YOU want to fix your eyebrows but you don?t know where to start, or even where to go. You?ve gone to salons for basic threading which all your girlfriends get, and though you come home without a single stray hair, you know that your brow still has some untapped potential.

Reviewing websites with style stakeouts isn?t helping either because you just can?t seem to put your finger on how you can take your beautiful arches to the next level.

Shu Uemura makeup artist Claire Seelin-Diokno shares quick tips on how to get the perfect ? no exaggerations ?
set of brows right at home, and how a few changes can make you look younger, thinner, more approachable, or even more intelligent!

1. ?Eyebrows are the crowning glory of the face,? explains Claire, who recently underwent a training session under Shu Uemura Singapore?s chief makeup artist, Nora Soho. She says that there are four important details to remember when grooming your brows: proportion (in relation to your face), length, arc, and strength (how dark or light your brows should be). Claire says there are five eyebrow points to consider when shaping them:

Point A, is the inner tip of the brow. Drawing a vertical line from the outer edge of your nose through your tear ducts will help you find this point, or simply put a pencil next to the outer edge of your nose. Point A controls how far apart your eyes appear. If your eyes are too close together, Claire advises to pull back where your eyebrows begin.

Imagine a vertical line through the center of your iris to your eyebrow to locate Point B. Point C on the other hand is parallel to the outer edge of the iris. These points are reference for where you are going to put your eyebrows? peak. The highest point must be between these two points.

To look more serene, or friendlier and approachable, make your peak closer to point C as it creates a rounder arc with a smoother progression.

A peak closer to point B makes one look more worried, as with the popular brow shape of the 1920?s.

Slant a pencil so it grazes the outer corner of your eye, the outer edge of your nose until it hits the center of your lip to get Point D, the point where your eyebrows should end.

If your brows fall short of point D, your temples will appear wider, while going past it will make temples appear shorter. Wide faces should opt for drawing their brows a bit longer than point D while smaller faces should shape their brows shorter than point D.

Point E determines how low your eyebrows should start. Point D should be a bit higher than point E to give you a wide-eyed look, and drawing a line from point E to D should result in an upwards-slanting line.

2. Analyze the shape of your face and see what asset you would like to highlight or minimize. The thinner your brows are, the larger your face appears.

Full brows, on the other hand, makes one look younger and thinner. ?Check your forehead to gauge how high your peak should be. If you find your forehead to appear too large, you may lift the entire brow a bit to cheat the forehead.?

3. Once you?ve decided the shape of your brows, brush the hair outwards with a spooly brush or a toothbrush. You may opt to draw the desired shape of your eyebrows with an eyebrow pencil before trimming it.

Trim hair strands that are outside of the outline, but take care not to trim too close to the line or you may end up with a sudden bald spot.

Tweeze remaining hairs that were not removed by trimming at a 45-degree angle, but ?do not tweeze above the arc or between brows because it might enlarge your pores,? says Claire. Don?t touch the area after tweezing and refrain from wetting for at least eight hours. Remember that thinner eyebrows makes one look more fierce or intense.

4. When filling in brows, use the darker shade from the peak to the outer end of the brow. Use the lighter shade for the rest of the area and with an angled brow brush, fill in between points A and C with a backward motion with ?short light strokes,? says Claire.

A classic brow, which has a full brow width (referring to thickness or thinness of the brow), has the area between points A and B as the darkest area, while the area between point B and C are darkest for brows that make one to appear more intelligent.

Its width is also full, has a high peak and end, is squarer than round, and clean. She also adds that if you have the perfect color of eyebrow powder, you may use a bit of clear mascara to keep the strands in place or you may also use tinted brow mascara. All brows have to taper, starting the subtle decrease from the peak.

?When in doubt, just follow the natural curves of your brow. Don?t over-pluck since you don?t know when your brows will grow back. As we age, brow growth slows down and overly tweezed brows add 30 years to your face,? Claire says.

Another option is to drop by Shu Uemura?s boutique at The Power Plant Mall where their trained beauty stylists can shape your brows ? for free, a service, which they normally charge for in other countries ? and teach you how to maintain it. With brows perfectly suited to your face shape, who needs all that makeup? Groomed eyebrows are your best bet for a round-the-clock polished look.