Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Eyebrow test #1: glue sticks

So apparently drag queens use bog standard glue sticks to make those bushy man brows lie flat and smooooooooth - really?! Well only one way to find out! Cue test number one with a pack of 4 little glue sticks bought at the cheapy shop up t'road - plus they have Cinderella on em (Disney's patron saint of transformations no less!)

Here's what I tried:
1. A few swipes the wrong way and a few the right way on each eyebrow:
No bad.. Goes pretty smooth to start with. This could bode well..

2. Adding another layer and smoothed with my fingers, adding a little powder to add texture like the tutorial I skipped through mentioned:
Lying quite flat but a bit gritty..

3. I must've skipped taking a photo of this bit as I used a butter knife to apply a thicker layer of glue on.

4. Left eyebrow has layer of concealer over it, right brow looking as no 3 should have.
The hair texture is coming through and I'm struggling not to peel at the edges which are starting to curl away from my skin with the layers of glue underneath.

5. Bugger it! I'll add MORE concealer, MORE foundation and powder those things back to the Stone Age! Hahaha!!!
Oh no wait, it looks rubbish..cloggy, peeling and without full cover. Not an entire failure - this could work on stage - i.e. from metres away, but it doesn't stand up under close scrutiny.

Still I may as well have some fun with it..

6. Picking an evil eyebrow type:
This is tough - I couldn't decide so thought I'd trial one of each..

7. Presenting a fierce straight line with smudgy blending out. 
The outer bit looks much better than the inner bit. Maybe this is why a lot of queens seem to use part of their own brows - that tufty start has peeled like an orange!

8. Hokay! Evil eyebrow no 2: 
Thicker, angled brows with classic drag-style lid shading and a little Clockwork Orange style liner to balance the bottom.

As you can see the glue leaves a shinier finish that's not as smooth as I like. Maybe adding 2 thick layers would help?
But it peeled off really easily at least - without pulling hairs out either:
..at least no more so than taking off a peeling face mask.