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Meghan Markle's Makeup Artist Shares the Secret to Her Perfect Brows


Meghan Markle‘s longtime friend and personal makeup artist, Daniel Martin, has revealed his secret to achieving the perfect brows. During a recent appearance on ITV’s Lorraine, he shared his beauty hacks for getting brows just like the royal’s and even showed viewers the most important do’s and don’ts for maintaining the best shape.

“Eyebrows frame our faces and can enhance our entire make up look,” Martin explained during his tutorial, according to The Daily Mail. The key to looking naturally blessed with good brow game? Treat your eyebrows “as sisters not twins,” he said. In other words, they shouldn’t be perfectly symmetrical.

“As we age we tend to loose our eyebrows a bit,” he continued. “So what we want to do, is we want to enhance her brow and really figure out that structure, really figure out those holes and spots that we lost.”

Martin then suggests using brow gel to brush against the hair growth, as well as applying a slightly lighter shade of powder below the brow to make them appear “fuller.”

Finally, Martin recommends using a little bit of hairspray to keep your brows in place. He said the simplest way is to spray some on a mascara spoolie and then brush them into your eyebrows.

Martin also addressed some common brow mistakes. “So one mistake a lot of people make is over tweezing or over plucking your brows,” he said. “When that happens you want to find something that you can easily go in to apply but you don’t want to re-shape or re-structure your brow.”

Markle’s iconic brows are reportedly inspired by Audrey Hepburn’s arches. The shape consists of a “straight, archless brow that tapers out toward your temple,” according to the salon Nails & Brows, where the Duchess has had her own royal brows sculpted. “The sculpt instantly lifts your face and creates a fresh and youthful appearance.”

So there you have it: In order to achieve the Duchess of Sussex’s perfect brow, we need to focus on fullness, use brow gel and some eyeshadow, add a little hairspray, and make sure not to over pluck.

Martin also famously did Markle’s makeup for her royal wedding to Prince Harry in May 2018—and he later shared every detail of her look with Glamour. He revealed that even though her makeup wasn’t inspired by a specific person (sorry, Audrey), his goal was to make her look “timeless, effortless, and chic” because “she wanted to look like her best self.”



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I Tried Soap Brows and My Eyebrows Have Never Looked Fluffier


Ever feel like you’re the last person on earth to learn about a trend or TV show? Welcome to Late to the Party, where we’ll be digging into widely loved topics and techniques through the lens of someone who just discovered them. Everyone’s invited, because it’s never too late to join the hype.

I’m pretty fortunate to be blessed in the eyebrow department. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had fairly thick dark brows, which I used to hate, but actually worked out in my favor as Cara Delevingne rose to fame. Ever since then, I’ve barely tweezed them.

Although I rarely fill in my brows, I never leave the house without a swipe of brow gel to keep the longer hairs in place. I’ve been loyal to Glossier Boy Brow for years, but having run out recently, I’ve just been using whatever clear gel shows up on my desk (one of the many perks of the job). I love the natural look of clear gel, but for whatever reason it doesn’t want to keep my brows in place for more than an hour or two. Then in a recent meeting, I was reminded of a technique that may be the answer to my prayers: Soap brows.

Our editor-in-chief had just returned from Europe, where all her friends were currently obsessed with the technique, which technically went viral back in 2016, but is having a resurgence once again thanks to social media.

The idea behind soap brows is exactly how it sounds: Instead of using a brow gel, you use a bar of soap to shape and set your brows in place. While the trick has been re-popularized by beauty bloggers, it’s actually a classic makeup artist and drag queen technique that’s been used on photoshoots for years. Aside from being insanely cheap, soap is perfect for getting those really fluffy, brushed-up, editorial brows that gel alone can’t quite achieve.

Celebrity brow specialist Joey Healy says that this technique is best for those with darker, longer brows. He notes that if you also fill in your brows, this might not work for you as the soap can move the pigment around. And if you have more fragile brows, a gel might work better for you as the smushing required by soap brows can slow hair growth.

As for putting soap brows into practice, the technique itself is actually quite simple. All you need is a bar of soap (something clear like Pears Original is best), a disposable spoolie brush, and some water or setting spray. Just wet your brush and lightly drag it across the soap. “If you do too much it will start to lather and will look a little white,” says Healy. “You just want it to be ever so damp, and then press your brows in the direction of hair growth; up and then over, and then down.” The result is brows that are essentially glued into place, but looks extremely natural.

Me with my soap brows.

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To be honest, I was totally skeptical. If it was actually so revolutionary, why wasn’t everyone throwing out their brow gel in favor of soap? But I was surprised at how user friendly it is. I love the way it makes my brows stay perky and fluffy, and it actually kept them that way all day, without feeling flaky or chunky. It wasn’t messy, and I spent less time on my brows than usual.



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Anastasia Beverly Hills DipBrow Gel Gives Me Perfect Brows in Three Swipes


Some things are so iconic, they need no introduction. The beauty world has its own set of superstars, like P50 toner, MAC’s Ruby Woo, and Diorshow. Among them is Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow—the internet’s most well-loved brow product. A quick Reddit search pulls up hundreds of Dipbrow mentions, while dozens of celebrities have professed their love for the long-lasting pomade (both Kim and Khloé Kardashian are among the list).

And it’s not just Dipbrow that’s reached cult status: ABH has some other seriously good brow products, too (not surprising, given that’s what the brand’s founder Anastasia Soare made her name on). Both Brow Wiz, a micro-tipped pencil perfect for details and the Brow Definer, a slanted multitasking pencil, have devoted fan bases of their own.

Launching this week, a new member of the Dipbrow family joins ABH’s lineup, and it’s so good. The Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Gel is a super pigmented brow gel with a texture in between that of a gel and a pomade. The brand claims it’s waterproof and that a few swipes deliver brows that look naturally fluffy and full. Because it’s so pigmented, it can also be used with a angled brush straight on your skin for more definition, rather than just a standard spoolie brush through the hairs.

I don’t like my brows to look too done, and stay away from pencils and pomades, so this is right up my alley. The Dipbrow Gel is super easy to apply, it has a really skinny brush that coats every brow hair without getting all over the place. I did find the texture a little runnier than expected, so I found it helpful to wipe off some product before going straight to my brows to avoid using too much. Then I apply it in upward strokes to perk up my brows. The result? My brows look fuller, fluffier, and more defined, but not fake. I was seriously impressed by how rich the pigment is. It gives the defined (but not overdone) look of a pomade with the ease of a gel.

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The other thing that converted me was its staying power. I have longer brow hairs, and I don’t know what it is, but no matter if I use a gel, wax, or combination of both, my perfectly coiffed brows end up unruly by lunch time. Until now. Even after changing my shirt twice and going about my day, my brows stayed in place until I washed my face at night. It’s safe to say this stuff will be well on its way to icon status, like, tomorrow.

Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Gel, $18, anastasiabeverlyhills.com

Bella Cacciatore is a beauty assistant at Glamour. Follow her at bellacacciatore_.





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Benefit Cosmetics Brow Contour Pro Review: How to Get Full Brows


When will nineties nostalgia peak? The decade is being revived in everything from fashion (see the return of stretchy Steve Maddens) to TV (Sabrina, Buffy, and Charmed are all getting reboots) to hair (scrunchies!)—and now they’re coming for our brows.

Sorry, is that triggering? Let me backtrack: You remember those clicky pens all the cool kids had in school? You’d fidget all of homeroom by pushing down a clicker to change the color of your pen? Well, Benefit Cosmetics is resurrecting them, but instead as a brow pen to more easily help you get that perfect, full-looking Insta brow. Divisively skinny brows aren’t back. Yet anyway. If they do return, you’ve got Rihanna to blame.

Available at Sephora starting today, the Benefit Cosmetics Brow Contour Pro comes in five shade ranges, each comprising four products in one tool: a lighter and a deeper filler shade, a highlighter, and an edge definer. The idea behind it is based off the brow contouring or “carving” technique most Instagrammers use to get that ultra-precise, ultra-thick brow. But instead of needing to deal with multiple brushes, products, and concealer, you can achieve with a single pen.

Brand reps recommend choosing your perfect color based on the definer shade, which should be just slightly lighter than your skin tone. The key is to start off tracing the shape of your brow from corner to tail with the light shade, fill, then add dimension with the darker shade. A little goes a long way (and the formula literally lasts all day), so you don’t want to go too heavy. Personally, I’d fill in a couple strokes and then blend in the color with a spoolie. Next it’s definer time. This is where the “carving” technique comes in: this more or less involves tracing directly under your brow with the definer shade to sharpen the line. Last up: the highlighter, which you want to put just under the arch to make the shape appear more sculpted.

Benefit’s already got a strong knack for brows. Its Gimme Brow gel has long topped the best-seller charts in the brow category (far before Boy Brow was thing), while you’d be hard-pressed not to find one its pencils in most makeup pros’ kits. What makes this tool so interesting, though, is that its’ consistency is neither a marker, gel, nor pencil. Rather, the product goes on like a pomade that’s meant to be blended.

Navigating the pen isn’t quite as intuitive as writing with them was. Despite being lightweight, it feels a little bit clunky to trace with at first, and I wish it came with a built-in spoolie. But its ease for travel more than makes up for it, and getting the motions down is pretty easy after a few initial test runs. Plus, it’s fun as hell to click and twist all day. What can I say? I’m a sucker for nostalgia.

Benefit Cosmetics Brow Contour Pro, $34, sephora.com

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Rihanna Is Bringing Back Skinny Brows, and the Internet Isn't Ready


It’s hard for Rihanna to make a wrong move. In fact, just writing that feels out of bounds—if Rihanna chose to do something, she must have her reasons. Leg stubble? She’s revolutionizing beauty. That said, her latest look is stirring up some strong feelings. On the cover of British Vogue‘s September issue, Rihanna, ever a beauty visionary, is wearing the tiniest, most over-the-top pencil thin brows to be seen on a celebrity in what feels like forever, and Twitter is distressed.

As Rihanna’s Instagram caption explains, the look was created in collaboration with Isamaya Ffrench who’s a celebrity makeup artist known for pushing the boundaries of makeup in a very avant-garde, Alexander McQueen-ish way. Ffrench used Fenty, because of course, although the exact products aren’t listed (if Fenty drops a 1-millimeter brow pencil next the Internet would surely implode). As is, her brows look like they plausibly could’ve been the work of Flyliner, Fenty’s newly-launched liquid liner.

The images Vogue came up with are beautiful, but the Internet’s reactions were immediate and hardline: No, please, Rihanna, NO. Don’t lure us back to the early aughts skinny brow trend, we didn’t go all-in on Boy Brow and microblading for this. We’ve bought brow serums and hundreds of products to escape the horrors that these brows did. Don’t let a new generation suffer.

There are divisions. Some people say, just because Rihanna wore it on set doesn’t mean we’re seeing the start of an actual real-life trend. They have a point; insane brow styles pop up on Instagram all the time, and we haven’t seen those make the jump.

But other people, they beg to differ.

However: we could always do worse.

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