Eyebrows, eyebrows, eyebrows! Are yours super thick or fine and delicate? A friend once said, “If your face is the picture then your hair is the frame. A frame can either enhance the picture or take away from it.” So, I guess if your eyes are the windows to your soul, your eyebrows are the window treatment. How’s your window treatment? If you are that wonderful deep shade of melanin-drenched brown, finding the right products matter as much as technique. So, here is an everyday, natural looking brow with two products and simple steps!

Before I go any further, I want to give you a heads up: I’m taking a break from tweezing, waxing, and threading my brows for a little while, because I want them to be a little fuller. So, you will see some stray hairs. Okay, let’s go!

What I Used:

1. A brow/eye pencil (CoverGirl Brow Pencil in Midnight Black – $3.99)

2. Concealer (Estee Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place High Cover Concealer – $27.00)

3. A makeup brush (Small eyeshadow brush from a Sephora Brush Set – gift)

Substitutes:

• You can substitute the brow pencil for any almost black brown eye pencil (For my hair people, think 1B, not 1). This one worked well for me because it is just enough balance of black and brown. It doesn’t have the gray hue that some black pencils have or the magenta that brown pencils have. For a natural-looking, everyday brow, pencils give just enough color.
• When you don’t have a pencil, using the darkest brown, almost black eyeshadow can work as well. If you don’t have concealer, you can use your cream or liquid foundation. When I use liquid foundation for this, I like to use the product at the top outer ring of the bottle that has dried in into cream.
• You can substitute the small eyeshadow brush with any brush that gives you a clean slim line.

I’ve used an angled eyeshadow/eyeliner brush. There is an angled eyeshadow brush in the EcoTools Bamboo brush set ($11) that has worked well for me.

1. Using short strokes, fill in your brows where they are sparse in the shape that you desire.

Go in the direction that the hair grows. For example, at the beginning of my brow the hair grows straight up with a slight lean, so that is direction I draw the stroke.

Closer to the end of my brow the hair grows downward, so that is the direction I apply the pencil. Think of each stroke like the length of one strand of your eyebrow. This is the key for a natural look.

For a full glam heavier look, this technique may not matter as much.

2. Use your finger, applying light pressure to slightly smear the pencil strokes to get rid of any harsh lines, or uneven coloring.

This is super important at the beginning of the brow and the very end, where you might have been heavy-handed.

3. Dip and lightly spread the makeup brush across the surface of the concealer.

A little bit goes a long way and you can always add more so start with a little bit. Draw a line on the bottom of your brows to form the shape that you desire.

Optional: Repeat step 3 on the top of your brow, to define the top of your brow.

4. Use your finger to lightly press on top of the lines of concealer you applied, with short light strokes, to blend with your brow.

5. When you’re done look in the mirror, preferably in natural light.

Check to see if have a halo or light noticeable ring of concealer around your brows. If you do, blend the concealer above your eyebrow with your skin and remove any excess. To double-check you can take a picture of yourself with flash to see if there is still a halo.

You made it all the way to end!  I appreciate you so much for reading. I would love to hear your experiences, feedback, and story ideas because your voice matters to me 🙂 Comment below to share your thoughts.

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Chantal is a project manager by day, writer/graphic designer by night, and a former business school career coach and career development professor. Through her writing, one-on-one coaching and group classes she strives to give practical, thoughtful and inspiring tips/ideas on communication and personal branding, to encourage purpose-driven women to achieve their professional and personal goals. She is the founder of leonandlucie.com, a website with everyday products with African-inspired designs. She shares thoughts on life as a Congolese-Ugandan American, with mild obsessions with hair/beauty, family, healthy living, good food and African clothes at medium.com/@ckamya and instagram.com/chantalkamya.

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