Brows are big now. In every way. It seems like everywhere you look now, there is another brand coming out with more and more new brow products. I've been testing a lot of them out over the last few months. I've found some good ones, some bad ones, and some excellent dupes. There were some good and bad both from the drugstore and high end. I tried lots of different brands, formulas, applications, and types. Here is the breakdown:
Waxes
Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade
This is by far the most intense product on this list. It is a thick pomade in a jar which you apply with a flat or small angled brush. It creates very precise lines and intense color. It also holds like nothing else. Your brows will not move. You don't have to have much brow hair for this to stick to either, which makes it good for someone with sparse brows. It is a little too thick sometimes and can get clumpy, but if you make sure to run a spool through it after you paint it on, you should be precise and chunk free. Definitely not a product for every day, but I do like it a lot for hot days when normal brows would sweat off, or when you want really intense brows to frame a bold makeup look.Gels/Mousses
Maybelline Eyestudio Brow Drama Sculpting Brow Mascara
This is probably one of the most subtle products on this list. This type of brow product that looks like mascara is the most subtle overall, but this one is probably the most of the group. It does a nice job of plumping up your brow hairs and holding them in place, but if you have sparse brows and there isn't much for this to cling onto, you'll probably want to skip it. It doesn't flake off like some gels can, and is fast to apply, which is nice for mornings when you're not doing a lot of makeup. The ball shaped brush isn't nearly as awkward to use at it looks like it would be.L'Oreal Paris Brow Stylist Plumper
Again, a gel so you need some hairs for this to cling to, but this one fills in bare or sparse spots better than the Maybelline. I find this one is a little bolder, which I like. It doesn't hold quite as well as the Maybelline, but people who don't like stiff, crunchy, gelled brows will like this texture a lot. I also like how small the spool is so you can be precise and not end up with it on your face.Rimmel Brow This Way Brow Gel
The spool on this one is a little bigger, but not so big that it's messy. It really thickens brows without getting clumpy or looking plastered like some gels can. A great daily staple for anyone regardless of what your natural brows are like.Benefit Cosmetics Gimme Brow Volumizing Fiber Gel
The spool on this one is almost too small, but not quite. It is definitely precise, which is great if you really want to get into some sparse spots and put more product there than you do the rest of the brow. If you want to have the same amount of product all over and apply it in one swipe however, I would opt for the Rimmel. This one also has fibers, which are great for filling in bald spots or making it look like there are more hairs where there aren't. It does get a little crunchy when it sets, but not uncomfortable or flaky. I also like how teeny the whole package is, great for keeping in your bag on the go.Pens/Markers
Lancome Sourcils Tint Longwear Eyebrow Pen
This one is up there with the Anastasia pomade for the most intense. It is a marker with fluid stain in a felt tip. Think of a liquid eyeliner pen, but for your eyebrows. This color is intense, but also the longest lasting of all of them. This would be the best brow product on the list for people with very sparse brows, because it does not need to grip onto hairs, you just paint it right on. However, that also makes it, in my opinion, the most unnatural on the list. The look this creates does not in any way look like natural brows or allow you to draw in little flecks that would look like hairs.Pencils
NYX Cosmetics Micro Brow Pencil
ATTENTION!! This is a total drugstore dupe for the Anastasia Brow Wiz, which everyone loves. I am not kidding, this is almost an exact replica, but for less than half the price! They both have super fine tips, which is great for drawing natural looking hair-like strokes and for getting precise outlines. Both have a spool on one end which is super handy, and both have mechanical twist up pencils which means no sharpening, just always a thing, precise tip. The Brow Wiz is usually by far my favorite, but I have to say this has replaced it now because it is just as amazing, but way cheaper.Maybelline Brow Define & Fill Duo
This is an...interesting product. It has a thin, mechanical tip too, but not as thin as the Brow Wiz or NYX pencils, and the other end has a pointed sponge instead of a spool. The pointed sponge grabs powder from inside its cap which matches the pencil. You are supposed to use the powder to set the pencil after you draw it on, but I found it just made my brows look unnaturally matte and flat and kind of cakey. I also find that I never grab my pencils that don't have a built in spool, so I probably will not be repurchasing this one.MAC Eye Brows
OK, I take back what I just said. this is the only pencil I do still reach for despite not having a spool. I wish it did have one, but I still use it because I love it. This is one of the creamiest pencils I've ever tried for my brows. Some of them you feel like you have to break the tip in order for color to go on, but this one just glides on so smoothly. It also has a super skinny tip, which I love, and comes in a much wider variety of colors than most.
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