- Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode
of "Beauty in Five Minutes."
My name's Megan
and today we're gonna be talking all things brows.
Ready, set, go.
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So let's just do a run through
of let's just say like the top five to six type
of brow products that you will usually see
or encounter in your beauty travels.
The first type of brow product that is probably
one that you're most familiar
with is a brow pencil or crayon.
So this literally looks like your stock standard pencil.
It just draws on really effortlessly, adds definition,
fills in sparse areas, but it gives a really natural look.
Another type of brow pencil that you can have is
like a really, really small wind up pencil I guess,
but this is a much finer tip so you can get
much more precise and really into little areas.
And then the last type of brow product that I would say
still falls into that brow pencil category is a brow crayon.
They do the exact same thing as a pencil,
but they do so with a little bit more of a surface area.
The second product that you've probably heard a lot
about is a brow pomade.
Now this is usually a wax cream or gel formula that goes in
and adds a much more concentrated amount of pigment
to the brow.
You will have to use a little brush with a pomade.
Generally it is very creamy
which means that it glides really effortlessly
onto the skin and onto the brow hairs.
Next we're gonna go onto a brow pen.
Now, this is usually like a liquid or watercolour ink
that goes in and adds pigment to the brows.
This does have a different type
of inky watercolour pigment that comes out.
We then move on to brow powders.
Now these are basically just pigmented powders
that fill in sparse areas of the brows.
They usually sit underneath the hairs and create a shadow
which gives you that nice filled in look.
If you have these type of shadows in an eyeshadow palette,
you can just use those.
They are the exact same product.
And the last category is brow gels and mascaras.
Now, if you're thinking of a pigmented brow gel,
they are basically aiming to add volume
and hold to the brow as well as a pigment.
A great example of that is the Gimme Brow by Benefit.
So this actually goes into add little fibres for volume.
It also has pigment as well as staying power.
So if you are the type of person that's on a time crunch
or you just want a product that's like a three in one,
definitely go for something like that.
If you're the type of person that just needs something
to help your brows stay in place,
your hairs are a little bit unruly,
then definitely go for something like 24 Hour Brow Setter
by Benefit or Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze.
Now, when it comes to choosing the right shade
for your brows, always go for your natural hair colour
or one shade lighter.
So now that we've covered off all of the different types
of brow products, we're going to cut to me previously,
and I'm going to do a brow tutorial for you.
We're brow-less once again.
Before we jump into the tutorial with products and speaking
to that sort of thing, I'm just gonna introduce you
to a technique called the golden ratio.
Now, this is not a new concept, but the place
where I first heard about it and saw it was
from Anastasia Beverly Hills.
This is not like follow this or your brows are wrong.
It is just a simple guide that you can use if you are just
really lost with where to start with your brows.
Okay, so first we need to line up
where our brow should begin.
So we are going to start
on this little ridge of your nostril.
Draw a line from the ridge of your nostril straight up
and then that is where your brow should start,
and you can draw a little mark if you want.
Next, we're gonna map out our arch.
You basically draw a line from the tip of your nose
through your iris and where that line extends is
where the arch of your brow should be.
A line from the tip of our nose through our iris.
My arch should be sitting or I guess the highest point
of my brow should be sitting here.
Where your brow should end is basically
pretend that you're drawing a line from the very edge
of your nose to the end of your eye,
and you're just gonna elongate that line straight through.
So my brow should be ending around abouts there.
Now as you can see, my brows are already pretty full
so I don't do a whole lot to them.
But what I do like to do is fill in sparse areas.
Firstly, I use my pigment product.
This is the Brow Micro Filing Pen from Benefit.
So the first thing that I like to do is just
brush my brow hairs into place.
For me, this means brushing them upwards.
The brush that I like to use to do this is
the Anastasia Beverly Hills 7B brush.
So it has your little like spoolie attachment on the end
and then you also get an angled brush
or you also could just buy a disposable spoolie pack
from the chemist.
But I just find this easier.
I like to start with the intersection of my brow,
and I first like to map out my bottom baseline.
Even if I've accidentally put too much product
on my bottom baseline, I can grab my spoolie
and I can feather that product up throughout my brows.
Whereas if I start from the top, it's kind of harder
to feather it downwards throughout the brows.
This pen is pretty cool.
It actually has three little prongs in there
that go in and try to mimic, I guess, the effect
of a microblading tool or pen that you would usually use.
I actually use this on its flat edge first,
and I'm just going to go in and fill in that baseline
of my brow where I get a little bit sparse.
So I'd just like to use light strokes,
and I'm just going to feather that product upwards
ever so gently.
Now I do just wanna soften the inside there
so that it doesn't look too blocky.
So I'm just gonna grab the spoolie again
and I'm just going to disperse that product evenly
throughout the brow.
I'm just going to take that through,
and I'm just filling in the areas where there is hair there
but it's kind of patchy.
You can really tell the difference between that one
and that one, can't you?
Okay, so now moving on to the tail,
remembering that my brow is meant to end at the end
of that diagonal line that I'm creating
from the end of my nose through the end of my eye.
So my brows do naturally finish up a little bit shorter.
Now, if you've added too much pigment
to the point where you're going in with your spoolie
but there's still just too much pigment,
you can't get rid of it,
you're gonna grab a concealer and a little angled brush,
something like this.
Use this to clean up or carve out any areas that you want.
Once you're happy with the shape of your brow
and the way that you filled it in, you wanna lock it
into place so I'm going to be using the Benefit
24 Hour Brow Setter.
Other brow mascaras, clear ones that I love,
there's one from MAC, I think it's called Clear Brow Gel.
Anastasia Beverly Hills has a really great clear brow gel.
R+Co have a really great clear brow gel.
I could go on.
The list goes on and on.
And that is my finished brow.
I'm just gonna go ahead and do my other brow now.
In terms of the shape of my brows,
I do get my brows threaded every four to six weeks
so that I have a nice stencil or guide to work off
when I am filling them in.
But I do have to say, brows are sisters not twins.
So always keep that in mind.
If you have an uneven brow,
that is very normal and very common.
So that concludes our brow video for today.
Hopefully you learn a thing or two.
If you have any questions at all, please just pop them
in the comments and we will get back to you.
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