YBF Eyebrow Pencil

YBF Automatic Eyebrow Pencil
YBF Automatic Eyebrow Pencil is an automatic pencil (no need to sharpen) in a universal dark taupe color. It has a mascara-type brush on the other end.
Before using the YBF Automatic Eyebrow Pencil, groom your brows by brushing them. Start at the inner edge of the eyebrow and brush upwards and outwards following the shape of the eyebrow to the outer edge.  I prefer using an eyebrow brush to the brush on the YBF Automatic Eyebrow Pencil.  Then use short, feathery strokes to apply the YBF Automatic Eyebrow Pencil.  Again, apply upwards and outwards.
I have full eyebrows and don’t like to tweeze or wax them. I do have my hairdresser dye my eyebrows when she colors my hair. I use the YBF Automatic Eyebrow Pencil only to fill in my eyebrows on the outer corners.
You may purchase the YBF Eyebrow Pencil, two for $20, from HSN.
Disclaimer: The YBF Eyebrow Pencil was supplied by the representative for YBF Beauty.

1 Day Tattoo Real Lasting Eyebrow

1 Day Tattoo Real Lasting Eyebrow from K-Palette is a liquid eyebrow cover with a fine brush. 24 Hour Tattoo Real Lasting Eyebrow comes in brown or black. I use the brown color.


1 Day Tattoo Real Lasting Eyebrow from K-Palette

The woman who styles my brows told me that someone like me who has a lot of platinum hairs should use a product such as a tinted brow mascara to coat the hairs. She had not seen a product like 1 Day Tattoo Real Lasting Eyebrow before and was impressed. She said that this would be best for covering individual hairs. She thought that it would take too many strokes to tint the brows. K-palette’s web site has diagrams that show you how to use 1 Day Tattoo Real Lasting Eyebrow over you entire brow – knowledge of Japanese is not necessary!

Majolica Majorca Brow Customize

I’ve been dyeing my hair for years now. I had my first gray hair when I was 16, and I’m completely gray underneath now. I’ve asked my hair stylists to dye my brows, but the dye doesn’t adhere to the brows very well. I am always on the lookout for brow products that will cover the platinum hairs.

Those of us in the U.S. associate Shiseido with premium skin care and cosmetics, but in Asia, Shiseido has several brands sold through drugstores. One of these brands is Majolica Majorca. Majolica Majorca offers Brow Customize, in which you hook up different cartridges to a holder to create a custom pencil.

Brow Customize by Majolica Majorca

The products include (L to R):

  • A slant edge pencil cartridge
  • A point-tip pencil cartridge
  • A cartridge holding powder that is applied with a soft applicator
  • A holder with a whirly mascara wand

I use the powder to cover the brow and then the slant edge pencil or point-tip pencil to touch up those hairs that weren’t covered by the powder. These pencils are unusually hard. Brow experts often recommend a taupe color for the brows, regardless of brow color, so I use the powder in taupe. The cartridge cap holds the powder, and when it covers the applicator, it’s necessary to shake the assembly to dispense powder on the applicator. I use dark brown for the pencil.

After trying Brow Customize from Majolica Majorca, I prefer a product that coats my eye brows.

Michelle Obama’s eyebrow makeover

I normally pass up on stories that PR reps send to me, because (1) I strive for original commentary and (2) I don’t feel equipped about writing about celebrities whose work I don’t know.

This story about Michelle Obama’s eyebrow makeover, however, was too good to pass up:

Michelle Obama

“I just got confirmation from Michelle Obama’s makeup artist, Ingrid Grimes-Myles that she did a major eyebrow makeover for yesterday’s [inauguration] ceremony … The First Lady came under some heat this summer at the Democratic National Convention for her “angry and severe” eyebrows.”

Mrs. Obama did an excellent job of re-introducing herself at the Democratic National Convention after what I’d call her “angry and severe” comments about America. Her eyebrows only served to accentuate her opinions. Still, I like the new eyebrows.

As for me, I couldn’t help but notice the resemblance between her eyebrows and those of a certain Bollywood movie star:

Shah Rukh Khan

Our PR rep used this story as a means to promote Tweezerman Slant Tweezer
icon as the tool to reshape Ms. Obama’s eyebrows.

Makeup lessons from Di Kennedy – Updated

Di Kennedy has excellent detailed lessons online on Color Theory and Smoky Eye Technique.

I wholeheartedly agree with Di that:

In make up we need to consider the context of the colour we are using and take all factors into account. Clothing, hair colour, eye colour, surroundings, season, lighting, the list is endless are all part of the context of our colour choices when applying make up. How a colour is perceived is dependent on the context.

However, I’m not smitten with the emphasis that the face charts give to selecting colours on the basis of eye colour. In addition to the factors that Di cited, complexion (fair to deep) and skin undertones (warm, cool, or neutral) matter much more than eye colour.

Here’s a photo from Di’s web site of Australian beauty queen Sabrina Houssami wearing the classic smoky eye:


Sabrina Houssami