Ask & You Shall Receive - Eyebrow Query

Reader Lisa wants some advice for her brows. She says they're "respectably thick up to the arch and then really thin and patchy at the outer edge". She doesn't pluck them except for the odd tidy of stray hairs round the edges, but she's worried they look overplucked anyway. Basically she's looking to add some definition to her face and wonders if it's going to take a visit to a beautician, or can we help her find a solution?

Oh I think we can! This is actually a really common problem if the amount of brow products out there are anything to go by. I have read that beauticians sometimes use Regaine (the stuff for baldy men) on the thin end of brows to promote hair growth. Once that growth is in, the brows can then be plucked into shape. You can also buy a product called Talika Eyebrow Lipoicils which I blogged about in October and which claims to promote growth too.

browzingsBut if you're wary of ending up with a monobrow or dropping a lot of cash on something that only might work, then cheating is the answer. Benefit have a fab little kit called Brow Zings which is absolutely perfect for plumping up less than full brows, and it's designed to give a natural look, which pencils often don't. It contains a shaded brow wax which you use to fill in, shape and extend your brows. You then seal the wax with the complementing powder which acts as an overcoat and which will keep brows in place all day. The kit comes in a dinky compact with a mirror, two wee brushes and a tiny tweezers too - aww!

Benefit recommend that you go a shade darker than your natural shade too, as this will help the whole blending in process. It's a bit pricey at $28 (from their website) and you can also pick it up in any Benefit stockist - Boots, BT's and Arnotts will all oblige. But you'd get a lot of use out of it so it would pay for itself over time.

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Smashbox also do a very similar product called Brow Tech which you'll be able to pick up in Arnotts. It's not as cute as the Benefit one though and you'd also need to invest in brushes to use with it if you don't already have them. It does come in more shades though, so if you found that Brow Zings didn't have the right shade, then I reckon Smashbox will.

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