good pair of tweezers and that way you can take care of
this.
Point number two is to actually trim.
So, when it comes to trimming, use scissors, you can use a small comb.
And what you’re looking for and what I found when I entered my 30’s, all of a sudden
I started getting these hairs that didn’t stop growing.
I mean these things they probably should have been on my head and they just kept growing
and growing.
I used to take a comb and then, I would actually go backwards on my eyebrows, find those random
ones and go in there and do a little bit of trimming.
I personally like scissors that have the rounded tip.
Anytime I’m near my eye, I just have this fear that I’m going to run this into my
head.
That way, but you can use of course curve scissors, this is where having nail scissors
is very nice, but you can use other types of small scissors as well.
My favorite tool though is going to be this Norelco 5100 series.
I love it because it’s got this special tool with an actual guard.
And why I love this guard is I can basically or so I used to think that I could just go
over and not even have to worry about this.
I have realized that I can push this to a limit, so make sure you’re controlling it.
For some reason I thought that I could never really, you know, fully trim off my eyebrow
and I did that one time I have my – in fact, if you’d go back to some of my – maybe
a year ago, a year-and-a-half ago.
If you look at some of my – my eyebrows in some of those older videos, you will find
one in which half my eyebrow is gone.
I didn’t say anything, but, yes, that did happen because I was experimenting.
Now, you can also use the rounded type, this one is made by Wahl.
And these are more designed for cleaning out your nose hair; however you can take it home
and just go over there and trim those off that way.
So, those are my favorite two methods; pluck, trim.
These other ones I’m going to mention, you probably need to have professionally done
and that’s going to be wax.
So, if you’re going to go in and get the wax treatment, make sure you work with someone
who knows what they’re doing.
Be careful if you’re going to do this yourself, maybe talk with your wife, she’s probably
used to waxing products before or your girlfriend.
The other one is threading.
Now, I know women who actually thread and they had they think it’s a great method
and that could be something to work for you as well to get rid of some of the excess hair
there.
Be very careful, once we get into waxing, threading, all of a sudden we’re getting
into shaping the eyebrows.
I do not believe a man needs to fully shape his eyebrows.
Maybe want to remove the uni-brow, but you don’t want to have a really sharp point
and these angled edges.
That’s not what we’re looking for and that takes me to point number four which is
shaving.
[0:05:17] Guys, straight razors, I love them.
You don’t want to be using this on your eyebrows, you don’t want to be using a cartridge
razor, you don’t want to be shaving your eyebrows off or shaving them to shape them.
The reason being is you’re going to get the stubble it’s going to come right back
and in some cases it could be a little thicker and it’s just going to look odd.
It’s going to draw attention to itself because of the contrast.
There is the case I know some of you guys may have illnesses, you may have issues with
your eyebrows, the hair actually falling out.
In that case, then I can understand if you’re going to go on and you’re actually draw
on your eyebrows.
And, guys you know who I’m talking about, you got somebody in your life some older woman
that you love and she has decided to shave off her eyebrows or she has trimmed those
things all out and she’s drawn them on.
Guys, we don’t want to get you to that point, so avoid going overboard.
And that would be the last piece of advice.
This is just bonus is I prefer a little bit more hair.
You are a man, it’s okay to have bushier eyebrows, but it’s better to trim it and
to be very careful with the plucking, but once you get into all the other ones; the
waxing, the threading, and especially the shaving, be careful.
Guys, that’s it.
I would love to hear from you in the comments what you think about the subject.
Is it something that you do that you’ve got some tips or tricks that you want to give
us.
And if you want more information, you want to go and check the products I recommended,
guys go over to the article over at Real Men Real Style.
I’m going to link that down below.
Take care and enjoy.
Happy grooming. [0:06:59] End of Audio