Showing posts with label Eyebrows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eyebrows. Show all posts

Saturday, August 21, 2010

HELP! - Color in eyebrows BLACK, or stick with BROWN?

(here im wearing the Black pencil)
I decided to try out coloring my eyebrows black. My natural eyebrow color is a very dark brown, almost black in real life, but not thick so you can't really tell that they are black. The pencil i've been using, as you all might know by now is the Wet'n'Wild eye/brow pencil in Dark Brown. Of course i have an unconditional love for this pencil, but i was just trying out a darker pencil. The one i used today is from L'oreal Brow Stylist Custom brow shaping pencil. It comes with two pencils (one brown and one black), but i only use the black one so i can have no brown mixed and see how it turns out.
Personally i don't really know what to think about it. I kinda like it but i'm not sure if it looks as good as brown, that's why i NEED your opinion lol! So i know if i should go ahead and buy black eyebrow pencils or stick with my usual color.

Please leave me a comment below and help me out with this decision i would really appreciate it lol and you can be as honest as you want, i would appreciate it a lot more =)
(Can you tell the difference? lol)
xoxo

So tell me dolls:
Black
or Brown?

Thursday, July 29, 2010

TUTORIAL: How i do my eyebrows!

I've been getting a long of questions on how i do and what i use for my eyebrows. This is one of those posts where im going to feel very naked showing you my eyebrows but im willing to sacrifice lol. My eyebrows are naturally very annoying lol! I've always had thick eyebrows until highschool, when i let my mother pluck them for me....big mistake!... they were good for a while but then they developed a mind of their own and had no shape whatsoever. It takes too long to let them re-grow and re-start the shape, so in the mean time i try to shape them up on my own.

My natural eyebrows
They're not too sparse and not too full either, but very uneven. The reason for that is because my right one has thin blonde hairs so it makes it look bolder and a lot lighter than my left one..(that's how close i've examined them lol!). They're thin because of overplucking and weird shaped because of how im growing them back, they have no definite shape on their own.

Keeping up with my eyebrowsI bought Ardell stencils from my local drugstore. They're the plastic sheet with various shapes of eyebrows. I didn't follow the stencil exactly but i used it as a guideline to at least make my eyebrows even. I don't use this anymore because i know what shape i want. Any little hairs that grow below or above the shape i have i pluck. Since my hairs aren't short, i use eyebrow scissors to cut them a little bit, giving my eyebrows a more tamed look.

What i use
I never used powder to fill in my eyebrows. I have tried the Maybelline Define-a-brow and i really loved it. It filled in my eyebrows perfectly and made them look natural. The downfall about it was that it would finish too fast, so i stopped buying it. I mentioned in various posts about what i use at the moment to fill them in and shape them.And that is the Wet'n'Wild brow/eye liner pencil in Dark Brown. The pencil has a waxy feel to it so it keeps my eyebrows in place and doesn't smudge. I love that especially now that its so hot outside. To apply, i use an angled brush, i don't use the pencil directly because its too dark, and with a brush i can control the intensity.

How i do my eyebrows

I start off where my eyebrow starts, by the bridge of my nose, mark a curved line and draw it along the top, following your shape.
Once i get to the arch, i make sure to curve it to actually create that arch, then continue to draw the eyebrow and finish it.
Then i go back when the eyebrow starts and draw along the bottom, working in a curve upwards until the arch, then bring it back down.
I basically create an outline of my eyebrow, then go back and fill in whatever is left in between.
I always go with a spoolie and brush the eyebrow in the direction it grows, to make it look neat and nice.
Then i draw the other one, and make sure they're even.

Optional step: You can use a clear mascara to tame your eyebrows and keep them in place.
Advice: Your eyebrows are sisters, not twins.... make them look even and similar, so don't get frustrated if they're not identical.
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Thoughts?