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The goop Guide to the Best Brow Artists

Beautifully groomed brows can really change the way you look, accentuating your bone structure and playing up
your best features—you may even find you need less concealer after a great brow shaping. Here, a cross-country
guide to our favorite experts in the field—plus their tips for shaping, tweezing, trimming, and taking care of
your brows, whether at home or in a salon.

THE EXPERT:

Jimena Garcia

KNOWN FOR:

Super flattering, near-perfect arches and organic vegetable dye–based brow tinting.

WHERE TO FIND HER:

Garcia works out of Chanel’s SoHo atelier and her salon in the Broome Hotel in
Manhattan, as well as in Paris and LA. She also does brilliant virtual appointments.

BEST TIPS:

1

“Exfoliate, massage, and condition, just the way you would your skin,” says Garcia. “Exfoliating your
brows helps stimulate hair growth and slough away dry and dead skin, creating a smoother, more receptive
canvas to apply creams, oils, or makeup—and it helps with ingrowns.”

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2

“Use your fingers or a gua sha stone, along with a little face oil, to massage your brows to keep them
soft, silky, and abundant looking.”

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   Furtuna Skin
   Rituale Di Ristoro Restorative Ritual Set
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THE EXPERT:

Kristie Streicher

KNOWN FOR:

The trademarked Feathered Brow, and the Brow Lift (the latter is a two-step keratin treatment). She can
also transform overplucked arches with a unique brow-training program (clients show up to the first appointment with six to
eight weeks’ worth of untouched brow growth to start).

WHERE TO FIND HER:

Striiike Salon in
Beverly Hills, California, a full-service hair, makeup, and brow studio that Streicher co-owns with her two
sisters Ashley and Jenn.

BEST TIP:

1

“Avoid too-frequent tweezing and overtweezing. Tweeze in natural daylight while looking into a regular
(nonmagnified) mirror and fill in your desired shape with a pencil first, then tweeze away any hairs that fall
outside that shape. After tweezing a few hairs, step back from the mirror periodically to gain perspective and
prevent overtweezing.”

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   Bonne Brow Pencil
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2. This kit contains the highest-quality (it makes a difference) scissors and tweezers, and the spooley brush
   Streicher has been using for over 20 years to shape clients’ brows.

   
   

   Kristie Streicher
   Essential Eyebrow Grooming Kit
   goop, $225

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THE EXPERT:

Kelley Baker

KNOWN FOR:

Incredible waxing, trimming, and tweezing skills that leave brows beautifully polished. Her signature
not-a-hair-out-of-place shape is precise and intentional but natural looking.

WHERE TO FIND HER:

Kelley Baker
Brows in Venice, California, where Baker also develops and tests her own products and teaches brow
master classes.

BEST TIPS:

1. 1

   “Use a highlighter beneath your brow line to mask errant hairs—it also really makes your eyes pop.”

   
   

   Ami Cole
   Light Catching Highlighter
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2

“Be up front with your brow specialist about what products you use regularly. You can’t
have your brows
waxed if you use retinol or Accutane, for example—it can tear and damage your skin.”

THE EXPERT:

Alixandria Capparelli

KNOWN FOR:

A signature microblading technique (that she named “brow fluff”) that creates full, soft, graceful brows.

WHERE TO FIND HER:

Hairy Little
Things in Newport Beach, California, and West Hollywood, California.

BEST TIPS:

1

“If you must tweeze your brows in between appointments, be conservative—only tweeze hairs visibly outside
your brow shape.”

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   Westman Atelier
   Foundation Brush
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2

Her trick for finding those hairs? “Take something flat, like a business card or makeup brush, against your
brow (either above or below, depending on where you’re plucking) and remove only the hairs that fall outside
that line.”

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   Saie
   Brow Butter
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THE EXPERT:

Michele Holmes

KNOWN FOR:

The best natural-looking brow shapes in the Bay Area, and her much-obsessed-over Rye Beauty Brow Grooming
Serum.

WHERE TO FIND HER:

Michele Holmes
Studio in San Francisco, California—it feels like an open, airy, modern living room.

BEST TIP:

1

“Skin and follicle health are the building blocks of healthy brows—so treat the entire brow area instead of
just the hair. Apply sunscreen to avoid sunspots; use moisturizer on the skin under and around your brows;
apply a little hair conditioner to your brows once a week during a shower; use a great brow gel to shape, set,
and nourish; and properly wash off brow makeup at night.”

1. 
   
   Rye Beauty
   Brow Grooming Serum
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2. 
   
   Alpyn Beauty
   PlantGenius Melt Moisturizer
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3. 
   
   Grown Alchemist
   Strengthening – Conditioner 0.2
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   GOOPGLOW Cloudberry Exfoliating Jelly Cleanser
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   Supergoop
   Mineral Sheerscreen
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THE EXPERT:

Josh Beeler

KNOWN FOR:

Custom brow tinting, and a signature treatment called the Multeye: a brow wax, a tint, and a few
strategically placed microblading strokes throughout your brows, plus a lash line enhancement (where he adds
semipermanent ink to the spaces between the lash follicles), for full, lush-looking brows and lashes.

WHERE TO FIND HIM:

Shen Beauty in Brooklyn,
New York—the cool-girl clean-beauty boutique and facial emporium.

BEST TIPS:

1

“Be consistent with brow appointments or at-home brow-grooming sessions,” says Beeler. “Your regrowth cycle
will start to sync up after about three months, and once that happens, maintenance gets easier.”

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   Kosas
   Brow Pop Dual-Action Defining Pencil
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2

Beeler uses a brow pencil and brow gel together for the fullest-looking brows: “A pencil draws realistic
brow hairs—it’s the easiest and most natural-looking way to fill in sparse areas. Then the gel grooms brows
into shape.”

1. 
   
   Kosas
   Air Brow Clear Lifting Treatment Gel
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THE EXPERT:

Delphine Breyne

KNOWN FOR:

Restorative microblading. Rather than addressing the full brow with microblading, her special technique
places a few detailed strokes throughout, which leaves brows with a look that is natural and
ultraflattering.

WHERE TO FIND HER:

The chic, Paris-inspired Delphine Eyebrow Couture on NYC’s Upper East Side.

BEST TIP:

1

“Understand what brow shape works for your unique facial shape,” says Breyne. “A style you
think looks good
on your friend or a celebrity may not be what’s best for your bone structure. Work with your brow technician
to find the most flattering shape for you, and keep in mind how much maintenance you’re willing to commit to.”

THE EXPERT:

Courtney Allen

KNOWN FOR:

Full and defined eyebrows created with her exactness in brow shaping and waxing.

WHERE TO FIND HER:

The brow and facial salon Esthetic Haus in the Wicker Park area of Chicago, Illinois.

BEST TIP:

1

“Hygiene is crucial when it comes to brow maintenance. Make sure your brow artist uses freshly cleaned
tools. At home, make sure the brow area is clean before you pluck or wax to help prevent irritation and
breakouts.”

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   Tata Harper
   Softening Cleanser
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THE EXPERT:

Constance Mack Latham

KNOWN FOR:

Restorative brow microblading, waxing, threading, and tinting (her nickname is BrowMaven).

WHERE TO FIND HER:

Brow and beauty studio Maven Esthetics in the River North neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

BEST TIP:

1

“Always ask questions and discuss your end goals before you start a service,” says Latham.
“No trained
professional will ever feel offended by you asking questions or showing concern.”

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