How to get perfect eyebrows like Adele, Gwyneth Paltrow: Hollywood guru gives advice

Long before Cara Delevingne and Lily Collins were rocking the fuller brow, Kristie Streicher wanted her clients to embrace a more natural look

Here she gives her top tips, from using a brow pencil to finishing off with gel

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Hollywood eyebrow specialist Kristie Streicher at the Hourglass Cosmetics pop-up shop at the Grove, Los Angeles. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times

Published: 5:00am, 11 Sep 2019Updated: 7:56pm, 12 Sep 2019

Even if you were willing to shell out hundreds of dollars to have your eyebrows done by Kristie Streicher, she could not see you.

That is because at the start of 2019, with her roster already full with celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, Adele and Mandy Moore, she stopped taking on new clients. She wanted to spend less time at Striiike – the Beverly Hills salon she runs with her sisters Ashley (hair) and Jenn (make-up) – and more at home, focusing on starting a family. The endeavour worked: Streicher and her husband, an orthopaedic surgeon, are expecting a son in the winter.

The lucky handful who do get to see Streicher, 43, pay a pretty penny for the honour.

The brow guru charges US$225 for a 30-minute “feathered brow” session, during which she tints and tweezes. Those looking for a more permanent fix opt for her signature “microfeathering”, a more subtle take on traditional microblading, which deposits pigment into tiny incisions created by a fine blade. Two sessions run US$2,500, but the results last between eight and 12 months.

Hollywood brow whisperer Streicher gets to work at the Hourglass Cosmetics’ pop-up shop in Los Angeles. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times

So how did Streicher become so in-demand with the Hollywood set?

Growing up in Northern California’s Grass Valley, Streicher and her sisters were self-described tomboys who never spent that long getting ready. But after high school, she took a job at the Clinique counter and became fascinated by the beauty world, which led her to enrol in aesthetician school. In 2001, she moved to New York and got a job doing facials and brows at the Warren-Tricomi salon.