I have been
struggling with my brows for a little while now. I have so much trouble finding
products that fill them in without being too strong. I’ve tried gel, powder and
pencils to little or no avail. I have very dark and full eyebrows and honestly
it’s only been in the last year or so that I’ve really taken the time to fill
them in. Even now I don’t always feel the need to do them. Because of how
intense my natural brows can be it’s so very easy to end up with the crazy
brows we all want to avoid. I’ve also been a little averse to paying too much
for my brow products. The most I’ve spent was the $38 on the Benefit Gimme
Brow, which I love and have already repurchased once, but I don’t use it to
fill my brows, I just use it to set them.
I’ve been interested in the retractable brow pencils for
a while now. I have a great dislike for the normal pencil ones because they
just make my brows look messy. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing wrong, but
I just can’t get them to work on me. The retractable ones were appealing
because you don’t need to sharpen them. I’d seen EssieButton on YouTube use the
Hourglass one, but it was a little out of my price range. While browsing the
Priceline website one night I saw that Models Prefer made a retractable pencil
and it was only about $12. I picked one up the next time I was in a store and
went home and tried it immediately.
I got mine in Dark and the shade is a warm deep brunette.
It’s actually a little too warm on my brows. My brow hairs are black when you
look closely at them and because I’m au naturel with my hair at the moment and
my natural colour is more golden brown, the warmth of the brow pencil can look
a little unnatural. It is a very long-lasting product. I’ve worn it all day on
37 degree (Celsius) heat and it hasn’t budged at all, even when the rest of my
makeup was a hot mess. I usually paired it with the Gimme Brow, but I have worn
it by itself and it lasted equally as long. I really like the spooly it came
with too. It’s quite soft and thick which makes it easy to be gentle as you
brush through your brows.
As I type this I have already decided that I won’t
repurchase this. In fact, I probably won’t even finish the product. I was lucky
enough to receive Mecca Maxima gift cards for my birthday last week and after I
bought the Urban Decay Naked 2 palette I had enough left over to pick up the
Hourglass pencil without having a panic attack over the cost. So I treated
myself to some brow luxury and even though I’ve only played with it a little, I
can already tell that it’s much better than the Models Prefer one. If you’re on
a budget and can wear the warmer shades in your brows, then I would definitely
go for this before I splurged on the expensive stuff. If I’m being honest, I
would probably have never bought myself the Hourglass one if it weren’t for the
gift card. I would have just put up with the warmer shade made it work. It’s
not like it looked awful, it just made it a little fiddlier because adding too
much made it look really red. Like I said before, it’s super longwearing. It’s
also a really nice texture which helps it glide on smoothly and allows you to
only need a light hand. This is definitely not a bad product by any means. As
far as ‘drugstore’ brow products go, this is by far the best one I’ve tried so
far. If you can find a match to your brow colour, I say go for it!
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