I love Etude House’s eyebrow products! I’ve been using the Etude House Color My Brows and I’m still using the Etude House Perfect Brow Kit, and the Etude House Tint My Brows Gel is the newest addition to my collection. As I announced via Instagram I’m honoured to be part of TesterKorea’s Real Tester, who offered me this product for reviewing purpose, amongst some other products I cannot wait to share with you.
First, some information about TesterKorea: if you know me and my blog for some time you will know that TesterKorea is my favorite online retailer for larger Kbeauty hauls. I’ve purchased products from them many times and they never failed me. Also, they are quite popular for offering many free samples and having a LARGE variety of samples for sale aswell. If you do not know a specific products and you want to test it first the place to recommend is TesterKorea. Also, they have a huge amount of different products from many brands, so you can be sure to find what you are looking for in most cases. Unlike other online retailers they do not offer free shipping, though, but their shipping is based on weight. The cheap prices of the products themselves totally balances the shipping costs in my eyes – especially for larger hauls. They even have a specific topic where you can request a product, if it is newly launched. They are also quite fast in listing the latest products from most brands. Considering the fact that I know they are a reliable retailer and have a good reputation makes me even more happy that I’m part of the 17 members of their 1st Real Tester round-up!
Let’s start with the review for the Etude House Tint My Brows Gel: The Korean brand Etude House is one of the best known Korean brands for cute packaging. If you are a lover of cute, girly and pink packaging, reminding you of being a child and the princess you always dreamt to be, THIS is your brand. Their packaging is usually so adorable that you cannot keep yourself from impuls-buys – only because you saw the packaging…Looking at the packaging of the Etude House Tint My Brows Gel it appears simple, but yet feminine. The combination of the gray-brown color and the pink makers it look adorable in a way. The product comes in a cardboard box which shows the Korean and English description. The product is one of the newer products from Etude House. The gel comes in 3 different shades and works similar to lip tint like the Berrisom My Lip Tint Pack, that means you apply a layer of the gel, leave it to dry and peel it off after a while. This new-concept eyebrow gel tint is designed for a long-lasting eyebrow makeup.
The three shades available are #1 brown, #2 light brown and #3 gray brown. I chose gray brown, because I have naturally black eye brows and I think the gray brown will suit my eyebrow color best. The ingredients of the Etude House Tint My Brow Gel are harmless according to COSDNA. There are minor irritants, but no bothersome ingredient. And although the product is made for simply tinting your brows it contains some plant derived ingredients with anti-inflamatory, antioxidant and moisturizing properties. As I said before, the Etude House Tint My Brows Gel works like a kind of non-permanent tattoo. The bottle reminds of a liquid eyeliner and comes with a thin brush-type applicator. The gel has a sticky consistency and reminds of brown colored glue. The brush is thin enough to create proper outlines for your brows. Below you can see how the gel looks when swatched on the back of my hands. First you apply a proper amount of the gel. After a while it will start to dry. When you peel off the dried product you will see that it stains the skin. After 1.5 h waiting the stain is already properly visible and shows in a light gray brown. After one day (including washing hands and showering) the stain is still visible, but is looks more light and the color changed to a light yellow-brown.
When using the product on your eyebrows Etude House advises you to trim your eyebrows first and not to apply skincare products or makeup. Then you should apply a liberal amount according to the desired shape of the eyebrow. Dry the gel for at least 2 hours. For stronger coloration you can apply the gel before going to bed at night and remove it the next morning. After the gel dried completely you can remove it starting from the tail of the eyebrow, but don’t be too forceful. Etude House also says to not use a cleansing product (product with detergents) or apply force on the eyebrow area within 24 hours of using the product. Below I applied the Etude House Tint My Brows Gel on my eyebrows. As you can see, my eyebrows are dense and very dark, but I have some spare areas at the front and on the arch of my eyebrow. I applied the gel according to the desired shape of my eyebrows and waited for 2 hours. You can see that the spare areas look slightly more filled, but it doesn’t look too strongly pigmented and not unnatural either. The effect is comparable to a light brow powder, giving a natural finish.
Do I like the Etude House Tint My Brows Gel? Yes, I do, and I think people with spare eyebrows or very bright color of eyebrows will like this product a lot! It looks natural and it is long-lasting. The downsides are that you have to be patient and maybe you need to practice a couple of times before you know how to paint your desired eyebrow shape. The gel contains 5 g and depending on the thickness of the layers you apply on your eyebrow it will last for a while. The price for the gel is not expansive either, so it is worth a try, especially if you love using eyebrow products. If you are already too lazy to use an eyebrow pencil or powder this product will not make it any easier or quicker though. The product retails on TesterKorea for 7650 Won, which is around 6.50 US$.
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oh I really want to try this product! thanks for the review~
You’re welcome. I’m happy my review was helpful to you. Thanks for commenting and reading!
Ich finde die Idee ja total klasse und war auch schon ein paar Mal kurz davor mir den Eyebrow Tint zu kaufen, aber ich habe Angst, dass ich das Auftragen total vermassel und ich nicht damit klar komme… Aber ich glaube schon, dass ich es irgendwann nochmal ausprobieren werde :D
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So wie man Etude House kennt wird es ja sicherlich noch einmal den ein oder anderen Sale geben. Vielleicht da mal die Gelegenheit nutzen. Aber ich kann auf jeden Fall nachvollziehen, dass man Angst hat es zu vermasseln :D
Hi! :) I so tempted to try this product! How long did it last you on the brows? Could you take it off easily without ripping the brows’ hairs?
Thank you
I’d say it definately stays one day, maybe two, but on the second day the color will be lighter, as you can also see on my hand. One of the stains on my hand also stayed for almost 5 days before it dissapeared fully…but you have to keep in mind that the pigmentation gets less and less, even if there is still a stain remaining. Also, oil cleansers/makeup removers will make it dissappear more quickly. It didn’t pull any eyebrows though, so don’t worry. :)
Oh, great :) Thank you!
This sounds very interesting! I’m not sure whether or not I’d like the end result as I usually draw my brows in with an eyebrow gel, which is probably stroger, but I’d love to give it a try! It’s quite cheap too.
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Yes, an eyebrow gel is stronger, this turns out more natural. But I think it you love using products on your eyebrow you might want to give it a try nevertheless :)
I’ve been seeing so much on this product lately! I’m really curious on how well it would work with my eyebrows. Great review! <3
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If you get a chance to try it let me know how you liked it. I think it is really a nice and innovative product and it gives really natural stain for the brows. Thanks for reading and commenting.
Hey this is so awesome and I want to try it! How many days did it last before you had to re-apply?
This is difficult to tell, because of course the more intense you will clean your face the quicker it will dissapear. I’d say it definately stays one day, maybe two, but on the second day the color will be lighter, as you can also see on my hand. One of the stains on my hand also stayed for almost 5 days before it dissapeared fully…but you have to keep in mind that the pigmentation gets less and less, even if there is still a stain remaining. Also, oil cleansers/makeup removers will make it dissappear more quickly.
passt jetzt nicht wirklich zum Thema, aber ich wollte mal fragen ob du schon mal Probleme mit dem Zoll hattest ?
Keine richtigen Probleme, aber ich musste schon ein paar mal zum Zoll fahren um etwas abzuholen…aber meist nur wenn der Versandt über EMS ging komischer weise.
hi, i bought it as i have medium light coloured brows. It does colour the brows, but i think the product is too thick. I am curious if the being this thick is normal… as i find it somewhat difficult to apply. with the stroke of the brush, i remove the previous. so, i dont think it should be this way.. I thought maybe it was too cold… and tried heating it up a little in warm water.. didn’t work. Thank you for your review :)
Please read the instruction for the brow gel. You have to remove it since it is designed as a peel-off staning eyebrow product. I think you are using it wrong.
Thank you for replying. I read the instructions and also saw some videos on youtube as my initial thought was also that I’m doing it wrong. But seeing other people’s product, I now am sure that mine is thicker than the others I have seen. It still does colour the hairs, it is just much more difficult to apply.
Thank you! :)
Sorry for my late reply then. I hope my review was helpful to you anyways :) Thanks for commenting and reading dear <3
I dont usually use my tint brow gel and after month pass by it gets sticky, what should i do?
It is sticky. Because it should form a gel on your brows. Then it hardens and can be removed. Or do you mean something else?