Bet almost all of you have this product at home? Brow expert Celia Price tells us whether you're using it correctly.
There are what feels like 24612941031 different eyebrow products. Some of them are more hyped, some less. But that doesn't mean that we can use the products in question correctly. We asked Celia Price, National Brow Artist of benefit Germany, which product is most often misused. You will be surprised …
Mystery Micro Brow Pens
Believe it or not, the super hyped Micro Brow Pens – the very fine eyebrow pencils with which precise lines can be drawn – are almost always used incorrectly. Namely anything but precise, as Celia reveals to us in an interview:
A thin pencil represents definition and fine lines. Many use it to completely fill their browbones and then wonder why it is empty so quickly. Quite simply because it is not intended for that.
Actually, it should only be used to trace fine hairs in those places where the eyebrows have gaps. There is also a simple reason for this: "I do not unnecessarily edit places where I have hair, always the places where there is no hair first.
The perfect combination
According to Celia, if you want to create a surface and background for the brow first, you should first use a thick brow pencil or powder. Then we should comb through the brows and only THEN trace them with the Micro Brow Pen. Because: by brushing it out, you ruin the appearance of hairs – and the work was in vain.
When it comes to choosing the color of the Micro Brow Pens, many also go wrong. So that the result looks as realistic as possible, Celia advises buying the pencil one or two shades darker than your own eyebrow hair. Sounds like this could be scary at first, but it actually makes perfect sense. This is the only way to recognize the drawn hairs as such, otherwise the lines simply go under in the brows.
When drawing in the hair, you shouldn't put the pencil on the front, but always hold it at an angle. Firstly, it doesn't break off so quickly and you have more control over the pigmentation. The thin brow pens are usually very heavily pigmented – so it's better to get away from the mirror and look at the overall picture. It doesn't get too much like that.
So now you should definitely know how to do it properly. R.I.P. Bad Brows!