Ardell Brow Tint Medium Brown, Longer-lasting, Semi-permanent Brow Dye, with Natural Extracts, Complete Brow Tinting Kit, 1 pack

Ordered this product to try to save a few bucks and boy it was worth it! This was easy to use and my brows look great! The kit contains several applications but the application wand is crappy so I used a q tip. I also used Vaseline on my skin to prevent staining with no issue. The picture is after 1 week, going strong on my blonde brows.

I bought this product in Target before and LOVED it. I was getting to close to needing a new one, so for convenience I ordered a new one off Amazon. I purchased the same color as I did before, dark brown. Something is very very wrong. At first glance I noticed the color of the powder seemed different than my store bought one, but thought maybe mine was just older? Mixed according to the directions ratio and no matter what I kept getting a ball of gel with the powder not dissolving. The color looked like honey, definitely not the dark brown I was used to. Against better judgement, I still tried to put the gel like substance on my eye brow and it would not stay. I then dug out my old one and compared the color of the powder, and despite the new bottle saying “dark brown,” it definitely WAS NOT. Since I was out of my original developer, I then tried to use my original powder with the new developer, this mixed normal, unlike the new powder. Placed it on my brows and let it sit for the required 10 minutes, even though usually I take it off sooner. It did NOTHING. Something is super off about this product, the color is obviously wrong and the developer doesn’t even work. Also I noticed my old powder has a topper on the bottle with little holes for dispensing, however the new one did not? I’m very confused. I want to return it but I am afraid Amazon will just resell it to someone else and I don’t want someone to go through the same thing! Buy it from a store if you can, because the real version works amazing.

I've blond light brown brows you cant see easily. So this gives me fuller looking brows so I dont have to use as much brow gell to give me brows! I mix it like henna till its a paste with the spatula using the powder and developer then wait 5 min . Then apply with the spoolie. I then use a qtip to clean up the excess. It doesnt die my skin. I know I shouldn't double process them but I do two dye sessions after the first dries down and starts crumbleing I use a lightly damp tee shirt rag with water to wipe it off. Then get rinse out the old stuff out of the tray and spoolie ans do another coat. Dry and remove after it does my brows. Takes me about 25 min.

The developer is clear which, for some reason, threw me. But I gamely gave it a shot. My first attempt to mix ended up pretty sandy and thick (pic with red background). It was nearly impossible to use and I ended up just getting clear liquid on my brows (the sandy mix just stayed on the spoolie or fell off onto the counter) and I decided to try mixing a new batch. Surprisingly, while I was mixing the new batch I looked in the mirror and realized that the first attempt had left color! So my second batch I used a bit more developer and got a thinner, but still somewhat grainy texture (pic with part of the instructions under bowl). I’m used to coloring my hair and used to the colorant being a cream form and the resultant mixture is smoother. But at least this version was easier to spread. 10 minutes later, and it definitely left color. We’ll see how long it lasts!I will say the little spoolie was not optimal for application for me. I think I’ll use a stiff slanted brush next time for more precise control over where I’m applying the dye.Also, the instructions felt a little ambiguous to me. Pea-sized is harder to estimate when the developer is as liquidy as it was. And the 4:1 developer to colorant doesn’t really match the pea-sized developer to 2-3 scoops of color powder. That kind of ends up backwards (1:4). My second batch was closer to the 4:1 ratio but I used more developer (like a nickel-size) and that was a better consistency to work with. So I recommend that you go with the 4:1 direction rather than the pea-size to 2-3 scoops direction.Overall, I’m pleased with the results. I’m glad I gave it a second shot and with the 4:1 proportion.

It works well at tinting my eyebrows but it does take a long time to mix. It gets clumpy and you have to sort of smash the clumps out. The first time I used it I didn’t get it mixed enough so it didn’t tint at all. The second time I took probably 3-5 minutes to get it mixed all the way but then it did work at tinting.

I purchased the light brown, I have dark blonde hair that photo bleaches. This was my very first time dying my own eyebrows, so I was a bit nervous however it was pretty easy. I only left the dye on my brows for 5 min bc the dye started looking dark. I think that was the perfect amount of time for me personally, I probably could have left it on a little longer and it been fine. I also probably could go with the medium brown since I have dark blonde hair. I may try it next time to see which I like better. If you have light blonde hair, I probably wouldn’t do more than three minutes and then wait 10 minutes after you take the dye off to see if you want to go darker.

I tint my brows every couple of weeks and have been for over 10 years. I am an avid beauty product consumer. This tint just didn’t do the job.Here’s why y’all:1.) The powder is white and it slowly develops after mixed with the gel developer; so when the mix was applied it was practically CLEAR and therefore VERY difficult to see where it was on my brow line .. inside the tint space? On the skin? On the hairs I wanted to dye and NOT on other hairs? I simply couldn’t tell and that made it more difficult to get a precise tint of the hair and the skin and to even out areas or sparseness. (I.E. whereas brown tint that is dark from the start is easy to wipe off of places outside the tint frame of your brow.)2.) The mix is clunky and pasty; it did not mix smooth. Was hard to apply with precision.3.) This is a “dark brown” tint supposedly- but even after letting it develop for a full 10 mins, it barely tinted my dark blonde brows at all. I’ll have to redo them with another product.Wish I could return. Don’t buy. Sorry Ardell, this product needs some work.