Getting a brow embroidery is probably the best beauty thing I have ever done in my life. I did it last year in Singapore, sometime before the first pandemic circuit breaker was declared, and I got it from a place called Brow Revolution.
I messaged them through Facebook then they asked me to communicate via WhatsApp. They sent a lot of pictures of examples of their work and I read all the reviews before I decided to push through, because I’ve seen women with terrible microbladed eyebrows and the last thing I wanted was to look like them. This is a semi-permanent tattoo we are talking about and not something that’s easily fixable.
I made an appointment for 6D eyebrow method by senior specialist Elis. The price was S$298. The shop location was at an ulu location in Commonwealth that I had a bit of difficulty locating despite instructions given.
The shop looked pretty decent.
When I arrived, Elis asked me to lie down on one of the beds and asked me what I wanted – natural-looking or Korean movie star look, and I said natural, so she said the 6D I had originally chosen was that.
This is what my natural eyebrows look like. It’s actually not bad, just that the ends are too thin, probably from being overtweezed/threaded all these years.
Elis used an eyebrow pencil to draw an outline of the eyebrows she would draw on me, then showed it to me and asked if I was happy with it.
When I said yes, she put numbing cream on my eyebrows, waited a few minutes for it to take effect, then went to work on microblading. To answer a common question I got from friends after the experience: no it did not hurt at all. I could feel the pressure is all. It’s kinda like a dentist experience, maybe?
At the end of the session, I looked like this:
It looks so “wow” right?
She then suggested I buy some cream (I forgot how much it was) that I could use on my brows for a week while it healed and also gave me a packet of waterproof tape that I was supposed to use to stick cotton on my brows every time I took a shower, because I was not allowed to get the brows wet.
After a few days the ink darkened so much, it looked like this:
I tried to hide them with my bangs but they still peeked through. Some of my male teammates were confused about why I would have such harsh makeup on, but another male teammate just took one look at it, and asked, unfazed, “Microblade?”
“How did you know?” we asked him, stunned.
“Coz my wife did it before,” he replied. “You’re probably gonna need a touch up after a month, right?”
He was right. Before that, though, there was a moment that I have no pictures of where patches of the ink peeled off and my brows were patchy. Also during this time, they were very itchy.
Eventually, though, they normalized, and a few months after the touch up session, it looked like this:
Since then, I’ve been getting a lot of compliments on my eyebrows from friends, Romans, countrymen… okay, maybe not, more like makeup salesladies who are surprised when I tell them they are microbladed and not made up.
And today, more than a year after I had them done, they look like this:
Maybe someday when that cursed travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore finally pushes through, I will drop by for a touch up.
UPDATE IN MARCH 2022
This is what my eyebrows look like two years after getting it done. I have not done any touch-ups (since the first one right after) but it still looks fab! I am definitely so glad I did this!
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