Does anyone know how eyebrows came to hold so much power in your makeup routine? I don't know when we all agreed that if your brows are fucked up then your face is trash but now its law. Storytime :)
SO, before I started my freshmen year of high school, my best friend dragged me with her and her mom to Walmart so she could get her brows waxed. I remember asking her, "why is important to get your eyebrows waxed? They look fine." She told me that getting your brows waxed transforms your face. You'll look ten times better. I'm not going to lie, I thought she was capping and doing too much. So we go to Walmart to the little "Walmart brand" nail salons and I'm waiting on her to get her brows done. This girl comes back looking like AaliyahJay or some shit and I am intrigued. By now I already know I'm spending the little $10 in my pocket on this so I get my ass up and go sit in the waxing chair. Now, I don't know what I was expecting but bitch...when I tell you after the initial snatch of the first wax strip I was ready to cave that small Asian woman's chest in. I NEVER BOTHERED NOBODY SO I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU FEEL THE NEED TO HURT ME LIKE THIS LISA? So she finishes waxing both brows and spins me around in the chair to face the mirror...I'm not gon hold y'all I was fine as hell. I went from baby ass middle schooler to AP Language REAL QUICK. WHAT WAS SAID?! From then on, I was getting my brows waxed when I remembered to do so. Then I met my sis Brina and it was a wrap. I was getting my brows waxed regularly.
Fast forward to the summer of 2015, let me set the scene for y'all. I was feeling down about myself and quite frankly lonely. I was wearing my hair natural (didn't know how to style it) and I was in a "long distance relationship" with someone who I knew did not want to be with me. I wasn't getting any reassurance from he who shall not be named and at this point, I'm trained to act like a wife so I had ZERO dudes on my line. I was OD on the loyalty lmao. But anyway, I started to become obsessed with watching makeup tutorials (mainly TheGlamTwinz, AshleyDevonna, Kathryn Bedell & Jackie Aina) because I figured if my man not gon boost me then Ima boost my damn self. I started going out and buying all types of makeup that did not match my skin complexion AT ALL. I would buy black eyebrow pencils. This was back when I didn't understand that brow products are meant to enhance and shape your natural brow, not color over like a damn coloring book. Don't worry, I deleted all the evidence of this and I do not accept new friend request on Facebook so let's not be petty. K? I was walking around looking crazy until eventually,I learned that you fill in sparse areas of your brows. Then, if you really nice with it then you can finesse your eyebrows to be as "sister-like" as possible. I graduated from pencil to brow pomades (and now mixture of both because old habits die hard).
Once I started developing a love for doing my own makeup, the more I noticed other women's eyebrows. I noticed that women were using concealer that was way to light to carve out their brows, I noticed women were using asphalt to do their brows (cinder blocks as I like to call them), and I noticed some women just neglected their brows all together but still wore a face full of makeup to the function. Sweetheart no. Now, I'm not saying I'm Pat McGrath or anything because I'm not AT ALL but brows should be handled with care.
Brows can really make or break your face. Now, I understand why women spend so much time creating the perfect brow before they move on to the next step in their makeup routines. It makes a difference. Hell, you could do your brows and throw some concealer on your face then step outside and you'd still look like you have your shit together. The no-makeup makeup ting.
Anyway, brows are that girl in a makeup routine and they should be respected as such. PERIOD.
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