Posts Tagged‘Eyebrows’

Budget Beauty Buy: Castor Oil

My youth was spent plucking my thick and luscious eyebrows into pencil-thin lines (damn you, Kate Moss) – and I wish more than anything that my father had followed through on his threat to confiscate my tweezers. Had he done so, I wouldn’t be left with these pitiful excuses for eyebrows. I had been umming-and-aahing over whether or not to drop R750 on RapidLash (which is a vast amount of money on a product that doesn’t always work on brows) when I stumbled upon an article on LipsSoFacto extolling the virtues of castor oil as a natural hair-growth booster. Well,…

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Eyebrow Masterclass

Eyebrows

Fact: eyebrows frame your face – they should be groomed, polished and above all, thick. Blame Cara Delevigne if you will, but bold brows are bigger than ever at the moment, and whilst I’m not usually a fan of following trends, I will be making an exception for this one. Learning how to thicken and shape your brows by using either powder or pencils is invaluable – you can transform your entire face in no time at all. Getting to grips with your brows can be daunting to begin with, and so with this is mind, I want to share…

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REVIEW: Smashbox Brow Tech To Go

Smashbox Brow Tech To Go

I have the sad misfortune of owning the world’s most useless eyebrows. They’re fine so I have very few hairs plus they’re blonde so you can hardly see them. I cottoned on to this fact fairly early on and have been getting them tinted religiously for many, many years. It’s a tedious but necessary process I’m afraid. As a result, I’m extremely picky about what I use to pencil them in (mere tinting is not enough since there is so little hair to begin with!) and I’ve spent a large portion of my life searching for the perfect product. And…

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