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15 May 2013Four years ago, after launching my Makeup & Brow Bars at the LOOK Boutique at Duane Reade, I came up with the idea of hosting “Eyebrow Intervention Day” where the eyebrow shapings would be free for the day at all the RAMY Brow Bars. The idea was to announce that there are now prestige beauty [...]
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27 Feb 2013Everyone looked great on Oscar night. The gowns, both gorgeous and not-so-gorgeous, were beautiful. The hair, both spectacular (Reese Witherspoon) and mediocre (Amy Adams, Jennifer Garner) got the job done. The makeup, however, was beautiful across the board. Did everyone play it safe? Yes. Did everyone look their absolute best? Yes. Every actress had neutral, [...]
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31 Jan 2013TV junkie that I am, I recently got sucked into watching the new show, “Catfish” on MTV. When I first heard of the show I assumed, of course, that it’s a reality show about fishermen who catch catfish, maybe even starring Sarah Palin, but no! Catfishing is when someone fools another person or people online [...]
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18 Jul 2012I’m often asked how did I start to do eyebrows – or rather, how did I discover I have a talent for doing eyebrows. I’ve shared the story with a handful of clients but thought I should write it down for posterity since people seem to really like it. I was hired to be the [...]
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25 Apr 2012I recently posted on Facebook that I estimate that I’ve shaped over 156,000 eyebrows in the past 15 years. I was rounding down. As you can imagine, when one spends their days shaping, correcting, guiding other people’s eyebrows, you learn a few things about what a great eyebrow – or a badly shaped brow – says [...]
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8 Nov 2011Beauty and symmetry are universal truths. Regardless of ethnicity and varying cultures, we all know beauty when we see it. We all know a jacked up eyebrow when we see it too. This past summer I was in Zurich, Switzerland and could not help but notice what was happing there with the local’s eyebrows. Many [...]
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31 Aug 2011Help! I’m trapped on an island where we recently had an earthquake and a hurricane! This island is known as Manhattan, the epi-center of New York City, where, for the first time in the history of New York, the subways and public transportation were shut down, homes were evacuated and the general expectation was that [...]
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9 Dec 2010This question comes up on a daily basis. What to do when your brow hairs start turning grey? First of all, I call them highlights! But seriously, unless all of your hair is silver or grey, no one enjoys seeing a suddenly white hair poking out from their brows. Since the hair has lost it’s [...]
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15 Sep 2010This year it seemed like new life was breathing through Fashion Week in New York City. As a young makeup artist I was thrilled to do shows and run all over the city for the extra gigs brought on by fashion week. Now that I’m more established, I must admit I tend to look as [...]
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27 Aug 2010I am asked every day, a hundred times per day, what is the best ( fastest) way to get full, enviable eyebrows? Here, once and for all, is my formal response with all the tricks of the trade you really need to know: 1. If your brows are too thin, badly shaped or in any [...]