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What Is Eyebrow Tinting? The Process, Cost, and Safety of Brow Tints
—Siena Gagliano and Chloe Metzger

What is eyebrow tinting?
Eyebrow tinting involves applying a semipermanent dye to your brow hairs to define, shape, and even darken your eyebrows. The benefit of tinting your brows vs. just filling them in every day with a brow gel or eyebrow pencil is that a tint can dye the tiniest and finest hairs around your eyebrows, helping to make them look thicker, fuller, and longer.

Just remember that eyebrow tinting will only enhance your existing brow hairs, not fill in gaps or sparse patches—at least, not for long. “The tint will stain your skin at first, so your eyebrows might look fuller initially, but the stain will fade after a few days,” says brow expert Umbreen Sheikh. So if you’re looking for thicker-looking brows on a daily basis, you’ll need to “combine your eyebrow tint with other products, like a brow-styling wax, to help fill in any gaps,” she says, or try microblading or microshading (more on that below).
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To get the most realistic finish, brow expert Umbreen Sheikh recommends buying a kit that already matches your natural brow color and to be cautious of how long you leave the dye on. “The first time you tint your brows at home, no matter what the instructions say, leave the tint on for a shorter amount of time and see how it looks,” she says. Trust: It’s way easier to go back in with more tint than it is to live with regret.