“Holy shit,” I said out loud.

An Instagram push notification illuminated my screen. It was a direct message from Glossier offering to gift me their newest product, Brow Flick. Boy Brow is arguably the most beloved product from the beauty and skincare unicorn. I know it well. How could they possibly top it?

It was an offer I eagerly accepted.

If you’re unaware of Glossier, hi, feel free to crawl out from under that rock, and into the world of Glossier–where you smell like You, the sun is always shining (but don’t worry about that, you’ve got Invisible Shield), and everyone looks dewy—is it Haloscope? is it Nightshine? is it just beautifully hydrated skin? The world may never know.

Glossier is the brainchild of Emily Weiss, born from the community she’s cultivated out of the hit beauty blog, Into the Gloss. Reaching cult status–and an over $1.3B valuation–since its inception five years ago, you have to almost try to not know someone who uses and loves Glossier.

The Glossier look is effortlessly, “Your ____, but better,” curated to be skincare centric, with makeup products that work with what you’ve got, not coat and cover your natural beauty. Brow Flick touts this philosophy better than I could have ever imagined.

From a first impression, Brow Flick looks like a cross between Glossier’s Boy Brow and a liquid eyeliner pen. Upon initial application I was shocked, “Oh no,” I echoed to the mirror. My eyebrows looked boxy, but defined. And so natural, that it looked unnatural.

“What would Emily Weiss do?” I thought as I wiped my brows.

Your brows, but better. Your brows, but better. Your brows, but better.

I was lucky enough to inherit my father’s bushy eyebrows, that I haven’t plucked in almost two years (thank you, Cara Delevingne). My biggest pain point has always been the tail of my eyebrows, which are sparse compared to the rest of my brows–so I focused my energy there. Next, I started on defining the arch on my right eyebrow. Light pressure. Quick wrist flicks.

I closed my eyes and said a prayer. “Please in all that is dewy, let this work,” I brushed Boy Brow in Clear over my brows and was shocked. It really was my brows, just better. More even, fuller.

I snapped a Boomerang and found the one point in my studio with natural light. Within minutes, the compliments came flowing in.

“YES MAAM,”

“Yes!!!!! So good,”

“YOUR EYEBROWS ARE EVERYTHING,”

“I didn’t think your brows could get any better tbh,”

Honestly I didn’t either.

Don’t call it a comeback, but Glossier has redefined–pun intended–the brow yet again.