1 Get a good pair of tweezers. Use fine-tipped clean tweezers to do the job. If the tweezers you use are too blunt or unwieldy the process of plucking can take much longer and cause unnecessary pain. You need to be able to firmly grasp individual hairs and pull them out smoothly. 2 Soften the skin around your brows. When the skin there is soft and supple the hairs slide out much more easily. Plucking skin that is dry and stiff will make the experience more painful.Plan to pluck your brows right after you take a shower. The warm water and steam will have left your skin moist and supple.[2] Just be sure to dry off your eyebrows before plucking or it may be hard to grasp your eyebrow hairs.If you need to pluck at other times of the day wash your face with warm water and blot it dry. You could also take a washcloth and put it in the hottest water you can handle then place it on your eyebrows for 2 minutes. 3 Identify the direction in which your eyebrow hair grows. For most people the hair grows outward from the nose toward the hairline. In some cases people's brows have hairs growing in more than one direction. Take careful note because you'll want to pull the hairs in the direction of their growth when you pluck; this helps them come out cleanly. 4 Hold a pair of tweezers in your hand like you would a pencil. The open end should be up. Give it a few squeezes so you're comfortable with the motion you will need to use to pluck your brows. 5 Place the tip of the tweezer at the root of the hair you want to pluck. (Follow the directions below to figure out which hair you should be plucking). Get as close to the root of the hair as possible and pull always pulling in the direction of hair growth and keeping the tweezers angled as close to your skin as possible.Continue this until you have finished plucking one brow then repeat on the other brow.If you need to stop and take some breaks that'