Magnetic Attraction

Face: Primer-Laura Mercier Radiance  Bare Minerals (Warm Tan); MAC Blush (Coppertone); Dior Shimmer highlight (Amber Diamond)

Lips: Laura Mercier Lipstick (Fresh Brown) MAC Lipglass (Sonoran Rain)

Eyes: MAC Mineralize Shadow (Magnetic Attraction)

Liner: Urban Decay pencil (Perversion)

Brows: Anastasia pencil (Brunette), Anastasia brow powder (Ebony-the lighter side)

Lashes: curled, then Diorshow Blackout

Eyebrow Chronicals...(Anastasia Brow Enhancing Serum Advanced)

One of the slightly bothersome traits I inherited from my Filipina grandmother is the "thin eyebrow" gene.  Seriously, my eyebrows are so sparsely peppered with hair…and the hair I DO have is very fine, so it ends up being virtually invisible.  I began to get frustrated even filling them in because I often felt like I had to draw in brows where where hair was especially scarce (the inner 1/4 of my brows).  After an hour of scouring the web, I came upon the Anastasia Brow Enhancing Serum ($45 at Sephora).  After just a week and a half, I noticed significant thickening in my brows, as well as wayyyy more hairs growing in that troublesome inner 1/4.  I decided the best way to keep track of the effect of this product was to take pictures regularly.

Here is the product description from Anastasia:

"The serum for healthier, fuller-looking brows. Our advanced pentapeptide chain, comprised of 5 peptides at 10%, has been clinically proven to encourage the growth of thicker, longer- looking hair in 100% of trial subjects. With regular twice-daily use, achieve fuller, longer, and more youthful-looking brows with less breakage."

My regimen has been to put the serum on my eyebrows at night (I used to do it in the morning, too, but it would kinda flake up as I tried to do my brows with my brow powder.)  One really annoying thing about the packaging, though, is that after a few uses, the cap doesn't seem to go on all the way.  Super strange..,

In any case, at $45 I want to make sure this stuff TRULY works, so I will be keeping track!

Brows on 8-1-12 (about 1 1/2 weeks after I started using the brow serum)

8-9-12

Carnival

Face:  Laura Mercier Foundation (Toffee Bronze), Tom Ford (Love Lust)

Lips: Dolce & Gabbana lipstick (Splendid 160)

Eyes: Fyrinnae Eyeshadows

Inner 1/3 Lid:  Rapunzel Had Extensions

Middle of Lid:  Sugar Skulls

Crease/Corner:   Digital Faerie

Highlight: Nijiro

Liner: Digital Faerie mixed with Inglot Duraline

Brows: Anastasia pencil (Brunette), Anastasia brow powder (Ebony-the lighter side)

Lashes: curled, then Diorshow Blackout

Metal

Face:  Laura Mercier Foundation (Toffee Bronze), MAC blush (Coppertone), Dior Shimmer Star (Highlight-Amber Diamond)

Lips: MAC Lip Liner (Hover), Tom Ford Lipstick (Indian Rose), Giorgio Armani Lipgloss (Pink 516)

Eyes: 

Lid:  Giorgio Armani Eyes to Kill Intense (#8)

Middle of Lid:  Urban Decay Eyeshadow (Chase)

Crease/Corner:   MAC Pro Longwear Eyeshadow (Make Your Mark)

Highlight: Ricepaper

Liner: Upper lid (Revlon Colorstay Liquid Eye Pen in "Blackened Brown")

Lower lid (MAC pencil in "Smolder")

Brows: Anastasia pencil (Brunette), Anastasia brow powder (Ebony-the lighter side)

Lashes: curled, then Diorshow Blackout

More pictures after the break…

Pink Purple Lollipop

Face:  Laura Mercier Foundation (Toffee Bronze), MAC Blush (Love Cloud), MAC Mineralize Skinfinish (Star Wonder)

Lips: YSL Glossy Stain (#15)

Eyes: Fyrinnae Shadows-

Inner corner of lid: When I Grow Up

Outer half of lid: Superstar

Crease: Blogger Beauty

Highlight: Nijiro

Liner: Upper lid (Revlon Colorstay Liquid Eye Pen in "Blackened Brown")

Lower lid (MAC pencil in "Smolder")
Brows: Anastasia pencil (Brunette), Anastasia brow powder (Ebony-the lighter side)

Lashes: curled, then Diorshow Blackout

Blue-Ha-Ha

This is another look I did using Fyrinnae loose shadows!

Face:  Laura Mercier Foundation (Toffee Bronze), Tom Ford Blush (Love Lust)

Lips: 

Cle de Peau gloss (#2)

Eyes:

Entire lid: Fyrinnae shadow (Pteranodon)--used over Pixie Epoxy
Crease (lightly dusted): Fyrinnae Faerie Glamour

Crease and outer lid: MAC Contrast

Highlight: Fyrinnae Nijiro (this color is MAGNIFICENT!)

Liner: Upper lid (Revlon Colorstay Liquid Eye Pen in "Blackened Brown")

Lower lid (MAC pencil in "Smolder")

Lashes: curled, then Diorshow Blackout

More pictures after the break…