Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz - Review
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
A while ago I picked up the famous Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz (from Net-a-Porter) in Medium Ash, here's my thoughts...
...I didn't like it.
Honestly, I didn't see what all the fuss was about. To be fair, my eyebrow needs aren't the in the majority. I have super fine, long, dead straight black hairs that are very sparse. My biggest problem with filling in my brows is that a large amount of the applied product needs to be placed directly on to the skin between my brow hairs - as opposed to the more common application or brushing/swiping product on top of the hairs themselves in order to fill in/darken/define the brow.
I find sheer pencil brow products (like the Brow Wiz) that require multiple passes to build up intensity, leave behind fine, gritty particles on my skin which I think makes it look really obvious that I've drawn my brows on. I prefer liquid pen-type-dealies as I find the application and layering of pigment/intensity doesn't leave behind noticeable residue.
So when it came to using the Brow Wiz, it just didn't tick any of my boxes.
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| an individual Brow Wiz comes in a matte black packaging with foiled embossed type |
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| bronzed letting on the side of the pencil/crayon and the Anastasia Beverly Hills logo |
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| super tiny nib of the crayon/pencil that winds up by turning the base |
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| held between thumb and forefinger, the Brow Wiz is a delicate and super slim crayon - much thinner than a standard lip pencil. It also has a Net Weight of 0.085gm |
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| Medium Ash swatched from one stroke that's barely visible on the right top hand side with increasing repetitive strokes down to the heaviest swatch on the bottom land hand side - you can see as the product builds up it becomes texturally visible |
- HOWEVER -
My work bestie Kat had also been dying to try out the Brow Wiz and in the same colour Medium Ash, so I brought it in to work for her to swatch/try (sterilised of course).
Lo and behold she loved it!! The lucky wench has fantastic thicker brows that really only need a little product around the edges for definition and neatening of her arches.
She took it off my hands in a heartbeat! So while personally I don't feel the Brow Wiz lives up to the hype surrounding it, depending on your brow needs it could be a go for you. If you've tried it and loved it or maybe felt smeh like I do, let me know why in the comments below!
Bambi xox
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