Just Browsing: Benefit's Gimme Brow

Thanks in many ways to the world's most popular model right now, Cara Delevingne, brows made a big come back in the past few years - emphasis on big. And it was about time. After years of girls plucking their eyebrows into obscurity, the shapely brow is finally hopefully here to stay. Given how much structure your brows give your face they are so important and Benefit's Gimme Brow - Brow Volumizing Fiber Gel is the perfect tool to give you the brows you want as naturally as possible.

There are very few ladies that didn't go a little tweezer-happy in their lifetime. When I was a teen, having very dark hair, when my eyebrows started to take shape boy did they expand. They were huge! And this was not any kind of look back then so, of course, I discovered the tweezers, read every teen mag I could find to instruct me what to do with these beasts and then I went a pluckin'.

Looking back at older photos now I cringe at how tiny I made them; they were born to be big. And, after a while, your brows just don't grow back as big as they were before ten years with a tweezers but, after one big mistake to many by a wax-happy, skinny brow loving beautician, I decided to grow them out. It was then I realized how weird eyebrows are. Well mine certainly are. They're just never even and can get a tad patchy. So, I found Benefit's cult product Gimme Brow and I was so relieved at what it did. Which was basically to solve all my eyebrow annoyances.

Gimme Brow comes in several shades to suit different hair and brow colour. Rule number 1: please don't go for a shade much darker than your natural colouring. This is supposed to accentuate what you've got while looking natural. The applicator is like a little mini mascara brush, and is perfect for shaping your brows as little or as much as you want. This product is perfect for naturally covering gaps, evening out your brows to match each other (that is very rare naturally), and filling out your brows to a shape that looks strong but your own. You can lightly use this for a very natural day time look and you can build it up a bit for nights out. It's so easy to use and you get the hang of it in no time and it makes such a difference.

Brows really shape and form your face if you look after them right, and the shape they naturally grow to suits your particular facial structure so don't go bananas making gigantic brows or shape them in a way your brows don't naturally grow. Instead, use Gimme Brow to accentuate what you already have and even out the little quirks everyone has.

For such a simple product it has such a high, strong impact and is such a wonder product for me. I use it every time I've put makeup on since I got it and I'm glad it's a Benefit staple which is hopefully here to stay. I shall be re-buying this over and over again!

Benefit's Gimme Brow comes in Light/Medium and Medium/Dark. It's available from Benefit Boutique, Dublin 2 and at Benefit counters nationwide and online at Debenhams and Arnotts and costs €24.50