To me, being brow beautiful is about as important as my daily skincare routine and yet – unlike a quick cleanse, tone, and moisturise – carefully pencilling in your brows every morning before you leave the house can take an agonisingly long time.
Not only can you achieve a beautifully natural finish, but the results are long lasting and stand up well to all the demands of daily life. This means you can throw yourself into a gym workout or take a dip in the sea without any brow bother.
Unlike regular tattoos, which are more of a block colour, Microblading is a semi-permanent make-up technique where hair-like strokes are tattooed one at a time into the brow using a handheld tool and pigment. This helps to add fullness and shape back into the brow in a natural-looking way.
Microblading is a slightly different treatment to microshading treatments such as ombré and powder brows (see below). Instead of replicating the hairs with strokes using a hand tool, small points are dotted into the eyebrow using a machine that is similar to a tattoo gun to ‘shade’ in the brow, thus creating a fuller brow that closely resembles make up.
Hairstroke microblading is an excellent treatment for anyone who is looking for beautiful, natural-looking long-lasting brows. The light-touch hairstroke effect is fabulous for adding fullness back to brows that are very fair, sparse, or over-plucked. Although a brilliant treatment for anyone, microblading is particularly suitable for mature skin as well as those who have experienced hair loss.
Powder brows are one of the most popular eyebrow treatments around today. Unlike microblading, powder brows are created using a tiny machine, a little like a tattoo gun, to ‘fill in’ sparse areas of the brow with tiny little dots rather than hair-like strokes. This results in full, powdery soft brows that look very similar to make-up.
Powder brows look fabulous on most skin types and ages and are a particularly good option if you have very oily skin because the pigment lasts longer.
Ombré brows have a multi-tonal, gradient effect which starts light towards the front for the brow before gradually darkening towards the tail. Like powder brows, ombré brows are created using a small machine tool which uses a series dots, rather than hairstrokes, to ‘shade in’ sparse areas of the brow.
The multi tonal effect produced by ombré shading will give your brows a beautifully soft and misty look, similar to that achieved with an eyebrow pencil. The lush yet natural finish make ombré brows suitable for most ages and skin types, particularly those with oily skin.
This technique combines microblading hairstrokes with a powder shading effect to create a natural look with more definition and volume. This is a great option for those whose skin is perhaps too oily for microblading alone.
Combination Brows combine microblading hairstrokes with a powder shading effect to create a natural look with more definition and volume. This is a great option for those whose skin is perhaps too oily for microblading alone.
