Eyebrow shadows – how to use, how to apply

The content of the article

• How to color eyebrows
• How to make up in stages
• How to use
• How to use wax eyebrow shadows
• Liquid
• Gel shadow
• How to choose a color
• For blondes
• For brunettes
• How to choose eyebrow shadow

A little less than a century ago, women had only pencils from eyebrow styling products. The modern beauty industry has significantly expanded the range of products in this niche, and shadows have reached the peak of popularity. Given the current trend for naturalness, makeup artists are increasingly resorting only to them. How to choose and use such a tool?

How to color eyebrows

The makeup procedure with this product is slightly more complicated in execution than with a pencil, only for the reason that a brush is used here. It will have to be selected and purchased separately, since most of the shadows (mainly professional brands) do not imply its presence in the kit. Makeup artists do not recommend using the same tools that are attached to the products of the mass-market category, since their quality is far from ideal, and this will not have a positive effect on the result..

A few basic recommendations for choosing a brush under the shadow to create beautiful lines:

• The shape must be beveled – such a tool may be marked “angled”. The value of the angle is selected individually, mainly affects the intensity of the line along the length.
• Pile need a natural and hard: beaver, marten, in extreme cases, sable. No squirrels, columns, ponies, especially if you plan to stain from scratch, i.e. when you need to add missing areas, and not just put a slight shadow.
• If you get a gel / lipstick decoration, i.e. plastic liquid substance, buy an additional brush with artificial (synthetic) nap. The tip should be sharp, the shape is similar – beveled. With it you can draw the finest hairs, making it as natural as possible. It is also easier to wash off a cosmetic product from synthetics than from a natural pile, and it is much less harmful to it.

How to make up in stages

After you get a brush and the shadows themselves, choose a day when you can spend about an hour on yourself without rushing. You should not try to master the design of eyebrows with a new product, going to work in a couple of minutes – the procedure requires training. Carefully study all the stages of coloring with shadows (it is advisable to find lessons with a photo), prepare the tools, settle in front of a large mirror that will cover your face “portrait”, ie to the collarbone, and take care of good lighting. It is desirable that it be daytime, and beat not in the face, but served from two sides.

The step-by-step line design procedure looks like this:

1. Spend a standard wash to get rid of possible sebum on the surface of the skin. Remove moisture with a towel, wait a bit – you need to wait until it dries completely.
2. Comb the hairs with a brush, setting the desired direction. At the same stage, you outline an approximate form, evaluate the tasks facing you.
3. Type a little on the tip of the brush and gently shake it: do not overdo it with the amount of product, otherwise dry will crumble on the face, and the liquid will leave too clear a greasy line.
4. Start drawing with a ponytail: this is the most saturated and darkest area on any (!) Eyebrow. With a brush, draw the top and bottom lines, which should converge at the end. Fill all the space in between.
5. A kink, even if it is implicit, also needs to be drawn clearly, but the brush should lead to the tail, and not from it. Fill the space too completely.
6. It is not recommended to make clear lines at the base: you will get caricatured artificial lines, especially if you use liquid textures. Continue to display the given shape, but place the brush at an angle to the bottom line and draw with short strokes. They should imitate hairs, therefore they look in their own direction.
7. Do not touch the top line at the base – it should be blurred. If it turned out too clearly here, comb to a break a couple of times with the same brush in the direction of the hairs.
8. If necessary, fix the resulting form with a transparent gel or wax. In the absence of these products, you can use the method common to makeup artists: spray the same brush with varnish and draw them along the hairs along the growth.

How to use

The general step-by-step algorithm discussed earlier is suitable for everyone, but the beauty industry offers such a wide range of shadows that each variety requires its separate study. Today, in stores that are not even targeted at makeup artists, but at ordinary consumers, one can find not only pressed dry shadows, but also cream / gel in jars, liquid in tubes, and whole palettes from them. How to learn to use all this and choose the best option for yourself?

A few professional tips:

• Do not be afraid to combine different textures: you can apply gel or cream to areas with skin lesions (scars, etc.), and fix them dry and fill the form where there is not enough density, but there are hairs.
• If you need to add clarity to a ponytail or a kink (at the base this is not recommended), type a concealer on a synthetic small brush (barrel or tongue) and walk under the hair line.
• Decorating with any consistency will look very natural if, after completing the procedure, you will slightly comb the hair with a brush.

How to use wax eyebrow shadows

At some manufacturers (and the mass market, and professional, and luxury) you can find whole sets with which you can make eyebrows at home. Mostly these are dry eyebrow shadows with wax in the kit (Avon, Pupa, etc.). The general principle of their use is similar to what was discussed above – first you build a shape and paint the hairs, if necessary, with pressed shadows, and then apply a little wax to fix them. However, there are some nuances here:

• Wax is a texture with a greasy base, so when it comes into contact with the skin, it thaws. He does not give high resistance, and even fixation of hairs is mainly preserved at low temperatures. If you need to fix the result, go down the hairs with a “trampling” brush movement with the same shadows or transparent powder.
• You can use wax to color the hairs: mix it on a flat surface with shadows (you need to scrub it a bit with a pusher or special spatula), type on a brush and comb the hairs with this wax substance.
• Do not use wax before you set the shape with shadows, and do not apply it on the skin – makeup will flow.

Liquid

This format is not for girls who are first trying to paint their own eyebrows. Decorative cosmetics are a soft creamy substance, which is mainly waterproof, so it sets and solidifies tightly after a few seconds. This indicator varies depending on the brand manufacturer, but all liquid shadows after half a minute after applying the correction are not susceptible, and in the presence of errors you have to erase them completely. The main advantage of this format is reinforced concrete resistance: a gym, a party, a pool, a shower – there is nothing for the shadows.

Rules and recommendations for working with liquid texture:

• Be careful: first, outline the borders of the future line with a light (white, beige) pencil so as not to go beyond it, and determine where you need to fill in the blanks with shadows. Apply a clean brush to these places, understand how you will lead it.
• Liquid shadows are not created to completely paint over the form: their pigmentation goes through the roof, so they are advised by professionals only to draw the missing hairs. With this tool, any bald spots are well visually eliminated, including those that are caused by scars – a dry product on such skin will not be fixed.
• Liquid shadows are mainly sold in tubes, of which a small (!) Amount needs to be squeezed onto a plastic or metal surface. It’s not worth it on hand – the composition will begin to be absorbed into the skin. Spread this substance with the tip of the brush handle, type a little bit on the pile and begin the process of drawing hairs.
• If the shadows on the palette started to solidify when making out the lines, they can be mixed with a drop of fixative spray: professional brands such as MAC, MUFE, Skindinavia, NYX, etc. The product will remain plastic for longer, but this will not adversely affect durability.
• Liquid shadows can only be used to tint hairs without affecting the skin. The procedure is simple: a drop of the product is distributed over the palette, typed evenly on the brush and combed in the direction of hair growth.

Gel shadow

This version of the tool intended for eyebrow shaping is called “lipstick” by professionals, because its consistency is more reminiscent of it, although it is enclosed in a washer like gel eyeliner. The composition can be very plastic and creamy (like Inglot), or more dense, dry (Anastasia Beverly Hills). Resistance depends on the manufacturer, but is always significantly higher than that of dry textures. Gel eyebrow shadows are suitable for girls who, for certain reasons, pressed ones do not meet all the requirements, and liquid ones are too difficult to handle..

The subtleties of drawing with gel shadows (lipstick):

• If you need to make an imitation of your hairs, use a synthetic brush. To create a blackout, take a tool with a natural pile and be sure to walk along the line in the final with a clean brush from the base to the tail several times, reducing clarity.
• After collecting the composition on the brush, be sure to turn the jar over and place it on a flat surface: this will prevent excess air from getting inside and drying out the contents.

How to choose a color

A large assortment of shades allows you to achieve maximum naturalness when creating makeup, but at the same time it seriously confuses an unprepared consumer. More than half of women cannot find the perfect color for themselves. What should one build on so as not to make a mistake? A couple of general tips:

• The classic rule is that the color of the palette should match the shade of the hair as much as possible. Not the eye, not the skin, not the eyebrows themselves, but the hair as one of the largest color spots in the image.
• Consider the general temperature of your appearance: on a girl with red hair, gray eyebrows will look just as inappropriate as on a platinum blonde – copper.
• A natural look is obtained if you use 2 shades of shadows. The darkest – in tone with the roots of the hair, they draw a kink and a tail, bald spots are painted over. Lighter – in tone with the main canvas or simply 1-2 levels different from the dark: it will go to the design of the base and tinting of existing hairs. A number of brands – Divazh, Faberlik, Essens – have already thought out everything for the consumer, releasing sets of 2 shades.
• If tone-on-tone is not possible to find a palette, and you need to buy them urgently, take those that are suitable for you in temperature, but lighter than the desired color.

For blondes

Owners of fair hair make-up artists recommend that special care be taken when choosing products for eyebrow shaping. Black, dark brown and even red ones are unacceptable here and look completely foreign. Shadows for blondes should completely match the shade of their hair, or be darker by 1-2 levels, but no more. If you have to replace them with eye shadows from neutral palettes, platinum blondes can be shaped like eyebrows even with a dark beige color, and fair-haired girls with any gray-brown color, but applied with minimal intensity.

Examples of successful shades of shadows include:

• BeYu Catwalk eyebrow set;
• Art Deco EyeBrow Powder 06;
• Dream minerals 5 lady different;
• VIVIENNE SABO Brow Arcade (for warm color types).

For brunettes

Girls with dark hair often make a serious mistake when trying to draw the same black eyebrows under an almost black hair. This is only relevant for people of Caucasian nationality, and if the hair is dyed, and the overall contrast is low, such a move will give the girl a disadvantageous light. Tones for brunettes should be slightly lighter than the shade of their hair, leading make-up artists assure. Good options:

• Loreal Brow Artist Medium to dark;
• Just Make Up Brow Gel 417 and 418 (lipstick format);
• Make Up Factory Eye Brow Powder 4;
• Graftobian HD Brow Powder.

How to choose eyebrow shadow

Finding the perfect product is always not the easiest task, especially when from this category it is the first remedy in a cosmetic bag. If we talk about a dry pressed texture, it is not necessary to look for the mark “for eyebrows”: you can buy ordinary ones, for the eyes – they do not even differ in composition. The main thing is that they are matte – flickering eyebrows are appropriate only for creative shooting. Liquid can be replaced with gel eyeliner, and cream, even professionals often look among the eye shadow.

If we talk about the parameters of durability, pigmentation, ease of use and other parameters, this rating will help you figure it out, based on reviews and customer ratings:

1. Maybelline Color Tattoo. The composition is not at all for the eyebrows – they are for the eyes in the format of a cream, but the Permanent Taupe shade has become a hit: the perfect cold brown that suits blondes and light brown. The price of the issue is 380 r. If you prefer dry pallets, take a look at Brow Satin – powder shadow pencil with applicator worth 450 r.
2. Essence The low-cost German brand of youth cosmetics offers dry double Make Me Brow Duo pallets (price – 250 p.) And Eyebrow Stylist Set (price – 290 p.), Differing mainly in shades and the presence of a brush in the second set.
3. ArtDeco. Again a German manufacturer, already from the category of “professional xometics”. Offers the consumer single refills of dried flowers EyeBrow Powder in 5 shades of 315 p. and powder pencils Duo Powder & Liner for 990 p. The only problem is that you can only find products in the Letual and Girlfriend networks.
4. Anastasia Beverly Hills. The history of lipsticks for eyebrows, large palettes for them and a general increase in attention to this detail of makeup began with this professional brand. The main disadvantage of ABH products is the high prices: a set of shadow shadows, tweezers, a brush, stencils and gel costs 7000 rubles, and separately the same shadow shadows are cheaper than 2400 rubles. can not found. The brand’s advantage is an extensive palette of shades. In Russia, you can only buy through online stores.
5. Catrice. It offers mainly dry doubles (price – 280 p.), Supplemented with a mirror, tweezers and brushes. However, powdery pencil shadows (similar cost) also deserved attention, the drawback of which is only in the meager palette – only 3 colors.
6. NYX. The American brand of the semiprof level has created an excellent analogue for ABH at an affordable price. Creamy Tinted Brow Pomade (530 p.) And liquid Eyebrow Gel (520 p.) Came in 5 beautiful shades and are highly resistant. Dry sets – two pieces (Eyebrow Cake Powder, 520 p.) And fours (Eyebrow Kit Set, 990 p.) Are supplemented with wax or stencils of different shapes.
7. MAC Directly for eyebrows, this brand succeeded only in dry format palettes (Brow Duo, palette, 1800 rubles) – cream ones (Brow Gelcreme, 1300 rubles) differ in too red shades (for Slavic type girls), therefore, MAS is in the last position in the rating.