Saving on Beauty: Do it Yourself Eyebrows

One of the most important aspects of defining your ‘look’ is your eyebrows. Like many girls, though, trying to do it myself is intimidating. I’ve had many moment of “oh sh*t – I overtweezed!” followed by weeks of attempting to patch it with eyebrow pencils. For a while, I was paying about $28 including tip every other month to keep my eyebrows neatly trimmed. However, when I found the Sephora Brand Arch It Brow Kit, I thought I would give it a try.

The Sephora Arch Brow kit comes in a leather case with 3 stencils (natural, sophisticate, and glamour), clear mascara, tweezers, and eyebrow powder. I use a dark eyebrow pencil in addition to this. I hold the stencil to my eyebrow, then fill it in with the eyebrow pencil. Tweezing then becomes as simple as plucking outside the eyebrow pencil line.

I’m probably not doing it right – I have no idea what the clear mascara is for. I just read on the Amazon review that it’s supposed to hold your hairs down. I’ve never done this – I just use the eyebrow pencil and fill in the stencil. It works fine for me.

Does it give me the highly stylized brows the eyebrow artiste at the salon used to give me? Definitely not. But it is actually very good, and keeps my brows well maintained and groomed. I’ve been using this for about a year now, and am happy enough with the results. No one has ever commented on my eyebrows looking odd – they don’t seem to notice. I no longer run into panicked accidents that lead to filling in with the eyebrow pencil.

My savings:

$35 eyebrow kit used monthly for a year = $2.91 per month

$28 including tip with salon stylist every other month for a year = $14 per month

In addition to the money savings, my eyebrows are better maintained because I do it monthly with stencils, instead of every other month with the stylist.