Matching hair and eyebrows?

You're welcome 🙂

I've also seen people do it with lip liner instead of brow pencils (especially with pinks and purples)

I put up this thread aaages ago, it might be helpful:

http://www.hairdyeforum.com/index.php?topic=475.msg3818#msg3818

If you look down the page you'll see I did a tutorial.

Basically if you want vibrant eyebrows bleach them first with Jolen facial bleach - DO NOT use ordinary hair bleach it's far too strong to use on your face, the fumes could blind you.

After you've bleached your brows you can then use a pencil or mascara to colour. I use a pink eyeliner on mine to match my pinkness. ^_^

I think I'll dye my hair first and then find a liner to match 🙂 thanks ladies!

When my hair was dark brown or black (which is how I had it for years), I used to take a Q-tip or a clean mascara brush and dip it in the left over dye (after touching up my roots, or with an all over dye), and carefully putting it on my brows making sure to only touch the hair and not the skin, (If you get it on your skin it will stain it and look horrible..learned that the hard way..). And definitely making sure not to get it in my eyes, that would be bad.

I only did this because my natural brows are a lot lighter and looked odd with the dark hair. I dyed it instead of using makeup because I live at the beach and would go swimming all the time. In the winter I would just use a brow powder because I wasn't swimming. and brow powder is basically just a matte eyeshadow, so you could really just use any color that matches, and use a brow brush.

The great thing about having super light blonde hair is I don't have to worry about it anymore! yay!!!

Just be careful if you do that with box dyes as some of them contain peroxide, which under no circumstances should you get near your eyes.

My eyebrow hairs are pretty much black. So when I am wearing make up and I want to tame them, I use mascara to give them a clean look. Once it dries i comb them with an eyebrow brush, but make sure you have a super unclumpy mascara.

Mascara comes in all sorts of colors.

I've got some Jolen bleach, just trying to find a pencil to match my hair!

If you can't find a pencil an eyeshadow applied with a good brush will do it too. Just test the eyeshadow on your hand, make sure it's bright enough and dense in colour otherwise it'll come up too pale on your eyebrows. The Body Shop does some good bright colours, they're a tad on the expensive side though.

will have a look at eyeshadows aswell, thanks!

No problem. It's a trick I learned when I was a "red head" - as in ginger coloured. They do brow pencils for blonde, brown and black but not for ginger so I got some rust coloured eyeshadow and used that with a fine brush.

My eyebrows are not very dark, so it works without bleaching... however, I use a pink lipliner or a teal kajal instead of ye olde brown eyebrow pencil. Works just fine, though the lip liner is a tad more on the durable side...

(By the way I had such a great laugh a couple of days ago. Sat on the train, when some stereotype chavette stared at me in a mixture of fear, fascination and dimwittedness. I stared back, and so she pointed at my eyebrows and asked: "Uhm-uh, are thethe tattooed?" - I really had a hard time not to piddle my pants... as well as the dude who sat next to me. ;D)

:p what a wally

Teehee!

It's Barry M all the way for me. Got one of those retractable eyeliners the other day and the actual liner (the case/stick...was a bit different) matched enchanted forest perfectly.
The first time I tried it I looked ridiculous! Really big green caterpillars cos I managed to get more on the skin underneath than the hair. Made me look like a mouldy witch.
But after I cleaned them up a bit with a baby wipe it was really effective.

Saw a colour in the Barry M retractables which would probably match your hair (can't remember the colour name though) and they had one a bit lighter and also a slightly darker one so you can choose how you want your look to be.

Good luck!

i second barry m, i used the blue kohl eye liner for my blue brows and i think they lookeed amazing. i miss blue eyebrows

The first time I tried it I looked ridiculous! Really big green caterpillars cos I managed to get more on the skin underneath than the hair.

Yeah that's one thing you do have to be careful with. Don't apply it too hard. Just run the colour over the hairs of the eyebrow, don't push it down into the skin.

If you're using the eyeshadow method though it actually helps a little to get some on the skin, it brings out the colour more.