The easiest and most foolproof method for filling in your eyebrows is to use a powder or eye shadow. Unlike pencils, there is no worrying about lines looking too harsh, and the softness of the powder guarantees a subtle, well-blended, and natural appearance. Powders are also easier to match and offer unparalleled flexibility if you make a mistake. Here you can learn how to fill in your eyebrows using a powder or eye shadow!
Step One: Choosing your pencil and powder/shadow shade
Pencils and powders tend to stick to skin, not to hair, so if you don't have a lot of hair you'll want to shade in the skin where hair should grow.
Select a soft pencil (hard pencils tend to be too waxy) which is a shade lighter than your brows and a powder which matches the colour of brows. If brows are super fair, choose a pencil that's a shade darker than brows.
Step Two: Preparing your brows
First, comb out brows with a clean mascara wand. Examine brows for any sparse spots. MAC has a brow mascara that comes in three different shades for that extra‘oompth’.
Step Three: Fill brows in with pencil
Use the pencil to fill in the sparse spots with short, feathery strokes. Apply in the direction of hair growth. The key here is not to create a definite line, but to create the appearance of hair. Be careful not to pencil in the entire brow, which will result in an unnatural ‘draggish’ look.
Your pencil should be super soft so it goes on with little exertion. But if you have a pencil that's too hard, warm the tip up by rubbing it between your fingers.
Step Four: Follow with eye shadow or brow powder
Dip an angled brush or a clean mascara wand in eye shadow. Brush the powder along the brows. It should stick to the pencil, while also acting to blend in the colour perfectly. For more staying powder, dampen the brush slightly before dipping it into colour.
Two Colours instead of one?
You can try two colours when filling in brows: A light powder where brows are thickest and a darker shade for the tail ends.
Want a more pronounced look?
For those of us who want our brows to look a bit more pronounced, there is one more step you can take, however, you will need to be extraordinarily light handed as this step could have the tendency to take your brows over to the ‘drag queen’ domain.
(Optional) Step Five: Concealing the outline of your brow
Use a liquid concealer that is 1-2 shades lighter than your skin colour and using your angled brush, carefully and lightly draw a line around the outside of your brow (top and bottom).
Use a make up sponge or a cotton wool bud to smudge the concealer down along the bottom of your brow until barely visible. Repeat for the upper brow.
Voila!
