Comedy writer Sarah Morgan gets microbladed and finally sees what all the fuss is about
I?m sort of obsessed with eyebrows. Eyebrows can do so much heavy lifting on a face (see: Elizabeth Taylor, Brooke Shields, John Belushi-when-he-takes-off-his-sunglasses-in-Blues-Brothers, oh god oh god) whereas mine have never been much to write home about, unless you like letters about the patchy moustache favoured by Private Walker in Dad?s Army. Blame genetics, blame ill-thought-out teenage pluckings. They?re sparse. Look:

I?ve never really got the hang of eyebrow make up ? it?s seems so fundamentally boring a purchase it should come free with interdental toothbrushes and dried apple rings. Smearing mouse-coloured-makeup on a mouse-coloured-part of my body seemed no fun at all (which is what make up is for, FUUUUN) and I am in technical terms, ?not very good? at it.
But what I am good at is being lazy and having a reasonably high pain threshold, so I was bang into the idea of a (semi)-permanent solution ? enter micro-blading.
If you don?t know, micro-blading is the latest trend in permanent make-up, despite being a technique that?s thousands of years old. Unlike most other permanent make up that uses an electric needle, it uses a hand-held tool that adds each ?hair? a stroke at a time. The pigment is added to a different layer of skin for an ?extra natural and soft effect?. It?s often called ?brow embroidery? because it?s more of a 3D look than other methods, and promises to last b...