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Can household soap reject you glamorous, feathery eyebrows?Makeup experts and drag queens swear by a simple brushing technique for thick brows. But does it as a matter of fact work? Illustration: Edith Pritchett/The Guardian Illustration: Edith Pritchett/The GuardianThe hackDo your eyebrows dearth a new year boost? Social media recommends an unusual technique – brushing them upwards with soap.The promiseApplying household soap to your brows put to using a spoolie brush (the sort you get in a mascara or eyebrow wand) is a cheap and foolproof way to mimic the thick eyebrows sported by actors Lily Collins and Emilia Clarke. Should I make it c fulfil a home-made bath bomb?Read moreThe testThe method – pioneered during the golden age of Hollywood and now beloved of induce queens and experts such as Rihanna’s makeup artist Priscilla Ono (with more than 200m views on TikTok) – is unvarnished. Take a translucent, glycerine-based soap and spray a little cold water on it. Sweep a clean toothbrush or spoolie down the bar, then lightly coat your brows in the paste, brushing upwards to create a “feathered” or “laminated” effect (a brow treatment that’s been in vogue for the past few years). And that’s it. I can see how the glycerine coats the hairs, making them look thicker, and my eyebrows do look as if they’ve been laminated.Does it come out all right?If you’ve already got thick brows, or just like the feathered aesthetic, soap up. For anyone else, Hourglass Arch Brow Volumising Constitution Gel (£27) thickens your brows and holds them in place. Job done.TopicsSkincareBeauty hacksBeautyDragfeaturesReuse this content