Take care of your brows

Big bold brows are the new trend! If you have naturally full brows like me then you're good to go with some basic trimming and filling, others may need to fill a bit more. The best advice if you've never done anything with your eyebrows, is to go to a waxer/brow shaper once and have them lay out a good shape for you, this way you will know where to pluck/wax yourself and won't have to come back every month to the salon. My all time favorite product that I recently discovered for brows is the ELF eyebrow kit (comes in medium, light, and dark). It has a darker gel on the left and a powder on the right, I've only ever used the gel though. Mine didn't come with a brush so I bought the Sonia Kashuk (Target) angled eye liner brush, which is perfect for natural looking filling. Next thing you need is a good pair of tweezers, personally I think Tweezerman ones are the best, but whichever brand is your favorite is fine. A brow pencil is also a great thing to have. The Maybelline define a brow is possibly the best brow pencil out there, it even beats out expensive ones. To finish off the look hairspray and an eyebrow/mascara comb are good. You could also use an old toothbrush for this bit. Spray a bit of hairspray on the brush and shape your brows where you'd like them to stay. I think this is much more comfortable than brow gels, I find those to feel tacky and hard.

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Spring Nail Trends

Spring Nail Trends by theriseandfall featuring a nail lacquer

Spring is here people and that means its time to break out the color! Time to switch out the vampy purples an blues from last season for bright pastel colors.
These are some of my favorites right now, shopping list under the read more.
Clockwise: Butter London in Molly Coddled, Butter London in Jasper, OPI in Can't find my Czechbook, and Deborah Lippmann in Groove is in the heart

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