The Brow Quest

Today I am going to dedicate an entire post to a new favorite cosmetic product. I don’t think I have been so happy to find a new item of makeup for a LONG time (the last one was this Trish McEvoy mascara, which stays on all day and washes off like a dream). But this one is even better.

Enter: this NYX brow gel.

You know, the longer I have kids, the less makeup I wear. This is not really a positive development in my book – every year I make the resolution that I want to be more “polished” and instead I end up wearing the same LL Bean fleece for a week straight, changing only when I do the preschool pickups so that other parents don’t think I’m a bum.

The only makeup that I do every day is my eyebrows. I have a hole in my left eyebrow, due to a chickenpox scar, and so I fill it in every morning. What has been driving me crazy however, is the fact that by mid-day, due to sweat and moving around and (most probably) putting my face into my hands out of stress and whatever, half of my eyebrows are wiped off, or even worse, the right side is off and the left is on, and then I look like a lunatic.

Enter – brow paint! Seriously why hadn’t I heard of this product category before? I first came across this product at Makeup Forever, which calls their product Aqua Brow. The makeup artist matched me to taupe, which blended perfectly with my brow color (I have dark brown hair – you can see the taupe on another dark haired blogger here), and then informed me that they were sold out and could be for weeks. What! So instead, when I got home, I looked for a good dupe, and found this by NYX.

Here’s what I do – I squeeze out about a drop, and then get my MAC brush (super old, I think it’s the old version of this brush), and dip it all along the edge. I don’t overload the brush but I’m not stingy, either. Then, I use a light hand and brush on. Voila!

This stays on all day (I’ve worn it in a rainstorm with no problems) and honestly it is awesome to see myself in the evening with my brows pretty perfect. AND the price is amazing – mine is the brunette which is a perfect color match for my hair color, and which is currently on Amazon for $5 and change, but it is the most expensive color and the rest are around $3. I can’t recall the last time a cosmetic so cheap gave me so much glee.

I highly recommend this!! If you already are using a brow paint, please inform me, and if you’ve found another miracle cosmetic, please let me know too!