I suppose we have Cara Delevigne to thank/blame for the big eyebrow phenomenon, she obviously burst on to the scene years ago now and the trend for fuller eyebrows isn’t going anywhere any time soon.
This is great news for all the big-browed girls out there who don’t have the hassle of plucking anymore but for us girls who lived through the high-arched (or ‘over-plucked’) 90’s era, it’s a bit more of a problem.
I’ve been growing my eyebrows back in for around 5 years now (yes really!) and although I’m happy with my growth, they still need a fair bit of attention in the makeup department. Gaps need filling and the shape needs perfecting before I leave the house every day and it was becoming a bit of a drag.
I personally don’t like the tattooed look but I had been becoming more and more intrigued by microblading. Microblading is still a form of tattooing but it looks incredibly natural. Little strokes of colour are drawn on with a very fine blade to look like individual hairs to fill in gaps and create a better shape. It is so clever and so realistic; I knew I had to try it.
I arrived at Sian Dellar’s Harley Street clinic feeling very nervous- was I really about to tattoo my face??!! Sian instantly put me at ease, she is just as pedantic about eyebrows as I am! I told her what I thought was wrong with my shape and she pencilled in how she thought best to correct it. We then discussed colour. Colour is such a personal thing, some people want a darker more made up look, I wanted something more natural that would look good with or without the rest of my makeup on. Sian understood exactly.
Next she applied numbing cream to the area (thank goodness!) and got to work. The process took much longer than I expected, around an hour, and was only uncomfortable when the numbing cream wore off (Sian applied more cream when I told her I needed it) the only icky part for me was the sound of the blade- it sounds a bit ‘scrapey’! The whole treatment was so much more straight forward than I expected though.
Immediately after my brows looked very dark and very ‘done’, Sian assured me I would lose 50% of the colour in the first week, phew! I then had to keep my eyebrows away from water, makeup and cleanser for a week which was harder than it sounds. The blade strokes scab over as they heal which can be a bit itchy but like regular tattoos, it is essential that you don’t pick at them (this took all the willpower I have in my being! I am a terrible picker!).
As promised, 50% of the colour did fade after a week and after 4 weeks I had my follow up appointment. At the follow up, Sian filled in any last gaps and went over any strokes that had faded more than others, you also have the option at this appointment to go a bit darker if you were too conservative at your first appointment.
A week later my eyebrows are looking pretty perfect and won’t need redoing for at least 9 months! This is definitely my type of treatment; a low-maintenance-time-saver!
Not quite Cara but close enough!
Microblading treatment including follow up, £495