DIY Brow Pomade

Brows got EXTREMELY popular these last few years. Ppl realized how important a good set of brows was to, not only a great makeup look, but to your face in general. Anyhoo... Everyone was looking for ther perfect brow products. Some people weren't just ready to accept that pencils were the only option. So on came waxy pencils made specifically for brows, brow powders, gels and pomades. I was actually not sold on the idea that my method of alternating between a pencil and a dark brown shadow was inadequate. I mean... it looked great in the end. And paying tens of dollars on a pomade that i heard was prone to drying out, just because it was trending just wasn't on my list of things to do.... but... wait.. i could just make my own right? Ppl are doing that? Youtubing and Pinteresting my life away allowed me to discover that i could totally make my own brow product and for a fraction of the cost of those other big named products... but will it work? Hmmm....

Some people were using actual hair pomade and hair sprays and eyeshadow to create their brow products but... i don't use pomade and i was really trying to avoid buying something that i don't really need to have sitting on the shelf in my bathroom. So, i grabbed my Murray's Beeswax

....and scooped a bit of it into an empty gel eye liner pot til the little pot was just over half full. Then, after one of my many adventures down the Walgreen's cosmetic isle, i used the dark brown definer shade at the center of my Wet N Wild "The Naked Truth" pallette for color. 

I scraped the shadow into the gel liner pot with the beeswax and used a cuticle pusher (because it's small) to break the shadow down and mix the products together. In hindsight, it probably would have been a million times easier to mix the two on a flat surface or in a larger container and then tranferring it to the gel liner pot. Anyway, it'll take something like equal parts to get the right amount of pigmentation for you brow product, but once you get it to the right color, it works like magic!

And there you have it! Brow "pomade" made super cheap and easy with beeswax and eyeshadow! It works great, it doesn't dry out and best of all, when u run out, you can just whip up some more! BOOM!

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Brows Anyone?

So.... i get complimented on my brows pretty often.. about as often as i get complimented on my makeup in general. so i FINALLY decided to to a little step-by-step of how i draw these bad mamma jammas. lol! anyhoo.. i've used a lot of different techniques over time but this way is the best way to get some neat and, from someone else's mouth not mine, "crisp" brows...

the first box on the right is just my brow so u can see what they look like bare... they're there, but they aren't anything special... at all.

1. take a brow pencil and start at the top of where u want your arch to peek and bring it down to where u want ur brow to end

2. take that same pencil at the inner corner of the top of your brow and meet up at the peek of your arch... ps: this is where u can get creative and make some crazy high arches happen if u want.

3. make another line at the bottom of your brow and bring it into the bottom of ur arch. if u have no brows or super thin brows, take the pencil down to meet up with the outer corner so you have some good shape going.

4. color it in. ha!

5. take a spiral brush (holding it sideways like so ^^^) and brush the brows so they look a bit softer... i brush to the side, following the direction of my brows

6. and then it looks like that ^^^

7. use a concealer or foundation that's a shade or 2 lighter than your skin to outline the brows (it makes the pop more if you use a lighter color... but if ur not wearing any other makeup... go with your skin color cuz nobody wants to look crazy)

8. blend it out! i use my ring finger to blend from my brow outward

and there you have it folks! it's simple but makes a big difference in the way your face looks! try it and enjoy! ;-)


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