Everything Eyebrows

Hey Guys!

How have y'all been? Sorry I haven't posted in a while I've been crazy busy with revision :( as yes it is once again that dreaded time of year! And for me it's even more mega important I do well as these results will determine which university I get into AHHHH!

Anyway enough of that, as you are all probably well aware big eyebrows are all the trend! With gorgeous models and actresses such as the beautiful Cara Delevingne and Lily Collins all sporting a heavier brow! I envy anyone who can pull the look off without looking like they've got slugs over their eyes or that it's so ridiculously obvious that they've drawn them on and drawn them on too big! (internal scream). I have tried (and failed) several times to try and pull off the heavy brow look but ended up looking like I'd overdrawn my brows. So now I just settle with filling in my eye brows making their shape stand out a bit more.

I really want to try an eyebrow mascara but when I've gone to look at them some of them seem quite daunting and the thought of swiping a liquid through my brows is quite scary! Though I will try one, one day- any recommendations?

So for me to achieve a not so much perfect brow I use a couple of products/techniques. Firstly I fail at plucking my eyebrows, lots of my friends love plucking theirs everyday where as me I put it off for as long as humanly possible, purely because I'm a big baby and it makes me cry as I've got quite thick course hair (due to my Asian roots) plucking my eyebrows more often then not causes them to bleed, so I prefer to get my eyebrows threaded or waxed every so often as the hair stays away for a lot longer.

For my eyebrows I start by brushing them into shape, you could do this with an actual eyebrow/ eye
lash brush but instead of investing in one I just washed off the wand of a mascara that had run out and I use that.

 After brushing into shape I then use a eyebrow pencil and run it through the center of my eye brows in short strokes, the pencil I have has a little brush attached to the lid so I use this to buff and blend the pencil in a bit. I use Rimmel's Professional Eyebrow pencil in dark brown, not only is this quite cheap it is amazing and I have fallen in love with it. The pencil is soft and very blend-able and if you somehow go outside your eyebrow or smudge it it is very easy to wipe away without leaving any trace that it was ever there. The brush attached to it is good for blending in the colour too.

After the pencil I use brow shadow to soften my brow a bit. I use Beauty UK  High Brow. It comes with three different colours and a wax. I don't use the wax as I attempted it a couple of times but it just made my eyebrows clump together, the colours in the palette are black, dark brown and blonde/light brown colour. For my eyebrows I use the dark brown colour and apply it using an angled brush, I apply it at least 30cm away from my mirror as I read on another blog that your eye brows are about perspective so you should apply shadow to them from a distance, so ever since I've practised that and I must say it makes a difference, though I still apply the pencil up close as it requires more precision. High Brow like Rimmel's pencil again is quite cheap and can be bought from most Superdrug stores and online, and although I only really use the dark brown colour I do occasionally use the blonde shade as it allows me to build up my brow without it being noticeable so I use this when I want to look like I'm wearing minimal make up. I have never used the black shade on my eyebrows however I recently purchased a new eye liner brush and I found that the black shadow is perfect as a powdered eye liner!

Please excuse the quality of the last picture, as this is a product I use everyday it has as you can see become covered in finger prints!

How do you do your eyebrows? Can anyone recommend a good eyebrow mascara I could try?

Until next time!

Smile Beautiful :)

Lydia x