Tweezerman Mini Brow Rescue Kit Review

Having a really busy job as well as blogging means I am sometimes on the go from work, to PR Events and back home or it can be a Breakfast event and then on to work. Being on the go, I like to ensure that I keep a collection of 'on-the-go' products with me at all time, either on my desk or in my handbag.

From Tweezerman we have this Mini Brow Rescue Kit* (£26) which is described as being the kit that ensures your "brows will look perfect anytime, anywhere with this mini essentials kit. Fits any makeup bag or purse for quick on-the-go touchups. You'll never be stranded with less than perfect arches".

A brand that needs no introduction, Tweezerman has been a cult name across the beauty sphere for well over 35 years and are best known for their Tweezers, which I am sure most of you will have had or own.

In my handbag makeup kit I always ensure I have a pair of tweezers and a brow product, but as they are always full-sized, it is amazing to find something that is a little more on-the-go friendly and that it comes safely packaged and protected in a travel case. Also within the kit you will find:

• Tweezerman Mini Slant Tweezer - I am a huge fan of Tweezerman Tweezers and have about 5 pairs in various bags but within this kit you get a pink mini Slant Tweezer which features the same perfectly aligned hand-finished tips as a full-sized pair of tweezers.
• Tweezerman Mini Brow mousse - This is ideal for getting a beautifully shaped brow line to stay put all day or for taming disobedient unruly brows.  I love that there is a mini brow mousse and it works incredibly well at ensuring the brow remains tamed and in place.
• Tweezerman Mini Brow Brush - I always have extra Spoolies in my bag, but this one is perfect for on the go.  This spiral brush features thick, nylon bristles ideal for shaping and brushing the brows.
• Tweezerman Mini Eyenhance Brow Highlighter - This brow pencil is described as having a long-wearing formula and is suitable for all skin tones.

Putting these four products together, you do get a really good on the go kit and it has everything you need to keep your brows looking good.

This kit retails for £26 and is available via Tweezerman, Lookfantastic, Beauty Expert, Fabled and many more sites. For me, it is the perfect travel companion and it is already in my case for when I am next away from home.

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Benefit Foolproof Brow Powder

There is no denying who the Queen of Brows are when it comes to it - Benefit! For the last two years I have overcome a very nervous excuse to avoid having my brows touched, to walking freely into my favourite Benefit store on Carnaby Street to have them waxed, plucked, tinted and combed, something that I had avoided for years. 

Benefit has an array of brow products within their catalogue and I have gone from using nothing to using 3-4 products on my brows and their latest edition FoolProof Brow Powder is quite something. Nestled inside this pill box style compact is an almost ombre powder which looks like an eyebrow -clever.

What Foolproof is designed to do is give fullness to the brow whilst at the same time keeping a natural look. The powder which goes from a Light to a Dark shade is said to mimic the gradual look of natural brows. I know my brows are not the same colour from left to right or right to left if I don't have them tinted, so to use one shade, whilst it looks okay, is odd. What Foolproof aims to do is give you fuller looking brows, which is perfect if you are like me with sparse ones, but not make them look like they have been applied with a Sharpie.

Inside the compact alongside the powder is a blending sponge and spoolie-brush which is a great little edition to this product. It comes in three shades 01 Light 03 Medium and 05 Dark. I am shade 03 but if you are ever unsure as to which shade you should be using, ust go along to a Benefit Counter and you can be colour matched, the good thing about Benefit Brow products is that once you are matched, that is your shade in every product within the brow range.

You can find Foolproof Brow Powder online via Benefit, Boots, John Lewis, Feelunique, Lookfantastic and of course in store too and it is priced at £20.

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Eylure x Fleur De Force Brow Define

The collaborations between Fleur De Force and Eylure have resulted in some stunning products that I have been lucky enough to receive. In December last year there was these stunning lashes and today I have some Brow products.

Brow products currently saturate the market, whether you want something high end or something from the high street, there is pretty much something from every brand in an array of shades, tones and colours.

The Eylure x Fleur De Force Brow Pencils are double ended. I did wrongly assume that one end would be the pencil and the other a spooley, as this is what you would normally get, but Fleur has gone one better with her designs and has instead included two shades on the one pencil with one end being a light option and the other a darker shade and I personally think this is really clever. For anyone who does their brows, you will know that the hairs start off quite light near to the nose and gradually get darker towards the end, not all one shade and unlucky for me, mine are quite sparse in places.  So when doing my own brows, I tend to swap and change between shades to try and make my brows look as natural as possible.

Enriched with coconut oil, these pencils are really slim and have a twist up pencil which is really easy to work with.  Once on the brow, it becomes smudge resistant which is always a plus.

Available in three shades – light, medium, dark.  Within each category there are two shade options, most noticeable within the light shade where one side of the pencil is really light and as a friend of mine with ginger hair said, perfect for her finally and the other side slightly darker.  I use the medium options for my brows which is the closest match and I use both sides of the crayon too.

The Eylure Fleur de Force Brow Define pencils are available HERE now for £12 each and at the time of writing this post, they are currently part of a 3 for 2 offer. 

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The Great BROWnanza | Benefit Cosmetics

The one thing Benefit Cosmetics are known for is their brow skills, they can transform any brow and make it a wow brow, even mine which had been over-threaded and barely existed. Brow products have filled in the markets in recent years and Benefit have launched some incredible products. So when this beauty landed on my doorstep, you probably all heard me squeal with delight. 

The Great BROWnaza is a limited-edition, blockbuster eyebrow set and it contains five full-sized Benefit brow bestsellers as well as two Pro tools, basically, everything you need as Benefit state "to instantly transform skimpy brows, patchy brows or barely-there brows into GREAT brows!" and it comes packaged inside this incredible eyebrow wardrobe.

Inside is everything you need you sort your brows and inside you will find:

gimme brow full-size - This is a tinted eyebrow gel which contains tiny microfibers that adhere to skin & hairs, creating natural-looking fullness and definition.

brow zings full-size - This compact contains a powder and a wax along with a pair of mini slant tweezers and a dual-sided extendable applicator.

goof proof full-size - This is one of my favourite brow products. It features a non-sharpen “goof-proof” tip which is really easy to use for filling in your brows and on the opposite end is a blending spoolie-brush.

ka-BROW! full-size - If you like your eyebrow gels then ka-Brow is the one for you. It fills, it sculpts, it defines and it comes packaged inside a super cute pot where the handle turns into a brush.

high brow full-size - Finally we have high brow, a creamy eyebrow highlighter which works to accentuate arches and give that younger more alert look, it also blends incredibly easily.
If that isn't enough, you will also find an angled brow brush and spoolie as well as a brow-mapping tool and Benefit’s Magic Brow Tips and Tricks.

This entire kit is priced at just £49.50 yet it is worth £105 and personally, I think it is simply incredible and is available form Benefit right here, Boots, Debenhams, John Lewis, House of Fraser and Cult Beauty.

*this post contains PR samples and/or Affiliate Links unless indicated otherwise - you can learn more on my Disclaimer page.

It's so plucking easy!!

The one thing I cannot live without in my make-up bag is a pair of tweezers. I use them for plucking my eyebrows mainly and I generally feel more at ease knowing that they are there should I find a stray hair.  Up until recently I have used bog standard tweezers that I have found in Boots or a Supermarket and after so long they have always lost their spring and have become pretty useless.

I was recently sent a pair of Tweezerit tweezers and I have spent quite a long time reading up about them and I have learnt so many things about owning pair of tweezers that I wish I had known some of the information before now.  The brand is owned by a man called Richard Batten-Edwards who has a reputation which spans over 28 years for providing the highest quality instruments to the podiatry, beauty and medicinal industries and Tweezerit tweezers come with a lifetime warranty and will be replaced free of charge if found to be defective.

The Tweezerits I was sent are from the Glitter Me range of tweezers and they are the most magnificent pink glittery tweezers ever.  To give them their proper name they are called Pink Champagne and retail for £23.  They come encased inside secure soft plastic packaging with the ‘Tweezerit’ logo clearly visible and one I really like with a pair of tweezers being the exclamation mark.  There is also a cover for the tips of these tweezers and the care guidelines state that when your tweezers are not in use, they should be looked after and cover should be on the tip.

When it comes to storing your tweezers, I immediately realised where I might have been going wrong.  With Tweezerit tweezers there is some really useful factual information on storage, not something I would have thought to look up before, but if you protect every other aspect of your make-up case such as your brushes, eye-lash curlers and so on, keeping them clean and in good use, why wouldn’t you do that with your tweezers?  Instead I just used to chuck them in my bag or case and always wondered why they would get bent out of shape and in some cases have snapped by the time I had discovered them a few weeks later at the bottom of my bag.  So here are the three simple suggestions for storage:

• Always store your tweezers in a clean dry place.
• Your tweezers have been set in the factory to give the correct spring tension. Do not overstretch your tweezers, or store them stretched.
• Always replace the rubber cap to prevent damage.

I am guilty of number 2 over many occasions given the state of my last pair and frankly it never occurred to me that they had been set in a factory to a certain angle to make them easier to use and I have never, before now replaced the rubber cap, it never occurred to me that by doing so would protect the tweezers and keep them both sharp and precise when using - now I know!

When it comes to using them - the official specification reads as follows:

This tweezer has been made out of the finest high grade stainless steel, hand finished to the highest professional standards. The tweezers you have selected are used by professional beauty therapists, and are now offered to you for personal use.

These hand finished tweezers feature our special slant designed tips, which allow you to pluck individual hairs more easily. Your tweezers are quality instruments and should be cared for as such.

The information give above can be found on the Tweezerit website HERE 

To look at these tweezers, they are 9.5cm in length and  are really easy to grasp a hold of and host a slanted tip which does make the task of plucking hairs much easier, I was quite surprised at how easy I could grasp onto the stray hairs of my eyebrows without having to attempt it numerous times before succeeding and these are the easiest, most straightforward and practical pair of tweezers I have ever owned and had the pleasure of using.

The  brand as a whole has really caught my attention.  There are no less than eight different categories of tweezers to look at and decide upon and if I had been left to choose some tweezers, I might very well be still sitting here debating what I prefer because I love them all.  

Then comes the Curve Selection all of which have been ergonomically designed to feature the very latest in tweezer design and I love the design of them.  

The final one I am going to make reference too is the Vintage Collection and again they all feature some very funky colouring and patterns which catch the eye.

Then, if you are a bit of a novice when it comes to your eyebrows and how best to shape them and I found this really useful to read because it contains all the basics that you need to know, for example:

• Always pluck in the direction of hair growth.
• Alternate brows to make sure they match.

Overall I love these tweezers and I love this brand.  Reading the website has really given me a kick up the backside when it comes to looking after my tweezers, using them and a reminder on eyebrow plucking, everything you need to know from one brand in one place and if that isn’t enough you can find them on Facebook HERE

What do you think to these Tweezers? Do you have a favourite style?