Trend: Glitter Brows

DANIEL LEIVISKÄ | QUEER TRASH| MARLYS POP | SALMON PINK

I am all about the glitter brows! I'm so happy this trend has continued over the last year (or two?). A lot of people are crediting this to Dior's Spring/Summer 2014 RTW show. Though I have seen a few blog posts in my search for brow tutorials before 2013 that feature glitter brows, credit is definitely due to Raf Simmons. IMO, this is when the inklings of glitter brows blew up all over social media: the gold brows themselves via the trickle down theory, yo. 

BUT, I much prefer what bloggers/tumblr-goers have been doin'! ! ! Meduusalammikko is the first individual I came across that does both glitter and colored brows. They have a masterpost, including tutorials and products used~ From there, I was searching glitter brows, but for a hot minute there weren't that many people doing them.

The balance between colored/super sparkly brows and natural colored/mildly sparkly brows is surprising. I suppose this is because my dash is usually ~alternative~ posts whose makeup almost never includes what I refer to as glam. You know, 90% of makeup posts on Pinterest and WeHeartIt.

Realistically, the natural glitter brows are what I'm wanting to attempt, because there is only so much I can get away with at work. Also, my hands aren't all that steady (rip liquid liner). I have a few pots of eye glitter that I may Frankenstein with some kind of bonding agent. I'm curious if Wet 'n' Wild's Color Icon singles would do the trick? The skin swatches look promising. I guess I'll find out sometime this week.

Tutorials

xovain.com / / Glitter Brows: Two Ways To Make Your Facial Expressions More Sparkly | I will not stop until I figure out a way to make my entire body twinkle.

bloodmooncouture.wordpress.com / /  Glitter Eyebrows 

glittergirlc.com / / NYX Glitterati Glitter Cream Palette--Review!

refinery29.com / /  Bet You Didn't Know Your Drugstore Makeup Could Do This | High-Shine Brows (slideshow)

 Youtube has hella tutorials. Bonus: actually watching the process. 

 

 

 

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Review: OGX

product images via official OGX site, background via diglee @ tumblr

I decided to do a review that nobody wanted. Well, I did, but the why of that is going to become readily apparent. I like how the gif turned out! I wasn't sure if I liked the poster effect, but I can dig it. Maybe ya'll think it's ugly? Today, I bring my experience with OGX hair products. I believe the name is derived from or pronounced Organix? Because of this, I guess a lot of customers assume they use organic/vegan products? I learned that from reviews, so the authenticity isn't reliable. Also, I couldn't find anything about that on their website, either. Their official site 'About' reads:

We’re beauty, pure and simple. What’s pure? It starts with our ingredients. So, we search the globe to uncover nature’s gems—natural, nourishing goodness. That’s how we find treats like the coconut in the Philippines and argan oil in Morocco. 

To us, pure beauty is also original beauty. We’ll never ask you what you don’t like about your hair or what you want to fix. We just want to know what you love about your hair so we can enhance it. Simple as that. 

So we fill every OGX bottle with exotic fragrances you crave and benefits your hair will love. Because healthy hair is happy hair. And that never goes out of style.

I'm going to note they do state they use "natural goodness", but natural doesn't equal organic and meat is natural but, the whole vegan thing. Anyway. Every time I was buying shampoo, I continuously saw the bottle and it wasn't until a few months ago that I began using the products.

New hair ! / / 新しい髪

For years and years I had long ass hair. I'm confident this is because, as a kid, my mother got tired of cutting hairbands out. Naturally, around third-ish grade, she had mine and my sister's (twins gotta have all the same shit, you know) chopped off to ugly bobs with ugly bangs. I was so mad I refused to go to school and told everyone my mother was a horrible person. All the teachers cooed but I could tell there was some serious side-eyein' from fellow classmates. So. No more short hair.

Until fifth grade when I turned to a pixie cut. At the time, I was attempting a  Mia Farrow, Rosemary's Baby 'do. The thing is A) I had no concept of style or product and B) my hair is curly. What happens when curly hair is cut short? It waves or curls like no other. Particularly, mine waves like a fucking Pringle. IT'S SO HORRIBLE. I hated my hair for the longest. I did the same thing again, freshman year. That time, I was constantly bullied about being a "gay man with boobs". WAT. 

The point is, I didn't think I'd ever jump on the short hair bandwagon. Sure, in the last six years or so, I'd pin'd and Tumblr'd short hairstyles, but oh no, never for me! I'd also pin'd a lot of ombre (remember when that was huge?), bubblegum pink, and mint colored hair. I decided to go lavender. Well, at first, I wanted a silver, but that wasn't going as well as expected didn't go at all how I envisioned.

I followed none of the rules about dyeing hair and damaged the shit out of my ends. The result was porous hair that couldn't keep color: the lavender washed out within the week and when I attempted to return brown, that faded within the month. So sad!

After I moved home, I admitted defeat and decided to cut into an asymmetrical bob, styled after Bey and I loved it. Then I saw Lady Luck and her gorgeous hair. Mine didn't quite turn out and I hated my bangs for a while and once that grew out into a hot mess revisited my Mia Farrow fantasy. I started Pinterest hoppin', looked at pixie undercuts for a minute, then decided on my current style.