The hack
Do your eyebrows need a new year boost? Social media recommends an unusual technique – brushing them upwards with soap.
The promise
Applying household soap to your brows using a spoolie brush (the sort you get in a mascara or eyebrow wand) is a cheap and foolproof way to mimic the thick eyebrows sported by actors Lily Collins and Emilia Clarke.
The test
The method – pioneered during the golden age of Hollywood and now beloved of drag queens and experts such as Rihanna’s makeup artist Priscilla Ono (with more than 200m views on TikTok) – is simple. Take a translucent, glycerine-based soap and spray a little cold water on it. Sweep a clean toothbrush or spoolie over the bar, then lightly coat your brows in the paste, brushing upwards to create a “feathered” or “laminated” effect (a brow treatment that’s been popular for the past few years). And that’s it. I can see how the glycerine coats the hairs, making them look thicker, and my eyebrows do look as if they’ve been laminated.
Does it work?
If you’ve already got thick brows, or just like the feathered aesthetic, soap up. For anyone else, Hourglass Arch Brow Volumising Fibre Gel (£27) thickens your brows and holds them in place. Job done.
