I have been using the Godefroy eyebrow tint for a few years; easy to DIY. Almost without fail my daughters would complement my brows the afternoon I’d used it - always a good sign. Looks like they’ve changed the product now and I’m back to square one - having to take a chance on a new formulation. Drat.

Great thread and information here! Thank you, Lisa p.

I consider myself low maintenance (but compared to my 7 natural beauty sisters, I’m high maintenance), but have my brows shaped (waxed) and tinted every 4-5 weeks. It took a while to get used to defined brows, as my natural brow color blended with my skin (redhead going blonde by-the-minute), but now I love the way they frame my eyes (even with glasses) and create structure. My daily routine is just a coat of mascara on my lashes and I feel polished (enough) and pulled together.

I love the 20-min with my amazing Aesthetician in her beautiful space. Pampering at its best.

Agh -- I have been thinking overmuch about eyebrows lately. I've never done much with mine. Had them plucked a couple of times. Last time I wanted to have them touched up my esthetician said there really wasn't enough to pluck and I haven't gone for anything professional since. That was MANY years ago now.

I've been experiencing two conflicting changes lately:

1. "Grandpa" eyebrows (apologies to any men of a certain age) Wiry, unruly with far too many white hairs sproinging up and saluting. I go in with cuticle scissors from time to time to mow down the unruliest actors.
2. The thinning Lisa mentions -- the outer corners feel thin and straggly.

My biggest beauty MUST has always been to look natural, so the idea of drawing on brows has always made me a bit uncomfortable. Plus, it's bad enough when eyeliner runs (and they ALL run on me -- even Makeup Forever under certain conditions). So what am I going to do when my eyebrows smear or start to run?!

I've read some scary things about microblading gone bad, so had kind a nixed that idea. I hadn't thought of moustache dye, so that might be something to consider...

Carol- I highly recommend trying it (just for men). Leave it on for just a few minutes the first time, to check the color match. I can leave it a full five minutes for maximum effect, but it does work really quickly.

Adds to grocery list...

I LOVE Anastasia brow pencil. FWIW, I tried their powder and gels and did not like the finish and visual effect as much as a good old pencil. But you might prefer the powder so by all means try it! MUST get the colour right. Experiment. Have brow fun

I use Refectocil brow dye. I've tried others but always come back to this. It does the cleanest, neatest, and most natural dye job for the brow look I want. I have been using it since I was 18.

This old post narrates my discovery of the importance of visible eyebrows to my look. Particularly when I want to channel She Who Must Be Obeyed. https://youlookfab.com/welookf.....nspiration

I started out using the Anastasia brow pencil in Taupe. I factored in how long they lasted so I could keep stocked up during my infrequent trips to the nearby city that has a Sephora. Then, a pencil broke on me, when it should have had weeks of use left. I looked for a substitute at my local pharmacy and came across the brow products by Nyx. They carry two styles of pencil. I've found the quality, durability, and ease of use to be the same as Anastasia, but about 1/3 the price.

My morning routine is pretty simple, so adding it after moisturizer/sunscreen is just one more step. It's only been a nuisance when I've been traveling on vacation and lost it (and then people don't listen to me haha).

I looked into professional dyeing, but that includes waxing, which I don't want or need (my brows are not as full as they used to be, but still have a well shaped arch). I bought the Just for Men dye, early in the pandemic, but only used it once. I was terrified it would drop into my eyes and blind me, and then I was afraid it would be too dark (so didn't leave it on long enough). Maybe I'll try again when my sister comes for a visit soon.

Thanks for starting this thread. I have Opinions on this topic.

I love informed Opinions

Interesting comments about how brows may be important for communication and ‘channeling She Who Must Be Obeyed’. Although I prefer to rock a somewhat less defined brow, I have found that often simply raising my eyebrows at slightly ‘off’ (or just unwanted) comments from strangers in public can be very effective. My kids also know it as a warning sign!

LOL about expressive eyebrows. My sister and I have joked about how we talk with the upper halves of our face probably more than we do with our mouths! Probably why I have so many lines in my forehead too.

L’Abeille, that’s good to know. My hair is virtually white in front and I would like a little boost to my brows without looking like Martin Scorsese, so taupe it is.

Oh yes ,a raised eyebrow is one of my main ways of communicating my displeasure!l have always had quite a lot of eyebrow considering my hair colour and l never paticularly paid any attention to the other than plucking out the central hairs to prevent monobrow,but as eyebrows have become more of a “thing” l have tried waxing but now just pluck them into shape myself.l don’t dye them as any colour looks too heavy with my blonde hair so l am worried about overdoing it.Luckily ldont have much grey to cover in my brows .The product that’s getting a lot of attention over here for brows is Boy brow by glossier.?Any one tried it yet?

I’ve tried BoyBrow . It’s absolutely no different than any other brow mascara out there .

Interesting thread. I agree that eyebrows are important. I always left my eyebrows alone. I plucked a little back in the day, and I went for threading occasionally, but mostly I just left them alone. They look fine the way they are. I followed a YouTube video on how to measure them, and they are in the right position. Or whatever the term is.
I do go for tinting if I can find someone. I might try the beard tint that has been mentioned.
I use the Benefit brow mascara when I can't get them tinted. It is the only one I have used, so I can't compare it to the others.

This is so interesting. I have always considered my brows one of my defining features and have weirdly received compliments on them. But they have definitely thinned with age and one of the first things I do when I do anything is fill them in. I am not that fussy about which pencil or brush as they are already dark (although a few whites are popping up) and most do the trick just fine. I can certainly see tinting in my future.
(BTW, I hope this doesn't sound obnoxious, but I have never understood the idea of overplucking leading to thin brows. I can only dream that a plucked hair would never grow back!)

Y’all have convinced me to try home tinting. I use the brow balm from Elate Cosmetics and it’s great, but I’d love to be able to skip it on occasion. It seems like my brows have been getting lighter and lighter as I get older.

I need to learn how to trim the hairs that grow down on my left eyebrow. . .

But I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned Revlon’s Colorstay product that combines a twist-up pencil, a powder, and a skinny spooly brush. I like it better than the Anastasia pencil plus it’s oodles cheaper.

Good to know about Boybrow, Lisa. I was intrigued. And good tip on the Revlon product, Donna. I have a Clinique pencil I am going to play with today. Don’t know if it’s great, but it is the right color…

Ooh Donna I will have to look for that!!

I always fill in my brows with pencil even if just staying at home. Has not always been this way, maybe the last 5 years or so. I too had thick dark brows when I was younger that I did not love and over-plucked them for many years. I even shaved them off at age 13 - horrors! My dilemma now is do I start using a gray pencil or stay with the brown once my silver hair has grown completely in. Any ideas anyone? Pity I am late to this thead. I have cool toned skin and blue/gray eyes.

so, to those of you who use pencils and powders -- does it ever "stray" on you as I find eyeliner often does on me? (It may start up just around my eyes, but by end of day it can sometimes feel like it has migrated down to my chin...)

CarolS mine never smears or strays. I use pencil especially for eyebrows (any brand) and it is usually harder than eyeliner pencil.

Thank you for this post. I always liked my eyebrows until one time I was given a voucher for a facial and the beautician waxed my eyebrows, taking off about 50% of the brow, I think Marlene Dietrich was her inspiration. My brows never recovered! I now use eyebrow pencil and a brow gel, I am currently using Revlon Colorstay products and find the blonde colour a good match for me.

@Star - you may want to go with a slightly lighter eyebrow pencil. Not grey, but there are blonde eyebrow pencils that have a slightly ashy colour to them - they work with my lighter hair colour.

I had no idea that eyebrows go grey or the hairs get long and bushy on women (I have seen this unruly effect on old men). Thankyou forum members for the heads up on that one. It is truly good to know these things in advance so when it happens I don't feel so blind sided by it all.

CarolS, nope, mine stays. I apply tiny strokes between the hairs at the ends of my brows. I use a spoolie to blend. My makeup is more of an enhanced natural look, I don’t do clearly defined eyebrows and use very little product.

I have invisible brows and they’re covered by my glasses frame, so I’d never put much thought into them. (I don’t wear makeup.) But then I got them waxed and very slightly tinted and loved it. They have no shape or color on their own (invisible fuzzy caterpillar that extends way down from my browbone…) so it makes a big difference. Unfortunately the one salon I liked closed for good during the pandemic. They were so good at a quick hipster-style wax job - not carefully shaped, just cleaned up to leave them as heavy as possible. The threading places I’ve tried take too much off and it hurts like %*#$. And I can’t do it myself because I’m blind as a bat. Finding a new brow place is a huge priority now that I’m going back to work in person… in the meantime I found an auburn brow gel from Sephora. If I’m careful to only color the part of my eyebrow I want to keep, the rest of it stays invisible.

You KNOW that I am a BIG believer in brows to add structure and frame the face. I don't do much else, but bi-weekly threading has becoem something I have adopted post pandemic (I have a plce that does my face for $10 and it takes 15 minutes.) I have very full eyebrows that need to be thinned out and shaped (thanks Dad.) When they grow sparse, I will definitely microblade.

"My biggest beauty MUST has always been to look natural"

CarolS, absolutely, mine too. I haven't had a problem with drift. Even though my pencil is sheer and appears to add very little pigment I can see the difference.

I like this Arches and Halos brow tinted brow mousse. The brush is fantastic at grabbing non-existent hairs. My hairs are so sparse and white that I go two shades darker for definition. The look is not on-trend (= prominent and defined) but I feel it frames my face just enough.

https://smile.amazon.com/Arche.....id=1W3S1A6

This thread is money!!!!

So many great recs.

Lisa I have long admired your eyebrows. I never used to do anything with my eyebrows other than get rid of strays. I started using Latisse on my eyelashes and then put the extra onto the tails of my eyebrows as I notice them looking a little thinner. I also got a blond Hourglass pencil/brush thingy that I’ve had for more than a year so I must not be using a lot of product, but I like it.