Technical File - Power Brows

Health and Safety: 

Place apron around the neck to protect clothing. 

Always ensure to run a client consultation to check for any infections, allergies or contraindications.

Wash/Disinfect hands thoroughly before touching the clients skin.

Products Used:

- Matte Eyeshadows/Brow Shadows

- Brow Pencil 

- Concealer Palette

- Brow Comb 

- MUFE Flash Palette

- Mac Fix+

- Brow Gel

Process of Creation:

1. Consult client to check for any allergies/skin irritations etc that may affect either them or yourself. 

2. Remove all makeup from the brows to ensure that they are clean and free from product. 

3. Consult your client about their usual brow routine and how they prefer to have their brows shaped. 

4. Taking a mascara wand/brow comb brush the hairs in the same direction to neaten the brows and establish their natural shape. 

5. Taking a brow product of choice be it a pencil/powder/pomade (dependant on style) begin filing in any sparse areas of hair to thicken the brow. 

6. Depending on client preference start to shape/define the eyebrows to the preferred style, for natural brows a light powder in the same shade or pencil works effectively to draw in small hairs. 

7. If creating a more defined brow you may use Fix+ to wet the brush and apply the shadow to create more definition or using a pomade. If using this then a clean up may be required.

8. Go underneath the eye with a concealer the same shade/one shade lighter to remove any sloppy lines for a defined brow. 

9. Once happy fix in place with a brow gel. 

Client 1: Liliana                                       Client 2: Maddie                                   Client 3: Chloe 

- Natural Brows                                        - Natural Brows                                   - Natural Brows

- Defined Brows (Preference)                    - Defined Angular Brows                      - Filled Brow

- Defined with Highlight (Adjusted)           - Softer Full Brow                                - Filled & Reshaped Brows

- Trend: Graphic Tips.                               - Trend: Brushed Up                            - Trend: Blue

Evaluation:

I enjoyed this practical in particular for the opportunity to be able to work on a variety of different brow shapes/types/colours within this technical session, as it tested my ability to adjust my style numerous times for the purpose of creating brows that suited each individual client. In addition it also meant we had an opportunity to recreate some of the trends that had stood out amongst the Spring/Summer 2016 shows and understand better the techniques that were used within their creation. The most difficult element to this technical was not in particular creating the brows themselves but more the difference in opinion between yourself as the makeup artist and your client. What was most interesting is the degree of defensiveness that is apparent when you are filling in someone else's brows as if immediately they do not like what they are seeing the client is often quick to want to change it even if you haven't finished. This is not necessarily a bad thing it just makes it more obvious as to how much brow shapes influence peoples looks, what you may think will work for the client is not always what they would wear themselves. This however does demonstrate the influence of social media, in particular the creation of the super defined brow, whereas I myself prefer something shapely but natural, many like strongly carved out shapes. Creating trend brows was also enjoyable as it gave an opportunity to be more creative with eyebrow styles and also made it apparent how slight adjustments to the brow area can completely change the appearance of the face.