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I Tried Eyebrow Lamination, and I’m Obsessed: Brow Lamination Review


Sadly, the only photo I took the night of my service

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It shouldn’t hurt.

If you haven’t tried microblading because of the pain factor, brow lamination is a great option. According to Richards, if you go to a licensed professional, you shouldn’t experience any irritation during the treatment, and it shouldn’t cause any damage to your brows. I had a forehead breakout before getting mine done, so I had a bit of itching after, but it quickly went away. If you have serious acne or sensitive skin, I would check with your derm, and as always, research, research, research before making an appointment. The treatment should last until your brow hairs grow out, which is about six weeks, and Richardson says not to get brow lamination more than once in that period.

It does take a little getting used to, but it’s worth it.

I’m not going to lie, the night I came home from my brow lift, I was convinced I had made a big mistake. Instead of looking like Cara Delevingne, I felt a little closer to Dan Levy. My already full brows had basically doubled in size (which could be life-changing for someone with smaller brows) and felt huge for my smaller features. This isn’t totally uncommon. “It might be a little overwhelming at first, like, ‘Oh, my God, I have a bang on my eyebrow,'” says Richardson. “But once you learn how to style them, it’s game-changing.” She also adds that if you’re truly unhappy, you can just brush them sideways instead of straight up.

I was pretty self-conscious of them for the next few days, but about four days in, something clicked. You really have to play around with brushing them—a combination up and over worked for me—to get them how you really want them to look, and I feel like they “settled in” and weren’t as stick-straight after a few days. I’m sure part of it was my brain getting used to them as well.

Bella after Brow Lamination

A week in and I’ve finally mastered my brows.

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A week after my treatment, I’m actually super into the results. My brows somehow look more “done” and yet totally natural at the same time—very model-esque— and they really help pull the focus to my eyes. The brushed-up look and lifted arch make me look more awake, which is always a plus, and I only have to brush my brows into place once a day, which is the real saving grace for me. It also doesn’t hurt that I’ve collected at least one compliment a day on them, particularly from people in the beauty industry.

I honestly didn’t expect to love them as much as I now do, but I didn’t know just how much it could lift my whole face. Add in the fact that I no longer have to brush my brows into place everyday, and consider me hooked.

Bella Cacciatore is the beauty associate at Glamour. Follow her on Instagram @bellacacciatore_.





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Fenty Beauty Brow MVP Brow Pencil: See It On 7 Women


When anything Fenty Beauty drops, there’s a palpable buzz in the office, and the team swarms my desk in order to get a peek at the newest product Rihanna has blessed us with. While I understand the enthusiasm for her highlighters and lipsticks, I can’t say I was expecting the flurry of excited Slack messages when I announced Fenty’s new brow pencils had arrived. Not that there’s anything wrong with brow pencils, they just aren’t as exciting to me as a shimmery lip gloss or volume-boosting mascara. But that’s just the power of Rihanna.

The Fenty Beauty Brow MVP Ultra Fine Brow Pencil & Styler has an ultra-thin-tipped retractable pencil that the brand claims is smudge- and waterproof. On the other side, where you’d usually find a spoolie, is a small paddle-shaped brush that resembles a tiny toothbrush, to evenly smooth and distribute color. And because this is Fenty we’re talking about, where inclusivity is a priority, the range includes 14 shades—one of the largest on the market for brows—ranging from light blonde to true black. There are even four shades for redheads, which if you are one, you know is nothing short of a dream.

Read on to see Fenty’s new brow pencils on seven women, along with our first impressions.



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This Korean Brow Cushion Changed How I Do My Eyebrows


Eyebrows can make or break a look. Just look at last summer, when Rihanna debuted nineties-thin brows on the cover of British Vogue and everybody panicked, myself included. I’ve spent all this time growing out my brows to be their natural, full, gorgeous selves—and now thin is in? Thankfully, that trend didn’t really take off, and Brooke Shields–inspired eyebrows have stuck around.

For the most part, I leave my brows alone. I’ll run a tinted gel through them and brush the hairs into place but generally don’t touch pigmented products like waxes, pencils, or powders. (I’m terrified of looking like I Sharpied my brows on.) That said, when our beauty director brought me the Laneige Eyebrow Cushion from a recent trip to Korea, I was intrigued. K-beauty is so advanced that even brow products come in packaging and formats I’ve never tried before. The Laneige Eyebrow Cushion, for example, houses the brow product in a cushion sponge inside the compact—just like you’d see in a cushion foundation. It also comes with a double-sided applicator that includes an angled brush on one end and a tiny spoolie on the other.

Still, I was worried my brows would look painted on—until I tried it. The end result was full and defined. The cushion keeps you from using too much product, resulting in a very natural finish; it also allows for the formula to be watery and lightweight, like watercolors, so it’s impossible for the tint to get too clumpy or crunchy.

It’s fairly intuitive to use, even for someone like me, who usually just swipes on Glossier’s Boy Brow and goes. I started by brushing my brows into shape with the spoolie side of the brush, then dipped the angled brush into the lighter side of the compact (the darker side doesn’t match my hair). Instead of drawing on my whole brows, I made small strokes, as if I were painting, to fill in any sparse patches. I also used the brush to define the tails and make them a little sharper, but left the arch and shape alone. Finally, with the spoolie, I fluffed up the hair a little bit and blended the color out.

As a result, my brows looked more defined, but not in an obvious way. It just gave a little more structure to my face and shifted focus to my eyes. I topped the cushion off with a little clear gel to keep the actual hairs in place, and my brows looked flawless all day. While the pigment is a great product, in my eyes the real hero of the compact is the included spoolie. It’s short but very dense, so it easily fluffs up hairs while brushing them into place, making the perfect fuzzy yet defined brow.

Maybe one day thin brows will be back—but until then, I’ll be reaching for this cushion.

Laneige Eyebrow Cushion-cara, $19.50, amazon.com

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We Tried Urban Decay's New Brow Products – Reviews With Photos


My attempts to sculpt my eyebrows into two symmetrical, precisely defined arches usually end like attempts to please my parents: More often than not, I walk away from my efforts disappointed and tired. It’s not for a lack of trying; I’ve studied up on editors’ picks and investigated Internet hacks for easy, breezy, I-woke-up-like-this eyebrows. Left to my own devices, though, I end up with two uneven faux caterpillars.

Just when I’d lost hope for my dream eyebrows—even, full, and defined—Urban Decay stepped in with a big assist. Today, Urban Decay is unveiling a new brow collection at Sephora, Ulta, and QVC—and instead of suggesting one product fits every arch, there’s a specific item tailored to the precise look you’re going for. Fans of ultra-defined, microbladed precision can pick up the felt-tip Brow Blade ($26) pen to ink in sparse areas. Anyone looking for extra volume can build luscious brows with Brow Endowed ($28), a two-sided pomade set with primer and color. For those of us who can’t draw a tail to save their lives (ahem), there’s a set of stencils ($12 each) developed in collaboration with Audrey Glass, a top microblader in Los Angeles, to guide your chosen filling-in technique. You get the idea: There’s something for everyone.

I have my own makeup battles to fight, but my specific brow-tastrophe isn’t the only one that Urban Decay’s new collection can solve. So I asked my Glamour colleagues to join me in testing the entire collection, from the au natural clear pomade to the buildable brow putty. The shades of our brows couldn’t be more different—from wispy blonde to foliage auburn—and we’re each after a different look. Even with our varying dream brows, the line gave us all exactly what we wanted. Scroll on for everyone’s honest reviews.



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Rihanna Reportedly Has a Lookalike Model to Try Out Brow Looks, As You Do When You're Rihanna


For anyone who does their own eyebrows, you know the sheer horror of realizing you plucked a little too aggressively. (And, well, if that happened to you—hi, we see you!—this magic brow pen is a great way to help fix that!) Celebrities and the otherwise well-connected are largely spared this indignity, thanks to a) access to the top brow artists in the biz and b) regular appointments with said artistes. Should the worst happen, there’s always a glam squad around to make sure it looks like it never did. You have those people, and then you have Rihanna, who reportedly employs a test model to make sure that whatever’s going to happen to her brows looks good before the process begins. Yes, we do have more details, thank you for asking.

Rihanna has singlehandedly managed to repatriate the skinny brow to our collective consciousness. And according to Damone Roberts, the artist responsible for her brows (as well as those of Beyoncé, Jenna Dewan, and Oprah—yup, casual), Rihanna has a unique way of trying out new shapes. He told Entertainment Tonight: “This year, we first met for the Met Gala, and she wanted to lighten her eyebrows. So Rihanna’s so fly that she has a lookalike model come by your space, and you try out different looks on the eyebrows on the model, and you send pictures to Rihanna and she decides whether she wants to do it or not!”

Uh, what?

Let Roberts explain: “So literally a lookalike model we trialed and tried and everything else until we got them perfect, and we sent Rihanna the pictures and we heard nothing and of course two days before the Met Gala she’s like, ‘I loved them! You gotta fly to NY and take care of me!’ and do them and whatnot, and of course Rihanna shut down the show! It was really, really special.”

In the realm of celebrity, this isn’t totally unheard of: Kim Kardashian reportedly has fit models that try on her fashion looks for her. Still, brows!

PHOTO: Dia Dipasupil/WireImage

Roberts did also confirm to ET, though, that Rih is really just as awesome as she seems: “Rihanna has become one of my favorite people. Now of course I was a fan like everyone else, but once I started working with her this year I have become a fan of her as a person because she is so fly and dope! I can’t think of any other word because she really personifies ‘Rock Star.'”

We appreciate both his confirmation that she is fly and also that her brows truly come from a magical place.

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Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz Pencil Made Me Reconsider Microblading


There are several unfortunate things I’ve done in the name of beauty, but over-tweezing my brows was never one of them. Occasionally, I would pluck a few stray hairs or carefully trim them with the same scissors I used to open packages (try the latter at your own peril), but mostly, I let them grow in peace. In turn, they rewarded me by not needing much enhancement. It was a prime example of the kind of healthy, symbiotic relationship that I will one day find when I can get a text back.

Of course, I still wanted them to look just a tiny bit fuller and more elongated. Some days, I would try to accomplish this with eyeshadow and an angled brush. Others, I’d try whatever brow gel, pen, or pencil happened to land on my desk that week. They were all basically interchangeable, which is to say that none of them made a lasting impression. Some brands got the color too dark or too warm. Others made pencils that crumbled as soon as I applied the slightest pressure, or deposited blurry splotches of pigment. Eventually, I learned to apply everything with a light hand, so that my brows were just barely tinted and filled in. I could have skipped this step entirely and it would have made little difference. Please observe the image of me holding a cookie below for photographic evidence. I went over my brows with a pencil that shall not be named, but can you even tell? The answer is no.

When I heard that many of my colleagues were booking microblading appointments, I gave the technique some serious consideration. Microblading, microfeathering, and microshading are forms of semi-permanent eyebrow tattoos that emphasize subtle, realistic results. The implements used are so fine that they really do a convincing job mimicking your actual hair. The only problem: I was still scared that a mistake would be made, leaving me with bad brows for the next one to three years. Having edited plenty of horror stories about microblading sessions gone wrong, I wasn’t feeling great about taking my chances.

The universe must have gotten fed up with listening to my never-ending internal agonizing because it put a stop to all of that with a single package. Inside: Anastasia Beverly Hills’s best brow products. Even before I got into beauty, I’d heard of founder Anastasia Soare, who made an art form out of creating perfect eyebrows. Now was my chance to find out why. I’d heard of the iconic Brow Wiz already, so I decided to start there.

I never got around to using anything else in that box.

Brow Wiz doesn’t look that special upon first glance. It’s a thin, waxy brow pencil—and if you’re going by shape alone, you can definitely find plenty of dupes. But, ABH gets the consistency just right. It’s thin enough to quickly draw super precise hairs, similar to the sharp strokes of microblading. At the same time, it has a waxiness that simultaneously helps to keep your brow hairs in place and imparts a softness that looks natural. No matter how much of a rush I’m in, I never end up with brows that are too dark or too overdrawn. They just look full, feathered, and perfectly defined. (I know that for a fact based on the number of times someone has asked me what I use on my brows, something that never happened B.B.W.—before Brow Wiz.) Then, there are the shades: the brand offers 10 and they’re exceptionally good. After flirting with Dark Brown and Granite, I’ve eventually settled on Ebony, which ABH says is for black hair with warm undertones. That sounds confusing and I won’t attempt to describe the color, but it’s by far the best match I’ve found.

To get the perfect eyebrows, I start at the head and draw upward lines, concentrating on the sparser areas. I also lightly outline the bottom edge of my brow, tracing diagonally across until I hit the halfway point. Then, I tackle the tails, extending them with a few short lines. Start to finish, this takes about 30 seconds. Afterward, I flip the pencil, uncap the spoolie, and brush everything out so there are no harsh marks and everything is blended. And then the final, important step: I say a fervent thank-you to Brow Wiz for ensuring that I will never have to risk a microblading appointment gone wrong.

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz, $21, sephora.com

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