I’ve been keeping the Clinique Pop Lip Colour Bare Pop at my desk at work last week so I don’t forget to wear it – I managed to remember to wear it only twice though.Tidbits on the other Project Focus 10 items: Likely I will not refill the brow:sword once I’m done, but will go back to the Hard Formula pencil – but one good thing about this whole experience is that I’ll now switch to the Acorn shade in the pencil going forward. Less product than the Hard Formula pencil.Travel-friendly with brow spoolie included.Oh, and the brow:sword retracts just fine back into the casing. I’m guessing it will be less than a year. One of the Hard Formula pencils lasts me at least 2 years with daily use – it remains to be seen how long the brow:sword will last me. From memory, the pencil was much longer than an average cosmetic eyeliner pencil – more like a full-size lead pencil (approx 17cm excluding the eraser – yup I just measured a lead pencil on my desk). I don’t have a full size Hard Formula pencil to compare but I do know that it contains a whopping 4g of product. The box states that there is 0.3g of product in this but I wanted to see how much product was inside the casing so I took a chance and swiveled the whole pencil up to see how much product is inside, it measures 2.5cm. She was right! It looks very natural without a hint of orange and matches my hair better. I have a natural reddish tint to my dark brown hair so she advised that Acorn would be a more suitable shade. I told the MUA that I normally use the shade Seal Brown and she felt that it was too ashy / grey for me. What is great about this product is how fast it fills in the brows – I’ve shaved my brow routine by almost half the time!Īnother change for me is the actual colour of the brow pencil. But the crayon edge doesn’t get as sharp as the point of a regular pencil. The built-in sharpener is rather handy – it’s just a v-shaped groove with a slit cut out, when the crayon is run back and forth along it, the lead gets shaved off. Unfortunately, I find the brow:sword to be a little thick for this purpose – my brows end up looking a bit chunkier than I personally like, especially at the tails. I like to draw short strokes with my brow pencil in the direction of hair growth to mimic the look of hairs. I don’t need brow gels or waxes, or other hair holding products – I need my brow products to help create the illusion of hairs. It is not waxy at all – I dislike waxy brow pencils that clump the brow hairs together. The formula is similar to that of the Hard Formula pencil but just ever so slightly softer. This is what the crayon lead looks like brand new, unused:Īnd this is what it looks like after a month of usage, and then sharpened: The brow:sword is like a Swiss Army knife, containing not only the brow product refill, but also a spoolie, and a sharpener – this is what it looks like taken apart: It’s a retractable pencil with a flattened angled point, which helps to create the appearance of individual hairs. So entered this nifty brow crayon into my life. I went to the Shu Uemura counter with the intent to repurchase the Hard Formula pencil and walked out with the brow:sword instead. And I was happy as a clam using the Shu Uemura pencil for years… so why did I switch to the Shu Uemura brow: sword? a) I like to try new products b) The demo of this product persuaded me c) It has the word SWORD in the product name! d) all of the above. And after a bit of a learning curve, it became my go-to brow product. This Japanese product was raved about for how natural it looked, and how well it lasts on the brows all day. I then did a combination of brow marker pen and powder – which was perfect, but took way too long in the mornings.įinally, I heard about the makeup artists’ favourite brow product: the Shu Uemura Hard Formula brow pencil in Seal Brown ($29). I moved onto brow powder next – a more natural look but I found they did not lasted the whole day. When I finally started filling in my brows, I started out with brow pencils but found that they didn’t provide a natural appearance (turns out the pencils I was using were too waxy). I have fairly sparse brows but shape-wise, they’re fine naturally. I don’t even need to shape them really – I may pluck the odd stray hair once a month. I’d say that in terms of my makeup journey, brows were the last in my travels. I bought mine at Hudson’s Bay.īrow products are all the rage these days. This product is refillable and the refills sell for $29 each. I have the shade Acorn which is a taupey brown shade. It retails for CAD $42 and is available in 5 colours. Today though, as part of Project Focus 10, I’ll be reviewing the Shu Uemura brow:sword: Firstly, Happy Chinese Lunar New Year! It’s the year of the Monkey! □ Last year I dedicated a post on red makeup in my stash in celebration of CNY – go check it out!
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