Brow lamination is a popular salon beauty treatment, lifting and setting eyebrow hairs upwards to give a more wide-awake look – and how you can do it at home for less
Brow lamination haas been popular for a few years now, a salon treatment that uses a perm-like technique to lift, define and set brow hairs into your desired shape, giving a more groomed effect. Professional treatments can typically last between 4-6 weeks and cost between £30-£60, but a new DIY kit has just launched that promises the same effect for a fraction of the cost – and we’ve tested it out.
Mylee – best known for its at-home gel manicure kits – has just launched its new Brow Wow Lamination Kit, a set that contains everything you need to quickly and easily laminate your own eyebrows at home. Costing £35, you get enough product for three applications in here, for the price that you’d normally pay for one in a salon. This means that each use costs less than £12.
Keen to see if it would set and shape her thick brows, our beauty editor Laura Mulley tried it out…
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I’m fairly low maintenance with my eyebrows and I’ve never actually had brow lamination done at a salon, but I love the boyish, lifted brow look, and rely on strong-hold gels to achieve that on my own thick and unruly hairs – so I was keen to see if this Mylee kit would have an effect.
Consisting of several different solutions, designed to be applied in a certain order, it’s easy to do if you follow the instructions: apply glue to clean brows and brush up, then a lifting solution (wait 10 minutes), then a setting solution (wait another 10 minutes). Remove it all with a damp cotton pad and you’re good to go (just avoid getting the area wet for 24 hours).
It was really easy and, unlike dyeing your brows at home, you don’t have to worry too much about leaving the solutions on for a minute or two too long. There is a distinct perm-y smell, but this fades after 24 hours max.
My brows definitely looks tidier and thicker, and gaps that I normally have near my nose had filled it. As my hairs are especially thick and heavy, this lamination kit didn’t lock them in place as firmly as my favourite extra-strong brow gel (REFY Brow Sculpt), but it definitely helped to ‘firm them up’ and stop them from sagging.
The real test, however, would come the next morning. I always sleep with a thick eye mask on and regularly toss and turn in the night, and come morning my eyebrows are all over the place, the hairs pointing in all directions – but after laminating them, I woke to them looking remarkably well-tamed – a quick brush through and I’d be good to go.
I would also dye them using my go-to Eylure Dybrow to add extra definition (Mylee recommends doing any dyeing after laminating).
While this kit isn’t quite strong enough to set my own coarse brows, I think for anyone with ‘normal’ or fine brows, it would work really well. A colleague who has tried other home lamination kits also praised Mylee’s one for the solutions coming in single-use sachets rather than tubes (apparently exposure to air causes them to work less efficiently).
Another that she had success with is Nanobrow Lamination Kit, £34, which also has shoppers :so impressed with this Nanobrow kit and how easy and quick it is”.