I literally talk about eyebrows more than anyone else I've ever met. Also probably even more than most people I've never met. The reason for my obsessiveness is because I wasn't fortunate enough to be blessed with anything worth mentioning.
I spent my teenage years with people asking me if I'd over-plucked them or liked the "thin look". Hashtag annoying. My natural head hair is really dark, super thick.. and at the moment really long. My natural eyebrows are sparse, literally feeble and a weird mousey blonde. It's like I got someone else's eyebrows by mistake, it really is.
So all of this chat hopefully explains to you why this year I hit a wall with the situation. Not even a lie (I know I like to exaggerate), I was getting through two Rimmel eyebrow pencils a month and constantly living in fear that someone would head hug me and smudge my brows. Or that I'd get a bit too humid on the train and sweat them off. Things really had to change.
This is where the ridiculously AMAZING Steph comes into my life. She's a semi-permanent makeup artist, and all round babe based in South Kensington (check her out here) and to say she changed my life is actually an understatement.
I wanted to share my eyebrow tattoo experience because when I was trying to weigh up whether or not to go for it the only person who told me the absolute truth was Steph herself. No one seems to have written down properly about what it all entails and exactly how the healing process happens. So, below is my picture diary and I've talked through each stage with total honesty.
Steph will probably kill me because it might put people off. But to be honest if I'd read what I'm about to write I would still 1000000% go for it because there is nothing like waking up with brows for the first time in 25 years let me tell you...
1. This photo was taken about two minutes after my first treatment was complete as a "before and after" for Steph's portfolio. I mean, let's not talk about the weird little slug brow that I started with. I hadn't felt a thing due to the numbing cream and had almost fallen asleep on the comfy white spa-type bed (typical me). If you've had a normal tattoo and are wondering if the pain is the same, it is absolutely not. I couldn't get used to the sight of myself at first because they are really blocky and really dark at this stage.. with a view that they will fade a lot during the first healing cycle. The colour is mixed to be perfect for your skin tone and the brows are measured from your eye to make sure they'll suit your face.
