Perfect Brow House - My Honest Unsponsored Review

I have been thinking about getting my eyebrows done for a while now.

Like everyone else, I got mine done previously with Amy, yes, the one at bishan central. Very popular one.

I couldn't take the 2-3hours waiting for a 15min eyebrow embroidery job by Amy. The wait is ridicious. Oh wait, there is a 3 - 6 months wait before the 2-3 hours wait. She's not even that good.

She's just affordable and cheap. And one of the highly recommended people online.

There were mixed reviews for most of the other places like allure, erabelle, Diana from sengkang... I usually get turned off by the exhorbitant prices and not that good reviews.

So anyway, after searching high and low, I stumbled upon Perfect Brow house, owned by Kelly who used to work at Sophia brow house. She was also frequently recommended in forums. Just that the prices at Sophia Brow House then, wasn't cheaper than 1st salon at bishan.

So anyway, the good news is Kelly's eyebrow embroidery is only at $150. Cheaper than Amy too. And she is located at Toa Payoh central.

Kelly is now located at Paya Lebar Square.

Anyway, this is an unsponsored post. So I went with the intention to do eyebrow embroidery but ended up doing 3D eyebrow cos it was so much more natural. 3D eyebrow cost $480 with a free touchup and free cream. The price has increased since then. She will also give you your own blade, so that it's very clean and safe.

So here's a quick photo before I went to Perfect Brow House.




Me in normal pictures:






All my friends prettier than me. It's true.





So anyway, Kelly first did an outline, double checked, triple checked if I like it, if it was balanced, if I liked it thinner or thicker etc. I think she's quite a perfectionist too, which makes her great at what she does. Her attention to little details is crucial.

Moving on, she drew two different shapes on each side for me to choose.

One is slightly more arched and lifts the eyes more. The other one is what I've always had, straighter looking brows.

In the end, we agreed that the slightly arched one was nicer.



When she drew this, I was so afraid that it was going to turn out that thick, and I'll look like:




Haha. She did assure me that cos my eyes are relatively big, if my brows were slightly thicker, it'll look nicer. So I trusted her.

Cos the scabs will come off after a week, it will look thinner than what she draws for me. I understand how she sees it. She would rather do the first time Swee Swee slightly thicker so that your brows will look perfect after a week when the scab comes off.

Delayed gratification.

We all could use some of that in today's world.

So anyway, after waiting 20mins for the numbing cream to take effect, she started working on my brows. I won't lie to you. Initially it was fine cos of the cream and my highly seasoned plucked eyebrows. I could withstand the initial discomfort. But every time she applied the alcohol swab or something, it was quite painful. Like putting Qing chao oil on your open wound...


The process was quite long. So the pain wasn't a 5 mins thing. And your brows will bleed, that's why need alcohol swabs, to prevent infection too. If you can't take pain, she might have to leave the numbing cream on you for 1hour.

I started at ard 6.30 and ended at 9.30pm.



my brows (with scar cream) looks like this!





Upclose:





Can you see the individual strokes? Thus all that pain.



I'll update in a week's time to show the results.



Kelly did comment that sometimes, when customers get too picky, the more she change, the more uneven it becomes. Just one word of advice: it may look very uneven on photo.

Your best guide sometimes, is just to make sure that it looks even, when you look at the mirror, cos that's the image people see. ~ Cue Justin timberlake ...~It's like you're my mirror... my mirror staring back at me~

Don't make kelly change too much cos you have to trust her professional eyes. She has been doing this for ten years. If you think somewhere is shorter or longer, somewhere is higher or lower, ask her if she sees it too.. She'll change it if she sees it. I've noticed that my left eye is slightly lower than my right eye. We couldn't figure out if my head was naturally tilted to one side and my eyes are just uneven.

I paid $480 for the 3D eyebrows, and $50 to laser off a bit of Amy's handiwork at the tail end of one brow. I also signed up a facial package with Kelly cos it was $400 for 6 sessions including EPL and ampur. Which makes it ard $66.67. That's pretty affordable and i've been looking for a facial place for a while. And Kelly doesn't do shoddy work, so I can trust that her salon will do proper facial for me. Since I work at Toa Payoh and it's at Toa payoh, it was like a match made in heaven! I'll review about it after I've gone for my first session. In total, i spent $930. Oh gosh.

Anyway, in the meantime, I'm thinking about how to hide the thick brows this weekend. Maybe wear spec frames? Hahah.

Update: 9th Dec 2013
5 days after 3D eyebrow.
It looks so much more natural.



It didn't peel like what I saw on some other blog. Maybe cos I kept the scar cream on my brow 24/7. Kept it thoroughly moisturized all the time. Of cos, I couldn't escape the stares and teasing from my friends and colleagues.

Update one week after (11th Dec):



Pretty nice though some of my friends say it's still a lil dark. I think it's just nice. But I'm feeling like i shouldn't have signed up for the facial package. Oh well..

Update: about a month later. 19th Jan.
Some friends say it's still too thick.. Looks fine to me in pictures!
What do you think?

By special request,
Update on 6th Sept 2016: This is my latest eyebrow after my second touch up about 2 months ago. Natural looking still aye!