Nothing can shape up a face more than a well-kept brow. Similalrly, an unkempt brow can screw up your face, making your look messy or unbalanced. A bit of professional brow maintenance (waxing, plucking, or threading) is just the best way to achieve perfectly sculpted brows that compliment your face. But using a makeup product on your brows helps complete the look.
The professional makeup artists are obsessive about natural, neat brows, and the perfect brow pencils and powders that complement them. This post reveals everything you should know to get fabulous brows easily.
What Do Brow Pencils Do?
Many of you may not be blessed with perfectly balanced eyebrows. Whether your eyebrows are full or thin, there are likely to be some empty spots where one eyebrow grows and the other doesn’t, leaving your brows looking a bit unbalanced.
Brow pencil comes to the rescue! A pencil is used to add subtle color to your brows, making them shapely, rectifying areas which are sparse, and balancing them with one another for unilateral conformity. Brow pencils can embellish the look of natural brow hairs.
Will a Brow Pencil Last All Day?
Brow pencils of course last all day, provided they contain the right ingredients and are applied in the right manner. Clean, plant-based ingredients are good for your skin and brows, plus have natural staying power.
What About Ingredients?
What your brow pencil contains matters, and sadly, most color cosmetics go likely unchecked in terms of safety. These are 3 ingredients typically found in the brow pencils that have no place near your eyes.
Chromium oxide greens:- This is used in pencils for its coloration. However, it is a nano-particle material, which likely damages the environment and harms your body. The FDA doesn’t permit it to be an ingredient in lip products, so why should it be in brow pencils?
Phenoxyethanol:- This ingredient is a preservative having an unsafe EWG rating. It’s a proven irritant and classified as a neurotoxin. Lot of countries ban this ingredient from cosmetics.
Polyethylene:- This is a plastic polymer found in brow pencils to help thicken them and make their application easier. However, they’re classified as a toxin with possible reproductive interference.
How To Make Brow Makeup Look Natural?
Pick Lighter Shades
Darker shades will add heaviness to your brow bone. Choose a shade lighter than your natural brow color to facilitate a natural looking brow makeup. Lighter colors are more forgiving and can be easily dispersed into your brows to give them a touch of realness.
Use Smaller Strokes
While sweeping strokes create clumps of product and a crayon-like effect. The short strokes create an illusion of individual brow hairs. The resultant fine lines look more realistic.
The Nutshell
In a nutshell, a brow pencil and powder are the essentials, for any makeup bag and using them correctly doesn’t take a lot of practice or professional tips. Gorgeous brows start with the right shades of cruelty-free, & non-toxic brow products with a bit of skill.
