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- You can't go shopping for eyebrow pencils, brow gels, or pomades without coming across cult-favorite beauty brand Anastasia Beverly Hills.
- For more than 20 years, its founder Anastasia Soare has been creating full and beautiful eyebrows with her patented Golden Ratio Eyebrow Shaping Method.
- Combined with the highly pigmented products from her namesake brand, this method ensures that your brows will always look great.
- You can find Anastasia Beverly Hills' best-selling makeup at your favorite retailers: Amazon, Sephora, Nordstrom, Ulta, and Macy's.
It's hard to remember a time when eyebrows weren't an essential part of one's daily grooming and makeup routine. Even as someone who doesn't usually wear much makeup during the week and only brings out the full makeup bag for dressy or special occasions, I make sure to do my eyebrows before leaving my house every day.
The beauty entrepreneur and lovingly nicknamed "Eyebrow Queen" responsible for this revolution is Anastasia Soare. The Romanian-born founder of makeup brand Anastasia Beverly Hills immigrated to the US in 1989 and started working at a Hollywood beauty salon where she offered a service that wasn't popular at the time: brow shaping.
Her ability to fill in this gap and stay ahead of the curve - which, as we all remember with slight embarrassment, dictated overly plucked brows - ultimately catapulted her to widespread recognition. After moving on to a salon in Beverly Hills, word of her eyebrow-shaping skills spread and she amassed a steady roster of celebrity and supermodel clients.
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In 2000, she launched her first product line to bring her signature shaping techniques and tools to anyone who wanted beautiful brows.
Since then, Anastasia Beverly Hills (ABH) has become synonymous with eyebrows in the beauty world.
Nordstrom was the first store outside of the ABH salon to carry the brow collection, followed by the three largest beauty retailers in the US: Sephora, Ulta, and Macy's. Its products dominate the best-sellers page at these retailers (the cult-favorite Brow Wiz pencil has more than 13,000 reviews on Sephora) and if you picked out any celebrity on the red carpet, you can bet their brows have been touched by Anastasia Beverly Hills. According to recent news of a potential acquisition deal by TPG Capital, the company is valued at $3 billion.
At the heart of Anastasia Beverly Hills is Soare's Golden Ratio-inspired shaping method, which uses the proportions of the face to create arches uniquely suited to your facial structure. "Brows should begin directly above the middle of your nostrils. The highest point of the arch should align with the tip of the nose and the middle of the iris. Brows should end where the outer edge of the nostril connects with the outer corner of the eye."
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Soare says, "My goal is always to bring a sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion to each individual face. The brows are an essential starting point. With perfectly built arches, the rest of your features are instantly enhanced and brought into focus."
Technically, with this foundational concept, you could use any eyebrow pencil you wanted. But people stick with Anastasia Beverly Hills products because of their ease of use, highly pigmented formulas that deliver an efficient color payoff with each stroke, and flexibility - effective whether used on their own or in conjunction with other ABH products.
The product line includes eyebrow pencils, brow gels, powders, and pomades, each available in multiple shades. Outside of brow products, Anastasia Beverly Hills makes eyeshadow palettes, lipstick, contour kits, and other makeup essentials, which have attracted their own healthy following of loyal fans.
You can learn more about its most popular products and why you should add them to your makeup routine below.
Shop all Anastasia Beverly Hills eyebrow products and makeup at these retailers:
Note when purchasing from Amazon: Anastasia Beverly Hills ensures that all products sold by 'Anastasia Beverly Hills Inc.' on Amazon are authentic and meet its high-ingredient and quality standards. Unfortunately, it cannot guarantee the authenticity of products purchased on Amazon from other third-party sellers.
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