When Kat Von D Beauty asks if you'd like to get a personal eyebrow makeover from the Artistry Collective and try new products that aren't out yet, you do NOT say no.
Last week, Steffanie Strazzere and Kelseyanna Fitzpatrick from Kat Von D's personal team of makeup artists came to the Revelist office for an up-close demo of Super Brow, a range of rainbow eyebrow pomades that just launched today (along with a ton of other brow stuff).
And now, I want to throw all my old brow tools in the garbage… for a multitude of reasons.
Watch my Super Brow experiment with Steffanie Strazzere below and keep scrolling for a detailed photo review.
I began this adventure with completely untouched eyebrows, which I fully believed would be too dark for this rainbrow experiment.
Not only are my brows naturally on the fuller and darker side, but I also have (very faded) microblading that makes them even more so. Surely, layering brightly colored pomades over them wouldn't look very good, right?
Wrong.
Strazzere was so confident in Super Brow's pigment and coverage, she immediately opted to use some of the range's brightest colors on me.
Her goal? A pastel blue to deep purple to black ombre brow. Damn.
Don't worry, it turned out much more wearable than you'd think.
Her process entailed a lot of mixing to ensure a flawless gradient between each color. During this process, I realized how completely customizable each of these colors are.
Now, buying all nine rainbow shades at $19 a pop might seem excessive — but you would get unlimited options from just two or three if you got creative with it.
Just think about it: Buying Scarlet (that bright poppy red) and White Out to mix together could create SO many different hues of red and pink. You could use Satellite and Graphite to create navy. You could create turquoise with Satellite and Daffodil (yellow).
The list goes on and on and on… my point is you should NOT feel creatively limited by owning even just two of these shades.
And that's where Kat Von D Beauty's new brow brushes come in.
The brand has introduced two $18 brow brushes — Pomade Brow Brush #70 and Powder Brow Brush #75 — specifically designed for mixing and applying this versatile and relatively thin pomade formula.
Both brushes have deep divots in them, which allow the brushes to pick up more pomade and spread it not just on top of brow hairs, but *through* them. Their handles are also made to function as spatulas you can use to easily pick up and mix pomade with minimal clean-up and cross-contamination.
Strazzere's brow work was done in a matter of minutes, and I was left with a bright, bulletproof brow with no brown hairs in sight.
For an even bolder brow with fuller coverage, Strazzere told me to brush the pomade through the brow hairs with a spoolie — a tip I would later find life-changing.
And when I say bulletproof, I REALLY mean it. You can rub at Super Brow as much as you want, but it will not move.
It could actually last through a zombie apocalypse. In fact, you will likely have trouble removing it with just cleanser. At the end of our shoot, Strazzere had difficulty removing the mixtures on her hand, even with an artillery of makeup removing wipes at the ready.
For easy removal, she recommended anything with an oil base, micellar water and coconut oil especially, to melt it all away at the end of the day. At home, I had luck with my go-to Clinique cleansing balm.
This long-wear aspect, I quickly discovered, makes Super Brow the ultimate multi-tasking tool.
I continued playing around with the brightly colored pomades, all the while thinking, "How the hell am I supposed to work ALL THIS COLOR into my daily routine?"
Turns out, Super Brow makes an amazing transfer-proof winged eyeliner. Plus, many of the shades have a matching or similar Everlasting Liquid Lipstick or Studded Kiss Lipstick and can be used for monochromatic looks (like the all-red one pictured above). That's a great way to add fun to your go-to black liner and nude/red lipstick combo.
But my favorite thing is how much it's encouraged me to play around with my look — not an easy feat for me, a creature of intense habit.
Thanks to these pomades, I ditched my signature big, dark arches and opted for a bleached look (using the shade aptly named Bleached) for a day. Honestly, I felt like a totally new person — but that's coming from someone whose identity practically revolves around her eyebrows.
You get my point, though: Having the proper tools to transform my look into something unimaginable has inspired me to do so with vigor. And I'm now confident even without the part of my look that attracts the most compliments.
All of this would mean nothing, I should note, without the crowning glory — the new #70 and #75 (pictured below) Kat Von D Beauty brow brushes.
I cannot convey just how thin and precise these brushes are. Razor thin. So thin, none of our camera lenses could focus on them when turned to the side. I've searched high and low for a brow brush thin enough to allow me to paint hairs on one by one, and these are the only ones that have succeeded at that.
If you're reading all of this and still thinking "eh, colored eyebrows aren't really my vibe," there's good news: Super Brow also comes in a wide range of natural colors, too.
But come on — this is WAY more fun.
I am now officially a member of the Church of Rainbrows.
Leave it to Kat Von D to change a hardcore black-brow-pencil worshiper for good.
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