Start with the shape of your own eye rather than the treatment menu. The curl, the length and the height of arch that suit you are decided by how your lid folds, how much space sits between brow and eye, and how much hair you have to work with. A photograph of somebody else answers none of those three.
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Almost everyone brings the wrong photograph
The request is usually straightforward. This, please.
Most people choose a photograph of a face they admire rather than a face resembling their own. A set that looks remarkable on one person can look heavy, closed or slightly startled on another, and the reason is almost never the quality of the work. The proportions were borrowed from different bone structure.
Bring a photograph by all means. Bring one where the eyes are shaped like yours.
Ten seconds in the mirror gives you what to say at the consultation
Look straight ahead into a mirror, relaxed, and spend ten seconds finding the crease of your upper lid.
If a fold of skin covers most of the moving lid, your eyes are hooded. If the crease sits deep in shadow, they are deep set. If you can see the whole lid easily, neither applies. Saying “my eyes are quite hooded” tells your therapist more than any photograph will.
Eye shape decides curl and length
On hooded eyes a dramatic curl is rarely a friend. Lashes lifted too aggressively press into the fold and disappear behind it, and long extensions brush the skin all day. A softer curl with moderate length reads better and feels better.
Deep set eyes have the opposite problem. Curl gets lost in the shadow of the socket, so length does more work than lift.
If your eyes turn down slightly at the outer corner, be careful with the winged effect that puts the longest lashes at the outer edge, because it follows the downward line rather than correcting it. Length toward the center opens the eye instead. Round or prominent eyes are the ones that genuinely suit outer corner emphasis, since a little elongation balances the width.
The space between brow and lid decides more than you expect
Look at the gap between your eyebrow and your eyelid. Some people have a generous stretch of skin there, others very little.
Lamination brushes hair upward, which flatters when there is room and crowds when there is not. On a low brow bone a very high, fluffy set closes the gap and makes the eye area look heavier rather than more open. That does not rule lamination out; it means a softer angle instead of straight up.
The same space affects lashes. Where there is little room, extra length has nowhere to go.
Face shape matters for brows, less for lashes
It mostly governs the arch. A rounder face benefits from a defined arch and a clear angle, which introduces structure. A longer face is better served by a flatter brow, because a high arch adds height and lengthens the face further. Strong, angular features soften with a gentle curve rather than a sharp peak.
These are tendencies rather than rules, and any decent therapist bends them for a face that asks for it. They do explain why an arch that suits your friend can look severe on you.
The hair you have sets the ceiling
Lamination redistributes hair, so it needs hair to redistribute. On sparse brows, tinting the fine pale hairs you already have often creates more density than any amount of combing.
The same honesty applies to lashes. Extensions attach one to one, so the fullness available depends on how many natural lashes you have and how strong they are. Fine lashes will not carry a heavy set, and asking them to is how people end up with thinner lashes a year later. If your technician suggests something lighter and shorter than you asked for, that is the useful answer rather than the accommodating one, and it usually costs less.
Ask to see the map before anything is applied
A good therapist maps the work to your face first. On brows that means measuring where yours should start, peak and finish from your own features rather than a template, drawn on in pencil. On lashes it means planning which lengths go where across the lid.
Ask to see it. It takes thirty seconds, and disagreeing at that stage is far easier than afterwards.
Accept one thing early. Your face is not symmetrical and neither are your brows. One sits higher, one arches differently, and that is true of almost everyone. A therapist chasing perfect symmetry removes more hair to get there, usually at the cost of thickness. Brows are meant to look like sisters rather than twins.
Before your consultation
Do the ten second mirror check tonight, then tell your therapist three things: how hooded your lids are, how much space sits between brow and eye, and what you want out of your morning routine.
Those three answers will narrow the menu faster than any amount of scrolling.
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