I Visited Meghan Markle’s Eyebrows Place and Learned So Many Tips

However, when I got to Nails & Brows, the black-owned boutique in the ultra-luxe neighborhood of Mayfair, I learned that it's not the Markle that its customers flock to the salon for, it's the Audrey. When Sherrille Riley founded the salon in 2014, she unveiled its signature brow treatment, which is inspired by Audrey Hepburn. "The Audrey consists of a straight, archless brow that tapers out toward your temple. The sculpt instantly lifts your face and creates a fresh and youthful appearance," she tells me. And it's the style that Meghan Markle always requests when visiting the salon. I was sold.

When my time came, they took me upstairs where I laid back on a plush white leather chair (airy, monochromatic accents is very much the aesthetic of the salon) beside a series of regulars—one who was getting married over the weekend and made sure to stop in before her big day. As the woman chatted about her upcoming nuptials, my stylist set to work measuring the dimensions of my face (I have been getting my brows done since I was 11 and never once has someone taken the time to actually make sure my brows were proportionate to the rest of my face). Using a piece of thread, she measured from my nostril to the bottom corner of my brow, and kindly told me that the length was too long and that I need to "take some hair off the sides." The trick, she says, is to extend the string from your nostril to the outer edge of your eye—wherever that line hits on your brow is where the tail should end.

Overall it took them 40 minutes of threading, tweezing, filling in, and highlighting to give my brows that magic Meghan Markle/Audrey Hepburn realness—and I've never loved them more. So here's my gift to you, a breakdown of exactly what they did, plus a few tricks for bringing out the best in your brows. Spoiler: It requires a lot of brushing.

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