All About Male Eyebrows: ASCP Treatment Room Tips

Male Eyebrow Grooming

Ella Cressman demonstrates a quick eyebrow-grooming service for men that can be added to existing treatments. The goal is to tidy the brows while preserving a natural, masculine appearance—not to create a highly sculpted or “surprised” look.

Key Steps and Tips

1. Put on gloves, cleanse the brow area, and assess the hair-growth pattern before shaping.
2. Check whether any hairs need trimming by brushing them upward, sideways, and downward.
3. Use facial proportions as a guide: measure from the side of the nose toward the inner and outer eye. A man’s brow may naturally extend farther inward, so also consider the nose ridge and natural growth pattern.
4. Tidy most of the hair with tweezing to preserve a slightly rougher, natural look. Use wax mainly to clean up the space between the brows.
5. Tweeze in the direction of hair growth, working gradually and checking the shape as you go.
6. Trim sparingly with a point-trimming technique, taking just the tips of a few long hairs at a time. Over-trimming can make brows look overly groomed.
7. Step back and compare both brows. They do not need to be perfectly identical, but they should not look noticeably different.
8. Be especially cautious when trimming the tops of men’s brows to avoid a manufactured appearance.
9. Before waxing, test the wax temperature and consistency on yourself. Hold the client’s skin taut, apply wax between the chosen marking points, then remove it and clean away the marks.
10. Keep the result neat but masculine. Cressman notes that grooming can lift the appearance of the eye area and make it look brighter and more youthful.

Speaker, Products, and Locations

• Speaker: Ella Cressman, licensed esthetician
• Products and tools: Gloves, pre-wax cleanser, cotton rounds, marker, wax and wax sticks, and clean tweezers
• Locations: No specific location is mentioned.