Sleek is a brand I have a lot of love for. I think the eyeshadow palettes are genuinely as good quality as Mac or Illamasqua, and the Face Form kit is something I use everyday. So I rushed off down to Superdrug as soon as I heard about Brow Stylist. I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now, so I can give an informed verdict!
Normally, I use a powder shadow and a slanted brush to fill in my brows. I feel that powder gives a softer finish and the angled brush allows you to be more precise. I used Benefit BrowZing for years, but then I realised that I didn’t like the wax very much. Since then, I’ve just used Mac powder shadow and a bit of the Maybelline Brow Drama mascara. I’ve never really gotten on with a brow pencil before, usually finding them too stiff and hard to apply with no great results.
I trusted Sleek to shake this opinion up a bit…
The Brow Stylist is a black plastic cylinder – one end is a brow brush,
and the other is an angled, twist-up pencil. It comes in three shades –
Light, Medium and Dark. I went for the Medium, which is probably a half a
shade too light, but its better to go lighter than darker with brows in
general or you can end up looking a bit gothic! The shade suits fine
when blended in.
On first application, I didn’t like this product very much, but its grown on me a lot. The consistency of the pencil is like a cream, and I found this a bit greasy and weird after using powder only for so long. The nib is a little triangle, so it can be used at the finest point to make neat, precise lines, and turned around to make fatter strokes.
However, as it’s a twist up one that you don’t sharpen, this quickly goes blunt (although it evens out again in the end), and so you only really get a precise line on one brow, its too blunt by the second one. I found the lack of preciseness very hard to get used to, but actually it does make a more natural finish - sometimes my brows can look too ‘drawn on’ because I do them so exactly, so this is almost better for daytime and other occasions where you don’t want to look too try hard.
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| Sleek Brow Stylist - on left hand side, bare brows on the right! |
Sometimes if your brows look really precise, the rest of your face can
look quite under-done and washed out unless you have a full lot of
make-up on all the other features. I really don’t like not filling in my
brows because they’re quite sparse, so this is the perfect solution for
those more low-key days when a power brow is too much!
The brush is a handy addition for combing through afterwards, which softens the finish and makes it look nice and natural. I still found myself going over the bottom of my arch with my usual powder shadow afterwards, but overall I was happy with the result, especially for £5.99. This will quite possibly be a repurchase of mine, and will also be super-handy for on the go brow touch-ups as well.
Because I can never just buy one item, of course I picked something else up as well!
The Matte Me liquid lipstick caught my eye and ended up sneaking into my basket (how did that happen?!), it’s a really bright, ultra-pigmented formula. You only need one coat and boy does it last. I literally struggled to get this off at the end of the day!
The verdict? Although the Brow Stylist took a little getting used to for me, these are both great products, fantastic quality for a low price, and in the usual amazing range of shades that Sleek are so good at - what more could you want?
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