One of the most powerful parts of our face is our eyebrows. Powerful in terms of being able to change expression, visual appearance, personal style and point the period of time person lives at.
There are so many different opinions about perfect brows, and as at any art there is no right one or wrong one. My feel of taste goes towards natural, quite thick, not overdone, but nicely groomed eyebrows. Until I`m trying to create era makeup, or draw a character on the face I would prefer to follow natural eyebrow shape of my client making it cleaner and keeping in mind all face features (size of the nose, eyes, hair style, etc).
There is a variety of different tools you can use to groom your eyebrows: brush, tweezers and scissors are my go to tools, but waxing and threading might be a better option for some situations.
I have 4 different types of eyebrow painting tools in my professional kit: powders (right color of eyeshadow works as well), pencils, creams, gels.
If you`re lucky and have very full and nicely groomed eyebrows then you might just use tinted brow gel to add a touch of color and keep eyebrow hairs nicely styled during the day.
For soft colored eyebrows I would choose powder and angled brush. My trick is to damp the brush so I can really mimic hair's shadows and not just draw solid eyebrow, but try to create an illusion of hairs.
For every day makeup for myself I chose pencil, just because it`s a bit easier and faster.
Here is before picture (oh, yes, and I got new hair cut :)
So as you can see my eyebrows much lighter than my hair and I need to use pencil very close in color to my hair, that way it will look more natural and harmoniously.
Close up to see what we have to work with: definitely need to create nice eyebrow tail, fill out the gaps in between hairs and overall give the eyebrow more pronounced look.
Here is the result of creating soft everyday eyebrows (that don`t look made up) using pencil and clear brow gel to bring hair texture back.
Sometimes the event or makeup over all dictate us to have stronger, long lasting, perfectly shaped eyebrows. For this purpose I would use eyebrow creams, pomades with angled brush and for precise finish would go with concealer under and above brows using flat brush.
Here is the pic in progress:
Then just blend the concealer part and you got a bit more made up and stronger brows.
Let`s add some fall lip color using my new treasure: tinted lip gloss in wine-berry (not sticky and greasy, feels and looks like a stain)
Oh yes, and remember: eyebrows are not twins, they are sisters, so don`t go too crazy trying to make then look absolutely even:) Have fun and experiment with different tools ;)
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