You’re going to grow hair!
I won’t have to do my eyebrows ever again.
Ok, well...
For awhile I won’t have to do my eyebrows.
Hey guys!
It’s Mi-Anne and this is Beauty With Mi.
So this episode is really special because
it involves me conquering a fear.
Needles freak me out!
I got my eyebrows microbladed.
Essentially, it’s a semi-permanent way to
fill in your brows and it lasts over a year!
52 weeks, 365 days a year.
Your eyebrows are permanently there.
For me, as someone who does fill in her
eyebrows pretty much every single day,
that’s pretty friggin’ awesome.
So I started thinking about getting my own
eyebrows microbladed about two years ago
when my coworker and friend Alyssa
got hers done.
I’ve had to really convince Mi-Anne
that this is worth it.
It just so happened Alyssa was due for
a touch-up on her own brows
so we ventured all the way to Long Island
to visit Emilia Berry,
founder and eyebrow extraordinaire
at Permaline Cosmetics.
Hey guys it’s Alyssa Coscarelli here,
fashion market editor at Refinery29
and I’m here with Mi-Anne today on an
eyebrow adventure.
A tattoo on your face, essentially.
It seems like it’s gonna hurt!
I always insist that it’s not that bad but
your eyes water when you get your eyebrows done,
like when you get them waxed or threaded.
That’s true.
It’s just a sensitive area.
You know, the technician puts numbing cream
on your eyebrows so that you really
technically shouldn't feel a thing.
But I am still nervous.
All right, I’m excited.
We should just do it.
Let’s do it!
All right.
First things first,
Emilia smoothed on a layer of numbing cream.
She’s an angel sent from heaven above
to fix eyebrows.
She’s been doing it for years so Alyssa
and I knew we were in really good hands.
Blades aren’t out yet so I’m not that nervous.
I know that there’s some steps
before we get there.
First of all, we’re creating shape, essentially.
I’m filling in.
I’m adding here and there.
This is...This is a really good shape.
— Thank you. — I agree with you.
I think because I’m so used to it being
a little bit more of an angle so just keep going.
So let’s do it a little more angle-y.
Then she brought out all of her inks
and started matching the color
to my eyebrows and once I was happy with it—
— I think this one. — I think so too.
She pulled out her microblading tool.
Not gonna lie, it scared the $#*! out of me.
Essentially a row of needles.
The first feeling of the pain is like what
I’m most anxious about.
Listen, I’m going to go super slow.
Then I closed my eyes and Emelia
started scraping teeny tiny brow
hairs onto my skin.
You all right?
Yep!
It doesn’t hurt.
That’s usually one of the more sensitive
areas right there.
Yeah, it hurts a little more now but still,
I can do it.
The first few strokes were, admittedly,
mildly uncomfortable but afterward,
it didn’t hurt at all.
You can kind of hear the needles, like...
like scratching on your skin.
That’s kind of like a...That’s a little bit scary.
On a scale of one being no eyebrows
to ten being bushy eyebrows,
where were my natural eyebrows?
I think yours are about six, seven?
Really?
Mmhm.
You have eyebrows.
What is Alyssa then?!
So this process took about 45 minutes
before she switched to a digital pen
which essentially is a tattoo gun
with a really fine needle.
See?
You can't even see how moving but
it does move.
Oh man, it’s so sharp.
Ahh!
It was kind of scary.
The machine made a lot of noises
but it actually was less painful
than the actual scraping.
I don’t, I don’t feel it at all.
It’s kind of amazing.
Isn’t it?
The most important thing, I believe,
is if you create eyebrows to not make them too perfect.
To kind of try to simulate mother nature,
which she certainly is not.
All right, looks good.
Wanna see?
Yes, I do want to see it.
Oh they look so natural!
All these little tiny hairs.
Super even and fresh and all filled in.
I’m so excited to not have to fill my eyebrows
in anymore.
And that was it!
I had built up all this anxiety for two years
for an hour long process that honestly was
pretty painless.
Once she was done,
Emelia wiped off our eyebrows and instructed
Alyssa and I not to get them wet for five days.
I told you it wasn’t gonna be that bad!
It was just how I remembered.
Like, you could hear the little
scraping sound a bit
but the numbing cream really works wonders.
I’m so excited for them to heal a little bit too
— so that we can see in four weeks- — The final, final result.
What the final effect is but even just,
I don’t know, one hour post.
And how do you feel?
Does it hurt at all?
Mine’s a little bit tender.
The actual procedure didn’t hurt at all.
We’re gonna have to get creative with covering
our eyebrows, keeping them dry.
Maybe wearing some goggles in the shower
for the next five days.
But four weeks later…
They’re gonna look amazing.
Wait for it.
So I know for me,
that this has kind of changed my life.
Me too!
I can honestly do my makeup in five minutes
now that I have these.
I just conceal anything,
a little bronzer, a little mascara.
Peace.
So it all came together full circle.
Aw.
Let’s do it again sometime!
Yeah, two years from now.
We’ll make a date.
So for those of you who don’t want to spend
the money and I do not blame you.
It is a lot of money.
I have a few products here that I personally
really, really love.
The first of which is a brow pencil.
Now, I am a big fan of brow pencils
especially if you have superfine
brow hairs like me.
This one’s from Benefit.
It’s called, "The Precisely, My Brow Pencil."
Secondly, I like to set my work.
Usually I’ll do it with a powder and then
gel but you can also get away
with just doing gel.
It is called, "The Maybelline Brow Precise."
I like it because it has little tiny fibers
that you can put on your brow hairs and it
kinda beefs them up a little.
So, a very good choice.
Also at the drugstore so it’s affordable.
Got it, got it.
Would you ever get your eyebrows microbladed?
Let me know in the comments below
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