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I’m not a make-up person. I don’t have the time or energy to use it and I definitely don’t have the skill! But one thing I can’t live without is an eyebrow pencil. Most of us have had teenage moments of madness shaving and plucking eyebrows to death and I was definitely THAT person. An eyebrow pencil helps me correct those mistakes and look normal, so it’s an essential product for me. For this reason, I wasn’t not going to buy w7’s Stroke of Genius Microblade Brow Pencil when spotted in Home Bargains for the budget busting price of 49p!
What does the pencil do & how does it look?
w7’s Stroke of Genius Microblade Brow Pencil is supposed to create a great shaped, long lasting brow. Like most eyebrow pencils it has a brush end where you can brush out and control the natural brow. The pencil end is retractable and needs to be twisted to use.
In Use
It’s quite a comfortable eyebrow pencil to hold and use, but very thin. Easy to extend the pencil part or retract it by twisting it. But while applying the eyebrow pencil I needed to apply a lot more pressure to draw lines as I’m used to. It didn’t feel creamy or flow easily over my existing brows or the patchy areas. It was hard work and took more time and energy to do my eyebrows than I would’ve liked.
The result
w7’s Stroke of Genius Microblade Brow Pencil created a nicely shaped and coloured (I used dark brown) set of eyebrows. I did like how precise they were and it’s worth to mention because of how thin the pencil section was this helped in doing this. These lasted till the point I washed my face in the evening, so no complaints with how long they were in tact for.
Recommended?
I’ve learnt from using this I prefer a traditional eyebrow pencil that can be sharpened. It’s my personal preference. With this, if the pencil was just that little more smoother and easier to apply it would be really good, but it wasn’t. Shame, as the end result was fine. Would I buy this again? Probably not. Although I did grab two of these and will use them as spares if I’m ever eyebrow pencil-less. Would I recommend it? No. for an extra £1.00 there are cheap alternatives in various places (Primark, Superdrug etc) you can use with less effort and time.