How to Fill in Eyebrows

Along with any feature on your face, your eyebrows are possibly one of the most defining, and can have a lot of influence on your overall look. For being such an expressive and significant element of someone’s appearance, there are many people who just don’t know how to tame, groom or flatter their brows. If you suffer from brows that are too light or very sparse, you can easily rectify your situation by filling them in! Using some basic makeup techniques, you'll be on your way to ideal eyebrows in no time.

Steps

Prepping Your Eyebrows

1. Remove stray hairs. Tweeze stray hairs above and below your natural eyebrow, including any hairs in between your two brows. Don’t do precise tweezing right now, just pluck away the prominent stray hairs.^[1]
   
2. Trim the excess hair. If any of your eyebrow hairs are longer than the natural shape of your brow, consider brushing those hairs upward using a spoolie (it looks like a clean mascara applicator), and trimming them.^[2] Trim the hairs by placing small eyebrow scissors horizontally above your brow (mimicking as close as possible the shape of your brow), and carefully cutting the hairs that reach beyond the top of your brow line. For very uncooperative eyebrow hairs, consider using a spoolie to also brush the hairs downward, and use the same technique to cut the hairs that extend below your natural eyebrow shape.
   
   • Be very careful to not over trim! It’s very easy to cut your eyebrow hairs too short, so always trim less initially and then trim more if need be.
3. Underline underneath your brow. Use your brow pencil to underline, and follow the bottom shape of your eyebrow. Start by using soft strokes to underline your brow; you don’t want the line to look too dramatic, and you can always add on more strokes.
   
   • You want the underside of your brow to be clearly defined and sharper looking, while allowing the top part and the rest of your brow to look naturally inexact and free flowing.^[3]
   • Don't pick an underlining shade that matches your brow color. Just like the head on your hair, your eyebrow hairs have different pigments and hues. Using a color that matches your brow color exactly might make your brows look too intense. Instead, opt to use a lighter shade for underlining and filling in. For example, if you have dark brown hair, consider using a light brown or dark blonde color.^[4]

Shaping Your Eyebrows

1. Measure your inner brow. Place your eyebrow brush (or any straight object) vertically on the “ala” of your nose. This is the part where your nostrils begin to flare, right outside of the rounded frontal tip of your nose. You can visualize where the ala is by imagining drawing a clown nose on your nose. The ala would be the part of your nose not painted, directly outside of the red clown nose. Following this point directly up, is where your eyebrow should start.^[5] Any hair extending past that straight object toward the bridge of your nose should be removed.
   
   • Keep in mind that everyone’s face shape is different along with the positioning of their eyes, and width of their nose. Therefore, this method might not work best for everyone. A good rule of thumb is to use your tear ducts (or a tad more inward toward the center of your face) as a general starting point for your eyebrows.^[6]
2. Mark your starting point. Make a light mark (a dot) with some eyeliner to keep track of the place where your hair should start, removing any hair before that mark (meaning toward the space between your brows).
   
   • It works best to tweeze these hairs for a more accurate removal.
   • Be sure not to tweeze past the inside corner of your eye.
   • If your skin is irritated and red after tweezing, try using aloe vera gel or cortisone cream to soothe and calm your skin.^[7]
3. Find the end of your brow. Place your eyebrow brush (or your straight object) on a diagonal starting from the outside corner of your nostril, extending to the outside crease of your eye. You can even extend of as far your brow bone. This is the place where your eyebrow should end.^[8] Any hair extending past that straight object toward the side of your face should be removed.
   
   • Be careful not to tweeze the end hairs that make up the thicker part of your natural brow. Those hairs rarely grow back. Only tweeze the straggler hairs.^[9]
4. Find your natural arch. Place your eyebrow brush (or straight object) on a diagonal starting from the outside corner of your nostril, to the outside of your iris (the colored part of your eye).^[10] The point where your straight object extends and reaches the top of your eyebrow is where the high point in your arch should be.
   
   • Underneath your brow is where you’ll tweeze away the most hair. However, that doesn’t mean that you will be tweezing lots of hairs; you may find you only need to remove a few here and there.

Filling In Your Eyebrows

1. Consider your skin tone. Just like how your used a lighter color to underline the bottom of your brow, your skin tone should also influence the color you use to fill in your brows. For example, if you have darker skin tones, try using a color that has a little bit of red tint to it.^[11] It could help with making your brows look more natural. If you have a lighter skin tone but darker hair, try using a light brown shade of brow filler. You can always find the right color for you through trial and error.^[12]
   
2. Start filling in your brow using a powder. Touch your brush (a small, angled eyebrow brush is recommended) in the brow powder, tap off some excess powder on the side of the powder container, and start to lightly outline the top and bottom edges of your brow. When filling in, follow in the direction of your hair growth. Stay in the margins of your natural brow shape; you don’t want to over extend, and apply powder past where your brow hair actually is.
   
   • Try starting at your arch, and working your way down on both sides.
   • If your arch is too high, it can make your face have an angry look. You might need to lower your arch. The shape should be angular rather than rounded.^[13]
   • If necessary, your may hold up a brow stencil as a guide.
3. Outline the rest of your brow. Moving from the arch, continue outlining to the very edge of your brow with light brush strokes. Without adding more product to the brush, focus on adding powder and creating volume on the outside edge of your brow rather than layering powder in the middle area of your brow. Focusing on the edge of your brow gives your brows a more natural, full look.^[14]
   
   • Remember, you can always add more, but if you start with heavy make-up, it’s harder to take off if you mess up.
4. Brush out the color. Use a spoolie brush to spread the colored powder and disperse it evenly throughout your brow hairs. This can help make your brow look less harsh and naturally defined. You can continue to add powder and brush it out until you get the intensity and shade you want.
   
5. Check your work. Place your brush on a diagonal starting from the ala or outside corner of your nostril, and check the starting point of your eyebrow. Also check the end edge of your eyebrow and your arch point, using the same steps you used to shape your eyebrow in Part 1.
   
   • Use your brush and your eye as a guide to see if your brow is too short and needs to be extended, or too long and needs to be taken off a bit.
6. Set your brows. Use a clear brow setting formula to keep all your hairs and color in place. Starting in the middle of your brow, brush the middle hairs straight up, and then pull the brush toward the outer section (the tail) of your brow.^[15]
   
   • You can also use a tinted setting gel, but it’s a safer bet to use a clear gel to refrain from adding multiple different colors to your eyebrows.

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Tips

• Trouble with shaping your brows? Consider paying $5-$15 to have them professionally shaped every few weeks. This is a fail-proof way to get that perfect arch and thickness.
• Having a high arch may give you an older look.
• If your eyebrows are too light for your face and natural hair color, consider getting them tinted before filling them in. This will give the most natural appearance and the easiest starting point to filling in your eyebrows.

Related wikiHows

• How to Arch Your Eyebrows
• How to Groom Brows
• How to Get Perfect Eyebrows
• How to Shape Eyebrows
• How to Make Your Eyebrow Hairs Straight Instead of Curly
• How to Shape Your Eyebrows Without Plucking

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How to Pick a Stage Name

Stage names are used by all types of performers, from musicians, actors and roller derby athletes to burlesque dancers, belly dancers, and exotic dancers. A stage name can help a performer craft and reflect their public persona, or connect with the audience more effectively. A stage name can also help a performer maintain a separation between their public life and their personal life.

Steps

Choosing a Stage Name

1. Understand what a stage name can do for you. A stage name can help you accomplish a number of things, which all can influence how you decide on your name.
   
   • Branding: A stage name can help you brand your performance persona, giving you a separate identity to develop as a brand.
   • Separation of personal and professional life: A stage name will be a very public name, possibly a household name. While some people might still know your real name, keeping your real name separate from your stage name can afford you some level of privacy.
   • Differentiation: If your real name is very common, a stage name can help you stand out and be more memorable.
   • Prejudice considerations: Some people have used stage names in the past in order to decrease immediate reactions of racism, anti-Semitism or other forms of prejudice. Luckily, this is less often the case today. Similarly, some women may have avoided a hyphenated name because it might indicate they’re married, which unfortunately some consider to be detrimental to their careers.
2. Choose a name that reflects your persona. Your stage name is a way to express yourself. What do you want your name to signify? Think about how a stage name might be able to channel your performance persona.^[1]
   
3. Have a story behind your name. Whatever your stage name, people will likely want to know how you decided to call yourself that. If it’s an uninteresting story, then perhaps think about making up a more exciting story to go with your name.^[2]
   
4. Do research about your name. Look online and in name books to learn the meaning of the name you’ve chosen. Learn the history of the name. Does the name’s meaning and history reflect what you want it to mean?
   
5. Choose a searchable name. Think about how people can find your name through search engines like Google. If you use very common words, especially single words like Trouble or Heart, it may be hard for fans to find you online.^[3]
   
6. Choose a name that will grow with you. There can be the appeal of choosing a name that reflects the moment, where you might follow a fad. Also consider where you want to be in 10 or 20 years. Does your stage name suit an older performer just as well as a younger one?
   
   • Child performers should consider how their names will grow with them as they get older. Joe Yule called himself Mickey Rooney, a good name for a kid actor. But it was less useful as an adult actor. Similarly Lil’ Bow Wow had to drop “Lil” when he grew up.^[4]
   • Choose a name that you won’t get tired of quickly. If you think you might hate your stage name in six months, think of a different moniker.

Using Family Names

1. Use a childhood nickname. You may have been called something other than your real name throughout childhood, and this nickname might be useful as a stage name. For example, Richard Melville Hall was nicknamed Moby by his parents, and he uses this as his stage name.^[5]
   
2. Use your middle name. Go with a singular name that is just your middle name, such as the rapper Drake, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham.^[6] Similarly, Angelina Jolie Voight dropped her last name, moving her middle name to the surname position.
   
3. Use your family tree as inspiration. Use your great-grandmother’s first name or your great-uncle’s middle name. This can help you retain a connection to your family with your stage name.^[7]
   
4. Use your last name. Some performers use just their last name, dropping their first name because it is hard to pronounce or they’ve always disliked their name. Liberace, for example, dropped his first name, Wladziu, and just went by one name.
   
   • Some performers may have started their careers with their full names – or with a stage first and last name. Reinventing your career may involve reinventing your name, but you might still want to hang onto some of the reputation or recognition that you already have. Drop your last name from your stage name and go with just a single name.
   • Alternately, add your last name. If you’ve been using a single name, consider adding a last name to reinvent yourself.
   • You might also change or alter your last name. Some performers add last names (with or without a hyphen), such as Courtney Cox adding Arquette to her last name when she got married (she dropped Arquette when the marriage ended).
5. Choose the same last name as your parent’s stage last name. If you have performers in your family, you may want to link your stage name with their stage names. These can help you gain a reputation and recognition among fans and employers.
   
   • For example, Carlos Irwin Estévez became Charlie Sheen in order to match his last name to his actor father Martin Sheen, whose real name is Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez. Another son, Emilio, kept the family last name.

Formatting and Spelling Your Stage Name

1. Consider changing the spelling of your name. If you have a name that you like, you might fiddle with the spelling to see if alternate letters will make it more interesting. The band Gotye, pronounced “Go-tee-ay,” is a respelling of the French surname Gaultier.^[8]
   
   • Sometimes this isn’t a good idea, especially if you’re adding an extra letter where it is really unnecessary. You might just risk confusing people and making it difficult to pronounce your name.
2. Avoid symbols in your name. While it may be a hot thing to replace an S in your name with a $ or an I with a !, these just add confusion and likely mistakes in spelling your name. Even though Ke$ha and others have done it, you should skip this.
   
   • The singer Prince changed his name to a symbol in order to get out of his contract with Warner Bros. in 1993. Since the symbol was unpronounceable, he was called The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. This really only works if you already have a well-established reputation and fan following, and ultimately would make things too complicated anyway. Prince reverted to being called Prince after his contract with Warner Bros. expired.^[9]
3. Add an exotic element. Some stage names may benefit from exoticizing them. This happens frequently for burlesque and pinup performers. Adding words such as “von,” “de,” or “la” can make your name more exotic or exciting.^[10]
   
4. Consider how people will pronounce your name. If you have a very unique name, you may find that people have a lot of trouble pronouncing it. Think about actors Quvenzhané Wallis, Saoirse Ronan or Ralph Fiennes. These are difficult names to pronounce and often require pronunciation guides in news articles. ^[11]
   
   • Think of alternative spellings of your name that will facilitate people pronouncing it correctly.
   • Once you are well-known, however, you will likely overcome this problem.
5. Consider your international profile. Will your name travel well with you if you start performing overseas? Since the internet has enabled fans from all over the world to connect with performers, think about how your name resonates with different cultures around the world.
   
6. Be consistent with spelling and formatting. If you do choose to use alternative spelling or unique formatting of your name, keep it consistent. Do not fluctuate between using an S and a $. Choose one and stick to it.
   

Using your Stage Name

1. Try out your name. Your name might sound great to you when you say it out loud in your bedroom. Find out how it sounds when someone else is announcing you. Think of this as market testing your name ^[12]
   
2. Don’t legally change your name. Unless you are completely abandoning your real name altogether, there is no need to legally change your name. This will help you maintain a distinction between your personal and professional lives.
   
3. Register your stage name with a trade guild or union. If you are currently a member of a trade guild, such as the Screen Actors Guild or the American Federation of Musicians, you should update your membership information with your stage name. It’s best to ensure that no one else in your guild has the same name as you.^[13]
   
   • If you are not yet part of a union or guild, you may consider joining one sometime in the future. In this case, keep in mind that you should probably register with your real name and stage name in one membership.
4. Update your bank account information. You may want to include your stage name on your bank account. This is especially true if you have a business bank account and you are earning money under your stage name. Be sure that the account has both of your names listed to avoid confusion.
   
5. Reserve social media accounts with your stage name. Once you’ve chosen your stage name, make sure you have an online presence with that name. Start a Facebook page that isn’t your personal account. Figure out a Twitter ID and start an account.^[14]
   
6. Reserve a website domain. Once you’ve chosen your stage name, reserve a website domain with your name. It’s a good idea to reserve a domain name to avoid someone misusing your name or capitalizing on your success for their own gain (known as “cybersquatting”).^[15]
   
   • Search a domain name registrar such as GoDaddy.com or Dotster.com to make sure your domain name isn’t already taken.
   • Register your web name with a name registrar. Choose the length of time you want to reserve the domain name. You can reserve it in year increments for up to 10 years. You will need to pay a fee, which can fluctuate by registrar and by year to year. Typically, these run $10 to $15 for the initial registration.^[16]

Tips

• Choose a stage name as soon as you start to craft your performance persona. The name itself may help influence how you conduct yourself and how you interact with fans.
• Don't feel like you have to choose a stage name. You can use your real name. This makes it more difficult to separate your public profile from your private life, however. If you have a particularly unique name, such as Benedict Cumberbatch, you might stick with your real name. Similarly, if you want an ordinary name, you might stick with your real name.^[17]

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How to Compile a Bill of Materials

If your company manufactures something, whether it is a camera or coffee maker, satellite or slot machine, chances are it uses a bill of materials or parts list of some kind along the way. A bill of materials (often referred to by the acronym BOM) is simply a very specific shopping list that tells somebody elsewhere in the company exactly what to purchase and how much.

Steps

1. Understand what you're building. You can start to compile a BOM as you go during the early phases of a design, especially if some parts will take a very long time to procure. You will complete the bill of materials as the design and documentation becomes more certain.
2. 
   List the parts in your assembly. Be thorough and complete, even if it seems obvious what goes in or the job is boring.
3. Assign part numbers to each item in your assembly. If your company keeps a database of part numbers, it is often worthwhile to reuse standard parts such as fasteners, connectors, resistors and other small, purchased items. Avoid creating multiple part numbers for the same part.
4. Make sure each of the part numbers you will use has some specification, such as a drawing or data sheet, to allow it to be purchased or fabricated. Often these specifications will be loaded in a database so that they are associated with the part numbers they describe.
5. Assign item numbers. Many database programs require you to assign numbers to the items in a BOM, or they may assign item numbers for you.
   • The item number may also be referred to as BOM ID, and should be a unique identifier.
   • If there is an assembly drawing, the item numbers on it should match the item numbers in the database.
6. List exact quantities of each item on your BOM. Be sure the quantity is consistent with the unit of measure in which an item is purchased (each, inch, feet, meters, ounces, etc.)
   • Some systems allow things to be listed as "bulk items." Examples of bulk items are things like adhesive or thermal compound. Bulk items might specify "as required" for the quantity.
7. A BOM can have multiple levels. The levels represent subassemblies inside of higher level assemblies.
   • When creating multiple levels in your BOM, be sure to do so in a way consistent with your company's conventions.
   • Consider the manufacturing process and purchasing process when deciding what is a subassembly. Is the subassembly going to be purchased or handled as a unit? What level of assembly needs to be purchased? What needs to be sold?
8. 
   Include reference designators if appropriate. The L201 alongside the component in this photo is an example of a reference designator.
   • Reference designators are used mostly for components on circuit boards, but may occasionally be used for valve manifolds and other similar assemblies. Not all assemblies need reference designators.
9. Make sure the BOM corresponds exactly to the assembly documentation, whether that is an assembly drawing, schematic, or other document.
10. Include the assembly documentation or a link to it in the bill of materials. How this happens, exactly, should depend on your database and document control system. It may show as an attachment to the assembly, or you may add a document to the assembly BOM.

Tips

• While it is not the direct purpose of a BOM, a BOM can also be used to track the weight, materials cost, and other attributes of an assembly. Just remember that you get out information that is no more accurate than what you put in.
• Find out how your company handles the purchase of an inseparable assembly. For example, if you send a manufacturer a weldment drawing and get back a welded frame, you may need to list the raw materials for the frame only on the drawing and only in such detail as is necessary to weld the frame.
• Consider over-kitting small parts. If you don't know exactly how many wire ties an assembly will require, you could specify a few extras. Ask somebody in purchasing, document control, or manufacturing how best to handle your extras. Your company may prefer to add a note, add extras directly to the quantity, specify an over-kitting percentage, or simply keep spares in stock. When you figure it out, be consistent. An assembler who can't figure out where to put the three extra screws you specified may get confused.
• Don't forget such items as labels, packaging, and silkscreens.
• Depending on your company's processes, you may be required to have a BOM with released part numbers before parts can be ordered. Even if purchasing and documentation are not your job, it's worth understanding the basics, so you can monitor the process and do your part to keep it going smoothly.

Warnings

• Don't expect the people purchasing or making parts for you to read minds. The more clearly you document your assembly, the more likely you are to get all the right parts ordered and assembled correctly.

Related wikiHows

• How to File Catalogues from Potential Suppliers Efficiently

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How to Fix a Squeaking Bed Frame

Finding exactly where that squeak in your bed is coming from can be frustrating work—enough so that some opt to fix every possible squeak instead of bothering to find the offending joint or spring. Locating and diagnosing the squeak will often save you time in the long run. It will provide you with information about the state your bed is in, which is helpful should any other issues arise in the future.

Steps

Locating the Squeak

1. Listen to your bed while someone moves slowly across it. This should clue you in to the general location of the squeak. Pay particular attention to the joints and corners of your bed frame, as these are common noisemakers.
   
   • If you can’t enlist an aide for this task, you can move across your bed yourself. It will give you less flexibility, on account of your ears needing to stay relatively close to the rest of your body as it moves across the mattress, but this can still provide the necessary information.
   • Lift your mattress and box spring up if you’re unsure where your bed frame’s joints are, or drop to the floor and look at your bed from beneath it. At the very least, many bed frames will have support (and corresponding joints) width-wise along the head and foot of the bed, and length-wise along the middle.
2. Rock your bed, gently. If crawling across the bed wasn’t sufficiently illuminating, you (or your helper) should go to the foot of your bed, grab hold of the bar or footboard, and gently rock your bed back and forth (pushing toward, and pulling from, the headboard and pillows). If you have help, again listen to your bed’s joints and corners while this is going on.
   
   • Not too rough! Any bed will start squeaking if you really go to town on it. Push gently, with a slow rhythm.
3. Remove your mattress and box spring. If you’re still in the dark, you might have an easier time finding the squeak once you’ve isolated the major components. It’s also possible that the culprit isn’t your bed frame at all, but your mattress.
   
   • The mattress and box spring take up a lot of room, but find somewhere you can lay both down flat on the ground, as if they were on your bed. This will allow you to continue to effectively test them.
4. Test the mattress, box spring, and bed frame separately. Repeat the techniques above, now that your bed has been partially disassembled. Gently rock your bed frame, and crawl across your mattress and box spring with a friend listening closely (or vice-versa).
   
   • If you locate a prominent squeak in your box spring, this can be efficiently treated by applying WD-40 to the base of the specific, noisy spring.
5. Consider all possibilities. In the event that you’ve been unable to locate your squeak, you might need to broaden your investigation. The squeak could be coming not from the bed, but from a loose floor board beneath you bed. It could also be caused by unevenness in your floor.
   
   • Towels or folded-up sheets under a leg of the bed frame might solve minor floor-height discrepancies, but you should consider moving your bed to a spot in your home with more even flooring, if possible.
   • Keep in mind that it might not be a single squeak you’re dealing with, but two or more. Be thorough in your assessment.

Treating a Squeaky Frame

1. Tighten the metal fasteners. Before you entirely disassemble your bed, try tightening its bolts. This is a relatively simple task. You need only to determine the size of the bolt or screw, obtain an appropriate wrench (if it’s a bolt) or screwdriver (if it’s a screw), and then tighten them.
   
   • If you’ve been unable to isolate the squeak, try tightening every fastener on your bed.
   • With older, wooden beds held together by nails, tightening the fasteners (or taking the frame entirely apart) is not really an option. In this case, application of a lubricant to each intersection of support slat and bed frame will go a long way toward silencing the bed.
   • If a bolt continues to back out and loosen itself, it may need to be replaced (with a cost of roughly 50 cents). If the holes that the bolts go through are worn, however, this would indicate it may be time to rework or replace the frame.
   • Keeping the bolts tight will greatly increase the life of a metal frame, because the bolts can't ream out the holes as easily.
2. Take your bed frame apart. To properly lubricate the squeak, you’ll need to be able to coat every component of the joint with wax or grease. With your mattress and box spring off the frame, unscrew the bolt or screw at the problem joint.
   
3. Inspect the frame and flooring. Look for potential balance problems, such as an uneven floor or a damaged leg. Some bed frames use hard, plastic wheels at the corners and plastic standouts in the center of the frame; over time, this arrangement may distort the balance of the bed frame if the bed is on a soft surface, such as a carpet.
   
   • Removing the center standout from your frame and adding another type of support (e.g., a couple of books and a jar lid) might help.
4. Lubricate each component of the joint. You’ll want to coat everything in wax or grease: the nut, the screw, the washer, the bolt, the aperture in the frame itself, and any other component that may be a part of your bed. The squeaking is being caused by friction, which you will reduce by lubricating every surface. ^[1]
   
   • WD-40 or a similar substance also works, as will any oil, silicon, or lithium based lubricant, though they tend to emit strong odors. Open your windows and air out your room for several hours before sleeping on the bed, to avoid nauseating fumes.
   • Paraffin wax is an excellent choice for lubricating your bed’s joints, and is sold in bar form at many supermarkets.
   • A bar of soap, candle wax, skateboard wax, or surfing wax are items you might have on hand that you could use to grease up these contact points.
5. Slide cork cushioning between your frame's pieces. For wooden beds which connect through pegs and not bolts, you don't really have anything to tighten. Instead, try sliding corking or furniture pads between the pieces of your bed frame to provide cushioning. You can place it around the pegs as necessary, or get crafty and cut small holes in the pad or corking for the pegs to pass through.
   
6. Reassemble your bed frame. You’ve got to sleep in this thing, right? After you’ve thoroughly lubricated the components of your bed frame, put it back together. Ensure your frame’s fasteners are tight, but don’t force them once they won’t move for you.
   
   • If your frame has wheels, turn the middle wheels toward opposite corners of the room.
7. Layer towels, socks, or old t-shirts between the frame and the box spring. These should be wedged in each corner, laid out as smoothly as possible, and along each slat or metal bar if you have enough towels (or towel substitutes). These should prevent your box spring from shifting too much within the frame. After you’ve placed them, carefully replace the box spring.
   
   • Repeating the tests of part one are recommended at this point.
8. Insert a pillow between your bed frame and the wall. ^[2] An object bracing your frame can provide support to a squeaky frame. This can lessen extant squeaks, and prevent your bed frame from loosening as time goes on.
   
   • Corking, furniture pads, towels, or multiple other objects can also serve this purpose.

Adjusting Your Mattress and Box Spring Properly

1. Center your mattress on the bed frame. Uneven weight distribution often results in a squeaky sleep experience. Mattress can easily become misaligned, especially if you don’t sleep alone.
   
2. Rotate the mattress. Again, balancing the weight distribution on the springs can often make a huge difference. Mattress manufacturers recommend that you periodically rotate the mattress to ensure even wear and tear.
   
   • Older mattresses should be flipped as well, though newer mattresses are designed so that flipping unnecessary. ^[3] If you have a coil or foam mattress, however, flipping it wouldn’t be bad; the only mattress you should absolutely not flip is a pillow-top. ^[4]
   • Box springs should also be rotated, but should never be flipped.
3. Place a flat, hard object underneath the mattress. A piece of plywood is appropriate for this. The added pressure may not remove the squeaking entirely, but will certainly reduce it. ^[5] You should feel minimal additional firmness when lying on your mattress.
   
   • If you found a particularly squeaky spot during your earlier investigation, try placing a hardcover book directly underneath it instead.

Tips

• Although the time may come when you need to replace your bed, trying these repairs first can save you hassle and expense.

Warnings

• When using spray lubricant, you should apply enough to cease the squeaking, but it should be used sparingly. It usually takes far less than a half ounce of spray lubricant to stop a simple squeak.
• Be careful when tightening bolts to use the proper wrench. An adjustable wrench may do the job, but it can also easily round the corners off the bolt and nut. If the corners are severely rounded, you may not be able to remove the bolt without filing new flats onto the side of the head. This is an undesirable task that can be easily avoided by finding a wrench that snugly fits the bolts.

Related wikiHows

• How to Build a Wooden Bed Frame
• How to Build a Headboard for a Bed
• How to Fix a Squeaking Ceiling Fan
• How to Fix Squeaky Floorboards
• How to Stop Windshield Wiper Blades from Squeaking

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