Holy Grail Beautyy . . .

• Cruelty free YES
• Fragrance free YES
• Cheap at $4 AUD
• Matte Cream product texture
• 2 shades

This is my third brow product from Essence, you can read the other reviews here and here.

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I really hoped this would be a super cheap, super brilliant brow product but alas it is not.


The shade is too blonde, it needs to be a tad more taupe to be a feasible colour to wear. The product itself is too soft, soft like velvet unfortunately, perhaps the hint was in the name....!

If it was a little more waxy like the NYX Jumbo Pencil it would have been better but it's just too soft. Unless you have fabulous brows and need a tiny little something and your brows are pure white as well then this shade in particular will not help you.

A miss this one is, I can't think of any alternative use for this product either.

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ESSENCE

• Cruelty Free YES
• Fragrance Free YES
• Brow and Liner
• Cheap $10 AUD
• Other shades available

This is my first brow & eyeliner cream from ELF Cosmetics.  I have reviewed their black cream liner here.

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This brow and liner cream is a great taupe blonde colour which is excellent for eyebrows as its not too warm and not too cool where it can appear green/grey.  I use a Napoleon Perdis Eye and Lip brush G3 to apply it and I just dip in lightly to the tub and gently add the cream to where I want to apply it.







I applied it before going to my athletic step aerobics class and whilst it was with fans and air con on, but I was hot and sweaty and the product barely moved on one side where the liner was not as thickly applied but the eye that it was applied thickly obviously was solid.

It applies smoothly although you can see a slightly jagged edge on the second eye which had more to be with the brush and me then the actual product.

I also love the colour with my blue eyes and will definitely try this as liner again in the future.

I definitely recommend.

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ELF Cosmetics

• Cruelty free YES
• Fragrance Free YES
• Cheap $9 AUD
• Three shades available
• Spoolie attached
• Vegan Friendly YES

This is my first eyebrow pencil from DB Cosmetics.

I have previously reviewed one pair of faux mink lashes which you can read here.

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This is a pencil product with a spoolie on one end.  The colour is great perfect even.  Its the right tone for a medium to light blonde.  The problem with this pencil is it is a tad too soft.  It kept its shape for the day but I didn't feel confident with it.


The pencil has already had to be sharpened after only one use on both brows.  I might try putting it in the fridge or freezer to see if that helps matters.

If DB Cosmetics alter the wax level that would be great in the formulation.

I will not recommend this pencil.

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DB Cosmetics

• Fragrance Free YES
• Cruelty Free tba
• Four shades available - Clear, Light Brown/Blonde, Medium Brown and Black/Dark Brown
• Cheap at $9.99 AUD

This is my first product from this brand.

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I have pure white eyebrows naturally so I always use brow products, with colours in the taupe to light brown shades.  This brow mascara is in Blonde/Light Brown.  It is a tube with a mini brush just like the Benefit Gimme Brow product.  The mascara colour is good in a neutral taupe neither too cool nor too warm. 

The experience I had with this product is mixed.  I applied the mascara on top of the Rimmel Professional Eyebrow Pencil in Hazel and unfortunately this formula is too runny and too much comes out on the brush, so to avoid product clumping as much as possible on the brow you need to give it a good clean off first if you want to have a clean and even application.


The brush itself is great its a good size being small and tapered at the tip, the product stays in place but not as good as the Benefit Gimme Brow as it doesn't define as well.  It does not 'build brows'; its more of a stay in place product with colour added hence the name mascara in its product name.  It does apply well over pencil. 

If the product's tube could clean off the extra product when you pull out the wand it would solve the excess product wastage and the problem of too much product on the brow itself which would raise my rating from average to good.

I definitely recommend as a cheaper alternative to more expensive products.

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1000 Hour

• Cruelty Free YES
• Fragrance Free YES
• Cheap 
• Four shades
• Has a brush

This is my second ever product from the brand Essence.  You can read about the first product I experienced here.

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I don't usually have a good experience with Blonde specific eyebrow products because they are just too soft in their pigment it is hard to get a defined lines or areas.  Once again, it happened with this pencil.  There is another blonde shade called Blonde so I am unsure if that is even lighter or what.  There is other shades available and even though it has good reviews on the website, I cannot attest to that as I won't be purchasing the black but I may check out the brown.  The other thing was that the actual product is so hard! I run it along my hand and nothing comes off!

I checked the reviews on the Essence website and people seem to love it but I cannot see how.

I won't be able to recommend this pencil.

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Essence

 

• Cruelty Free NO
• Fragrance Free YES
• Inexpensive
• Two in one pencil and brow powder
• Dark blonde, dark brown, medium brown shades

This is the third Maybelline eyebrow product I have reviewed, you can read the others here and here.

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This dual ended product contains a pencil stick pigment and the other end contains a powder tip which pigment powder fills in from the cap.  The stick is far too hard for the delicate skin in the eye and brow area.  It is almost sharp and too dry.  The shade is Dark Blonde and it is slightly warm.  The powder pigment though is much better and not too hard to apply.  I have kept this product for the powder but by no means is it worth it to purchase this pencil just for the powder.

I do not recommend this product.

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Maybelline

•  0.02 ounces product
• Inexpensive $7.17 AUD
• Cruelty Free NO
• Fragrance Free YES
• Four shades 
• Spoolie

 
This is one of a few Maybelline eyebrow products that I have now used.  You can read it here.

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The main issue with this pencil that makes it unusable, is the amount of wax in it.  It seemed promising but after a few strokes the end of the pencil was visibly bent.  Subsequent tries deliver the same result which makes it incredibly difficult to get a sharp defined hairs or shape.  The pigment is not good enough and together with the wax issue makes this product not worth it.

I do not recommend this pencil.

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Maybelline

• Cruelty Free NO
• Fragrance Free YES
• Expensive due to product weight 0.002 ounces at $13.95 AUD
• Micro fine tip 1.5 mm
• Dual ended with spoolie
• Retractable

This is my third eyebrow product that I have tried by Maybelline.

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This pencil is pretty good! It is very fine as the name suggests at 1.5mm and it is retractable.  My issue with this product is that it contains very little product! It contains 0.002 ounces and lasts about three weeks as an average if you use it daily.  In Australia, it costs approximately $13.95 AUD and for that price it is simply not worth the purchase. 

It has a good amount of wax and pigment so if they could up the amount of product it would be worth buying.

I recommend but with caution.

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Maybelline

• Retractable pencil
• Has longevity through the day
• Lasts around just over a month
• 5 shades available Auburn, Blonde, Soft Brown, Medium Brown, Soft Black
• Spoolie 
• Fragrance Free YES
• Cruelty Free NO
• Inexpensive $23.95 AUD

These retractable pencils were the first Revlon eyebrow products I had ever tried.

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The pencil is in the form of a retractable pencil/pen.  There is a spool on one end and the pencil on the other.  The colour product is a great mix of wax and pigment ingredients which gives a longevity to the product, especially if you have oily skin  like I do.  One of the drawbacks of the Rimmel Professional Eyebrow Pencil in Hazel that I have favoured for so long is that if you are oily, it does affect the brows after maybe four or so hours depending on activity level and other products on the skin near the brows.  As you can expect, wearing sunscreen in that area does help to make the skin oilier and helps breakdown the product.

This pencil is a bargain and lasts about 5 weeks if used daily.  The medium brown was a little too dark for me but it still worked as long as you didn't go too hard on the pigment.  The blonde  is a little too soft in colour but if you go in hard the appearance is too heavy too block like so I have mixed the Rimmel brow product with the Revlon blonde shade of the pencil and I get the best of both products.

I definitely recommend these brow products if the shades are your shades as often people find some browns too red and some blondes too green or not right in some other way.

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Revlon

Storytime

I have been eyeing off the larger palette of the Smashbox Photo Matte Eyes at Myer's Mecca Maxima (Australia's Sephora), but there is a mini available of 8 shades from the palette.  So in the interest of saving money just incase the product is inferior because in AUD it is $80 approximately whilst the mini is $35.

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You get eight shades from the original large palette and basically this is a matte eye shadows lovers dream.   I have not loved an eye-shadow palette as much as I love this mini!

• Soft and easy to use
• Pigmented
• Long lasting
• Next to no kick up of product
• Multi Use 
• Perfect! 

These shadows can be used in your eyebrows and also as eye liners.  There is on the reverse side of the mini palette a dot system which will indicate to you on the legend provided which shades are recommended for eyebrow and liner use.  Of course you can use whatever you wish, these are just best suggestions for product use.

I have used them as shadows and eyebrow colour mixed with my Rimmel Eyebrow Pencil in Hazel 002.

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I have been using this eyebrow pencil by Rimmel for so long I actually don't know how long!
I use Hazel 002 as I am fair with blonde hair and my eyebrows are naturally platinum blonde.  This is the perfect color for blondes, redheads and light brunettes.  This is a holy grail product for me.

Its the perfect consistency not too hard where it drags the skin, and not too soft that its messy.
One thing I learned was that it applies far better when the skin is dry of any moisture.  I have to do my eyebrows first and then apply moisturiser, primer, sunscreen and any powder afterwards as it will not apply with moisturiser etc on your eyebrow.

• Very cheap
• Perfect consistency
• Easy to use
• Need to sharpen
• Three colors to choose from Black/Brown, Hazel, Dark Brown

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