![]() “Not even with total sunblock? A hat? Big sunglasses?” I had just ruined my vacation to have perfect eyebrows, welcome to the thankless age. “Don’t go swimming and don’t go in the sun, okay?” You put on a thick layer of healing cream on and make an appointment for touch ups one week later. ![]() Each time they go back over it, you clinch your teeth a little more, but then after about half an hour, it’s over. So she took her time evaluating my face, studying it, measuring it, then she mixed colors (for me, it was an ash brown) and finally, she took her tattoo pen (yep, just like a tattoo artist, it was my baptism by fire-I don’t have any tattoos!!!) and she started “micro-pigmenting”. It’s very, very difficult work, the brow line.īalancing facial features is the subtlest thing ever. Her technique is not to draw fake eyebrows one by one (which is a very popular technique on Instagram right now) but just to shade in the area and accentuate the natural line, which gives it a super natural look. You have to put on a thick layer of anesthetic numbing cream an hour before the procedure and you look really, really, really dumb-make sure to bring huge sunglasses and a hat.Īnyway, I laid down, totally unconscious confident and I let Marina redraw my eyebrows. The colors have evolved – message to all the women with orange and purple brows: it might be time to make another appointment.ģ. Micropigmentation is not exactly like a tattoo-it only lasts 6 to 8 months. Oh yeah, in my excitement, I forgot to tell you two things:ġ. SO IMPORTANT SINCE SHE WAS ABOUT TO TAKE MY FACE INTO HER OWN HANDS AND CHANGE IT FOREVER ok I’ll stop with the all caps It was gorgeous, super natural, the arch was perfect, and I was super excited.Īnd that’s how, the day after I arrived in Corsica, I ended up going to see Marina, a super adorable aesthetician, super well-dressed, a girl with taste, basically. I’LL BE THERE AUGUST 8TH (my all caps button was stuck) That didn’t faze her at all-she was totally stoic and replied by sending me photos of the results and I followed up with: So one day when a friend told me about the eyebrow micropigmentation she’d done in Corsica, in Ajaccio (well yes, she’s a friend from Corsica), it piqued my interest-even though I couldn’t help but respond in all caps that SHE WAS COMPLETELY CRAZY TO GET A TATTOO HADN’T SHE SEEN THE WOMEN WITH ORANGE AND PURPLE EYEBROWS (SOMETIMES BOTH AT THE SAME TIME) HAUNTING THE AISLES OF MONOPRIX? – And finally, you can mess it up with one wrong movement, or a tiny drop of sweat. – It’s super hard to find the perfect color – It’s super hard to get the perfect arch every single day It hasn’t been more of an issue than that, but even so, I’ve kept an eye on how science is progressing because doing your eyebrow makeup is kind of a pain, even with the best Anastasia-the-brow-queen-of-LA kits. Without going quite that far, a little brow makeup has become part of my daily routine, and I’ve gotten so used to it that without anything on my brows, my face feels naked, so I don’t like to go without it very often anymore.ĪNYWAY. I should also point out that brows suddenly made a major comeback (after the reign of Kate Moss, my brow sister, they had to find something to make us buy more makeup) and we all ended up wanting brows like Cara. I swear, when he told me that I was like: “what!?” So I started focusing entirely on my eyes.Īnd even my future husband saw me in a bar and was drawn to me “because he loved my eyes”. Suddenly, my eyes become interesting to me, who had always thought I needed to accentuate my mouth since I had such boring eyes (women are such pros at self-torment right?) – and my face had more structure to it. Then with my work as an international influencer (I hope the irony of my self-proclaimed status is palpable!!!) came the amazing makeup artists who taught me how to do my eyes.Īnd that’s when I learned how much impact a beautiful brow can have. It might take a while, but it would be doable.Īnd it’s not even because I waxed them too much, no, no I was just born that way.įor a long time, I didn’t wear makeup. ![]() If I wanted to, I could probably count the hairs one by one. There’s definitely not much going on over my eyes. ![]() You have to understand-for a long time I’ve been the girl with the super light, almost nonexistent brows. Sometimes, you have to take risks to be beautiful. ![]()
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