Vice Cosmetics Gandoll Brow Collection: Affordable and good!

Vice Cosmetics Gandoll Brow Collection review, price, swatch

PRICE: P195/each

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THE VERDICT:

Vice Cosmetics ups the game with yet another beauty essential. I say essential because it's for the brows, baby! Let's check out all the swatches and performance below!

Gandoll Brow Collection is an 8-piece collection featuring 4 shades of Micro Brow Pencil and Volumizing Brow Gel. The complementing duo promises to give you defined, volumized brows that lasts long and comes in shades that are well- suited for Filipina skin tones and common hair colors.

A Micro Brow Pencil is one of the most important brow products for me right now simply because I'm digging the precision and the act of drawing fake hair strands on my brows to make it look bushier. They said Gandoll's Micro Brow Pencil is a dupe of Anastasia Brow Whiz in terms of size and shape; I have both products and I could say that it's quite close, but a more accurate comparison is Gandoll Micro Brow and Benefit Precisely My Brow; both have the same tiny diameter and pigmentation as well.

Gandoll Micro Brow Pencil has a spoolie attached on the opposite end. The pencil is pretty sturdy and only needs a little warm up before use; no dragging and tugging during use.

Gandoll Volumizing Brow Gel is a tinted brow gel; it comes with a medium- sized spoolie, but I wish it were a bit smaller for more precise grooming and application; besides, methinks not a lot of Filipinas have thick brows in terms of width.

Here are the swatches: Gandoll Micro Brow Pencil and Volumizing Brow gel comes in 4 shades. Soft Brown is what I normally use, but I use Natural Brown as well.

Soft Brown and Natural Brown are perfect for dark brown hair as well as those dyed with red, honey, and golden shades.

Light Brown is perfect for hair dyed blonde/in lighter colors.

Ash Brown is perfect for those with black hair, and hair dyed ash gray/brown.

Micro Brow Pencil has medium to heavy pigmentation. It sets matte. Volumizing Brow Gel has an emulsion- like consistency and takes a little while to dry so allow one layer to dry up completely before applying another one. Otherwise, you will only wipe out the first layer.

Bare brow

With Gandoll Micro Brow Pencil

I applied two layers of the brow pencil; Soft Brown seems to be the perfect shade for me for now because my hair dye has kinda' faded to reddish brown already.

I like the natural coverage the brow pencil gives, plus it's fairly easy to use.

Gandoll Volumizing Brow Gel

The brow gel provides medium hold. I use it if I want to darken my brows a little bit more, but I make sure to use it on top of another eyebrow product because I find the finish a bit patchy and inconsistent, which I think is mainly due to the emulsion consistency. If your brows are on the thicker side though, this product may perform better on you because it will add a bit of coverage and provide just the right hold.

Micro Brow Pencil has pretty good staying power; I used it in one Crossfit workout (which is the ultimate makeup wear test for me) and it stayed. Volumizing Brow Gel doesn't have impressive staying power though.

I think you know by now which of the two I prefer. Micro Brow Pencil is really good and I would definitely buy it again. Volumizing Brow Gel is pretty promising; I think consistency needs to be less runny so it can deliver better color coverage; but again, as I said, if you have thick brows, Volumizing Brow Gel can work for you.

Have you tried these products already? What are your thoughts?

VICE COSMETICS GANDOLL BROW COLLECTION RATING

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