Chanel's Le Sourcil de Chanel Perfect Brows Palette in 20 Brun
I have suffered through many eyebrow disasters.
I have a tendency to over-pluck. I know that I need to be more conservative with my plucking but I get caught up in the brow hair purging.
I am currently struggling with my last bout with my tweezers.
I have been using the Chanel brow palette to fix the sparse spots. I mix the two darker shades to get a match. The palette includes adorable mini-tweezers and two brushes. The one brush is angled and poker stiff.
The palette retails for $65 and is available at your local Chanel counter.
Post your worst eyebrow disaster in the comments.
Credit: Blogdorf Goodman
FYI: I used the flash for the first photo. The 2nd photo shows the shades in an accurate light.
Disclosure: A press sample of this product was provided by Chanel Cosmetics
Labels: Brows, Chanel, Press Sample
posted by Annieytown @ 7:23 AM
17 Inspired Comments
17 Inspired Comments:
I have really long eyebrow hairs and no matter how nicely plucked they are, the hairs always stick out. One night I decided I would trim them with a small pair of scissors. BIG mistake. Apparently some of them were long for a reason! I had these huge gaps in my brows. Luckily I was able to do some filling in with a brow pencil...but lesson learned: let your brow lady do the trimming!
Oh God...I used to razor my eybrows with a straight razor and shaving cream. On the opposite end I have let my brows grow wild as weeds and just brush them up for neatness. I finally found a happy medium. I like that Smashbox brow thing...but the wax on the other side is weird.
i've always been kind of obsessive about having "perfect brows." in fact, the only time i've ever had a professional shape them, i went to a very well respectived and referred woman who told me she didn't need to clean them up.
fast forward three years. the past six months, i've been growing my brows out for a "thicker" look - obviously this is not easy and requires much restraint since the brows can't possibly be perfect. imagine my horror when my aesthetician told me i need to wax my brows badly. i haven't gone back since.
I want to be able to maintain my own brows but after I grow them out and they go through the first bought of looking good I always mess up the touch up for them.
I've bought the kits, the pencils, the palettes, the gels... it's not going to happen. I may get them right here and there but I have come to realize having my aesthetician do it is money well spent and a brow disaster averted.
As for my last bad bout I'm growing that out now. They finally look okay but I managed to do something to my arch and I had two completely different looks going on each eye. It was sad.
at 15 i plucked my eyebrows away away away. they were literally about a hair thick. then, embaressed as anything, i tried to pretend to my family they had always been like that...HA. i naturally have perfectly well shaped thick brows, THANKFULLY they have returned over the years. now i stay away!
occy
After reading in a couple Kevin Aucoin books that you can slightly bleach your eyebrows at home for a very pretty, soft look, I tried it myself! I used facial hair bleach exactly as he suggested, down to the time and wiping to check the color. Well it wasn't awful, but they were kind of yellow and weird looking. My natural eyebrows are full and dark which is nice, but I have dirty blond hair so sometimes they look heavy. I thought this would be an improvement, but it wasn't. It just looked off and took a few weeks to grow back. People were like, whats up? What did you do?
So I just pluck now.
I remember when pencil thin yebrows were in and i was just starting to do mine, i made them so horrid people started asking me if i felt alright, (i looked sickly). And that time being almost 15-16 I had no idea what brow powders were, so I went looking like that to school. I was so embarrassed. To this day I shudder when I think about it.
i don't have a particularly horrid brown story, except for the occasionall ingrown hair. my mom, however, when she was young suffered from Trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder) and pulled out all her brows and most of her lashes and they didn't really grow back. She uses a lancome powder brow pencil. despite my appreciation for useful products and intense and deep love for all things chanel, $65 for brown powder in three colors (assuming you will use at most 2) us freaking outrageous.
Since I have stopped going to waxers and threaders, I no longer have disasters. I now pluck my own and they are perfect and natural looking. For some reason all the "brow stylists" I used to go to really wanted to make me look like Marlene Dietrich. I didn't know how to fix it so I just suffered.
I just went through a mildly disastrous phase with my eyebrows. For a couple of months my normally thick, dark, well-defined brows became kind of ragged. The hairs were splitting and breaking and generally looking kind of shabby and patchy. Horrors! I even had to break out an eyebrow/eyeliner pencil to fill in the gaps, which I never had to do before! I still don't know what caused this condition, but they seem to be slowly returning to their previous state of health. Maybe this cold, dry winter was particularly rough on the brows, I don't know. I'm just glad they're coming back. The hair on my head remained normal throughout this period.
Oh, God, this is so shameful. My worst eyebrow disaster is one I inflicted on my cousin. THE NIGHT OF HER SENIOR PROM. I'm the resident waxer in my family and generally I do a good job. The afternoon before her prom, she decided she wanted to her eyebrows waxed, and no big deal, I've done it for her before. Well, she started taking some medications, unbeknownst to me, and I totally ripped skin off her eyelids. She has these weird stripey things for her prom. Though lovely eyebrows. She's incredibly beautiful so she had a lot going for her, aside from the brows, but for an 18 year old....
It's a testament to our relationship that she still loves me. Though won't let me near her with wax.
Oh, wow, I did loads of brow-fiddling in my days... I have learned my lesson, brows are best left alone or let a pro deal with them... Otherwise you may end up like joey in the very funny friends episode!
I love these Chanel chocolatey colours!
you can get the EXACT same thing for less than half the price of this Chanel palette from Benefit, it's called Browzings. and it's been around forever and the Chanel is an EXACT copy of it. plus, Sephora makes a similar product that's less than half the price of the Benefit one, so if you're on a budget, these 2 products are a perfect copy of the Chanel one.
I suffer from trichotillomania, a condition where you pull out hairs compulsively. My left eyebrow is permanently red and inflammed looking. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the hair to grow in more quickly? I have really dark (i.e. black) eyebrows and for some reason eyebrow pencils look really fake on me.
I go to some wonderful Indian ladies for threading. Their tiny salon (two whole chairs) is painted screaming bright yellow and they blast Bollywood music all day long. Indian notions of beauty demand THICK but shaped brows and these ladies will browbeat you (ha!) if you walk looking plucked. My brows have never looked so great!
An aesthetician once burnt me with wax beneath both my eyebrows. I had two big, angry red patches that lasted about two weeks and only went away after grotesquely flaking off. I was but a meek teenager and didn't want to upset her, but if that happened to me now I would have marched back in to the salon and demanded my money back.
well, you know what my eyebrows are like, and how full i let them stay. this is because when i was quite young and still figuring out what in the world to do with my hair, i decided to go get my eyebrows waxed...
i walked out of the salon with half the skin torn off my eyes, and my mom let me stay home for the next two days. ouch. since then, i've been really, really leery about doing *anything* extreme.
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