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…
To say my eyebrows have always been lush would be polite. When I was growing up, they were bushy, and not in the cool Boy Brow kind of way. I have dark, thick hair—and the brows to match. Case in point: Back in middle school a guy once told me, “Your eyebrows are just so…
Gone are the days of eyebrows being an afterthought—or worse, hardly even there. Thanks to the likes of Cara Delevingne and Lily Collins, full, bushy eyebrows have been enjoying their time in the spotlight over the past few years. But even with so many great new innovations on shelves (cushions! pomades! gels!), mastering the art…
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,…
Unless you’ve been chilling under a rock lately, you’ve probably heard of microblading, the new-ish, semi-permanent version of eyebrow tattoos. They’re not your grandma’s stamped-on brows; instead, the delicate, super-fine hair strokes look natural and realistic in a way that the first-gen versions never did. Microblading’s recent popularity has spawned microshading and microfeathering, two techniques…