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There has never been anything more important to me than this.

Are you filling them? They look GOOD. I’m sort of nervously circling my pencils, keen to start pencilling but worried I’ll get addicted.

Yeah, I am. I don’t always need to anymore but I do. They had grown completely back (and darker than they ever had been), but then I relapsed on righty. It’s been a while since I touched it, but I’m still filling in. I could get away with leaving them, but I honestly feel naked without it.

Trich tip:

Maybelline Expert Wear Brow & Eye pencil is supposed to be the best-selling brow pencil in America, I guess, but it’s probably because it’s like $3.75 for two of them.  And, frankly, it’s probably really nice for normal people, but I wouldn’t recommend it for people with trich. 

The thing about it:  it wouldn’t be as much of a problem if I was drawing on my brows from scratch, but because it’s hyper-waxy, when I try to shade my brows it pulls some of them out.  Hair sticks to it and comes off.  Mostly it’s the older, dead hairs anyway, but again:  this wouldn’t be a problem for normal people, but I’m not really willing to let any of my long hairs go.  They all matter. 

What I recommend:  Avon’s Glimmersticks Brow Definer.  It’s $3 (less, if you or your mother have an in with an Avon lady).  It’s blendable and, for me, can act as both a pencil and a powder for filler.  Other trich-pluses:  it goes on really easily without pressing hard, which is really nice when your brows are irritated.  It’s much, much gentler on those sore spots and growing-in hair than a regular pencil.  It’s good for a lot of cover and it doesn’t look as fake as pencil and powder can.  It does wear off a little bit more easily, but a swipe of clear mascara fixes that.  The clear mascara is also nice for shaping your brows to maximize the hairs you do have, and (at least for me) it sometimes makes your brows less touchable so you’ll keep your fingers off them a while.

It runs out pretty quickly, too, but it’s cheap enough to make up for it—especially since those Avon ladies love to give you bulk deals.  Of course, you can order online now, if you have a problem making friends with old ladies.

I do think Maybelline makes a comparable one that I haven’t tried—an Expert Wear Brow & Eye Liner, I think—but it’s $5 or $6.  There are a few higher-end varieties I’m going to buy when the semester’s over so that I can compare them all.  I might make some youtube videos.  Have you ever tried for browtips on youtube?  It’s all the kinds of girls with acrylic french nails and betty boop charms on their cell phones.  I think we need a new youtube brow voice.

borninflames:

theblondejournal:

Lara Stone photographed by Alasdair Mclellan for the cover of Self Service spring/summer 2011.

I’m still not over Her.

Hey!  Thanks for the browspiration.  I know it’s really ridiculous of me to pretend that I could look like Lara Stone, but girlfriend has my hair and is rocking some serious aspirational fronsfurs right here.*

*inventing synonyms for eyebrows is perfectly acceptable, okay?

browspolitation blog 2k11:  I could totally rock this shit!

Ginta Lapina Fendi FS11 Eyes?  Could you put some fat glasses on those?

Okay, I’m a little uncomfortable going to Rodarte for makeup cues?  After the whole, you know, fetishize-and-perpetuate-the-muders-of-Mexican-women-with-your-eyeshadow-thing?

But that is me.  My everyday hair is Rodarte FS11 hair—pulled back with a Klimt barrette and blown-out Manic Panic electric banana dips a la Proenza-you-know-what.  So that just means that I should copy everything else exactly and my life will become magic?

Is this Anne Sophie?

Anabela Belikova at Chloé, Fall 2011.

See, I have this thing about my eyebrows.  They’re small and blonde to begin with but I also have developed this really troublesome (to say the least) neuroses wherein sometimes I pull them out and spiral into compulsive anxieties about it.

I’ve never drawn in my eyebrows because it takes a level of confidence, but now I’m walking around with half-mangy depression brows and I think it’s time to make a statement.

Compensating for my mental disorders with daring makeup choices.  At this point I might as well.  Commence Fall 2011 Runway Shopping—blonde hair/darker brow appreciation blog.

Starting:  Aline Weber at Chloé.

For Lent:  I give up tearing, take up bravery?