Soap brows is a fairly peculiar trend in eyebrow styling. It depends on applying a small amount of soap to eyebrows in order to create perfect brow shape and get them disciplined. Benefits of soap brows? Luckily, you don’t have to be exceptionally skilled to do this correctly, it’s a super cheap technique and the whole procedure takes just a few seconds.
Soap brows handles all kinds of eyebrows: it tames the bushy and unruly ones as well as boosts volume of the sparse brows. Moreover, using soap to style the brows gives you an incredibly natural effect without the need of using any additional brow fixers. The gentle composition of soap is brow-friendly. Simply, thanks to soap you can fix brow shape and smooth out the unruly hairs.
Soap brows: Essential items
If you want to give soap brows a try, you need a natural soap bar. In case your brows would use some extra nourishment, you may reach for soap containing aloe or natural oil (e.g. avocado, argan, linseed). Also, make sure that the soap you want to use doesn’t have bold color. Otherwise, it may leave you with dyed brows. Naturally, if your skin is sensitive, you can reach for hypoallergenic soap.
Soap brows: What’s that?
As the name speaks for itself, soap brows requires you to use soap in order to style eyebrows and get them the shape you want.
What types of soap are the most suitable? Reach for natural bars that contain neither fragrances nor irritating substances like parabens or synthetic colorants. Only such soap can be safely applied to face.
How to apply soap to brows? Use a regular spoolie. However, before gliding it across the bar of soap, make it damp using tap water, herbal distillate (e.g. rose/lavender) or thermal water.
Soap brows: Step-by-step manual
There are two ways to get soap brows. You can use one or both of the following:
- colour cosmetics
- bar soap
You don’t have to fill-in the brows with any color cosmetic to achieve a natural-looking effect. However, if you want to create a clearly defined eyebrows, you can combine a soap bar with store-bought brow cosmetics such as:
- brow pomade
- brow shadow
- brow gel
How to style brows using soap brows technique?
- Damp the spoolie using thermal water/herbal distillate/tap water.
- Put the spoolie on the soap and start gliding it over the bar gently. Make sure that the applicator collects the soap.
- Now, start combing your brows with the soaped spoolie. First, run the applicator upwards and then do it in the direction your own hair grows naturally. Soap will immediately arrange the hair and discipline it.
- If you care for extra definition and intensive color, follow with a brow cosmetic. Brow pomade seems to be the best choice because it is the most precise tool of all. Apply the pomade using an angled eyebrow brush.
You can make both the brows maximally intensive and the effect long-lasting if you change the order of the applied cosmetics: first the eyebrow pomade and then follow with the soap to smooth the brows out. To make the eyebrows even more perfect, use a stick concealer to define the lower brow line, lift the arch bone and light up the look.
Apart from such an easy and effective brow styling technique, it’s a good idea to treat the hairs with advanced eyebrow serums. Such conditioning products help you nourish and reinforce eyebrows quickly and effortlessly. Finally, don’t forget to shape brows regularly using tweezers or wax.
