Review on 🔍 Intensify Your Look with NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP Eyebrow Gel in Espresso by Melanie Lang

I have almost black, over-plucked brows and fair skin with warm undertones, so lengthening the edge of my brows is an easy hand and is lighter, warmer than my real hair on the eyebrows. Otherwise I look like a Munster. I use a relatively cool brown lipstick (Medium Brown Dipbrow, which is still warmer than my brow color) for most of my brow work. However, I like to add some very sharp black strokes in areas that won't smear once someone looks at them (especially on my oily skin). This adds some structure to the softer edges created by the brown lipstick without looking unnatural. Of course, this requires a perfect brush (which needs to be replaced as soon as the edges no longer line up perfectly). All of this is very surgical and difficult, but it is possible if you have a very skillful and steady hand and the right products. I was looking for the perfect product for this purpose and I was hoping NYX Gel would work. While not entirely unsuitable, this material needs to have a more fluid consistency if you want to achieve hair-like strokes. Especially in black, where even the smallest flaw or too much thickness catches the eye with my fair skin. Unfortunately, it has more of a pudding structure. Any traditional painter knows that this is not the right consistency to create the finest line. Some of the products that come in tubes with crappy felt applicators (like Revlon's) have a good consistency. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything like this without a built-in applicator (making it difficult to dose the product if you choose to use your own brush, which I highly recommend). Then I could try using a traditional cake pan with something like Ben Nye's LiquiSet Sealer. The problem, as always, will be finding the right color. Black, not quite cold, hard, blue-black, but with a touch of warmth. NYX's "black" brow products are subtly black, which is another reason I tried them.