Obviously, brows are not exactly the kind of thing you can ignore any more. Now matter how #blessed or #unblessed you are by the eyebrow gods, that bit of fuzz above your eye is yet another bloody thing you've got to take into consideration when it comes to doing your face up all nice.
With eyebrow waxes coming in at around £18 (WHAT) though, eyebrows can easily become an expensive bit of maintenance and, seeing as I'm not made of money (student loans sorted any hope of that being a thing - seven years on I actually nearly owe MORE MONEY THAN I BORROWED), I've been on the lookout for an easier way. Enter the Veet Precision Beauty Styler - essentially a razor for your eyebrows.
There's plenty of these things on offer out there, they've been around for yonks. This Veet one popped up a couple of months back and promises to be super gentle and very accurate to provide touch ups when you need them. There's different attachments for bikini line and underarms too.
Fleur De Force did a big ad on it a few months ago where she claimed it was also good to get rid of nose hairs. She also said it was 'SO AWKWARD' talking about nose hairs on her channel which makes me think that if that's the level of awkward she can handle, we might not get on very well IRL because compared to her, I am a terrible person.
Anyway, she likes it. But this is an ad. How does it fare in real life?
So, first things first; read the instructions. Oh, wait. My box doesn't have instructions. Luckily there's a tutorial on the Veet website if you also find yourself mysteriously instructionless.
I only did my eyebrows for this piece A) because I just had a bikini wax and B) because you guys don't want to see my bikini line. Although maybe you do. In which case, call me, we'll go for drinks.
Suffice to say, my eyebrows are diddly compared to most. They're very fair, fine and straggly. So much so that I often do nothing to them. What DOES happen though is that occasionally in certain lights, I'll catch a glimpse of myself in a mirror and go 'WHAT THE WHAT?' because, unbeknownst to me, there's a zillion golden little hairs all around my eyebrows catching the light and giving me the not-entirely-terrible look of a Scandinavian wilderbeest.
Everyone will know that those little fine hairs are the biggest bitch to pluck. They refuse all tweezers and evade all waxes. So, in that respect, this trimmer is actually pretty damn useful.
Turning it on will be a little scary. It buzzes like your most ferocious vibrator but, fear not, the blades are not going to touch your skin. They're designed specially not to make you bleed. Clever eh?
If you've got unruly longer eyebrows, you can pop the little pink attachment over the razor and trim the length. I didn't really do this because well, let's face it, I need all the eyebrow volume I can get.
The useful bit for me is the tiny white attachment that goes under the pink thing. Drag that across the bits of your eyebrow area you'd like to be hair-free and it will magically de-fuzz it for you. Again, for disappearing those little wispy fine hairs, this is brilliant.
To shape your eyebrows, you need to be a little bit more careful to ensure you don't shave your whole eyebrow. I would suggest brushing your eyebrow hair upwards to reveal the unwanted straggler hairs hidden underneath - then take the smaller razor to them.
It's not super duper precision-tastic but I turned it on it's side (they don't do this in the tutorial - I am truly the maverick of the beauty world) and managed to get at those hard to reach hairs.
All in all, I reckon this Veet gadgetaroo is worth it alone just to get those hairs under your eyebrows you don't normally realise are there. As for precision shaping? That might still be best left to you waxer.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.