L'Oreal Paris Brow Artist Plumper Review

I have been dying to try this product, the anticipation waiting upon its arrival was almost unbearable. As soon as it arrived I got down to business and gave it a whirl. I had no idea how unruley and untidy my eyebrows really were. So I set about making a DIY stencil and reshaped my brows. Newly shaped brows all ready and I was back to work applying the brow plumper. Instantly I noticed a difference. And it didnt look like I tried and failed with an eyebrow pencil. Now I was so eager to try this product because I happen to have a scar running through one of my brows that hair no longer grows on. I have lived with a gap in my brow for years now. I have tried eye brow pencils but it always looked rather silly, and I'm no makeup novice. I must admit I did have to use a brow pencil to fill in the gap, but with the brow plumper ontop, you truely couldnt tell there was a gap there. The brow plumper truely plumped and thicken my eyebrows. I had a full brow. And I was Over the Moon. I Love My New Brows! They are so amazing and I can not reccomend this product enough. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I am going to use this every single day!!!! I wish I could attach before and after photos to this review. That would truely be amazing.

I love eyebrow pencils and eyebrow game. There is something about bold eyebrows that make me feel like I can tackle the world.... Or at least a Monday morning and a traffic jam....

The packaging reminds me of mascara. Simple and effective with a mascara like brush or wand inside.

My colouring is light and normally I struggle to match colours to my hair so I was pleasantly surprised that this matched my eyebrows perfectly and looked natural, more so than the pencil look I normally rock. I still prefer the dramatic affect a pencil gives me but this coats the hair rather than your skin so it looks more like you were born with it.

My only fault to it is that it makes your eyebrows crunchy (for lack of a better word)..... Crunchy.... You know like when hair gel sets on your hair? Yeh like that. I'm not sure how I feel about this yet. But it is still a great product that boosts your eyebrows.

If you are after a different look than a pencil and have light eyebrows like me. This is a fab new addition to your make up kit. Just beware the crunch ;)

First up let me begin with a huge disclaimer. I have no eyebrows. OK perhaps that's employing slight hyperbole, let me rephrase that. My eyebrows are scant. I'm fortunate that I do have a good natural shape so I barely have to pluck them but they are very blond and quite sparse. You know those "horrifying" memes that go around of celebs with no eyebrows? Well I actually have a huge complex now because that's pretty much what I look like and now I'm paranoid I'm horrifying to look at.

Cue the search for a brow product I can actually use. Obviously one that suits me is not going to suit someone with a full on fierce dark bushy brow so this review won't be at all helpful if this is you. Feel free to stop reading here, or keep going for poops and giggles up to you.

Anyhoo the struggle to find a suitable brow product when you're a light shade of blonde is real. They are inevitably actually a shade of light brown. I didn't bother getting my hopes up about this product for this reason. The swatch online looked quite dark too so I was tossing up between blonde and clear, but hey you never know until you try so I clicked blonde and eagerly awaited the courier.

I was pleasantly surprised with the colour when it arrived. Scratch that I was over the moon. It's pretty much a PERFECT match for my eyebrows. So much so I couldn't even tell I'd put it on until I looked over at my naked brow and noticed the difference. Now it's not a huge difference mind you but I think I actually prefer this as I don't feel as caterpillary as I normally do when I do my brows.

The product is incredible easy to apply. It has a brow brush attached and application is as easy as lightly brushing your brows and building to the desired affect. The only difficult part I found was applying to the VERY sparse outer edges of my brows without it touching my skin and looking smudgey. This was a very minor thing though, solved by using a more steady hand not slap dashing like I normally do, and wouldn't be a problem for anyone with a less negligible brow.

The result as I mentioned before is super subtle. I feel so confident leaving the house with this on vs constantly worrying that I look silly or like Helga off Hey Arnold! when I do my brows normally. The product is buildable so it's possible to be natural or dramatic and I was able to use it in conjunction with my Billion Dollar Brows universal pencil to achieve a fiercer look.

For blondes looking for a natural looking every day brow product I highly recommend this. I have tried a mascara-wand style brow product before and it came out quite ginger - a problem I hear is common with blonde brow products. I can assure you this is not at all orange (not that there's anything wrong with redheads I love my ginger sisters holla ladies).

I personally didn't like this . The first time I used it I could actually feel the gel dry to a slightly tacky feel in my brows that I could feel as my face moved . Really strange. On subsequent uses I applied less and it seemed to fix that issue a bit. The applicator was awkward to use, especially around the thinner parts of my brow where it bled out onto my skin , but it got the job done. I love the elf 2 step brow product and this doesn't compare to that. The end result was pretty natural , almost so much that I don't see the point in bothering with it. Wouldn't purchase.

This product on first trial was, yuck that is really wet and then dried feeling stiff. However, I think I was too keen and applied too much. The following days were much better. Made my centre half of the brow look much better, but my outer half of brow while looking a bit darker, not sure that it looked fuller. I will still use a bit of brow pencil on outer half before applying Brow Artist Plumper. Feel the brush needs more bristles on it, might give sparse brows a better look. But overall quite happy with look it gave my brows. I used the blonde in trial.

I did love the idea of this product and was excited to see how it would work. Whilst in theory it should be perfect for my rather diminished eyebrows, it actually isn't. I did want it to work and tried several times to apply the gel, however I found it a bit wet and while trying to plump the brows I kept smudging and the effect wasn't good at all. I do think that if I had slightly more brow it would be a great product; its not shiny or sticky and basically not hard to apply. So don't let my views put you off! It's back to a pencil and brush for me.

I got the light to medium and I found it was too dark for me however it definitely made my brows look better they stood out and it gave them more definition and made them look a lot thicker, it was really simple to use and it didn't take long either and it looked like there was a slight metallic sheen to it, I tried it in the transparent version and it worked much better for me, it made my eyebrows thicker and nicer I really love the look.

I'm definitely pleasantly surprised by this product - I only recently started actually paying attention to my brows (now it's one of the central parts of my daily makeup routine!), and so was curious to see how a mascara-like coloured brow gel would go. I am a natural blonde, but my eyebrows have always been darker, and so I decided to see if using the blonde shade would lighten them to give a better match to my hair.

For starters, the application is very easy - just brush along the brows to instantly tame them! It does leave them rather crunchy, but then at least I know they will stay in place! The colour of the gel did help lighten my brows, and I found the colour to be slightly lighter than the blonde L'Oreal Paris Superliner Brow Artist, which I also use.

Strangely, I did not notice a huge difference in the 'plumpness' of my brows - I have reasonably thick brows so this actually is not a huge issue for me, but I am curious as to how this works on sparse hair, as for me it leaves a very tell-tale colour on the skin rather than creating the illusion of hair.

At this stage, I will continue to use a brow pencil or the ELF brow kit to fill in the gaps, but am a fan of how well this keeps my brows in place over the day - no unruly caterpillars here for me!

This is a funny product. I put it on and look at my reflection thinking 'it's ok... Nothing so different.' Then when I take it off at night I go 'wow, where did my eyebrows go?' I suppose that is the hallmark of a product that is really doing its job - it looks so natural you don't notice it until it's not there!

Having used this product I would now choose it over an eyebrow pencil any day. It added volume and colour in the way good mascaras do. As such, I'm not sure why they opted for such an awkward product name!

The wand looks like a mascara wand but smaller, for ease of application. Compared to an eyebrow pencil it was much easier to do and compared to mascara, much less hazardous! The colour was a perfect natural tone for my blonde hair and pale skin. The 'crunchy' eyebrow texture is a little odd, but a small downside for great brows.

The only real problem with using this is that it can go on the skin, particularly where the hair is sparse, and gives your skin a slightly giveaway colour and sheen. However I imagine that would cease to be an issue with a bit more practise applying.

This magic product has really won its way into my collection. It has tiny fibers that helps to fill out your brows while the gel tints your hairs and helps keep them in place all day. The formulation is quite wet so you need to make sure that you are careful not to smudge this on your face. I have the benefit gimme brow and find that I reach for this far more often. I have the medium shade and find it to be perfect for holding down the hairs on my brows down. It really keeps them stuck all day without feeling crispy and hard. It gives a more natural effect. The only thing is that I wish the brush was smaller. The brush itself is a small spooly brush with natural bristles. I use this on top of my dip brow and find it just gives me another extra bit of security for my unruly brows.