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Shavata: Re-shaping the brow business.
I met her about 13 years ago at Michaeljohn hair salon. Shavata was a gorgeous indian girl who first waxed my eyebrows – then threaded them- then created a whole industry around her by selling stencils on how to perfectly frame your eyebrows. I introduced her to the greek market and she became very popular everywhere. After so many years she is still gorgeous , with two young kids and the same persuasion to take you one step further. As in Greece almost nobody knows how to shape your eyebrows well (we do everything well in Greece except eyebrows and blond hair!).. you end up losing shape, quality etc. I am not talking about threading – which is still something exotic for our markets.. Anyway today, Shavata found me at the Gielly Green Salon in Marylbone and reshaped my eyebrows by tattooing them to perfection. She said they will look dark for a few days and then they will be perfect. Then I will survive the over tweezing and will visit her again on her new Salon at Beauchamp Place, from the 1st of July – up to now she was in Harrods.
Shavata Singh is the definitive go-to guru for grooming the most important feature on your face. Being the lynchpin to a polished visage, Shavata’s unique combination of threading, waxing and final tweaking with tweezers means she can produce the brow-to-wow look by creating the perfect arch to frame your face.
As she says:
“Eyebrows aren’t there to be complimented. It’s like when you go into an art gallery, you never say ‘Wow what a beautiful frame’. The frame is there silently to make that painting look its best. My job is the same – to help complement the windows of the soul. A lot of our clients always say people ask them if they have done something different after they’ve had their eyebrows done by us because they look so well. It’s almost like a mini face lift or making someone look like they’ve had a perfect night’s sleep!”
Here are some good eyebrow tips:
1. Always get your eyebrows professionally done, even if this is only once a year. This will give you an idea of what they should look like, with regular maintenance they will remain perfectly shaped.
2. Once you have the brows you love, tend to them on a daily basis; it is a lot easier to tweeze one or 2 stray hairs every day than too many at the end of the week
3. No two eyebrows are ever identical; so don’t even attempt to get them the same as you will end up plucking to nothing. They say eyebrows are sisters not twins.
4. When shaping your eyebrows always pluck after a hot shower, in natural daylight and never a week before and during your period when the pain threshold is not at its strongest.
5. When tweezing, always sit in front of a large mirror with a magnified mirror in your hand. This gives you an over all realistic view and the hand mirror helps with detail, move from mirror to mirror.
6. Always tweeze both eyebrows together taking a few hairs of each at a time, it is a lot easier as one brow shape after the other is very difficult.
7. When shaping your eyebrows there are a few rules to follow; eyebrows should start before the eye (nose side) and not after. Try to keep the shape even – there is nothing worse than a tadpole sitting on top of your eyes!
8. Good quality tools are essential to achieve a professional finish.
9. Always use an aftercare product to help reduce redness and to calm the newly tweezed area down. The Aftercare Gel is the perfect product for a post tweeze pampering.
When applying makeup to your brows less is always more, you should never be able to see where the makeup starts and the hairs stop. When holding a brow pencil always hold further down – like you would when sketching and build up the colour. If you decide to have your brows professionally shaped and don’t know where to go, always ask someone who’s eyebrows you like and also check that your therapists eyebrows look as good this is always a good indication.
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