A trusty pair of tweezers is one of the most essential beauty buys for both men and women. We use them primarily for plucking and sculpting the brows and fixing false lashes, but they can also remove ingrown hairs or other small foreign bodies from beneath your skin. You might not think you need to spend too much time considering your next tweezer purchase, but we all know the pain of a pair that isn't quite as precise at the tip as we'd like it to be.
Thankfully, there are tons of great options available - all you need to know is where to look, and that's where our buying guide comes in. We've partnered with Makeup Artist Marie Dancer to give you plenty of tips on finding the perfect pair of tweezers. To inspire you, we've also listed ten of our favourites, which are available to order online from Boots, Amazon and John Lewis.
Quick List - Top Tweezers
As a professional make-up artist of ten years, Marie's job has taken her all over the UK working at top events, on TV shows and making up beautiful brides. For all her clients she loves emphasising their natural beauty by creating a flawless base that still looks like skin.
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As a professional makeup artist of ten years, Marie's job has taken her all over the UK, working at top events, on TV shows and making up beautiful brides. For all of her clients, she loves emphasising their natural beauty by creating a flawless base that still looks like skin.
Find out more about Marie and what are her favourite makeup products are through her Instagram! She even shares some industry tips on makeup application too. And if you're interested in getting your makeup done by Marie, you can contact her via her email found at the top of her page.
Slanted tweezers are by far the most common type of tweezers available. As the name suggests, they have an intentionally slanted tip, usually angled at around 25 degrees. The incline is designed to help you navigate the contours of your eyebrows, making it much easier to pluck individual hairs.
If you require even more precision, you may wish to opt for pointed tweezers (more on them in a moment), but otherwise slanted tweezers offer a great balance. They're precise while remaining wide enough that you can pluck a few hairs at once, and this makes them excellent for everyday use.
If you're looking for a pair of tweezers that can groom bigger, bushier brows, straight tweezers are an ideal choice. Straight tip tweezers were created to pluck thicker hair and can even remove large groups of hair all at once. As you can imagine, this saves a significant amount of time over plucking each hair individually!
Straight tweezers are also great for applying false eyelashes. This is because - unlike slanted tweezers, whose pointed tips can be a little unwieldy - straight tweezers' horizontal edges allow you to reach safely, right up to the lash line.
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Compared to the other styles, pointed-tip tweezers offer less versatility. However, they do enable the user to have a greater degree of precision, which is perfect for those fine hairs that your usual tweezers just don't seem to reach.
Another great advantage of pointed tweezers is that they excel when it comes to the removal of ingrown hairs, splinters, little bits of glass or generally anything just below the surface of the skin. This certainly makes them a nifty little tool to have around the house.
To avoid any accidental injuries and ensure you get the look you want, it’s vital to have the right equipment. If you like to regularly change up your appearance or you're generally interested in all things beauty, you may need more tools than just the one.
There are many sets available which come with either two different tip styles or one of each of them. Looking for product sets which include your preferred tools will save you time and money.
It can be frustrating if you can't quickly grab your favourite pair of tweezers and remove those pesky strays. A case will not only keep your collection in one memorable place but also protect them from rust and bacteria.
As tweezers will directly touch the skin, it's important they are cleaned thoroughly and looked after to get your money's worth. A case also makes travelling with your tweezers easy, with no more pierced holes in your wash bag or time rummaging through to find them in the bottom.
Products | Image | Click to purchase | Key features | |
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1 | Wolf & Griffin Ultimate Precision Mini Tweezers | ![]() | Gorgeous Hand-Filed Tweezers in Recyclable Packaging | |
2 | Tweezerman Rose Gold Mini Slant | ![]() | The Ideal Companion for On-the-Road Grooming | |
3 | Zwilling Classic Inox Straight Tweezers | ![]() | Straight Tweezers That Can Tackle a Lot of Hair | |
4 | Tweezerman Leopard Slant Tweezer | ![]() | A Stylish Yet Practical All-Rounder | |
5 | Boots Compact Tweezers Set | ![]() | A Set of Four Compact Tweezers to Fulfil Every Need | |
6 | Benefit Grooming Tweezer and Brush | ![]() | Precision Grooming From a Trusted Beauty Brand | |
7 | Sally Hansen Comfort Grip Slant Tip Tweezer | ![]() | Ultra-Precise Tweezers Featuring a Nice, Comfy Grip | |
8 | Tweezerman Pointed Tweezer | ![]() | Great for Your Brows, Ingrown Hairs and Splinters | |
9 | HOTOP Straight and Curved Point Tip Tweezers | ![]() | Created Specifically to Help Attach False Lashes | |
10 | Boots Slanted Tweezers | ![]() | An Affordable Way to Stock up Your Makeup Bag |
Wolf & Griffin is a beauty company dedicated to creating precision tools, and this is immediately apparent in this pair of tweezers. Their 25-degree slanted tips are perfectly-aligned and hand-filed for unparalleled accuracy.
These tweezers also feature grooves for extra grip during use, and they come in a gorgeous teal colour that makes a nice change from the usual pinks and purples. Better yet, all Wolf & Griffin packaging is recyclable. We don't hesitate to say we love these tweezers.
Like the previous Tweezerman entry, these beauties are built to the same degree of quality. The only difference? They're much smaller, making them an ideal second pair of tweezers to keep in your travel bag or handbag for those rogue hair emergencies.
They come with supremely well-calibrated tension and the tips are filed to perfection ensuring they align exactly where you need them to, every time. Plus, they come with a cute little pouch the same colour as the tweezers, which should make it easier to identify them in your bag.
This straight pair of tweezers from Zwilling are all about practicality, allowing you to get hold of that hair and get it out. As mentioned, this straight style is ideal for those looking to tackle a lot of hair, fast. The product is made from high-grade polished stainless steel which should see no corrosion or rust.
Many reviewers are big fans, and the product comes with a very respectable 4.5 out of 5 on Amazon. Plus, if you do like the quality, the company do a whole range of other grooming accessories so you could pick up a whole set.
We've seen the Tweezerman brand littered throughout this article, namely because they've been in the game for over 40 years and have perfected their craft. If you're looking for some top-notch, A* all-round tweezers then we would recommend their classic slanted line.
However, if you want all of that with a little touch of character and style, you'd be hard-pressed to find something as covetable as this purple and teal leopard printed pair. In fact, we wonder if they've made a better-looking pair of tweezers in all their 40 years!
If one tweezer style isn't enough, this is the set for you. It features four different tweezers, each with a distinct tip: slanted and straight tips for precision and quick plucking; a pointed tip for ingrown and short hairs; and a combination slant and pointed tip for multi-tasking.
Don't worry about four tweezers taking up too much space in your travel bag, as this set is compact-sized. They also come in a selection of colours, which - as well as helping you differentiate between them - makes them look pretty good too!
An innovative and very handy product indeed, this pretty pair of tweezers from Benefit has both diamond-dust coated tips for a firm, precise grasp and a small brush to see where you need to tweeze. It will also help you push your brows into shape once you're done!
Structurally, they have well-aligned tips that are sure to grab even finer hairs every time. However, we wish the people over at the company had thought about throwing in a small case, as the brush may pick up some dust and debris if stored unprotected in a makeup bag.
This pair of tweezers from the renowned beauty brand, Sally Hansen, features ultra-fine slanted tips with a 'grasping platform' for increased precision. The result is less pain when plucking and just about the most precise pair of tweezers you've ever seen.
They also feature a lovely big padded grip. This makes these tweezers extremely comfortable to use, but its hot pink colour also jazzes up their appearance. This is a solid pair of tweezers from a respected brand, and we highly recommend them.
If you're looking for a product that's capable of working with unrivalled precision, then you'd be hard-pressed to find many better tweezers than these. The points are perfectly aligned so you'll breeze through your glow up, and they're a great style for your general make-up bag needs.
In addition to being perfect for the brows, due to their accuracy you'll find that these are great to have around the house for ingrown hairs, splinters or other nasties that wriggle their way into your skin. As with this pair, however, sometimes you have to pay for the best quality.
A bit different from a regular pair of tweezers, this pair from Hotop are designed specifically with grafting eyelashes in mind. The straight-tipped pair are there to help you select multiple hairs, while the curved are better suited to individual lashes.
We also really liked the inclusion of plastic safety covers which will help keep the tweezer tips clean and in a better condition. These are pretty unique, so many people may not find the use for them, but those who do will surely love them.
This simple pair of tweezers has slanted tips, making them great for pulling out individual hairs. There's also a grip for extra precision, and their stainless steel build ensures they'll last a good, long time.
They don't look especially pretty, and they don't come with a pouch, but let's be honest - if you're buying these tweezers, it's for that incredibly low price. They're an excellent way of stocking up for next to nothing.
Written and researched by Lewis Clark
No. 1: Wolf & Griffin|Ultimate Precision Mini Tweezers
No. 2: Tweezerman|Rose Gold Mini Slant
No. 3: Zwilling|Classic Inox Straight Tweezers
No. 4: Tweezerman|Leopard Slant Tweezer
No. 5: Boots|Compact Tweezers Set
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